It was a chilly day on March 6, 2007. Me and my family were on 495 going to the Holy Cross Hospital with a slight delay of traffic. For some reason, I kept fiddling with my fingers, I was really nervous to see him. We took the exit 31A and we all shifted to the left since it was a sharp turn to the right. My big sister, Maisie, was on my shoulder and we shifted her head fell on my lap. She woke up and asked where we were. “We are almost there Maisie” my Dad said. We stopped at the traffic light and I fiddled with my fingers some more. “Stop fiddling with your fingers!” Maisie whispered to me. In my head, I say “I can’t, he is the first boy of the family, the first! Besides me!” I stopped fiddling and looked at the huge structure in front of me, The Holy Cross Hospital.…
Creed F and Spiers C (2011) Care of the Acutely Ill Adult – An Essential Guide for Nurses…
Upon reviewing the discussion, it was interesting to see how the concepts such as servant leadership, situational theories, and the path-goal theory were applied to St. Jude Hospital. While its mission is to treat children with the devastating disease of cancer, the focus is to ensure that each child is treated regardless of the ability to pay. Since providing medical help to these kids is major feat, effective leadership is imperative.…
In the first paragraph alone, many important aspects of the narrator's character are revealed. It is revealed to the reader that the narrator was in love and is grieving for the woman he loved. It is also in the first paragraph where the major conflict is revealed. The major conflict, in which the narrator is involved, is his own torment from the memory of his dead wife. This is evident when the narrator says, "When I saw our room again, our bed, our furniture, everything that remains of the life of a human being after death I was seized by such a violent attack of fresh grief that I felt like opening the window and throwing myself onto the street." Initially, the author intends the reader to feel sorry for the narrator and his loss. The thing that motivates the narrator in the conflict is his resolution to finish grieving before it consumes him. This is evident when he says, "Happy is the man whose heart forgets everything that it has contained."…
Everyone has their own story to share along with their experiences. As we go through the passage, we do understand that people have faced lot of problems during health insurance problems due to the translators. As one wanted to convey something and the other will understand something else.…
Eric Chapman, founding president and chief executive officer of the Baptist Healing Trust in Nashville, Tennessee, envisioned a healing hospital that wound not only tend to an individuals’ physical aspect of healing but to the spiritual component of the mind, body, soul connection (Chapman). This paper will describe the healing hospital paradigm and how spirituality influences it. In addition, the barriers to the implementation of the Healing Hospital Paradigm will be discussed as well as Biblical scriptures that support the concept of compassion, love, and faith as influential cornerstones to health.…
After finishing his peppery speech, the Medical Director brusquely turned his attention to a stack of papers and began discussing them with Jane Woodford, effectively shutting out Surina. As a result of Jane’s sickly sweet perfume permeating through the austere room and intermingling with the Medical Director’s pungent aftershave to create a nauseating odor, Surina’s head began spinning. To put it another way, it resembled the residual smell left when incense cannot entirely mask the stench of death. Rex, of course, being immune to any odor, noxious or otherwise, maintained a fixed thin smile throughout the unpleasant proceedings. While Surina reeled from the acrid smell, the comet once again began orbiting around in her head.…
F. Scott Fitzgerald in his novel, “The Great Gatsby”, introduces this same ideal on a more macro scale, for Gatsby’s extravagant parties presents an attempt at alleviating the loss of purpose. Lastly, Faulkner’s “As I Lay Dying” presents this ideal by suppressing the sadness of death in the daily monotony of life, pushing all the sadness away in order to forget and live life in ignorance. These works and their respected authors provide a lens into the loss of purpose that modernism describes as the authors identify the suppression of pain that their main characters subscribe too, only to prove the point that their efforts are meaningless as they will be lost in their pain regardless.…
Every year for the past five years during the height of tax season I've become ill and ended up in the hospital. I've always become hospitalized in March, my busiest time of the year working as tax accountant. Stress for me is always the worst in March, just before the tax deadline.…
I never used to be very empathetic and didn’t know a lot about pain. I also had no knowledge of what it is like to have a bad injury, until that day.…
This brief report will discuss an interview in which existential therapy is used with an individual who is leaving prison and re-joining the general population.…
That the difficulties and sufferings on the way here was inhumanly large is understandable for everyone who redas the diaries and letters that the karolins left behind. Despair is rising out of the text that makes a big impression on the reader, yet three hundred years after the…
Today was my third week in Metro Hospital. I was assigned one patient to work on time management with my clinical instructor. The patient I worked had surgery because she had a periocciptal aneurysm that had not yet burst. She chose to have the surgery because she learned the risk of having an aneurysm. I have learned that first thing I need to do is to check to see if the patient is alive because it is my responsibility to care for the patient. But I read the doctor notes prior to understand the priority assessment for the patient which is q4 neuro check and incision assessment. I thought I was able to prioritize my assessment well. I was also assigned to pass medications that day as well. I was able to state the classifications and indications…
“Misery” opens as a third person point-of-view story, describing how depressed Iona looks from afar. The reader is immediately introduced to his sorrows and the tone is revealed. The rest of the story is told from a first person’s point-of-view, with Iona being the central character. With the help of the point of view, Chekhov is able to display Iona’s emotions without difficulty. The tone is shown through the protagonist’s thoughts as well as what he says during the story; he is in deep grief for the death of his son. The tragic occurrence of his son’s recent death starts to take a toll on his emotions and he is simply looking for emotional support to help him recover from the event. Chekhov uses the dialogue between Iona and his cab fares to present Iona’s desperation for support. When he attempts to talk to his cab fares, he hesitates to bring up the devastating topic, knowing that his passengers are uninterested. Anytime he builds up the courage to bring up his son’s death, his efforts are shot down and no sympathy is given. All Iona needs is an outlet; a body willing to listen to his sorrows.…
Both of the issues in the memoir involve in adding an advance perspective to Paul and let him find more answers to his curiosity of what makes life meaningful. Through his illness Paul recognized that living life by the fully means and accept suffering is what cause life worth living in face of death. Also, made Paul view illness from the patient perspective. Meanwhile, Elena’s case made Paul come to a finale that life is just an instant and death is intimate. This book is a medical and emotional ride that makes the reader view life and death in a different point of views, make you think what really makes life worth…
