Medical Recovery: Case Study

The loss of control experienced by Ann may have had an impact on the time it took to progress through the stages. Involving Ann in the decision making, discussing options and offering continuity of care would help make the transition from her home environment easier.

Betty had a fall a few weeks after her diagnoses. It took a fall and an admission to hospital for the health and social care team to realise they were struggling. Finally, workers involved Betty and Arthur fully in giving information about Betty’s condition and possible sources of help e.g. meals on wheels, luncheon club, day care etc. This enabled Betty to be fully included in as plan of care which enabled her to

Recovery from drugs, alcohol, and tobacco is something not a whole bunch of people can do. Either they don’t have the support or willpower to do it. Then there’s some people that just don’t want the help even if they have the support. Recovery is something that could really help and benefit a person. It seems to me like recovery is a way of giving someone a second chance at getting their life together. They went through rough times and that’s why they turned to all those bad things. Then they recover and it’s like they are in a brand new world. The whole recovery process needs support from the person friends, family , and anyone else that the person needs to help support them. When they get the support they have the willpower to recovery from

Doe will be referred to the following outpatient services in Jacksonville, FL for assistance with dyspnea and fatigue; Brooks Rehabilitation, Home Watch Caregivers, and UF Health Cardiac Rehabilitation Program. Brooks Rehabilitation offers a Cardiac Disease Management Program that works through the case management action plan to ensure the patient is managing his condition. Brooks Home Care Advantage Physical Therapy offers patient’s world class care to help them achieve full mobility and independence (Brooks Rehabilitation, 2014). Home Watch Caregivers offer support for patients living alone with chronic health conditions. The personalized care plans will be implemented to meet the goals of the case management action plan and encourage the patient to commit to a healthier lifestyle.

Dale Gordon has been a patient in the ICU for 6 days after developing complications after open heart surgery. He is an 82-year-old African American who is disoriented to place and time. He lives with his daughter Claudia in her home. Claudia and her two brothers visit Mr. Gordon daily since he has been hospitalized. Mr. Gordon has not been eating well since the surgery and has lost 3 pounds. Mr. Gordon has type 2 diabetes and is on oral antihyperglycemic medication. Before he came to the hospital, Mr. Gordon was able to only ambulate for short distances. He has orders to get up in a chair twice a day. Joan, a student nurse, is caring for Mr. Gordon this morning. She has reviewed his medical record and is now ready to start caring for him.

In the last five years, Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) pathways for colorectal resection have been thrust into spotlight with evidence of expedited recovery time and improved postoperative outcomes1–5. However, there exists little uniformity in the recommendations and results of published ERAS pathways, and there is some evidence suggesting that the wrong cocktail of bundle elements can increase Surgical Site Infection (SSI) rates6. This inconsistency can be attributed to a lack of consensus on the efficacy of some common bundle elements, such as preoperative antibacterial showering, maintenance of normothermia, and high intraoperative Fraction of Inspired Oxygen (Fi02) 7–15. Such dissonance in studied ERAS efforts

On Tuesday 06/27/2017, veteran Mr. Saenz walked very angrily in my office with his wife about 11:00 AM. I greeted them and offered to sit down; Mr. Saenz and Mrs. Saenz were very upset and asked me where they need to go as they have VA examination, they both said “nobody tells them anything; they have been sitting in waiting room”. They told me that the lady on the desk told them to come to me.

Greta Balodis is a widowed 75-year-old and has been living independently in her home until recently (School of Nursing & Midwifery 2014). This is because, over the past two years Greta’s health has taken a significant decline, due to this Greta’s daughter and her family moved back to Adelaide to provide care for Greta. She has recently been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation and right sided cerebrovascular accident (CVA), due to this Greta has mild residual left-sided hemiplegia and resolving dysphagia. This scenario followed Greta and her transition into residential health care facility and the contributing factors which may impact this.

