I was in a double room and my roommate, Marie, a heavy girl, had jumped off the roof of her house and shattered her knee. She was there almost as long as I was and I later saw her at physical therapy. She never walked the same again and experienced several complications while in the hospital. What seemed like a simple fracture turned into a nightmare for her, and what seemed like a hopeless situation for me turned out alright. I couldn’t help but wonder why I was so lucky.
On the morning of the incident, Jessica was playing with four other children in the backyard with her mother, supervising. Cissy briefly went inside to answer the phone, leaving the children unattended. It was that momentary instant that changed their lives forever. Cissy returned back outside and soon discovered that Baby Jessica had fallen into an eight-inch diameter well and become trapped deep down in its shaft. For the next 58 hours, frantic rescue crews attempted to save baby Jessica’s life.
Wilma Glodean Rudolph was born prematurely at 4.5 pounds (2.0 kg), the 20th of 22 siblings from two marriages;[4][3] her father Ed was a railway porter and her mother Blanche a maid. [9] Rudolph contracted infantile paralysis (caused by the polio virus) at age four. She recovered, but wore a brace on her left leg and foot (which had become twisted as a result) until she was nine. She was required to wear an orthopaedic shoe for support of her foot for another two years. Her family traveled regularly from Clarksville, Tennessee, to Meharry Hospital (now Nashville General Hospital at Meharry) in Nashville, Tennessee for treatments for her twisted leg.
WGU Accreditation Audit RAFT Task 2: Root Cause Analysis of a sentinel event A Root Cause Analysis (RCA) of a sentinel event is completed to immediately investigate and respond to possible inductions involving the death or injury of a patient. (Joint commission, 2013). Purpose of this report - To execute a Root Cause Analysis for a Sentinel Event occurrence at Nightingale Hospital. Sentinel Event - Child Abduction Date of Issue/Incident – Thursday September 14, at 12:30 PM Background of Issue/Incident - A three year old female patient was brought to Nightingale Hospital by her mother for an outpatient surgical procedure. The mother asked the pre-op nurse how long the procedure would take, because she had to tend to another child and would need to leave for a short while.
Rebecca Lee Kingswoos Lodge Assignment 204 Principles of Safeguarding Task B An elderly woman of 81 and who was suffering from Alzhiemers was seen on camera being slapped by a member of staff at Ash Court Care Home in 2012 after her daughter installed a hidden camera in her mothers room. Mrs Worroll became a resident of the home in 2012 and shortly after her daughter bgan to notice bruising on her mothers arms and legs, so she set up a hidden camera in her mothers room to observe her care. In the first instant she observed her mother being dragged lifted by to carers when correct lifting and handling devices were available for use, probably responsible for unnecessary bruising. Later she saw that her mother was left in the care of one male
A young mother is in intensive care after having a rare but serious reaction to a friend's prescription antibiotics that caused her to "burn" from the inside out. Yassmeen Castanada, 19, wasn't feeling well on Thanksgiving, so she took a pill that her friend had left over from a previous illness. Soon, Castanada's eyes, nose and throat began to burn, and she was rushed to the emergency room, her mother, Laura Corona, told ABC News. Her body erupted in blisters over the next few days, Corona said. She had to be sedated and placed on a ventilator.
Maria Worrall aged 78years had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and had suffered several falls; she had ended up bed bound and admitted to hospital. Whilst at hospital it was agreed that Maria would need to go into a nursing home as she was no longer able to do anything for herself and needed to be cared for. Jane Worrall cared for her mother for a little while she would do all the dressing, bathing and cooking. Jane fell pregnant and wasn’t able to manage the care her mother needed anymore so she had looked at several homes and liked the look of ash court and from the ratings on the internet from the CQC were giving an excellent
On the 22nd of April my mother got sick that I had to come home to take care of her I am her care giver I make sure she take her medicine, do her speech exercise, walk we her to the doctor’s appointment and also speak for her when she needs it. I try to explain to my probation officer that but of course he don’t really care. I thought that probation supposed to help you but it seems like he is knocking me down. He trying to put me in jail for trying to take of my family and also probation I have no income coming in
ENG 121 24, Feb. 2013 Tylenol Murders On the morning of September 29, 1982, a bright 12-year-old girl named Mary Kellerman of Elk Grove Village, Illinois, woke up early complaining of a sore throat and a runny nose. Her parents chose to give her an Extra-Strength Tylenol capsule to make her feel better. Around 7 a.m., they found Mary collapsed on the bathroom floor. In hope of getting her help, the parents rushed their daughter’s unresponsive body to the local hospital. Mary was pronounced dead.
In the midst of the game, Alaska tells the group of the time when she watched her mother die of an aneurysm. She was eight at that time and she was in too much shock to even think about calling 911. Eventually her father forgave her, but Alaska lived with that guilt; she never forgave