As a Hospice Nurse, I am practicing altruism on a daily basis. I am constantly advocating for my patients at the most vulnerable time in their life, without imposing my values on the patient. Autonomy is the freedom to make discretionary and binding decisions that are consistent within one’s scope of practice and the freedom to act on those decisions. (Frances Marcus Lewis R.N.,M.N.,Ph.D.) The training and education of the nurse has provided him or her with the requisite information and understanding to make independent decisions.
In my nursing class, I learned that doctors cure the sickness and nurses cure the patient. This means that the nurse attends to the physical, mental, and psychosocial aspects in the care of patients. Some days can be demanding on the mind and body, but you can still go home and be grateful of what you have done for someone else. I believe that the core of nursing is love and passion for others. Without this love and passion, why is one in nursing.
For example, prior to admission, an assessment of the individual’s relevant long term social and medical history is carried out and documented, and all staff members have access to these records. A plan of care is developed based on these assessments with the involvement of the individual as his rights and preferences are what dictates what type and how care is provided. For example, Mrs G was admitted into our elderly frail unit, she is totally blind. In addition to the information we got from social services, the pre admission assessment, she was allowed to determine what time she wants to get up in the morning, what gender she wants to assist her with personal care, where she wants her bedside table to be placed, what time she wants her tea in the morning. We also get information and input from family members, friends, Social services and other key people who are involved in the provision of adequate care for the individual.
The nurse moves on to the next patient or task. There is really no interaction between the patient and the nurse. I don’t know if it’s because of the amount of patients that they have to take care of or because they’ve been doing this job for too long. While I was doing the morning care for one of my patients, I would start talking to them. I would ask how they’re doing, why are they here or if they want me to do their morning care a certain way.
There are other alternatives to residential settings, an individual may decide to be in sheltered housing or extra care housing scheme. This option offers independence with an increased level of care and support. There are different reasons as to why people go into residential settings, an individual may be suffering from a chronic illness such as dementia and need constant attention, lack of family to care for them, an individual wanting to be independent from his/her family members or an individual may be living in a disabling environment and needs to be in an environment which is not disabling. To create a good care setting it is important that the
Also when I was in the hospital I saw what the nurses did and I thought it was pretty interesting. After all this I decided this was something I knew I wanted to do. Nurses have many daily activities that they must follow in order to perform their duties. The activities or roles the registered nurse may change depending on the day or the patient. All nurses have a scope of practice they must follow but depending on the patient will tell them what procedures to perform.
The Case of Carmen BSHS/335 July 20, 2014 Abstract There are many different situations that will arise when working in the health care field that will cause one to question whether or not the decision they must make will cross an ethical, moral, or legal guideline. The HIPAA laws are put in place to protect the consumer as well as the facility and the professionals who work there. In this case we have a client that is in need of immunization record and does not have the time to sign for the release of these record. She also has no time to pick them up so she has requested these records sent to her via fax. HIPAA require a signature to release these records.
Case Study on Interwest Healthcare Shanair Mills Saint Leo University Case Study on Interwest Healthcare In this case study there are a few things that happened that might have caused the problem. The entire approach to the corrective training of data entry was not done tactfully. We are told that, “the hospital staffs are not being careful when entering data into the firm’s management system” (Brickley, Smith, &Zimmerman, 2009, p. 38). Manzoni is the CEO and gets the reports so she can verify that there is an issue. Singh should not have had to convince Manzoni that a problem exists.
HSC 34 1.1 My understanding of duty of care is ensuring the wellbeing and making sure the residents are safe in my care. To make sure we provide a daily personal needs for the clients/ service users according to their daily needs by following their care plans 1.2 By protecting clients health , wellbeing and clients and stuff rights and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. By provided with the required training need to, to do the job right. 2.1 Is dilemmas when the client refused to have a wash/bath every time and it end up in conflicts between me/carer and a client where i have to explain the important of higyne and what might happen if they don’t have their bath. To make sure they agree to what they have to do i have to make sure they understand the important of what they have to do and why they have to and asure them that I will be able to assist in anyway they need to be assist with.
I also think that the internal audit department should have had full access to the accounting system. Because the internal auditors did not have full access to the system, detection of fraudulent practices couldn't be readily and immediately determined. In addition to this, the internal audit department reported to the CFO, thus the CFO had the