Healthcare is essential to living a productive life with little or no illness. Unfortunately, sickness and disease does strike at times with no alert of its arrival. Care can be obtained in numerous of facilities, however, for this particular patient; care will be implemented in a hospital due to the possibility of lung failure. A physician, case manager, social worker, respiratory specialists, and registered nurse, will all work together to provide care. Case Description
Patient is a 10 year-old male admitted into the hospital for Chronic Asthma. Patient is experiencing shortness of breath, fatigue, nausea, and tightness in chest area. Patient has a history of Chronic Asthma since birth. .
Health Care Delivery
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The pharmacist would serve to educate patient and or caregiver about prescribed medications and fill all prescriptions given by primary and or secondary physicians.
Administration is responsible for obtaining required insurance information on the patient to ensure the correct forms are filed to obtain payment for services rendered and maintaining Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) law (American Nurses Association 2015).
Indicators and Determinants of Health
The impact that this team-based approach would have on the management and line team will be a beneficial in the end. Having each member of the team assess a certain aspect of the child’s care collectively improves communication. Collaborative skills increase abilities of each team member involved. It strengthens the delivery of care the child receives as well. For instance, the social worker deals with the social model of care. He/she can sensitize the staff to the child’s current living conditions; such as air, water pollution, cockroaches, mold, and the mildewed carpet, ie… economic status, eating habits, cultural background, and how he is currently being raised. Epidemiological triangle and medical model of care is what the physician aids in as well as holistic model of care. Also, assessing whether the agent that caused the asthma attack is physical, chemical, or biological. Secondly, he assesses the patient’s: age, race, religion,
Roles and responsibilities of the person dispensing the medication is to check to make sure the prescription is legal and signed by a qualified person, ensure there are no errors, to dispense the right quantity and dose of medication, make sure the medication is clearly labelled with the instructions of the dose, the name of the medication and person, provide advice and treatment for any minor illnesses and health concerns. Pharmacies will also provide a repeat prescription service.
A pharmacist must check any medication that is administered to a patient. This is the
Job Description: Pharmacists ensure that medications are used appropriately, and that they bring about the best results. Their responsibilities include professionally interpreting and reviewing the prescription orders written by doctors, dentists, and other authorized health care providers, and also for giving out the medications accurately to patients. The main goal of pharmaceutical care is to improve the quality of patients? lives by the use of medications that have been prescribed in order to accomplish specific results.
This assignment will discuss the nurse's role in devising of a care plan for a patient, including the rationale upon which this care plan has been based, evaluating that the goals intended are met or amended. The patient's identity will be protected using a pseudonym of Kora in keeping with the standards of maintaining confidentiality set by Nursing and Midwifery (NMC, 2015). The patient has Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) which is a long-term health condition which is slowly progressive, cause’s obstruction to airway that cannot be reversed, alterations in breathing with exacerbation often suggesting worsening of the disease (Currie, 2007). Kora is 63 years has three young grandchildren permanently in her care, Kora being in
R.J. is a 15-year-old boy with a history of asthma diagnosed at age 8. His asthma episodes are triggered by exposure to cats and various plant pollens. He has been using his albuterol inhaler 10 to 12 times per day over the last 3 days and is continuing to wheeze. He normally needs his inhaler only occasionally (2 or 3 times per week). He takes no other medications and has no other known medical conditions. Physical examination reveals moderate respiratory distress with a respiratory rate of 32, oximetry 90%, peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) 60% of predicted, and expiratory wheezing.
The Ultrasound technician will facilitate the abdominal ultrasound to produce images of the organs for interpretation.
This essay will now analyze the nursing intervention that requires for the acutely ill patient to prevent an exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The nurse carried out an initial assessment of a full history, taking in consideration that the patient was over 35 years of age who has been, or still is, a cigarette smoker, with vascular related diseases and had symptoms of breathlessness on exertion, chest tightness, wheezing, coughing, sputum production especially in the morning and chest infection (Currie 2009). A physical examination was done to check the patient respiration rate, depth and rhythm, blood pressure, pulse, temperature and oxygen saturation (Lynes 2007). The acutely ill patient’s respiration was between 30-34 breaths per minute, blood pressure 580/98, pulse 110 beat per minute and saturation levels 80-82%. Increase respiration indicates that the patient was in fear, pain and anxious. Anxiety causes stimulation of sympathetic nervous activation which forces bronchioles
Asthma is a chronic lung disease characterized by episodes in which the bronchioles constrict due to oversensitivity. In asthma, the airways (bronchioles) constrict making it difficult to get air in or out of the lungs. Breathlessness is the main symptom. The bronchi and bronchioles become inflamed and constricted. Asthmatics usually react to triggers. Triggers are substances and situations that would not normally trouble an asthma free person. Asthma is either extrinsic or intrinsic. Extrinsic is when the inflammation in the airway is a result of hypersensitivity reactions associated with allergy (food or pollen). Intrinsic asthma is linked to hyper responsive reactions to other forms of
There are other pharmacy staff who also have roles in relation to the safe dispensing of medicines. A pharmacist is responsible for: Overall checking of a prescription to make sure that it is legal and written by a person qualified to do so, dispensing the right quantity of the correct medicine, ensuring that medicines are correctly labelled with the person’s name, the name of the medicine and the dosage, providing advice and treatment for minor illnesses, injuries and health concerns, providing a repeat prescription service in co-operation with GP
As a young doctor on call in one of the leading hospital in Nigeria, I had a patient, an 8 year old girl that presented with breathing difficulty accompanied with wheeze. The picture fitted so well into an acute asthmatic attack and we began management along that line. There was an initial improvement but this improvement wasn 't as expected and this made us probe further. The patient’s mother attested to the fact
Cancer clinical trials require multi-team systems to provide cohesive care that promotes enrollment and provides effective treatment for patients. Research and clinic teams often have different goals; the research team prioritizes protocol implementation and the clinic team prioritizes clinic care. An inability to coordinate cancer care through distribution of responsibilities, communication and understanding of goals can ultimately lead to rivalries, differing perceptions and affect the efficiency of the multi-team system. Although there are studies exploring these dynamics within multi-teams, there is limited information on this in the setting of cancer care.
From an early age we are instilled the importance of teamwork. The lessons may come from a soccer field, a classroom group project, or even a song on Sesame Street. Regardless of our future careers, we are all likely to experience some sort of teamwork requirement, even if it is as simple as getting along with your co-workers.
Chief Complaint: 16 year old female with past medical history of intermittent asthma presenting with malaise and back pain for two days and on the day of admission cough with dark yellow sputum.
They counsel patients on the use of medication, upon a patients release from the hospital. Retail pharmacists help answer questions about over the counter and prescription drugs. They must ask patients certain health questions in order to make a judgment on which medications to prescribe. Some pharmacists specialize in drugs for psychiatric disorders or intravenous nutrition.
Today in the 21st century the roles of pharmacist have expanded tremendously. Before pharmacist had the role of solely dispensing drugs. Pharmacists were limited to only being regulatory or clinical pharmacist. Back then they were called medical purveyors who were much like today’s regulatory pharmacist and hospital pharmacist who are similar to hospital pharmacist. Now pharmacists carry many roles in healthcare. Pharmacist can play roles in public health, community, health systems, state, and federal government.