Since the incident the receptionist has been suspended until further notice while they look into things. Myself I feel that the incident should have been dealt with straight away and not left to be sorted at a later date. I was still unable to go back to the doctors as it really upset me and it knocked my confidence a lot, I also feel I had been let down by the system and still never got to see the doctor. I also heard that on a few occasions that the woman in question had also been the same with a few other patients but they never took it further, so surely now this might make the practice see things as they
Communication Opinion HCS/320 Communication is a very important skill for every human to have, even more important when that communication involves your health. Which is why it is so vital for a physician or any other health care employee to have good and effective communication skills. In order to fully assist a patient the communication between the physician and patient should have a shared understanding. Without this very important tool in the health care field, the industry would do horrible. So in order for personnel in the health care field to have effective communication they have to follow a few basic elements and rules.
Other nurses and staff members are not this strong, opting to go elsewhere to only do their ‘fair share’. These nurses say that their families deserve their time as well as the patients and they feel that they are unable to equally divide their time with family if they are physically and mentally drained every day. High staffing turnover leaves another problem for the administrator. Making sure not to hire people of a certain character out of desperation is a different type of challenge for the administrator. Those people that are labeled as elder abusers, thieves or predators cannot be a part of the staff in these facilities and must carefully be weeded out of the hiring process.
The clinical outcome in this situation was clearly that Mr. B was over-sedated leading to a very dangerous situation. Hypoxia during sedation is a common side affect, which is treated by giving the patient O2 or reversing the sedation. However in this situation the staff was not aware that he was hypoxic, and why weren’t they? The answer a nurse had silenced the alarm but had not done an assessment nor alerted anyone else of the situation. Why did the nurse choose to silence the alarm with no further action?
Lateral Violence in Nursing There is a dark side to nursing. A side that most instructors don't lecture about, that most nurse managers don't explain in the interview and that even other nurses don't discuss. A nurse rolls her eyes at a co-worker as she picks up the assignment sheet that was created by a younger charge nurse. An ICU nurse pretends not to see her co-worker is drowning and ignores her request for help saying she is ‘too busy’. A newly hired RN who was previously a tech finds she is now shunned by both groups.
She relayed to me that she was fed up with healthcare in this country and did not understand how she could work hard her whole life and be treated like less than because she had an “HMO”. She too, like me and others, seem to be failed by our medical system currently in place. Sue complains that her HMO is awful and they have withheld care on more than one occasion. She goes on to explain that an HMO insurance only allows you to see certain doctors. The doctors she needs to see, she goes on to say, are not available to her as they do not participate with her insurance, Aetna.
At the first visit the client can always be refer to a different clinic if the clinician doesn’t take the specific case but this is a people helper profession. As we get to know that profession better we might not want to see all cases either for personal or preferences but not offering the help is not acceptable. It doesn’t matter if they gay, straight, rich, poor, disable, rapist, pedophile either or as a client I would have been very unhappy to be turn down without any referral to my needs. “The tools for conducting an effective assessment are numerous. The first session is often spent conducting an intake interview, which includes collecting basic demographic information about the client (age, marital status, number of children, ethnicity, etc.
They believe that it would be better if nurses only practice under the guidance and supervision of the doctor. They believe that allowing them to practice independently would be detrimental to their patients (Mills, 2009). They would be prone to some misdiagnosis, failure to attend to less obvious, but potentially life-threatening problems as well as prescriptive errors. In fact, they maintained that many deaths in the hospital would be realized due to errors made in prescriptions. According to them, nurses however much trained and experienced lack skills to manage and deal with complex living with multi-system diseases.
The doctors were beginning to comment on it. The staff was getting more distressed. According to her supervisor, “again they talked about visits, and the behavior at the desk. When it got pretty bad with the phone calls, appellant would slam charts, push chairs and be a little abrupt with the people she worked with.” Another written reprimand in November of 1986 warned appellant that her job was in jeopardy if the disruptive behavior continued. The supervisor established restrictions prohibiting the appellant from having visitor at the
They are never able to make that vital connection with patients. These are the nurses patients complain about. They say they are very "cold", "uncaring", and they feel like "the nurse is in a hurry to move on to the next thing". I believe these are the nurses that choose this profession for the wrong reasons, such as for the money or the many different career opportunities and options available. These are the individuals that have difficult time with the art of nursing and see nursing as task oriented and not necessarily patient