Essays on Patient

This activity has been developed for the intermediate EHR student user. The student will review five patient charts from the EHR. Using “Plan, Do, Study/Check, Act” (PDSA/PDCA) students will analyze the documentation of consents in the chart for accuracy and quality. Quality management, performance improvement and initiatives within a healthcare...

Three patients with congenital cardiac disease were recently admitted to the Ladnan hospital. All three patients require a heart surgery in which the patient's heart is swapped out for a donor heart. At Ladnan Hospital, the need for donor hearts is increasing, but the quantity of donor organs has stayed...

When a patient is deemed healthy enough to be discharged but is unable to do so because plans for their ongoing assistance and care have not yet been finalized, this is referred to as a delayed discharge. The use of nurse-led release protocols, multi-agency discharge protocols to enhance multidisciplinary working, home-based...

A limited number of common non-emergency medical complaints that can be effectively managed without the need for a physical examination can be treated by clinicians using asynchronous online medical consultations between healthcare providers and patients that are conducted within the boundaries of a secure patient portal in an electronic health...

International Medical Tourism International medical tourism is caused by the difficulty of obtaining medications and therapies that are unavailable in the patient's home country. The issue requires the patients to pool their resources and travel to nations that provide the medical services they need at a reasonable cost in order to...

The high prevalence of patient falls within the healthcare system is still on the rise, and fall prevention continues to be a major patient safety issue at all levels of care delivery. In light of this, organizations like The Joint Commission noted that preventing falls remained a national patient safety...

Communication and Therapeutic Relationship Communication, according to Murray, Zentner, and Yakimo (2014), is essential for developing a therapeutic relationship between the practicing nurse and the patient. It is critical for a nurse practitioner to develop strong communication skills in order to establish a working relationship with the client. As a result,...

Florence Nightingale and the Environmentalist Theory Florence Nightingale established and published the nursing philosophical and theoretical view of the patient's health in connection to environmental conditions, which led to the development of this theory. Metaparadigms have four components: environment, person, health, and nursing. Nightingale's conceptual paradigm related health to five environmental...

Identifying Vital Patient Information As a nurse, it is critical to identify vital patient information that should be maintained in a common database since this information leads the decision-making process of the health professionals working on the patient's case. Despite the fact that most hospitals employ structured data input forms to...

"Ethics, Professional Ethics, and Health Care Ethics" "Ethics, Professional Ethics, and Health Care Ethics" is primarily concerned with health care ethics. It focuses on applied ethics in several health care domains, particularly health care consumer ethics, because it emphasizes that the patient has an obligation to make key ethical decisions. The...

Abdominal Pain and its Prevalence Abdominal pain is one of the few discomforts that cause victims to visit clinical emergency departments (CED) on a regular basis. While they provide difficulties for clinicians, victims may also be unable to pinpoint the source of their pain. According to statistics, the elderly make up...

All health care facilities are required to maintain the security and confidentiality of patient data. With the advancement of technology and data readily falling into the wrong hands, every institution should ensure that its patients' information is never accessible to a non-authorized audience. To do this, health facilities can implement...