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make a decision regarding the patient. A mentally stable adult patient has the authority to give consent to who they release their records to and to accept or deny any diagnostic therapy/ procedures. The physician should also clearly state the purpose of any examinations or treatments and what the results would displays. The patient would also be notified what are the consequences if they decline the consent. Furthermore, communication is critical between the patient and physician. Now in our…

Ethical Dilemma: Impact of Nurse to Patient Ratios Jamie R. Dupuy University of Louisiana Lafayette  Ethical Dilemma: Impact of Nurse to Patient Ratios On the night shift in an ICU, a nurse finds herself working, the unit assigned to the Code Blue team with one other RN, no ancillary staff support, and six patients. As she is standing between two patient’s rooms, both of which have alarms sounding, a Code Blue is called on the floor. Which patient should she respond to first?…

Two patient safety indicators that I became familiar with during my eight weeks of clinical at KU Rehab Center were postoperative deep vein thrombosis and decubitus ulcers. Spath (2011) reminds readers that patient safety indicators are events that are potentially preventable. As nurses it is our job to do everything we can to keep these issues to a minimum during every patients stay. During my time at clinical I watched nurses complete multiple pre-emptive measures to keep their patients…

The Importance of Patient Engagement and OpenEMR Patient engagement is vital towards effective recovery of the patient’s condition. A study conducted by KLAS said that there is only 10 percent of healthcare organizations are engaging their patient successfully to maintain their overall health. Facing with this challenge, it is the duty of practitioners to engage with their patient so as to help them enjoy a quality life and longevity. Along with electronic medical practice management software…

Patient education is an important aspect of health-care that is often undervalued. Education however, entails both active engagement by the providing physician or health care team as well as the patient. Patient health literacy, often defined as the ability for a patient to obtain, understand, and act on health information, is a key factor for patient education and is often a limiting factor. [1] Evidence suggests that adults with limited health literacy are less likely, on average, to ask their…

and a nurse case manager. Patients with pulmonary disease, acute or chronic are a significant part of hospital readmission rates. Overall, patients with one respiratory disease process pneumonia, can account for 38.5 percent of hospital readmissions. (Dharmarajan et al., 2013) The needs of discharged patients are not being met up to 81% of patients needing assistance with basic functional needs failed to receive home care referrals and consequently 64% of these patients reported that no one at…

factors that influence adherence that can better understood by considering the interactive effects of patients’ characteristics, type of adherence intervention, and characteristics of the illness and medical treatment context. The study was completed by reviewing previous theories and research based on personality, social, and clinical psychology. The basis of this study was to show how patient adherence is a necessary condition for safe, effective, and efficient treatment (Christensen, 2002 p.…

practitioners and between patients is essential to ensure high quality patient outcomes. As healthcare becomes more complex, the focus for organizations will be on processes that facilitate collaboration and improve patient outcomes (Rosenstein, Dinklin, & Munro, 2014). This paper will review two strategies to improve communication: the use of the Situation-Background-Assessment- Recommendation tool, or SBAR for interprofessional team communication and the teach-back method of educating…

science and technology; significant improvement in healthcare has occurred. But, this improvement has its drawback on patient safety, as patients increasingly suffer from adverse events due to hospitalization and medical management. As a result to this situation, 'patient safety' has emerged as a distinct health care discipline which can help health team to develop a culture of patient safety (1). Usually, medical errors blamed on a person error and attributes these to human factors like…

About talking of the humanist, you should to know the laws of this work and put the interests of the patient at the top. Also you are committed to protecting the privacy of patients, and you should never be posted their Information on a social networking site such as: twitter, and the patient may be the only person who has that right, and he will be responsible for what happens next. Protect patient privacy is one of the most kind of humanist, cause when you saving that privacy you will be…