Syndrome (CVS), but what seemed like a curse became a blessing in disguise. My time at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) opened my eyes to the field of nursing by allowing me to see how important of a role nurses play in the care of patients. Each nurse that I encountered made me feel like I mattered by taking the time out to get to know me personally. When I was in the hospital, I was often by myself because my parents work schedules kept them from visiting during the week. The nurses would…

General Description The Valley Children’s Hospital apartments and condominiums are intended to reduce or eliminate the commute of the hospital staff that would prefer to have suitable living closer to work. Therefore, placement of the apartment complex would need to be nearby Valley Children’s Hospital. The proposed complex would be one to two stories tall, depending on demand and space constraints. Therefore timber, more specifically Douglas fir, is the best choice for construction material. There…

In my clinical experience at Seattle Children’s Hospital on the cardiac surgical unit I have been a part of providing nursing care that is dedicated to patient safety and centered around developing and growing my nursing practice. Two of the provisions that I best exemplified in clinical are provision 4 and provision 3. The unit that I am on has a continuity of care with the patients that we take care of because we end up having multiple readmissions for our patient population. The majority of our…

North Carolina Children’s Hospital (NCCH) is part of a not-for-profit cohesive health care system owned by the state of North Carolina, based in Chapel Hill. It is part of a public academic medical center established in 1952 as North Carolina Memorial Hospital to provide patient care, educate health care professionals and advance medical research in partnership with the University of North Carolina School of Medicine (About UNC Children 's, 2015). NCCH is presently apart of a network which currently…

El Paso, TX never had a children’s hospital. In fact it was the largest metropolis city that did have a pediatric hospital according to (El Paso Childrens Hospital, 2016). El Paso Children’s Hospital serves a dramatically underserved pediatric region where there are approximately 222,000 children that are enrolled with Medicaid in 2011. This statistic demonstrates the magnitude of having a skilled specialty of pediatric services. El Paso Children’s Hospital features 122 private pediatric rooms…

The Women’s Place at Texas’s Children’s Hospital, Pavilion for Women is dedicated to women’s reproductive health. Hormonal changes throughout pregnancy as well as post-pregnancy may affect the woman both emotional and physically. The Women’s Place serves as a program to treat the woman and her family at any point during the reproductive cycle. There are many disorders, issues, planning and management that The Women’s Place can assist with, including; Premenstrual dysphoric Disorder (PMDD), pre-pregnancy…

An 8 year old boy has been recently admitted into the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He reported having a migraine, and he is covered in rashes. The patient has a fever, and he is significantly underweight for his age. His mother believes that he may have the HIV infection. History The patient is an 8 year old African American boy from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The boy was brought into the hospital by his mother. The patient’s mother is HIV positive, and she is worried that the HIV virus…

I’m Kira Keaslov, and I’m currently participating in the Mechanisms program at Children’s Hospital. In the future, I hope to obtain my undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering from Northeastern University, and then pursue a medical degree. This class has helped me gain a better understanding of the molecular basis of disease, and I’m interested in applying this knowledge in a laboratory and clinical setting. A family friend is affected by lupus, and it is a very common autoimmune disease. Therefore…

Children’s Hospital Central California: Agency Presentation The Children’s Hospital of Central California (CHCC) is one of the nation’s largest pediatric hospitals; CCHC not only provides great quality healthcare for pediatrics but also caters and cares for children from pre-birth all the way until their young adulthood stage of life. CHCC is a nonprofit healthcare network that specializes in medical and surgical services to help care for common to rare health conditions. Children’s Hospital provides…

barely begun, but I am enjoying every minute of it. The radiology program is something I wanted to a part of since I was young. When I was 4 years old, I became a patient at Shriner’s Hospital for Crippled Children because I was born with a birth defect in both feet called Skew foot. Both of my feet were turning s shaped making it difficult and painful to walk. For several years, doctors tried using inserts to straighten my feet, but it was not working. The radiologic technicians kept taking images…