The bruise had been there for a few days and was starting to bother me. My mother took me to the pediatrician’s office that sent us for x-rays. My mom received a phone call; this is a day we will never forget. The pediatrician states that I need to be seen up at children’s hospital in Boston by a specialist in Infectious disease. After months of testing and the doctors telling my mom I might have cancer, we finally got an answer.
When I think back to the day my daughter was born, so many different emotions ran through me. One of which was anxiety, that this new person was about to come into my life and I didn’t have a clue what I was doing. I had awakened to my wife telling me we had to go to the hospital, that she had talked to the doctor and he was afraid that she was leaking her abiotic fluid, and that the our baby daughter might be in distress. I had gotten dressed, grabbed her bags, and started out for the hospital. After we had arrived the nurses escorted us up the delivery floor and had strapped my wife into a fetal monitor to check our baby’s status.
That semester, I ended up taking incompletes in all of my classes. My doctors and professors declared I was overwhelmed with catching up in my classes and the anxiety of it all consumed me. Little did I know that it would be a decade later before I would officially find out it was really systemic lupus erythematosus. My diagnosis came as I was entering what I considered the magical part of my life. I had married, had a beautiful daughter and was working my dream job and finally felt like I was walking in my purpose.
Picoult continues on this theme of “saving” by using Suzanne as Sara’s crutch, as she makes her coffee each morning and informs her of any missed phone calls. While in the hospital, Sara receives a call from Jesse’s principal informing her of Jesse’s suspension. On the car ride home she notices a bruise on his arm from a needle and assumes he has been using drugs. Jesse angrily explains how he has been donating blood that gave Kate platelets behind the family’s back, in order to “save” his sister. After two weeks in the hospital, Kate developed an infection that placed her in a coma on a respirator, which is “saving” her for the time being.
Hospital Acquired Infection (HAI), or as it is sometimes referred to as Nosocomial infection; is an infection occurring in patients after admission to hospital that was neither present nor incubating at the time of admission. This student will discuss the role of the nurse in preventing hospital acquired infection while on clinical placement, define HAI, and look at the causes of HAI and how it is spread. This student will also show in order to minimise these risks, systems must in place, understood and implemented by all concerned. Plowman (1997) claimed that, 6,000 deaths per year are caused by HAI, with significant financial costs for the NHS and personal costs for patients’ families. Other factors include separation from family, anxiety, sense of isolation and stigma.
The aims of this essay are to follow an episode of treatment related to one patient that I worked with during my practice placement. To meet the aims I have decided to write about a female patient I met, who due to patient confidentiality I will call Nellie, whilst on placement with a District Nurse in a rural area of South Herefordshire. The main body of this essay will concentrate on the aspects of wound care that were applied to Nellie’s wounds which were two very black necrotic heels which she acquired during a spell spent in both the main city hospital and whilst having rehabilitation care at the more local cottage hospital. Nellie is an 84 year old lady, who as I have already said lives in a rural community in South Herefordshire, she is a widow and lives alone in an adapted bungalow with her son living close by and with a carer supplied by social services that visits twice a day. Otherwise normally fit and healthy Nellie had a fall at home and suffered with a fractured neck of femur which saw her admitted to hospital, here she had some complications with her injury and also acquired a chest infection along with the first necrotic heel.
“Born in a Bathtub” Published in Child and Family Digest, May 1954 In the May 1954 issue of, Child and Family Digest, a woman wrote about her desire and experience in delivering her baby at home. Medical staff urged her to go to the hospital because her doctor was not willing to assist with a home delivery. However, the decision was taken out of her hands when she woke in the middle of the night in what turned out to be advanced labor. She felt a need to use the restroom. When she did so, her water broke.
In February 2006, Emily Jerry, a two-year old child was at a Cleveland hospital to complete her last series of chemotherapy treatment. Her doctor ordered intravenous chemotherapy solution that was filled incorrectly by a pharmacy technician. The prescription called for 1% saline; however, a lethal amount of 23% saline was given instead, causing her to slip into a coma resulting in death. Eric Cropp, who was the supervising pharmacist signed off on the technician’s work despite her informing him that the mixture did not look right; nonetheless, he approved it. The pharmacy was so busy that day and short staffed, which led to a preventable fatal error that changed Eric’s whole life in a matter of seconds.
The purspose of the visit was to deliver a bad news to husband that his wife’s health condition took worst over the night in the hospital. In this case, waiting was not possible because the news had to be delivered immediately. This made me feel awkward and uncomfortable being around the family and I found it difficult to know what to say to him as I was unclear of his wife diagnosis. I had discussed with nurse about the diagnosis and asked GP for permission to look at the record notes from hospital. After all that, we went to the house.
She stated that she took the child from the daycare and the child kept crying for hours, no indication that she enquired about the child and the reason for the crying demonstrating a lack of acceptable behavior on her part. The doctor making the decision that there was no child abuse was not advocating for the patient; he cannot make a decision without exploring the psychosocial aspects of the patient’s life. The nurse has a dilemma in maintaining the patient confidentiality being in doubt as to the cause of the child’s injury. The nurse has to follow the principles of veracity; she has to encourage the mother to tell the truth. Enquire of her what measures did