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has enabled me to work accurately under pressure, while striving to treat each customer based on their individual needs and interests. Keen to gain an insight into patient care in a clinical setting, I recently attended a training day at Hillingdon Hospital, and will soon begin my role as a ward-based patient

of the Health Care Profession AC1.2 The emergency service team consists of a Emergency Care Assistant, a Paramedic, an emergency Nurse and Doctor. This team will work together, giving vital medical care before patients can be transported to hospital. Each team member plays a different role to provide the best deliver of care. Paramedic will assess a patients condition by performing a neurological assessment including checking reflexes and cognitive responses. They will access the scale of

act (2010) was introduced to cover many forms of discrimination including age discrimination which came into effect October 2012 (Gov.uk, 2013). Nurses must not discriminate Mr Williams for being elderly and perhaps stuck in his ways. Going into hospital will be a traumatic time for him and he will be feeling confused and vulnerable which may come across as mean mannered and indifferent or not willing to help himself. The nurses must ensure they follow the principles of beneficence and nonmaleficence

Hospital-acquired infection can be devastating not only to the patient, but also to the hospital. This also impacts how much the facility receives as payment or reimbursement from healthcare insurance and/or Medicare. Curlej (2016) wrote a quantitative descriptive study about implementing the guidelines to decrease central line infections. Curlej (2016) conducted the study at a 486-bed rural, level 1 trauma, teaching hospital in Pennsylvania. This hospital has a 486 bed occupancy, which means that

The Role of the Health Care Profession The emergency service team consists of an Emergency Care Assistant, a Paramedic, an emergency Nurse and Doctor. This team will work together, giving vital medical care before patients can be transported to hospital. Each team member plays a different role to provide the best deliver of care. Paramedic will assess a patient’s condition by performing a neurological assessment including checking reflexes and cognitive responses. They will access the scale of

The aim of this assignment is to explore missed opportunities and to enhance the support offered to a person with addictions. This essay will concentrate on alcohol dependence and misuse with the emphasis on brief intervention and referral on to specialist services to begin the road to recovery. The specialist services involved will be discussed fully in the implementation of the proposed service. The rational for concentrating on alcohol addictions was influenced by three identified problems firstly

Block C placement was organised for me to do training at respiratory ward, general surgery ward, renal unit, oncology ward and primary care. In respiratory ward, I did ward rounds, some care plans for pneumonia patients and I had a tour on devices used for asthma and COPD. Whereas in other wards I did medicine reconciliation, attended ward rounds as well as did patient counselling. In this report, I would like to reflect on community pharmacy services, care homes and other primary care units. I

babies have a higher chance of developing more health problems, and usually stay in the hospital longer than healthy babies. Premature babies also have the potential to have long-term health problems

I have had the pleasure of planning an activity within my placement. My placement is based within an NHS hospital where they provide therapeutic interventions for adults who have learning disabilities, complex needs and a forensic background. The therapeutic intervention that I have planned, is to assist Stacey to travel independently to various locations within Dundee using public transport. Whilst this is the main aim of the therapeutic intervention, it is hoped that whilst this intervention is

This is a preventative system of which staff are familiar with and sometimes cause delays in providing much needed treatment to an individual. Sullivan and Garland (2010) suggest that change is changing something different from what is was. In support of this, Mullins (2013) suggests that change is an inescapable part of both social and organisational life. However, change could face some resistant due to the fear of unknown, organisational culture, threats to power or influence. Solution to likely