Community Patient Resource Group Interview Lab Assignment

To better understand your condition, can you kindly provide brief descriptions of the various symptoms that you are experiencing?

There are 9 types of health care facilities that are accredited by the Joint Commission. The Ambulatory Health Care accreditation, encompassing organizations and facilities that provide outpatient services of medical/dental nature as well as diagnostic, surgical, and therapeutic services. Other types of facilities that are accredited are critical access hospitals, hospitals, laboratories, office-based surgical centers, and nursing care centers. There is also Home Care services, the Opioid Treatment Program, and the Behavioral Health Care Program. Critical Access Hospitals meet special requirements regarding patient beds and LOS. Hospitals that are accredited include general and specialty hospitals.

The Licensed Practical Nurse said that the education that she obtained prepared her for the various facets of her job. It was more helpful in some aspects of my job than it is in others jobs. With the shortage of medical doctors, the LPN and the nurse are playing a larger role in patient care. Because demand for LPN's is strong and growing, you often have your choice of full-time jobs. LPN positions are available in hospitals, nursing homes, doctors' offices, and home health care. The annual salary of a LPN can reach $45,000 plus benefits, depending on your responsibilities. You can choose your work

For this assignment, I am interviewing my cousin who happens to be a nurse in Arizona. The reason I picked her instead of someone local is because she was someone who I never would have thought would ever become a nurse, much less graduate from high school. She was always getting into trouble, causing trouble, and just seemed as though her life was headed nowhere. She ended up married and pregnant at 18 and a couple of years after that she was working as a nurse at a Sharp Hospital in San Diego before moving to Arizona. I am so proud of her because not only did she turn her life around, she really does know her job inside and out. If I have a medical question,

Please share a moment where you have to change your style according to the situation or environment

For my Health Science Exploration interview, I interviewed my mother, she is a Surgery Schedule. She went to Bryant and Stratton College for Applied Science in Medical Assisting. During this time she got her Associate's degree which took 2 years to complete with medical experience. Which means she worked in Doctors Offices, Patient First, and Hospitals to get her current job. Some of the classes she took were Medical Terminology, Anatomy and Physiology, and Medical Ethics. She told me that her favorite class was Anatomy and Physiology because she liked learning how the body works, why it works, and what each part of the body does.

At rest and during speech, X showed symmetry in her lips and face. She was a nose breather and showed adequate range of motion for lips and jaw during speech. X demonstrated adequate tongue-jaw and lip-jaw dissociation. She demonstrated sufficient lip strength and was able to produce a tight labial seal. X presented with adequate range of motion of her tongue as noted by her ability to protrude and retract the tongue, create lateral tongue wags, and elevate the tongue tip. She presented with difficulty when fully encircling her lips with her tongue. The client’s dentition was unremarkable.

Dr. Acosta’s presentation presented the Kleinman’s questions as a tool nurses and physicians can utilize to improve their cultural sensitivity. These open-ended questions attempt to address the patients’ explanatory model of illness. This model provides health care professionals with culturally sensitive information vital to designing a care plan tailored to patients’ unique beliefs and traditions. This model is a new interviewing tool I can utilize in my practice to further my understanding of my patients cultural beliefs related to their health condition.

At Life Care Senior Center, the patient had a stroke that affected her right side of her body about 2 months ago. She stressed that the stroke

Clinical Scenario: Adult female accountant complaints of right-sided lateral upper extremity numbness and tingling, pain, weakness, and dropping things held in right hand.

May 4, 2015. It began like any other day however, I had an appointment with Dr. Lesvesques in the afternoon at the Montreal Children’s Hospital. I had done numerous tests and it was result time. On my way to the hospital, I was really hoping that Dr. Lesvesques would say:

Per the initial orthopedic evaluation report dated 02/09/16, the patient’s pain is worsened when he attempts to elevate the arm. Pain and weakness in his arm make it difficult for him to perform activities such as dressing, grooming and bathing. He is taking

DOI: 12/2/2015. Patient is a year old right hand dominant female who developed numbness in the hands/fingers and left and strain while doing normal job duties. Per OMNI, she was initially diagnosed with

This ethnography is based on participant observations and interviews inspired by practical ethnographic principles (Moustakas, 1994). Directly observing the clinical nurses in the field and interviewed them about their experience to capture the concrete, everyday practice in practice and understand the demand of clinical. During the field observations, the examiners will produce handwritten field notes. Before commencement or the study, the decision to have the data collected through semi-structured interviews and a following observation day in each unit or observation day followed by semi-structured interviews still has to be decided upon. Having interviews first allows the observation days to verify the information described by participants at interview.

Chandra, a 55yo Bhutanese refugee women, who has been living in for Australia 18 months experienced an episode of blurred vision with right arm and leg weakness. During the episode she fell over on the footpath obtaining significant pain in her left arm and unable to stand up. Hospital x-rays indicated that she fractured her left arm, this was set in plaster. CT brain scans showed no changes, and the right sided weakness had completely resolved within an hour of her fall. Testing revealed that Chandra had hypertension and hypercholesterolemia. The emergency department (ED) medical officer informed her that she had experienced a transient ischemic attack (TIA) and handed her an English brochure about TIA. Communication problems and Chandra’s limited English prevented her understand what the doctor was saying. She was discharged from the ED and asked to follow up with her local doctor within the next week in relation to TIA prevention, also providing a referral to the hospitals TIA group education sessions and an appointment time with the fracture clinic. Chandra’s son, Hari, collected her from the ED and was very concerned and unable to speak with a doctor. After discharge, Chandra revealed to her son that she had experienced a similar episode previously and was now concerned and very afraid. An appointment was made with the GP the next day. The receptionist referred Hari to the National Stroke Foundation website for information. Hari also