P1: Explain the requirements for two different careers in the health sector. The job role of a midwife is to provide advice, care and support for women and their babies during pregnancy, labour and the early postnatal period. They help women make their own decisions about the care and services they access. Their responsibilities are wide ranging and include; caring for new-born children, providing health education and parenting support immediately after delivery, until care is transferred to a health visitor. Midwives are personally responsible for the health of both mother and baby and only refer to obstetricians if there are medical complications.
The emergency department is a specialist department where patients come for their first point of care. The emergency nurse should have specialist expertise in assessing and identifying patients’ health care needs in crisis situations. In addition, an emergency nurse should establish priorities, monitor and continually assess acutely ill and or injured patients, they must support and attend to families and teach patients and families within a high pressure, time limited care environment. In the emergency department a fifteen year old girl presents with a head injury, laceration to her right thigh and grazing to her face. Her first point of contact with the emergency department is triage (Farrell, 2005, p.2158).
Applying Ethical Frameworks in Practice Susan Warden Grand Canyon University Applying Ethical Frameworks in Practice In the article Bioethics in NBC’s ER: Betraying Trust or Providing Good Care? The author examines the ethical issue of patient confidentiality. On the television show ER Nurse Hathaway encounters a 14 year old patient who comes into the ER to be tested for a STD. Nurse Hathaway promises the patient that all of the information that she tells her will be kept confidential so the patient confides in her. After testing is complete the results revealed that she had HPV and cervical cancer.
Assign appropriate E/M codes for the following five cases: • Initial consultation is performed for a 78-year-old woman with unexplained weight loss, abdominal pain, and rectal bleeding. A comprehensive history and examination is performed. This patient is a new patient and it is necessary to get the patients health and family history. Since the patient is a new patient she needs a comprehensive amount of data. It is very important to get the history to figure out what may be causing these symptoms.
D) Global aphasia. Diagnostic Tests The neurologist writes a diagnosis of, "Suspected brain attack" and prescribes a noncontrast computed tomography (CT) scan STAT. 4. Which nursing intervention should the nurse implement when preparing Nancy and her daughter for this
SHOULD NURSE PRACTITIONERS PRESCRIBE CONTROLLED Should Nurse Practitioners Prescribe Controlled Substances? Nakeya Booth Central Methodist University Business Concepts AH 330 Paul Compley, Ph.D. December 13, 2009 Should Nurse Practitioners Prescribe Controlled Substances? The role of the Nurse Practitioner, also known as the advanced practice nurse, is to provide health care services to patients, families, and communities. They are specially trained to diagnose, and are able to control the common, chronic and acute heath care conditions. The practitioner can either work with the physician or choose to work alone to provide their health care services.
New Grads’ Program in Nursing Summary of the Article I chose the article, “Nurse residency program empowers new grads,” written by a Registered Nurse, Taylor Keasler, about the orientation program for new grad nurses in University of Tennessee Medical Center that she had participated on. According to Taylor, the goal of the program is to bring together the new grad nurses form different schools, with varying degrees and backgrounds into a group that will provide a solid foundation to be able to successfully incorporate knowledge and skills into the nursing field (Keasler, 2013). She elaborated the components of the program such as medical-surgical orientation guidebook, Basic Knowledge Assessment Tool (BKAT); medical-surgical,
| SAVE YOUR ANSWERS . . . .SAVE YOUR DOCUMENT BEFORE YOU SUBMIT THIS ASSIGNMENT (See next page for question 2) Question 2: Dr. Reilly has a patient, Jessica Adams, who needs to have a cystoscopy. Jessica knows a family friend who has received a cystoscopy in the past.
Registered Nurse I am going to school to become a Registered Nurse (RN). A registered nurse completes a number of job tasks. One task is to deliver infants and perform postpartum examinations and treatment. A second task they instruct on topics, such as health education, disease prevention, child birth, and home nursing and develops health improvement programs. A third task they advise and consult with specified personnel concerning necessary precautions to be taken to prevent possible contamination or infection.
Nursing Documentation and Malpractice Law HCS/545 Health Law and Ethics May 31, 2010 Mary Nell Cummings Nursing Documentation and Malpractice Lawsuits Proper medical documentation can prevent liability issues and malpractice lawsuits. The focus on my paper will concentrate on nursing documentation and malpractice lawsuits. I presently work for a home health care agency. The entire staff throughout the company was recently informed of increased Medicare denials and possible lawsuits as results of inadequate documentations. A series of education training of documentation was implemented to help reduce episodes of Medicare payment denials and self-protection through adequate documentation.