Patient Analysis Paper

Throughout the interview, Xavier’s mother answered the majority of the questions and expressed the difficulties she faces daily while taking care of her son. She also talks about the process of receiving the diagnosis of ASD, as well as a previous diagnosis that was incorrect. Xavier’s mother first noticed something different while comparing his development, mainly his speech, to that of her nephew who was around the same age as her son. She claims that he wasn’t talking at all at the age of 1 ½ and that concerned her. Xavier’s doctor said his speech was probably delayed and suggested a speech therapist as early intervention. His mother claims that he didn’t outwardly appear Autistic to her because he wasn’t withdrawn. She also claims that

Within the first 40 hours I attended and observed a patient education board meeting. The meeting consisted of nurses, doctors, and the library. The discussions are on how to educate the patients. Each department presents potential patient education material. All materials must be approved by the board and must adhere to a six-grade reading level. I observed the monthly nurses board meeting where the discussion focused on nurse’s research and submission of their work to the new digital repository.

I had the pleasure of interviewing one of our dynamic director, Mrs. Beth Rozak, MBA, BSN, RN. As the current director of the Neonatal ICU and Pediatrics at SSM St. Mary’s Hospital Medical Center in Madison, WI, Beth have had serve in many roles in the organization. Employed at St. Mary’s for the past 15 years, she started out as a nursing assistant/monitor watcher on 8 south west (medical floor). After obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from Edgewood College, in Madison, Wisconsin, she then transfer to 4 east (a medical, cardiac unit). Where she worked for a few years before transferring to ambulatory nursing (a staff nurse on the surgery and procedure center unit). After earning her MBA from Warden University, she took on the

“Come on in ma’am” I uttered in Spanish to the women clad in a colorful Mayan dress near the entrance of the clinic. It was my first day as a medical volunteer in Guatemala and I had been assigned the duty of interviewing patients and formulating differential diagnoses under the supervision of Dr. Reyes, the clinics' head physician. “Tell me about your headache” I said to the patient as she took her seat. She professed that her headache, which had bothered her for two weeks, was intermittent, diffuse and of moderate intensity. Her headache was often associated with a dry mouth and bouts of fatigue, especially after long days of working under the hot Guatemalan sun. Having neither a pharmacy within walking distance nor money to spare, she had resorted to using cold compresses to aid with her discomfort.

SLE can also have systemic or constitutional symptoms. These symptoms can mimic other autoimmune diseases. Common symptoms elicited by history include fever, fatigue, weight loss, lymphadenopathy, hair loss, myalgia, and arthralgia. There are many reports of these nonspecific symptoms with or without rash occurring after sun exposure. (2, 25)

I’ll never forget a particular patient encounter I had in medical school was with a college student diagnosed with schizophrenia and major depression disorder. I was working with a mobile intensive outpatient treatment team, IMPACT, that focused on helping high-risk individuals and specifically those with psychotic illness get their medications and resources in the community. With IMPACT, the team met him at his college to give him his medication refills and to see how he was doing. We brought him containers of more than 10 different medications and asked him if they were working or if he was having any problems. He stated many of them were making him tired, making it difficult for him to study and to listen during class. As the encounter went on, the patient became more comfortable with us. He

Patient collections are much more than collecting $10 copays: those days are long gone. Patients are paying a greater percentage of what you get paid and will be paying an ever-higher percentage in the years to come. Smart and consistent patient collections tactics must be a part of every practice's financial strategy.

An advocate is one who defend the cause of another; and a patient advocate is a supporter for clients’ rights. In that role, I as occupational therapist will protect the client’s legal rights and provide assistance in asserting those rights to meet the client needs. I felt inclined to advocate for this client when recognized an opportunity to improve this clients’ quality of life, in that case the therapy service will do that. In that time, clients’ rights can be being violated and their basic needs is being met; however, as therapists were able to advocate in some aspect of clients’ lives that improved their lifestyle considerably. In that moment, I will apply for this client the principle 4 of the Code of Ethics to Policy and Practice that provide service to assurance the patient requirement during the necessary

With creating your ideal medical practice, things that come into thought would be what kind of medical practice that you would want? Do you want a solo or a group practice? Then while you have that on your mind, you think about what kind of medical practice you would like to open. For example, would you like to have a practice that is all dedicated to podiatry or pediatrics? Another thought would be the area that you would be looking for your building. How big or how small do you want this to be? You have to put all these things into mind while looking for the perfect practice for yourself. Another thought that you would think about is your staff. How many medical assistants, receptionists and more. You get your own practice so that you can enhance the doctor and patient face-to-face time.

A suggestion I would make to one of the clinicians I observed will be to focus her activities on things that are of interest of the client. During a session the child was not interest on at all on completing any of the task, the clinician didn't have any reinforces to work with child. The clinician showed the child the chart with the activities of the day and there was a sticker reward to which to child responded negatively. Besides that, they were sitting on a rug where the child had no control of his body, he started changing spots on the rug and lost the track of the activity in the moment. I would recommend the clinician to use a chair and a table to have more control of the child movement and a better reward for the child to make him work

The computer allows the patient to understand the visual perspective on their health. Radiograph, x-ray, and some other visual representation can help in patient knowledge of their own health. The system creates a more advanced way of recording, analyzing and understanding the patient's condition. Without sophisticated computer technology to create, both patients and health care providers are not as informed as they can be with the help of computers. Along with the visual representation, the patient can use the Internet to help inform themselves of certain things happening in health care. Users not only can get general information about their personal situation, but they can find the answers to these questions for certain

Most agree that physically caring for a patient is the most important part of working in a medical facility. Those people have probably never been inside the front office in that workplace. If they had been, then they would understand that is just one part of the whole when it comes to running a medical facility.

The patient's judgment, insight and impulse control remains poor. He still unable to provide care for himself and still threatening to run into the busy traffic as he wants the fast running cars hit him to die. He admitted trouble falling asleep, feeling helpless, hopeless and worthless. He said "I want to disappear in this world, my father lied to me, it’s too much for me to stay alive, I can't take it anymore". He insisted that his life is not worth living, still presents disorganized thought process and presents no insight to the consequences of his actions. He still refused to contract for safety, remains a danger to self. He needs a continuous inpatient psychiatric hospital level of care as he refuses top contract for safety.

People have a right of access to their personal medical records that are in the custody or under the control of a custodian. This provision is consistent with the longstanding principle stated by the Supreme Court of Canada (McInerney v. MacDonald, 1992) that patients are entitled, upon request, to examine and copy all information in their medical records. Under HIA, this includes the right to request to examine a record or ask for a copy of a record. The HIA preserves patients’ rights to view and correct their health information.

My patient, Mr A, mentioned in Task 2, is a 20-yr-old male who had a lateral collateral ligament sprain and a mild patellofemoral pain syndrome at his right knee from a collision with his teammate during a soccer practice session 1/52 ago. The patient was an enthusiastic part-time soccer player who longed to become a full-time player. I was asked by my clinical educator to give him an initial assessment and some treatments.