Developing Professional Practice – HS611 Introduction: For the purpose of this assignment the author has chosen to concentrate on developing professional practice within the Community Mental Health Team, where in they are currently employed. The focus group for the area of practice development is clients with a diagnosis of Schizophrenia, who are prescribed antipsychotic medication. This group of people have been chosen due to the increase chance of them developing uncomfortable, debilitating side effects as a result of taking these medicines. Some of these side effects can be treated but some are irreversible and can cause serious distress and discomfort for the client. Non-compliance with medication is often due to adverse effects however involving the clients in the recognition and management of them can help to overcome this.
Vulnerable Population in the Workplace Report NUR/440 February 6, 2012 Vulnerable Population in the Workplace Report The emergency room has a high incident and increased acuity of psychiatric patients. Emergency room nurses have little tolerance for this population and have developed bias that can result in this population receiving inadequate care. Emergency rooms experience overcrowding and many emergency nurses report fatigue, over worked, and frustrated in dealing with the psychiatric patient. They cannot immediately fix this populations illness as in medical treatment. This report identifies bias and apathetic attitudes that create barriers to positive mental health outcomes.
What causes conflict within Accident and emergency? And how best are these avoided? Because of many patients waiting to go to different wards and some waiting to be seen. There could be poor service delivery, discomfort on the trolleys and inadequate staff to meet the basic needs of the patients. Due to all this happening conflict arises.
The physical effect is related to physical injury resulting in permanent or temporary damage. Emotionally, the nurse can suffer from issues such as self-esteem and self-worth, and on a professional level, violence can prevent the nurse from feeling safe in the working environment (Whelan, 2008). This can lead to the organization effect of staff retention. Nurses that are stressed at work and worried about personal safety have the potential for loss of job satisfaction, which can result in staff turnover (Carroll,
If important information is not thoroughly communicated then there may be a negative outcome. For example if a nurse forgets to handover that a patient is confused and fell, the nurse on the next shift will be unaware that a patient
According to continence nurses, as many as 70% of people with incontinence are affected by depressive illnesses. It is vital that people who are incontinent are given every opportunity to regain their continence. Individuals may avoid getting treatment for incontinence because they are too embarrassed to discuss their problem. It can severely restrict their social life and contact with others. Having had an embarrassing, humiliating experience of an ‘accident’ in public they live in constant fear of it happening again.
There are psych calls where a person is chemically unbalanced or just angry and needs to be psychologically evaluated at a hospital. There are also the transfer calls where you take some one for rehabilitation, these are the most common type of calls you will get as an EMT-B. Some of the worst calls you can get are pediatric calls. No one wants to get these calls but they happen and some times what makes them so bad is the family of the child. They either are in the way of you trying to do the job or just their reaction to what is happening can be a hindrance.
However, it's not always true that another nurse is doing the right thing. Situations arise that can lead a nurse to make mistakes and set a poor example. Advocacy 2. Advocacy ranges from activities on behalf of patients, such as hand washing and proper identification before treatments, to arguing that an early discharge will harm her patient's recovery. If a nurse observes a practice or procedure she believes to be wrong, advocating for her patient demands she speak out even if that practice was carried out by her superior.
This may affect older service users, service users with dementia or learning disability, visitors, caterers and also service providers. Harm that may occur An elderly service user in a residential care home may have dementia and as a result of this doesn’t know that the bottles of cleaning products are harmful. They may possibly pick it up and drink it as they believe it is a drink and therefore they could become seriously ill from ingesting the chemicals or the chemicals could be fatal to them. This could lead to death of the service user. Another way someone could be harmed
Sometimes other nurses start beginning to create problems between each other by saying that they are not moving fast enough or that they are lazy. I had an elderly patient at a nursing home clinical site scratch my chest because we were trying to help her change into her clothes. The patient was angry and she was trying to hit and scratch everyone in sight. We tried to talk to her calmly and diffuse her unknown anger towards us. The patient eventually calmed down but then had to be put in wrist restraints for the violent behavior.