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...? Foundations in Surgical Care Introduction Surgical care is an important aspect of health care. Statistics reveal that over 235 million operations are conducted annually on a global scale. Surgery is performed in various parts of the world and in various settings; rural or urban and for the rich and poor. Surgery is an important aspect in health care as it prolongs longevity in life by correcting various conditions and disabilities. Regardless of this fact, surgery is associated with various complications and death. Therefore, surgical care and its potential complications require noteworthy attention...
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...of the organization within the unit scope of work (Population Health Futures, n.d). Empowerment supports the contribution of agency programs in relation to the achievement of health vision and mission. The above points shall be important goals and activities which have to be implemented and achieved in the first six months of my office. Immediately upon taking over the position, I shall be implementing changes in the respiratory care department in order to make way for the goals and aims which I want to achieve for the unit and ultimately, for the hospital in general. Long term plan In order to implement a long-term plan for the unity, I shall be participating in respiratory, pulmonary,...
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...? Continuous Quality Care: Surgical Site Infection Continuous Quality Care: Surgical Site Infection Introduction According to reports, Medicare has already stopped reimbursing hospitals. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have selected a number of high-cost, high-frequency events to include in the changed policy of reimbursement; and CMS term them as ‘never events’ (Brown, Doloresco III & Mylotte, 2009, p. 743). According to CMS, “a never event must be unambiguous, preventable, serious, and either adverse, indicate of a problem in the facility, or important for public credibility and accountability”; and the eight...
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...assistant at operations as directed by the supervisory consultant surgeon. Surgical care practitioners would also carry out some technical and operative procedures in accordance to their scope of practice and facilitate continuity in the care of patients. This can be very challenging especially in an environment where the situations can change in an instant. Most people observe it as not patient orientated, but it actually is. “The patient is there - just not in a communicative state” (Life Long Learning for Nurses: Theatre nursing is in your blood) The duties for Surgical Care Practitioner are hardly complete as the description would...
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...and how to support them. Or it could help them make future plans about their health and medical care."(as cited in
http://health.yahoo.com/lungcancer-treatment/lung-cancer-treatment-overview/healthwise--tm1367.html)
As we have a glance through Continuing Care: NHS & Local Council's Responsibilities by Department of Health, we see that any individual's continuous requirement for care falls into any of the three categories below at any point of time. (Continuing Care 2001:4)
The 3 'categories' are as follows:-
Category
One
Continuing NHS
Health Care
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...: "A decision may be regarded as specifying a treatment or circumstances even though it is expressed in broad terms or unscientific language" (Department of Constitutional Affairs, 2004).
With all this level of legality it is the surgical nurse who ensures that all formalities with regards to advance statements have been completed prior to any major surgery. Although it may be the normal nurse who has dealt with the patient on a prior basis it is the surgical nurse's duty to ensure that the patient is of sound mental health. The surgical nurse needs to come to this conclusion to ensure that her patient has not signed or rather finalised his "advance directive" without...
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...to guarantee a positive patient outcome. The current patient entered into the surgical ICU after having routine care at his regular doctors' office but due to his habitual problems with cardiovascular pain his primary doctor was aware that a situation might occur that could lead to him having to have immediate heart surgery. This did in fact take place and the patient was picked up from his home by ambulatory care services. During transport the paramedics lost the patient and had to revive him. They also had to use a form of resuscitation because the patient did stop breathing at one point. This placed him above the queue of other patients who might have had...
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...Continuing care – Incontinence Introduction Incontinence is one of the many problems which often afflict those who are elderly. This incontinence often causes more psychological and social problems among elderly citizens, sometimes causing them to retreat away from society. There is therefore a need to come up with a clear plan for these patients in order to effectively address their incontinence. This paper shall discuss the case of a patient with incontinence, generally describing his other continuing care needs. It shall select two of the continuing care needs identified and through the holistic approach shall briefly outline how...
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...Meditech surgical Meditech surgical Meditech had a number of new product introduction problems. These problems were in terms of deficiencies or scarcities associated with the introduction of new products. According to Kaminsky (2008), "Forecasting had definitely been a problem, but determining its extent was difficult" (p. 22). In other words, predicting the success of a new product was an intricate process as it required manual entry of data linked with previous monthly preparations into a computer for analysis. This took a lot of time. This meant that Meditech failed to store appropriate preceding data in relation to planning hence the difficulty in calculating or predicting the outcome of a new product...
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...Case Study for ODP On the 25th March a 15 year old patient, Mary, walked into the hospital where I was attached, as a nursing practitioner, to seek medication on her rapidly deteriorating health. She underwent the regular examinations to determine the nature of her sickness and immediately the doctors arrived at a conclusion that Mary should be taken to the theater for a minor operation on her left hand besides further medical attention. Upon closer observations, I noticed that Mary was a very anxious young girl. Although she had been accompanied by her Mother, Mrs. Silvestre, to theatre for a minor operation under local and is being checked into the department, she remained restless throughout the...
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