PERIOPERATIVE CASE STUDY Student Name _April Jones______________ Date ___02-01-2014__________ I. PREOPERATIVE PHASE A. Client profile: 52 y.o. Caucasian female 68in 200 lbs B. Current Medical Diagnosis/surgical event: Chronic bilateral otitis media (intermittent infections), left posterior perforation(left ear drum hole) , Eustachian tube dysfunction, moderate bilateral conductive hearing loss C. Support system: patient’s fiancé: no labs ordered, none in chart D. Selected Preoperative Assessment 1. Previous Hospitalizations: none listed 2.
The treatments, equipment, and technology used from the beginning to present day has also changed and improved. This is why we research and learn ways to better nursing education, treatments, equipment, and technology. We should shrive to better nursing as nurses ourselves. We all benefit from moving forward with change. Nurses began as one of the lowest status in society.
After a two month adjustment period, the hospital began to record data on the use of SwabKit®. A reduction of 70.4% was seen in CLABSIs in the first six months of hospital wide use. The number of infections went from 14 cases to 4 cases. At the time the study was written in May 2012, there have been 0 cases of CLABSIs since February 2012 (McCalla, et al.,
Being a nurse has always meant more to me than a white dress, it provides excellent job, opportunities, as well as an identity. Although nursing is a great career, it is much more than just a job. As a nurse you get a little glimpse into people’s private lives. You are there at their worst and best moments in life. In one day you may have to tell someone that a
“ The Woodhull Study on Nursing and the Media, conducted by Sigma Theta Tau International, found that nurses were severely under-represented in print media, including in comprehensive coverage of health care. Of 1,153 health care stories in 16 major newspapers, only 11 carried references to nurses. Rarely do people hear about their on-the-spot critical, “life or death” thinking, or their heroic efforts to provide accountable, complex, quality health interventions in the midst of chaos and crisis.” (1) It’s nice to know that we are held in high regard by the public for our honesty and ethical standards, but this does little to promote the knowledge that nurses are expert clinicians. The image of nursing is vital to our profession’s continued growth and advancement in today’s changing workplace and an important concept for the public and future nurses to be aware of. According to a study done by Johnson and Johnson, “ only one half of Americans know the educational levels of nursing, fewer than 1 in 5 know R.N.’s must be licensed, less than 20% know that R.N.’s must have continual ongoing education, more than 2 in 3 don’t know that N.P.’s are allowed to prescribe drugs, and fewer than 4 in 10 know that nurses are involved in decreasing health care costs, work in
Task 1a • The importance of carrying out a detailed body analysis & relevant tests is so that you can pick up on any posture faults, avoid any areas which may be contra indicated and you are able to give them information on ways to improve their posture. It is important to carry out relevant tests such as cold or hot and sharp and blunt so that you are sure the client can feel the difference so they can tell you if they want the machine higher or lower and can feel the full benefit. This also prevents you from harming your client if they can feel something within the treatment which feels painful. • The importance of positioning the client correctly so they are as comfortable as possible and you aren’t causing them any pain or injury. It is important to be positioned correctly as a therapist so you prevent yourself from pain or injury if you consistently and positioned correctly this can result in repetitive strain injury.
Women in other countries, including Great Britain(Drake, 2003) and the Netherlands(Wiegers, van der Zee, and Keirse, 1998) who have low-risk pregnancies may choose between home and hospital delivery. The move of childbirth from home to hospital has had a positive effect on lowering the deaths of the mother and infant because better trained assistance became available and, were emergencies to arise, they were better able to be handled. However, as these improvements developed, women found themselves losing control of their pregnancies with professionals, procedures, and equipment coming between them and the process of birthing. Because of this, we have seen a slow but consistent return to home births by women who wish to be removed from the bureaucracy of the hospital and have their children in the
One can describe this phenomenon almost as a 'slippery slope' affect in the fact that having a positive, friendly bed side manner with a patient makes the patient more willing to trust the advice of the physician, leading to a faster treatment, ultimately making the patient better with ease. Then of course making the patient better with ease, makes the patient happy, which in turn leads to less malpractice lawsuits filed against the physician and, or
In 2000, only 9.1 percent of registered nurses were 30 years old or younger, according to the Health Resources and Service Administration’s Bureau of Health Professions. That same year, the average age of the nursing population was 45.2. One reason older nurses leave the profession is physical stress. Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital implemented a patient-lift initiative to reduce back and other types of injuries among nurses and support staff. A dedicated lift team assists nurses and other staff when they cannot safely move patients.
Some of these factors that contributed to the motivation of seeking cosmetic surgery were cultural conflicts and the wish to avoid being stereotyped as alien. (Meyer Et Al 1960) Also, some previous studies conclude that this kind of surgery produces a positive psychological effect by improving one’s quality of life. But researches also suggested that the effect or outcome of cosmetic surgery to an individual depends on the satisfaction and expectation of the patient towards the outcome. According to a Leesburg plastic