access site, several tubings, and multiple-chamber infusion pumps. You should use a labeling system that identifies the bag, infusion pump chambers, and tubing. If a nurse walks in a room and cannot identify what drug is hanging and how long it has been running; she will throw out the IV and begin new tubing. This could cause the hospital thousands of dollars due to wasted tubes thrown away prior to time needed for discarding. Patient safety risk is heightened when the tubing of intravenous medicine aren’t labeled.
We all have different likes and dislikes and we have different outlooks on life. All this and more is what makes us unique individuals. It’s these differences that will affect how we deal with certain situations, our openness and why we have resistance to certain thoughts or ideas. With these differences in mind, it is the requirement of the hypnotherapist to assess the client and devise a therapy strategy that meets their needs and will achieve the best outcome for them. We are all aware that the usual method of
Input from team members opens up a wider range of options and ideas which can be applied to problem solving. It is, however, important that some form of coordination and cooperation exist and that team members accept different roles in different situations, with the object of fulfilling team rather than individual needs. In other words, teams work well when everyone is prepared to listen to and respect others, to contribute when required and to follow the appropriate leadership at the time. In an effective team we cannot all be leaders at the same time or even leaders all of the time. In order to operate effectively and to achieve results there must be clear objectives, supported by clear and cooperative communication between all team members.
On several previous occasions you observed the nurse violating standards of care. You reported these incidents to the administration. At the time of the incident in question, you kept personal anecdotal notes because you were concerned about a possible lawsuit in the future. You are still an employee of the healthcare institution involved. You are asked if you have ever witnessed other incidents of negligence performed by this nurse and, if so, what you did.
This qualitative study was done in order to get an overall idea of what kind of attitudes cancer patients, their family members and health professionals had toward euthanasia. At their first glance of other research done on the topic they read that a lot of nurses found euthanasia unethical. They also argue that only god has the right to decide when a person is to die (Thiroux, 1980, Davis et al., 1993, McInerney & Seibold, 1995, p.17). Semi-structured recorded interviews were performed at 4 different hospitals with patients, family members, nurses and doctors. The recordings were transcribed and gone over to look for important phrases involving specific answers to research questions from the interviews.
Even though we have been taught a thousand times before through trainings and information videos and pamphlets the first thing you should do is put on gloves, but as a teacher you grow a bond with the children in your class and after a while you think of them as your own, that combined with the responsibility to protect them at all times your first thought when they are in pain and injured is not to go rummaging around for gloves before tending to the injured child. This exact situation happened in my classroom a few weeks ago, and my reaction also was to grab the child without gloves. After I stopped the immediate gush of blood, I asked a co-worker to get me gloves. However, I realized my hands and arms were already covered with this child’s blood and I was fully exposed to any diseases this child may carry. Then I realized, I wasn’t aware of the medical history on this child, so how could I know if I was at any serious risk?
You go to work in rain, sleet, shine, sick, health, and hurricanes. My first job after high school was a cashier, a world of enlightenment opened up at that point in my life. I learned a lot about working with others especially the roles and ethics of various age groups. As a beginner cashier I started developing coping techniques and socialization strategies that currently follow me today, as I encounter new jobs or challenges in my life. I began nursing school at a point in my life that was chaotic, I was getting divorced, my birth father was dying, and I was trying to settle into my role as a single parent of two young children.
Many times my nurse and I would discuss and collaborate on why some medications were given a certain route, what contraindications were present, and what we would need to assess for after administration. It was interesting to see through my clinical weeks that the younger nurses, who had graduated within the last 3 years, followed the 7 rights to drug administration better than more experienced nurses. There were multiple times where I would count the rights for good practice, and there would be two or more missing by the nurse. Once, I told my nurse she was on the wrong patient chart, when she was adjusting the PCA pump to a different rate. She was adjusting it to the wrong patient.
When one knows their competencies they can step up and utilize their strengths and leverage others when needed. With my strength for leading and taking initiative, I can take command of a situation while working well with others to critically think through ideas and discuss the quality of the arguments and evaluate potential solutions. My ability to cope with pressure can help me to maintain a calm atmosphere for the group. I possess the ability to network well and that will allow me to seek out others to obtain their point of view. Being innovative will also help with assessing arguments through critical thinking.
Alan had extremely negative self-talk regarding his performance at work which lead to a very negative atmosphere with his employees. He feels “inadequate” and his employees tend to resent him after the performance interviews. I think that by thinking these negative thoughts they exude into his actions and behaviors. I think his inability to listen is best described by Wood as “Preoccupation” (2013, pg. 150).