Valerie Corpening Introductory Speech Outline Dr. Vivien Thomas CM-214 Professor Serrie Kaplan University August 14, 2013 Topic: Dr. Vivien Thomas General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To inform the audience how Thomas was the pioneer of how surgical techniques are used today. Thesis Statement: Overcoming adversity, Vivien Thomas developed techniques and assisted in groundbreaking procedures, which resulted in his surgical techniques being taught and used today. Introduction I. No one in medicine ever heard of or even attempted to perform open heart surgery, let alone opening the chest. But the first breakthrough came when a procedure was developed and performed on the first open heart surgery patient for Tetralogy of Fallot or better known as the baby-blue syndrome in 1944.
access site, several tubings, and multiple-chamber infusion pumps. You should use a labeling system that identifies the bag, infusion pump chambers, and tubing. If a nurse walks in a room and cannot identify what drug is hanging and how long it has been running; she will throw out the IV and begin new tubing. This could cause the hospital thousands of dollars due to wasted tubes thrown away prior to time needed for discarding. Patient safety risk is heightened when the tubing of intravenous medicine aren’t labeled.
Advance directive laws merely give doctors and others immunity if they follow it, the only reliable strategy is to discuss your values and wishes with your healthcare providers ahead of time to make sure they are clear about what you want. Although, a doctor can be held liable in a court of law for not following those orders. There is a limited amount of time in which a patient can make a medical malpractice claim. The statute of limitations for these claims may vary by each state. Life and Death Issues in Healthcare A Review of the Case Study During a scheduled appointment a patient is given the unfortunate diagnosis of colon cancer.
Adult Learning & Leadership: “Patch Adams” By: Laura Goldston Introduction Patch Adams is true life story based on the life a Dr. Patch Adams. A man who believes that it should exist a relationship between patients and doctors. Patch uses humor to heal his patient’s temporality, even though in the film there not his formal patient’s. He visit them, and regular basis gaining the respect of nurse, and staff. The reason why I choose this film, is because it is relative to the filed that I’m studying right now “Health care Leadership”.
Case Study on Interwest Healthcare Shanair Mills Saint Leo University Case Study on Interwest Healthcare In this case study there are a few things that happened that might have caused the problem. The entire approach to the corrective training of data entry was not done tactfully. We are told that, “the hospital staffs are not being careful when entering data into the firm’s management system” (Brickley, Smith, &Zimmerman, 2009, p. 38). Manzoni is the CEO and gets the reports so she can verify that there is an issue. Singh should not have had to convince Manzoni that a problem exists.
This core principle also relates to any discussions, assessments, treatments and medicines that are given and the patients records should be completed and updated as soon as an event has occurred. The Data Protection Act (1998) also addresses that information held about a patient for health reasons should be fairly and lawfully processed, accurate and secure. The recent Francis Report (2013) discovered the inadequacies in record keeping at Mid Staffordshire NHS and discovered that a number of deficiencies were occurring too frequently. The inquiry found inaccuracies in the recordings of patient's deaths, authors who had inputted information on records were not clearly identifiable and limited background information was recorded about a patients history, condition or social history. As a result a review of note keeping amongst healthcare staff is to be carried out.
Leaving a medical facility against a physician’s advice puts a patient at risk for untreated or incompletely treated medical issues, increases the need for subsequent readmission or visits to emergency departments and increases the risk of mortality. DAMA presents a dilemma not only to the attending physician but to the nursing staff caring for the patient. Ethically and legally, patients do have the right to agree to or retract consent for medical treatment; however the nursing management of DAMA is much more complicated and multi-faceted than the patient’s right to consent or dissent to treatment. Problems occur with the understanding of the different types of self-discharge from emergency departments, as well as how best to document such encounters and ultimately, how to improve upon current nursing
2. These types of practices are controlled by the Medical Advisory Boards of the various hospitals. Many hospitals continue this practice to allow for the area to be sterilized prior to the procedure, not giving credibility to the mounting evidence that this practice increases the infection risk when weighed against either clipping the area or using depilatory creams (Tanner J, N. 2011). 3. A review of the literature indicated that there was no evidenced based rationale for the removal of hair at the operative site, unless it interfered with the actual procedure.
- Barriers to effective team working In this essay I will be using the Gribbs reflective cycle (Reid, 1994: see appendix 1) to structure my reflection on a clinical incident that occurred during placement. Because of NMC (2008) guideless on confidentiality, a pseudonym of Ms. Hope has been employed instead of the patient’s name to preserve the privacy of the patient. Ms. Hope was an emergency admission who had an extensive past medical history. This essay will examine the confrontation that occurred during a routine explanation of a malignancy between Ms. Hope and a Surgical Multi-disciplinary team. I will discuss how personal ideas and opinions due to previous experience and past history may create barriers and thus hinder communication outcomes.
“Many physicians say they would be clouding their roles as healers if they helped patients to die” (Buchanan 36.) Physicians even take the Hippocratic Oath, which states that “a physician promises to help the sick and never to cause harm” (Buchanan 36.) As Daniel E. Lee, a reporter for the Hastings Center, says “Meaning and hope are possible in all of life’s situations, even in the midst of suffering” (17.) If the United States were to nationally legalize assisted suicide, it would be a disaster, not only because the way it would go against our morals, but the way it would negatively effect today’s society. “Janet, Sherry , Marjorie, and Susan were not terminal by accepted medical definition…[they] were not Kevorkian’s patients in any traditional sense.