The social movement that I am choosing to write about and focus on for my Module 3 essay is the Pro-Recovery Movement. The goal of this movement is to promote and prevent individuals from obtaining an eating disorder. It also has the goal of helping individuals recover from an eating disorder. Today, society in the media and on the billboards around us promote beauty as being young and skinny. This has a major impact on individuals, causing them to starve themselves or binge eat to try to achieve this unattainable goal for many young women. This program focuses on helping any individual who is either on social media or just walking around the mall who sees these advertisements. This program wants to help create a safe environment for individuals

Hospital readmission is an avoidable healthcare issue. Pedersen, Meyer&Uhrenfeldt (2014) “defined hospital readmission as a return to hospital shortly after discharge from a recent stay”. When most patients leave the hospital, the intent is not for a reappearance in the hospital again soon. But, many discharged hospital inpatients get readmitted sooner than 30 days from their initial discharge. Some readmissions are projected or could be as a result of natural cause. Other patient readmissions due to lack of hospital quality care could be an avoidable readmission.

Congress and policy makers should lift restrictive laws and clauses that hinder an addict’s rehabilitation process, and instead promote more readily available treatment by requiring insurance companies to contribute funding and grants that promote long term recovery. Insurance companies must be held accountable in order for long term recovery to be an attainable goal with addicts. However, this is not a popular notion amongst insurance companies, who prefer to put severe caps on treatment. Insurance companies evade paying for the treatment of substance addicted patients due to high cost of ministration: “Last year, Representative Tom Price of Georgia, Trump’s nominee for secretary of health and human services, put forward an alternative that

Imagine being put in a position where you needed guidance to better your life from a constant battle from addiction, may it be substance abuse or alcoholism. Where would you turn if you needed help? What options would be suitable for you as a individual? What if you didn’t have family to support you in making a positive change for your life? Having said that, I have found the ABC Recovery Center to be a great resource for people who need this sort of help of fighting this unfortunate disease. This institutions initial goals are to provide personalized treatment plans to help each individual with addiction, have it be alcohol or drugs. I personally chose this organization because of my cousin Ricky, he was addicted to heroine and it got to a point where his family had given up hope on the outcome of his life. Going through ups and downs with the legal system, he was going down a spiral. My family needed him to get the help, being that he had two twin sons on the way in November 2008. My cousin finally seeked some help and checked himself into the ABC Recovery and took the needed steps to move on from this chapter of his life. With the support and positive environment around him he gained knowledge to overcome this disease. This organization provides recovery treatments, housing, detox,and other curricular activities to make it a more welcoming space for people to enjoy their time in recovery while staying focused to a healthier lifestyle. Also, I chose

1 a.) I have been performing my fieldwork at Whittier Health Network in Haverhill, Massachusetts. There many different types of patients and clients receiving services at my fieldwork site, from patients receiving rehabilitation services, to residents receiving dialysis. Some of the patients that my fieldwork supervisor and I have been meeting with have ranged in age from mid-forties to late eighties, and have had various diagnoses. One patient that my supervisor and I have met with was a women in her mid-fifties. She has recently had knee surgery, and has been suffering from respiratory problems. She also has been experiencing high levels of anxiety, which appears to be due to her inability to breathe properly and easily. Another patient we have been seeing who has been experiencing difficulties with respiration and breathing is a man in his early seventies. He has been ill, and was experiencing difficulty with breathing. He is currently using a tracheostomy tube, which has allowed him to breathe, and make great progress throughout his stay at the facility. Another patient we have been seeing is a women in her mid-sixties. This patient had obtained an injury to the lumbar region of her spinal cord, and in turn has recently had spinal surgery. Other patients that we have seen have been experiencing various injuries that they are working on recovering from; are experiencing various ailments such as dementia, confusion, and Alzheimer’s; or are experiencing difficulties with

Recently Jane’s COPD has rapidly gotten worse. Jane has found it difficult to even walk from her bedroom to her kitchen with out getting out of breath. She had to go the emergently room at the end of February because she could not breath. After returning back home from the hospital she was extremely tired. Nichole thought it would be good for her mom to

Recovery nurses are usually the first health care team to immediately assess for postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) following any type of surgical procedure. Literature suggests that the incident of nausea and vomiting particularly those who fall into the high-risk category have a 60-70% chance of experiencing these uncomfortable sensations following surgery (Chandrakantan & Glass, 2011). While it is still an unfortunate and sometimes inevitable side effect of anesthesia the percentage of people who are affected may have diminished effects of PONV through the use of multiple antiemetic agents prior to surgery. These antiemetic medications work in many different areas of the brain when administered and thus using more than