Coronary care unit

ICU. As with most nights, she feigned annoyance before excitedly walking me through the events at the hospital. Some nights were filled with triumphant saves, others drowned in an untimely loss. The stories varied, yet a central idea remained: take care of the person instead of the patient. In my youth, her stories registered at face value. All too soon, I would see the truth in her words firsthand. It started with a dull ache through my left ear immediately following diving practice. A number of

competencies for healthcare professionals. These competencies are to “provide patient-centered care, work in inter-professional teams, employ evidence-based practice, apply quality improvement, and utilize informatics.”(Finkelman, 2012, p. 214). Nurse leaders recognize that the need to put the patient first is at the heart of patient-centered care and is significant in all aspects of nursing care. Patient-centered care incorporates collaboration with the patient and family and takes into consideration cultural

Personnel Involved 4 A3. Personnel Issues 6 Interactions improvement 6 A4. Quality Improvement 7 B1. Risk Management Program 8 Resources 9 Works Cited 10 A. Sentinel Event This sentinel event involves child abduction from the surgical unit of Nightingale Community Hospital on Thursday, September 14, 2014 at approximately 1230hrs. The patient, a three-year old female, arrived accompanied by her mother, for an outpatient surgical procedure at 0800hrs and proceeded to registration where

It is delivery day, even though having a child was not originally in the cards for us. Our family was relegated to my wife and me, and our families who raised us. For me, however, my family had all spread out across the country, and I have some, including a brother, in Europe so to me, family was just the two of us. After trying to get pregnant for more than a year, with the aid of a fertility specialist and fertility medication, we had all but given up, thinking, “This is it, this is what a family

and patient care outcomes. The personal goals are to discharge all patients with finished documentation according to the certified post anesthesia nurse (CPAN) rules by using the process of delegation to obtain ancillary help. DELEGATION Delegation is the cornerstone to being a nurse leader, it facilitates the work effort of the staff to accomplish the mission and goals of the healthcare organization. The optimum administration of a unit is contingent

included observing the operating room setting, the PACU, and the exchange of patient care to a generalized or outpatient floor. In preparation for my clinical day I had finished the module readings relating to peri-operative care which I found useful because I had a base knowledge of information to build upon. I selected one patient to gather information from which included his surgery, patient information, and care he received in the different stages of the surgical process. Patient Data Patient JC

The main weakness of this study is the fact that the study is exploratory. There was no control group to compare scores of the PROMIS or PSS-NICU. This study just shows how scores went up with length of NICU stay. However, this does provide another instrument that can be used to assess parent health. Parent-Staff Communication Wigert, Delienmark, & Bry (2013) explored the strengths and weaknesses of staff communication in the NICU. They gave 270 parents a 16-question survey with answers using a

In the article ¨Moral Distress And Avoidance Behavior In Nurses Working In Critical Care And Noncritical Care Units,” by Mary Jo De Villers, she states ¨it has been predicted that there will be a shortage of 500,000 nurses in the United States by 2025.¨ This counts for the United States alone. Many articles state that more and more research is being done on moral distress relating to nurses all around. This leaves researchers wondering, could this be the main reason for the shortage of nurses? Moral

Operating Room Observation Experience This past week, I was able to observe a right hip fracture repair. The patient had broken his hip and was undergoing surgery to place screws and plates into his hip. I was able to see the whole process through the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative stages. The preoperative stage is when the patient comes to the OR and is being prepped for the surgery. The patient is verified by the nurse, who needs to check patient identification, patient records

great fit for my life goals because I’ve always wanted to be a nurse and I love working with babies so why not put both the things I love into one. NICU Nurses are responsible for care of infants who may be diagnosed with diseases, delivery complications and, the one we see most, prematurity. They develop nursing care plans and assess, plan, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of treatments in these plans. On