Attending physician

“We need to transfer her to the ICU”, said the attending while holding a nebulizer mask up to the infant’s face. It was organized chaos at its finest-- EKGs, X-rays, and labs were being drawn almost instantaneously. My 5-month-old patient 's respirations had become labored and needed care more advanced than we could perform on the inpatient cardiology unit. As the bedside nurse, I was responsible for communicating my assessment findings and concerns about the patient to the team. Honestly, I never

project I have identified is to implement nurses rounding with physicians in an effort to improve patient satisfaction and ensure that the patient, nurse, and physician are actively involved in the plan of care. At my clinical site, the need for nurse-physician rounding is increasing as physician and nurse communication with patients is found to be low on HCAHPS follow up questioning. Current guidelines at my clinical site include physician rounding with any plans reported to the charge nurse who then

A mustard seed. It may seem very small and unimportant, but it has big significance in my desire to become a physician assistant. Mustard seeds have popped up all along my PA journey so far, and they sum up the “why” of my dream career. While shadowing physician assistants, I volunteered at The Mustard Seed Medical Missions, a nonprofit organization that provides medical care to those with financial hardships. My first day there I got to meet the staff who made it all happen – the two women who worked

took over the ER call panel, we were all promised that only unassigned patients would be admitted to their service. Furthermore, every effort would be made to insure that patients who had preexisting relationships with on staff physicians would be admitted to those physicians or their appointees. However, the UCR hospitalists have been admitting "assigned patients" to their personal service, in direct conflict with these policies. Patients who request for their own doctors should have their wishes

that is interesting is a Physician assistant. A Physician assistant is a person who is qualified to carry out the same routine and procedures as physician under an actual physician's supervision. This job is interesting because it has to take care of everything a physician does except they are in a supervised environment. People would be interested in being a physician assistant because it deals with many different medical situations. The day to day duties of a physician assistant include many challenges

As the physician assistant (PA) profession becomes more proliferative in the United States the role of the PA in various healthcare settings changes. The baby boomer generation is aging which is increasing the demand on practitioners. PAs are becoming vital to closing the patients to provider gap in the United State. There is now an increased need for PAs in all medical specialties. Because PAs are trained as generalists, it poses the need for postgraduate residencies in specialties like orthopedics

investigation process, the investigator should interview the physician who provided treatment to the child. Interviewing the child’s physician is critical to the case because usually the attending physician can tell the police if the child caretaker’s statement does or does not fit with the child’s injury (Lyman, p. 233). Aside from interviewing the child’s physician, investigator should also interview other medical staff who assisted the physician when providing treatment to the alleged child abuse victim

attending told them that the patient would not feel any discomfort. When it was Janet turn,she knew it was an experience that she wanted to gain, but she also hesitated because she had conflict thoughts about what was happening in that moment such as, is the three extras exams for the patient too many, did the patient consent the multiple exams, what would Janet think if she was the patient, and if the patient benefits from learning what happened in the procedure. After presenting the case the authors

Also providing list of resources that can help physician to make a follow up appointment for patient. • Highlighted area for physician to mandatory fill in to identify who is going to be the primary attending physician to resume patient’s care at SNF after discharge ( as well as confirmed date and time for follow up appointment with physician. Also filling in the follow up location, such as at clinic, at SNF etc. • Lastly, there is an option for physician to choose “no confirmed appointment” that will

Patient is a 55-year old male who was diagnosed as a Quadriplegia. The reason the patient is quadriplegia due to uncontrolled hypertension. The patient is under the care of Hallmark Home Healthcare. According to the Hallmark Home Healthcare policy, the staff must turn every changing a patient's position in bed every 2 hours helps keep blood flowing. This helps the skin stay healthy and prevents bedsores. According the patient’s chart the patient was turn every 2 hour and the staff change the