Cardiac arrhythmias affect more than 700,000 people in England is one of the top ten reasons for hospital admission (Department of Health 2005). Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common and important cardiac arrhythmia, it the most common of all the arrhythmias seen in general practice. AF affects 5% of the UK population over the age of 65 years, rising to 10% in those over 75 years of age (Kirby 2005). The principal significance, both to the patient and the healthcare system is the increased risk of embolic stroke. Atrial fibrillation is associated with 15% of all strokes and with 36% of strokes in patients over the age of 60 (Hobbs 1999).
Decreasing the Risk of Falls in the Patient with Parkinson’s Disease Cathy Hanes RN, BSN Kent State University Contact Information Cathy Hanes Address: 447 Ninth Street Struthers, OH 44471 Phone: (330) 301-3672 Email address: chanes@kent.edu Abstract The leading cause of serious injury and death of older Americans are falls. On average 30% of people over the age of sixty five fall at least one time per year, and this percentage continues to increase with age. People with Parkinson’s disease are twice as likely to fall and have recurrent falls as other older people. These falls can result in serious injuries such as hip fractures and head trauma, a fear of falling, decreased mobility, and decline in functional ability and quality of life. Understanding the risk for falls for people with Parkinson’s disease and use of appropriate fall interventions as delineated in The American Geriatrics Society AGS/BGS Clinical Practice Guideline: Prevention of Falls in Older Persons can help maintain the functional ability, increased independence and overall quality of life.
Fall Risks and Prevention Strategies Fall Risks and Prevention Strategies Falls are a problem for most of the elderly population in the home, acute care setting, and long term care setting. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC;2013), there is one out of three people over the age of 65 who have fallen and suffered serious injuries and even death. This has become a problem for patients, families, and healthcare facilities that can be prevented through education and awareness of surroundings. Falls can be devastating to patients due to increased hospital stay and decreased mobility. The purpose of this paper is to discuss data associated with falls, and identify risks and prevention strategies.
Performing Step of CPR Introduction Attention Getter: Hands only CPR American Red Cross Video Central Idea: According to American Red Cross, 80 percent of people who suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest die because they did not receive immediate CPR from someone on the scene. Credentials: Nursing Student and Certified in CPR Relate to Audience: These simple steps will help you save a person life. (I will now explain the steps of performing CPR.) Body What is CPR? CPR stands for Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation.
Life changes are events in a person’s life that require a significant readjustment in various aspects of a person’s life these can be things like divorce or marriage. Holmes & Rahe are two doctors; they noticed that in many of their patients had experienced some form of stress before they became physically ill. They predicted that life events could lead to illness; to test this they developed the SRRS (Social Readjustment Rating Scale) to measure a person’s level of stress and whether it correlated with physical illness. This questionnaire was based on 43 life event taken from 5000 patient records. In order to establish the stressfulness of each event they enlisted the help of 400 participant and they were asked to score each of the 43 life events with a numerical figure of how much readjustment would be needed, taking marriage as an arbitrary baseline value of 50.
Everyone else may have to wait quite a while before being seen. In fact, the average wait for emergency treatment nationwide is about two hours. Demand for ED visits is on the rise and EDs are becoming overcrowded largely due to reduced inpatient capacity and impaired patient flow. The Institute of Medicine reports that American ED visits grew more than twice as fast as population between 1993 and 2003, and that 60% of hospitals operated at or over capacity in 2001. Several factors likely contribute to the rise in ED use, such as the increase in elderly and chronically ill Americans, overworked or lack of primary care
(1999), approximately 1.5 million people are harmed each year, costing health care facilities at least $3.5 billion in medical expenses. These tragic human errors can occur at any step
Educator Observation Paper I had the opportunity to observe the Staff Development Coordinator at my job. In my work place, a skilled nursing facility, the SDC nurses do most of the new employee orientations, staff evaluations, and staff in-services. In addition, the SDC has other responsibilities like follow ups on infection control procedures and patient discharge teachings. The staff development coordinator is a female RN with several years of experience in skilled nursing facilities. On the day I followed her, she was doing an in-service about “Abuse and Neglect” for all staff members in the facility.
According to a study published in Nurse Leadership in September 2006, an estimated 58 percent of nurses and 54 percent of nurse managers suffer from some level of burnout. And among new nurse graduates, 66 percent experience severe burnout (Nurse Connect, 2012). Burnout is a gradual process that occurs over
Community Health Assessment HS 159, Spring 2009 SJSU March 23, 2009 Gurpreet Bola RUNNING HEAD: ELDER ABUSE IN CALIFORNIA Introduction/ Epidemiological Analysis Every year tens and thousands of the elderly Americans face abuse. Abuse takes place in various different forms such as physical, emotional, financial, sexual, neglect, abandonment, and self-neglect. Elder abuse may be a broad term; however it captures many different problems within itself. Elderly abuse can be defined as a “careless act that causes harm or serious risk of harm to an older person” (National Centers for Elder Abuse). Approximately 1.6 million people are in nursing homes in the United States, and another 1 million people reside in residential care facilities.