I began to cry as they rolled me out. I got very hot all of the sudden; heart racing; feeling sweaty. They got to the door where my mom couldn’t come. I grabbed her hand, she kissed me and told it will be okay, just relax. Entering the room, laying down on my back, with all the faces staring at me; I was so scared.
If you want to get back on the field and recover earlier, coordinate with your physical therapist. Diligently do what your therapist asks you to do such as: Massaging the affected area. If you are already in the rehabilitative stage, your physical therapist might ask you to massage your injured yet recovering knee. This helps lessen the stiffness of your knee, reduces pain and releases unnecessary pressure. Changing the bandage regularly.
Two days later, McCormick underwent surgery for the implantation of a device to stabilize his ankle fracture. After surgery, plaintiff was on crutches and in a boot for four weeks and during this time, he was restricted from bearing weight on his left leg and also attended physical therapy. On October 21, 2005, plaintiff again underwent surgery, this time to remove the implanted device. The surgeon reported that plaintiff’s ankle had “healed nicely.” On November 5, 2005, Allied requested Dr. P. Drouillrd to examine plaintiff and Dr.Drouillrd stated that plaintiff could return to work with no restrictions. On November 17, 2005, plaintiff was examined by his surgeon, who observed that plaintiff’s “wound is healed very nicely” and that plaintiff “need to be in seated work for approximately six weeks.” After six weeks, plaintiff was examined by his surgeon and was cleared to go back to work with no restrictions.
The way the surgery works is by the doctor getting another similar ligament in the wrist and transferring it to the one in the elbow. Tunnels are then drilled in the humorous and in the ulna where the harmed ligament is usually at and then it is replace with the other one, and then the doctor stitches up the wounds and your good to go home. The reason why I’m writing about this topic in health is because a couple of months ago I had a very sharp pain in my elbow every time I would throw. It wouldn’t just hurt when I would throw it would also while I wasn’t throwing it would come and go. I was feeling a very sharp pain in my right elbow which is the arm I throw with, and yes im a pitcher and the pain would feel like if it was inside my elbow, like if a knife was inside cutting me up.
6.) Repeat x-rays and changes of the cast are done over the next several weeks because the reduction may move out of position (slip) or the bone may begin to heal incorrectly. Initially a splint or half cast may be used to avoid problems with swelling. 7.) A full cast is applied after the swelling has decreased,
My hands commenced to curl and my mouth went numb. I was in a state of semi-consciousness and could no longer run in a straight line. I somehow meandered my way to the finish line and dropped to the ground. One of the alert athletic trainers carried me to the medical tent, where I had to be immediately inserted with an IV to receive fluids. Finally regaining my ground, I realized what had occurred and instantaneously became upset.
It was still bleeding, blood dripping down her cheek. As a nurse, my first instinct was to help the poor women, but a punch in the back stopped me dead on track. I fell on to the hard, dirty stone floor, covered in animal feces, tumbling in pain. That was the moment I realized I have arrived in hell, the pain and the nightmare will haunt me forever. “ That was a paragraph from my book, “white coolies”.
| Elder Care Case Study | Contemporary Nursing Issues – GNT 1 | | | Hip fractures are common in the elderly. According to Medical Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems,” more than 200,000 hip fractures occur annually. It is estimated that by the age of 90, 33% of all women and 17% of all men will have sustained a hip fracture” (Lewis, Heitkemper, Dirksen, O’Brien, and Bucher, 2007). One of the factors that contribute to a hip fracture in the older adult is a fall, and surgical repair is the preferred method of treatment. The National Institute of Health (NIH) states, “Mortality within the first year following fracture has been as high as 40%.” Collaborative team work is important in order to determine proper discharge for the elderly patient after having a total hip replacement.
The casting process was very painful for me. My mom says that I didn’t sleep the night after a new set of casts. After 18 months of casting it was not as successful as the doctors had hoped. I then had two separate surgery to finish the correction of my feet. The doctors cut my tendons so they could reform my foot and fastened in metal pins to hold it in place until my feet could heal.
This essay, using a case from my practice, will explore negligence and the issues surrounding consent, analyse the ethical implications and propose possible risk management strategies that would minimise the potential of future negligence in similar situations. The clinical situation chosen for examination is drawn from Staunton & Whyburn’s (1997) Nursing and the Law text. The case is known as Rogers v Whitaker (1992) 109 ALR 625. In this situation Mrs Whitaker was a 47-year-old married mother of four who was almost totally blind in the right eye as a result of an accident when she was 9 years old. This woman was educated, worked in a variety of jobs, married and had four children without problems.