Vital Sign Essay

In those moments, I wished I hadn’t made it into the internship. I wished I could just sit at a desk and take notes where there was no uncertainty about my skill set in taking vital signs or use of medical abbreviations. I have always had a passion for medicine, but in that hospital, I was out of my comfort zone. So just like every other morning I spent every morning sitting in fear and contemplation that what I thought was passion

few drinks a year. No drug use now or in the past. Her health history questionnaire is reviewed with her here in the office. She is married. She has two daughters. She has five grandchildren. She is on disability for psychiatric reasons O Vital Signs Temperature: 98.8. BP: 138/70. HR: 96. R: 16. H: 5'2.5". W: 222. BMI: 40.

Emergency Room write up My day in the E.R. was slow for the first hour and a half. We got our first patient at 7:57 am, and it went at a brisk pace for the rest of the day. The first patient came in with sinus tachycardia. She received one liter of NS 0.9% at a rate of 1L/hr. and two doses of IV diltiazem 10 mg each to cardiovert her, and it was successful. She was released home with instructions to follow up with her cardiologist. There were two patients with chest pain one patient received

S/O EMT Perez was requested by Gate One to assist with an Ambulance escort to CT-403 on the early morning of 8/7/2015. When arriving at gate at Gate One S/O EMT Perez realized that the ambulance crew was already enroot To CT-403. S/O EMT Perez managed to catch up with the Four Butler Private Ambulance Crew Members at the door of CT-403 (due to his stature Mr. Haskey required the Bariatric unit). The resident returning, a Mr. Robert Haskey was reportedly discharged from Holy Cross that night. S/O

exerted. Body and breathe odour could not be observed. Her hygiene and grooming appeared normal with hair styled, however she appeared uncooperative in her communication within her group and her speech consisted of low mumbling (Estes, pp. 139-140). No signs of pain, however, she did appear distressed, evidenced by increased rapid breathing and facial expression (Estes, p.

overweight but it is nothing to worry about at this point. The rule of thumb is there is nothing to worry about unless a child jumps above or below two percentile lines. Now that baby Steven is coming up on his 6 month mark he should be showing some signs signaling that he is ready for solid foods. During the 0 to 3 month period

Patients name is Rob Harwood180 pounds, 6.0 feet, BMI is 24.4. A normal BMI for a person of this height and weight is between 18.5 to 25.9 so he is within average. A normal adult weight for this height is between 136.4- 184.4 weight is in the normal category for adults of my height. No significant physical conditions were reported based on the health history. The data were collected over the period of one week in which data were reported daily Patient has not expressed any concerns regarding his

On Tuesday, November 14th, I saw the patient F.O who came to the hospital for a 3 month prophylaxis. Patient does not have a history of hypertension and during his last appointment her BP was 120/50, but during this visit her blood pressure was high (BP: 147/68). The patient was informed of the hypertension and recommended to see her physician. Her ASA classification is II due to her high blood pressure. The patient reports no known allergies, and that she takes vitamin C and calcium supplement

from UPC. Upon arrival, the unit nurse Johanna Ethelbah, and the BHT in-charge of the admission, Deb Clayton were both occupied with an emergency situation on the unit. Prior to the patient arrival, Deb had dicussed with Stephanie Torres, CC, to help sign the patient in if she is not freed up by then. According to Stephanie both Johanna and Deb were aware of the plan. When the patient arrived Stephanie went ahead and signed him in as planned. By then Johanna was pulling IM medication for an injection

Paper S.D. is a 38 year old immigrant female from India who was admitted to a community memorial hospital when she was nine months pregnant. S.D. went to the hospital clinic for a prenatal checkup on October, 7th 2014. The nurse took her vitals and all her vitals were normal except for the blood pressure. Nurse relayed this abnormal finding to the physician who advised S.D. to get admitted as this could pose a potential health risk. She stayed in two different units in the hospital during her stay: