M1- Assess the effects on those using the service of three different discriminatory practices in health and social care setting In this essay I will be assessing the effects on people using the service of three different discriminatory practices in health and social care. I will also be choosing 3 discriminatory practices and making 3 case studies based on the 3 discriminatory practices. Case study 1 On Thursday 10th October 2010, Victoria Akinyemi, a 43 year old black woman was pronounced dead. For the last 4 year she had been a patient in a security unit in Birmingham. Victoria had been racially abused by a white patient, staff had tried their best to move her off the ward, and this has made akinyemi very annoyed and angry.
Unit 3 Task 4 Incidents can occur in any health and social care setting, caused by carelessness, deliberate harm or mistake by human error. Incident 1 In a care home an elderly man has fallen against a shelf, he has low levels of consciousness and he has a mild head injury- he is also very confused. The possible responses, for this patient is to removed the shelf if it is partially damaged/ causing obstruction/ unstable to prevent it falling further and causing further harm- this is protecting you and the casualty. Once the danger has been removed you should call an ambulance as they have suffered a head injury and fall, so will need further treatment, someone else could do this while you treat, for better time efficiency. You should also open their airway and monitor their breathing, as they could deteriorate quickly.
Scenario The wife of C.W., a 70-year-old man, brought him to the emergency department (ED) at 0430 this morning. She told the ED triage nurse that he had had dysentery for the past 3 days and last night he had a lot of “dark red” diarrhea. When he became very dizzy, disoriented, and weak this morning, she decided to bring him to the hospital. C.W.’s vital signs (VS) were 70/- (systolic blood pressure [BP] 70 mm Hg, diastolic BP inaudible), 110, 20. A 16-gauge IV catheter was inserted, and a lactated Ringer’s (LR) infusion was started.
This goal targets the prevention of mortality from health care-associated infections caused by several different drug resistant organisms, surgical related infections, and infections of the bloodstream related to catheter insertion. Catheter insertion requires regular practices that include hand sanitation before catheter operation (Singleton, 2008). The concern of this goal is the prevention of infection. Utilization of hand cleaning guidelines that are provided by the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is required in hospitals. Hospitals must also submit reports of injury and death to patients that result from infections that were acquired while staying in the hospital (2009 Hospital National Patient Safety Goals, 2008).
The numbness in his lips and face made it almost impossible for him to communicate, but the hospital staff managed to at least understand the address he gave them and they sent an ambulance. As Dr. Westwood was rushed to the hospital, his breathing became increasingly labored. The patient presented in the ED with diaphoresis, motor dysfunction, paresthesias, nausea, and an ascending paralysis that started in his legs and spread to the upper body, arms, face, and head. The patient was cyanotic and hypoventilating. Within 30 minutes of presenting in the ED, Dr. Westwood developed bradycardia with a BP of 90/50 mmHg.
The Role of Basin-Less Baths in Reducing Hospital Acquired Infections Patients come to the hospital for treatment, but hospital acquired infections occur in one in 25 patients a day (Centers for Disease Control, 2014). In 2011, “75,000 hospital patients with HAIs died during their hospitalizations” (Centers for Disease Control 2014). Despite the understanding of evidence based practice measures to prevent HAIs, most hospitals are inconsistent with prevention compliance (Krein, Kowalski, Hofer, and Saint, 2012). The treatment of HAIs cost billions of dollars (Centers for Disease Control, 2014). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is conducting laboratory research to promote understanding and treatment of HAIs in the nation’s
One problem that caught my eye was the Spanish Flu pandemic that killed so many during that time. It was a serious health problem because of the fact that we lost a lot of people and there seemed to be no cure in the beginning. 675,000 Americans
Many insurance plans cover only a limited number of doctors’ visits or hospital days, exposing families’ to unlimited financial liability. Over half of all personal bankruptcies today are caused by medical bills. Lack of affordable health care is compounded by serious flaws in our health care delivery system. About 100,000 Americans die from medical errors in hospitals every year. One-quarter of all medical spending goes to administrative and overhead costs, and reliance on antiquated paper-based record and information systems needlessly increases these costs.
EMTALA is an unfunded federal mandate. This mandate for universal access shifted the cost to the hospitals. Hospitals and physicians risk substantial legal and financial penalties for violations of the mandate, with consequences as extreme as revocation of a hospital’s Medicare provider agreement (Diaz-Vickery, Sauser, & Davis, 2013). According to the American College of Emergency Doctors (ACEP) under EMTALA the emergency department has the only mandate to provide healthcare. A 2009 ACEP survey on the financial crisis stated, 66 percent of emergency physicians polled have seen an increase of uninsured patients in their emergency departments during the current financial
The Issue of Poverty and Hunger By: Nolan Kibit Lit III 2nd Hour One in seven people die of hunger, and 2.2 million children die each year because they are not immunized .Many people do not know how large of an effect poverty has on the health crisis that we face. Poverty is an important global issue because it plays a role in the estimated one billion people who lack access to health care systems. Health issues are a main concern for countries with high poverty populations. Poverty effects the way we act and live, and our health effects the way that we behave in the real world. Poverty effects our health in many ways including mental health and diseases, access to vaccinations, malnutrition, and attaining adequate healthcare.