“When you delegate, you entrust another person to act in your placed for that particular task or cluster of tasks.” (Hansten & Jackson, 2009, p. 274). The nursing profession has gone through many changes of its practice model. With the past and projected nursing shortages, and the financial challenges of many organizations, nurses are being asked to work with more unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP). In order to provide safe and effective care to our patients, nurses are being asked to assume more of a coordinator of care role, while delegating many tasks to the UAP’s. This has caused much frustration for many nurses as they have never had formal delegation training.
Patients might not get much one on one care, due to the number of patients a nurse is assigned to. If someone falls or needs immediate assistance, there is a call cord that can be pulled. This will notify the nurse that there is an emergency. Like the nurses, the aide is assigned a number of patients to help with. The aide will perform personal care for the
Health Care Communication Methods Theresa Robinson HCS/320 March 11, 2013 Kelly Hernandez, MPH Health Care Communication Methods Health care communication can be difficult and stressful, especially when dealing with the elderly. As the administrator of Sunny Side Nursing Home, it is my responsibility to ensure that each resident receives the proper care and treatment. Since many of the residents have to be relocated, whether it is to another facility or with a family member, I must ensure that the proper information is communicated and that HIPAA regulations are followed. Communication Methods According to Smith and Jones (2009), “The communication process has four main elements: the sender, the message, the receiver, and the feedback (Perioperative Communication, p. 2). The sender, which in this case would be myself, is responsible for assessing the message and conveying it to the residents at Sunny Side.
Right to Withdraw Care in End of Life Situations Name here School name Right to Withdraw Care in End of Life Situations There are many decisions that have to be made concerning the right to withdraw care at the end of life. These issues are faced by doctors, nurses, patients and family members concerned about the decision to withdraw care. Many of these decisions regarding care raise anxiety among the healthcare team, family members and even the patient. The patient must be able to make decisions about their care. The purpose of this paper is to discuss that as a patient’s life deteriorates care is no longer able to improve a patient’s quality of life but their projected outcome is thought to be a continued degeneration.
Individual's approach to this difficult stage of life may be very different from considering it as the beginning of a new life through fear up to denying. Disregarding person's attitude towards what is happening to them they need help in many ways. From mine, care assistant's point of view the most important aspects of end of life care are: psychological and spiritual support (if requested), basic personal hygiene, supporting with eating and drinking and meeting continence needs. Another one which does not belong to my duties is administering proper medication which is basically pain reliefs. I work in a care home on two nursing units where very often I have to take care about terminally ill patients.
Participation contracts resent opportunities for providers by attracting new patients to their practice. Personally, I do not see how contracts represent financial opportunities for providers. When a provider contracts with a health plan, they must take a write off of their services they perform. Some physicians do not accept certain plans because
Internal factors that have defined the size of Hospice include the addressing of the fact that many patients and their families were suffering from terminal illnesses and their needs were not being met by the medical system. The size that Hospice has grown into is based on the needs of the people and how to provide care for these patients. As more patients who required
Healthcare organizations are finding it difficult to provide quality healthcare services in a timely manner due to the nursing staff shortages. Healthcare facilities are attempting to develop solutions to solve this shortage problem, but the current solutions are resulting in short term negative impacts. This warrants the need to continue to look for innovative ways to offset the additional costs as well as the reduction in quality that is being felt. NURSING STAFF SHORTAGES Nursing Staff Shortages: Why is There a Problem and What Can be Done to Solve It? A large problem in today’s healthcare environment is a shortage of nurses to fill positions.
Who the assessment is for This assessment can be used for a variety of different client groups but would be particularly useful for clients that have been in hospital for an extended period of time for example people that have been in a mental health facility. It is known that when people are in hospital for a significant period they can become deskilled, this is due to the fact that they are not practicing their activities of daily living and are perhaps used to relying on others. Patients can quickly lose or become less efficient at basic skills such as cooking, shopping, personal care and social skills this is an affect of them becoming institutionalised which becomes a big problem when a patient is deemed well enough to be discharged from hospital. This is where the shopping assessment comes in. Aims and objectives of the assessment.
HLT 310-V SPIRITUALITY IN HEALTHCARE Spiritual Needs Assessment Patients who enter the hospital due to an injury or illness, have different expectations regarding their care. Most of the time, they fear the results of a study or procedure much more than they do the actual procedure itself. The type of familial support or spiritual support that they have is an important aspect as to how well they tolerate some of the diagnostic studies that must be done in order for the physician to make an accurate diagnosis. Introduction The following paper will provide a summary of a spiritual needs assessment performed on a patient that was admitted to a Dignity Health hospital recently. Mrs. A.S. came in with chest pain and shortness of breath.