Kimberley Ayala Discharge Planning Checklist Discharging a patient from a hospital setting should be very easy‚ according to all of the patients that are in the hospital and don’t care about anything at the moment except getting home. While the patient is inpatient there are many things that could go wrong‚ however in house the patient is being controlled and managed. When a patient goes home there are no monitors or hourly blood draws to ensure their safety and survival. Discharge planning is not
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze my own experience and the research I found regarding discharge planning. Discharge planning consists of an array of assessments and teachings as the patient moves from one facility (hospital) to another (home‚ nursing home‚ etc.). Essentially‚ this is significant in preventing a patient from re-hospitalization. In regards to my patient‚ she received an assessment and teachings concerning her mental status‚ mobility‚ previous surgery‚ current medications‚ and
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DISCHARGE SUMMARY Patient Name: ENGELHART‚ Benjamin Patient ID: 112592 DOB: 10/5/1967 Age: 46 Sex: Male Date of Admission: 11/14/2012 Date of Discharge: 11/17/2012 Admitting Physician: Bernard Kester‚ MD‚ General Surgery Procedures Performed: Laparoscopic appendectomy‚ with placemat of right lower quadrant drain 11/14/2012 Complications: None Discharge Diagnosis: Acute suppurative appendicitis‚ perforated. DIAGNOSTIC LAB/IMAGING: Lab results
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Right to Discharge Discharge from the hospital is the point at which a patient leaves the hospital and returns home or is transferred to a rehabilitation facility or a nursing home. The discharge process typically centers on the specific medical instructions which will encourage the healing process necessary for a full recovery by the patient. The planning process or discharge planning is also a service which fully integrates the recovering patient’s needs just after the hospital stay. In many
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diseases that I never even knew excited when I was back in my home country like sexual disorder‚ bulimia or schizophrenia. People in my country have those diseases or disorder but they get misunderstood. The disorder that I choose to do research about is Schizophrenia because it is one of the disorders that do not get treated in my home country; I don’t even think people know about it. Schizophrenia is a serious and disruptive mental illness that occurs in all cultures and affects about 1 in 100 people
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DISCHARGE SUMMARY Patient Name: Benjamin Engelhart Patient ID: 112592 DOB: 10/5/---- Age: 46 Sex: M Date of Admission: 11/14/ Date of Discharge: 11/17/ Admitting Physician: Bernard Kester‚ MD Discharge Diagnosis: acute superative appendicitis perforated Surgical Procedures: Laparoscopic appendectomy with placement of RLQ drain on 14 November. Complications: none. DIAGNOSTIC LAB/IMAGING: Lab results at time of admission showed a WBC count of 13. CT scan done in the ED revealed
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Constructive Discharge‚ Employee ID - 4022 Message: With respect to the case filed by our former employee against the company under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964‚ constructive discharge‚ I would like to draw your attention towards the legalities of constructive discharge. Constructive discharge occurs when employees resign because their employer ’s behavior has become so intolerable or heinous or made life so difficult that the employee has no choice but to resign (Constructive Discharge). The
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Over the last few decades Schizophrenia has become embedded in mainstream vernacular as any behavior or emotional response that is out of touch with reality. However even with its popularity heightened through movies and headline news stories‚ schizophrenia is still one of the most enigmatic and least understood disorders of the brain. With current research focused on the role of neurobiology and functioning on a cellular level‚ investigative analysis has merited new innovations towards its source
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This memo should clear up any questions you have remaining about the situation of the constructive discharge/ violation of Title VII lawsuit filed by our former employee‚ and will also give some suggestions for how we can avoid this problem in the future. First‚ it should be made clear that constructive discharge is that act of “forcing an employee out of a job with an ultimatum to either resign or face one of several unpleasant consequences”‚ which could be‚ among other things‚ unwanted transfer
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was diagnosed as undifferentiated schizophrenia and now his current diagnosis was undifferentiated schizophrenia. Undifferentiated schizophrenia is amental disorder which is part of the family of disorders broadly known as“schizophrenia.” There are a number of subcategories of schizophrenia including paranoid schizophrenia‚ catatonic schizophrenia‚ disorganized schizophrenia‚ residual schizophrenia‚ and schizoaffective disorder ; undifferentiated schizophrenia is oftendefined as a form in which
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