This in turn exposes not only patients, but also nurses to a significant amount of noise and alarms, ultimately leading to the clinical problem called alarm fatigue. As defined by the Joint Commission, alarm fatigue is known as the desensitization of medical staff as a result of sensory overload. This overload ultimately results in a delay of an alarm being answered, and sometimes someone completely missing the alarm altogether (The Joint Commission, 2015). Alarm fatigue has been recognized as a contributing
Jackson. According to Maslach and Jackson, “human service professionals are often required to spend a considerable time in intense involvement with other people, centering around the client’s current problems (psychological, social, and/or physical and is therefore charged with feelings of anger, embarrassment, fear or despair” ( p. 99). Due to the nature of the profession the individual often experiences chronic stress which can be emotionally draining and poses the risk for burnout. Maslach and Jackson define burnout “as a syndrome of emotional exhaustion and cynicism that occurs frequently among individuals who do ‘people-work’ of some kind” (p. 99). Three aspects of burnout are emotional exhaustion, negative, cynical attitudes and feelings about one’s clients and the tendency to evaluate oneself negatively with regards to one’s work with clients.
The stress of abuse could trigger chest pain or angina, and may be a factor in other serious heart problems. High blood pressure, breathing problems, stomach problems (ulcers), and panic attacks are common stress-related symptoms among older people who experience abuse. Other long term effects could be a loss of mobility, depression, anxiety, changes in behaviour, behavioural issues and negative relationships. Many adults experiencing abuse are isolated. Individuals who abuse adults often threaten, harass, or intimidate them.
The effect of PTSD can be very extensive. PTSD is a debilitating disorder, and its symptoms have a negative impact on a numerous areas of everyday life. In particular, PTSD negatively affects a person's mental health, physical health, work, and relationships. Post-traumatic is more then merely a stress disorder, PTSD is an anxiety disorder that a person may develop after experiencing extreme or overwhelming traumatic events. More specifically, the trauma is more overwhelmingly powerful when they witnesses and event in which another person may have been killed, seriously injured or threatened.
Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing NUR391/Professional Nursing Zachary Medler January 9, 2015 Dr. Susan Johnson Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing Two issues that Nurse’s face in Healthcare are Malpractice and End-of-Life considerations. Malpractice is professional negligence by the facility or staff whose actions have caused emotional, physical and financial damage to a client under care. In order for negligence to be considered, four elements must be fulfilled, and they are a duty, breach of duty, damages, and causation (Morales, 2012). End-of-Life considerations are prominent in the field of nursing as everyone eventually passes away. It becomes burdensome when the terminal client, has no advanced directive and the loved ones that are to make decisions are in disagreement with each other.
It is common for those suffering from BPD and their families to feel confused by a lack of clear diagnosis, effective treatments and accurate information. It is true that the disorder originates in the families of those who suffer from it, and is closely related to traumatic events during childhood and to PTSD. SIGNS AND SYMTOMS Studies suggest that individuals with BPD tend to experience frequent, strong and Long-lasting states of aversive tension, often triggered by perceived rejection, being alone or perceived
Assisted Suicide is one of those controversial topics where everyone has different opinions, and everyone thinks their opinion is right. It sparks strong debate and emotional ideas. There are many charities such as ‘Care not Killing’ that say the current legislation is a safeguard against vulnerable people being taken advantage of. I think that this is always going to remain a topic of much controversy. There have been many cases recently of passionate campaigning, which has again provoked this poignant debate.
The frequency of the tics is known to fluctuate and include eye blinking, twitching, grunting, and head shaking. (Phelps, 2008) The afflicted often will have social inappropriateness, trouble with the law, coprolalia, and copropraxia (Channon et al, 2009). Both types of tics must be present in order to diagnose the person with Tourette’s. If only one symptom is present, the patient’s disorder would be diagnosed as either chronic motor or visual tic disorder. Tics may occur from one to a thousand times per hour (Friedman, 1980).
Malpractice can be increasing because of a severe shortage of trained nurses, and it happened because of a few factors: nurses are required to work longer shifts; they can lead to fatigue and increase the risk for an error; also short Nursing courses providing degrees with no sufficient time to train nurses results in malpractice. Nurses who lack the experience and knowledge fail their duty, and when it happen not only them but also the hospital in which they work bear the consequences. Because most nurses are employees of hospitals, hospitals are frequently defendant in nursing malpractice cases. Another factor that contributes to nurse malpractice is miscommunication. Even though it is unintentional it can lead to tragedy.
Contemporary Issues in Adult Nursing: Preoperative Fasting Trends in healthcare are continually evolving and changing, these fluctuations can often have massive implications for nursing practice. How we practice as nurses is often dictated by new policy and guidelines which are brought about by the evolving healthcare system. For an issue to be contemporary it has to be occurring in the present and in the sense of nursing it would seem that many issues could be deemed as contemporary due to the ever fluctuating nature of our healthcare service. For the purpose of this assignment I am going to address the issue of pre-operative fasting and the tradition of fasting patients from midnight until surgery the following day. Evidence suggests that this practice is outdated and unnecessary but still the practice occurs on many surgical wards.