During the time of my career working as an LPN‚ I decided to work on a Sub-Acute unit in a nursing home. The unit consisted of 30 beds and each nurse assigned 15 patients. One night during the evening shift‚ I noticed the other nurse administering medications in the hallway to a patient in a wheelchair. I approached the nurse and questioned if it is appropriate to dispense medications in the hallway related to the policy of the company. I further elaborated on during orientation‚ the preceptor
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Strategic Staffing Recruiting Like most retailers‚ Tanglewood experiences a fairly stable turnover rate keeping the recruiting efforts high. Tanglewood’s recruiting methods vary in each of their regions. By looking at these different methods from the different ways that each of their regions hire‚ we have a great opportunity to improve the operations of the company. Be reviewing these methods we are able to create a guide that will be functional along with their recruiting services that really
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Oftentimes‚ the complexity of a patient’s condition may not allow for discharge from an acute care setting to their prior place of residence. Instead‚ the patient may be deemed more suitable for continued care in a long-term acute care facility (LTAC). I had the opportunity to care for a patient who underwent a complex discharge process‚ as he required long-term mechanical ventilation. To fully understand the intricacy of his discharge‚ it is important to recognize pertinent assessment data‚ interdisciplinary
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WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT NURSING PROGRAM NURSING CARE PLAN General Information: Postop pt undergone a cholecystectomy Patient intials: R.M. Confidential Marital Status: SINGLE Student’s Name: Hanadi Abdou Age: 61 Birthdate: 12/3/1950 Religion: not specified (pt nonverbal) Clinical Instructor: Mary Servey Admittance date: 3/12/12 Interest: not specified (pt nonverbal) Date: 3/21/12 Class: Med Surg Diagnoses: Impaired skin integrity Diet: NPO Allergies: None
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internal recruiting and external recruiting Introduction In businesses‚ people are the most crucial resource and every company aims to absorb talented people to fill the vacancies of managerial positions‚ therefore recruitment has become more and more important as an indispensable part of business. In order to select the highly qualified and competent employees‚ the enterprise designs a recruitment‚ which consists of two different methods: internal recruiting and external recruiting. Nevertheless
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NURSES ATTITUDE TOWARD THE ELDERLY The world is aging; however chronological age may have little relation to the reality of aging. When caring for this group of people nurses must consider culture‚ ethnic and racial diversities. Elderly clients will expect that the nurse render culturally competent care and one major aim is to help promote independence and help client maintain or restore activities of daily living. The age 65 becomes the boundary of old age. Why does the age group
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organizations work hard for health in general. Health contains a lot of categories; the most important category is healthcare. There are many types of health care; two of them are Primary care and Acute care. Understanding what is needed to be known about health care are the definitions‚ similarities‚ and differences between Primary care and Acute care. What is health and how it has evolved? All that will be explained as follows. In ancient times Human Beings were using traditional ways to heal the injured
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proper pain assessment; however‚ many of the recommendations seem unrealistic in acute care practice. Nurses work with patients hospitalized with acute pain; they need to select the appropriate elements of the assessment of the current clinical situation. The most important aspect of pain assessment is that it uses a standard format periodically performed on. The evaluation parameters are explicitly hospital or unit policy oversight and procedures. To must meet the requirements of the patient should
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Stage 1 – Understanding There are 42 acute care hospitals in the state of Colorado. The complication rate for specific procedures varies greatly from hospital to hospital. Sepsis mortality and morbidity rates also range from low of about 8% to high of just over 39%. No one hospital provides the best care for all conditions and procedures. Several problems may account for these discrepancies: • Small rural hospitals may have limited staff that is not certified in all specialties. • Smaller hospitals
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Mrs Jones is an 86 year old lady who was admitted to a Hyper Acute Stroke Unit (HASU) from a medical ward. She was initially admitted with a fall at home and was alert on admission‚ however‚ a week later she had developed aphasia‚ with no limb weakness‚ visual field deficit or facial droop. Thrombolysis therapy‚ which involves dissolving the thrombus with an aim of re-opening the occluded artery was considered. However‚ although her initial CT Head confirmed she had not had a bleed (a contraindication
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