Essays About Patient

Salivary gland tumors are a heterogeneous group of neoplasm in the head and neck region. The major salivary glands are parotid, submandibular and sublingual, while minor salivary glands are located throughout submucosa of the upper aerodigestive tract with the maximum amount on the palate. Benign...

Medical tourism, where patients travel to other countries for medical assistance and surgeries, has grown at a high rate in the past decade, especially for cosmetic surgery. Expensive Procedures, the high cost of medicines and long waiting lists at their own countries, emerging technologies, and...

How is Telemedicine impacting patients and providers? As a fast-growing field in the healthcare sector, telemedicine shows a lot of promise in solving various difficulties that health professionals and patients are facing today. Supplying a range of advantages for both patients and medical providers, it...

The first assignment set out by the University is based on how we communicate in different nursing areas at different levels. Part of the research task involved researching communication and working together in a group and commenting on articles researched by my peers. The article...

Placebo effect-a modern phenomenon first introduced by Mark Twain in the 1950’s. He claimed: “The power which a man’s imagination has over his body to heal it or make it sick is a force which none of us are born without. The first man had...

In 2015 according to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery nearly 305,856 women and teenagers underwent surgery to have their breasts enlarged; 15% of these procedures used saline implants and 85% used silicone implants. The majority of these women who underwent cosmetic breast augmentation...

Patients with DSRCT require aggressive multimodal therapy. Current treatment protocols with neoadjuvant chemotherapy, debulking of >90% of the tumor, and radiation therapy have been reported to prolong life but rarely achieve cure. Chemotherapy agents with known activity in DSRCT are very similar to those active...

Introduction Chantal Sebire, a 52-year-old former schoolteacher and mother of three, was refused the right to die by a French court last week. Ms Sebire suffered from a disfiguring and incurable facial tumour which caused her to lose the sense of smell, taste and finally...

In the early 1980’s the use of control and restraint as a means to managing violence and aggression within mental health was introduced to the Special Hospitals following an investigation in to the death of a patient at Broadmoor hospital (Ritchie 1985). Control and restraint...

As we age, the body goes through a number of changes that may be musculoskeletal or those that involve the sensory organs such as the skin, which can change lifestyles and contribute to the quality of life or the levels of care someone requires. This...

After my MBBS graduation, I have spent majority of my time working in rural and remote communities of Punjab, India. My real love for rural and remote general practice began in the year 2006, when I got my first government rural physician posting in a...

A crucial pillar of any effective patient retention strategy is the establishment of a great patient portal. Here are some essential elements that not only make such websites attractive and useful enough for patients but also beneficial for your healthcare unit. The cornerstone of any...

When I was told to write out a plan for what I would do for the patient we were given a limited amount of time to write it in and I didn’t get to write too because I was trying to write what I thought...

Patient-centered care is based on the ethical principles of medical practitioners. It also considers patients’ decisions, personal preferences, and lifestyle and society values. Patient-centered care should consider what the patients desire to have in the hospital environment even as they receive treatment. The patients’ decisions...

Tay-sachs is a disease that affects about 1 out of 27 of every ashkenazi jew in eastern europe. If you are not eastern european jewish then you have a 1:300 chance of being a carrier of the disease. The disease happens when 2 people who...

I am applying to the NHS with the intention of attaining the position of Healthcare Assistant at Orchards Inpatient Unit. This aspiration has been shaped throughout my life for various reasons, most importantly understanding and seeing first-hand how much of a difference professional help makes...

A 66-year-old female presents to emergency department feeling generally unwell for the past week, associated with dizziness on standing and central chest/epigastric pain radiating to the shoulders. The patient also reported intermittent palpitations and chest pain for the past week. The patient described the pain...

Jimena is a 13-year old teen who during the last three months has been experiencing depression. She isolates herself from everyone and therefore, “she reports feeling down.” She may feel happy but that only lasts a few moments and immediately goes back to feeling depressed....

I’ve always been a renaissance boy, my indescribable strive for inquiring and working deliberately to solve them in face of predicaments and unfavorable circumstances make me always hungry for more. My solicitude about people`s life grower more after my cousin died from lung cancer, so...

I have made a programming presentation with codes (python language) how to prepare data for predictive modeling please check it out after you have learnt about the theory behind predictive modeling in healthcare. We will start by knowing why predictive analysis? And also understand how...

Therapeutic communication is a technique used to support the well-being of patients, emotionally, and physically (NCCHC, 2011). This communication allows us as nurses to not only support our patients but to keep them informed (NCCHC, 2011). It is important to use therapeutic communication with our...

The nurse-client relationship is built on strong interpersonal communication. The communication should be relational, genuine and non-judgmental. Relation practice is defined as: “A humanely involved process of respectful, compassionate, and authentically interested inquiry into another (and one’s own) experiences” (Doane, 2002). The purpose of this...

The high risk of thromboembolic disease in obese ICU patients warrants an aggressive approach toward prevention of deep venous thrombosis. Low-molecular weight heparin (LMWH), oral anticoagulation, or the combination of pneumatic compression and LMWH should be considered in the morbidly obese patient in the ICU....

Edentulism is defined as ‘the state of being edentulous; without natural teeth’. The consequences of tooth loss have been described in multidimensional views. Despite edentulism not being a life-threatening condition, it is a debilitating and irreversible condition and is described as the ‘final marker of...

Marketing and Patient “40% of health care services are potentially shoppable by consumers”. The rapid growth in Healthcare and Medical Insurance Services has empowered today’s patients to actively participate in managing their health care. They have freedom to schedule their care, compare multiple providers on...

CP is considered a standard of care in many areas of the world, especially in the UK, North America, and Australia. However, it is not a standard practice elsewhere and maintains a controversial issue. Its performance seems to be in decline in Europe, and some...

As a Speech Pathology major you must consider how you can treat a client depending on their culture. One must demonstrate respect for their client’s cultural background preferences and cultural practices into assessment and treatment, including recognizing the influence of culture. You must look at...

Mortality prediction of intensive care unit (ICU) patients facilitates hospital benchmarking and has the opportunity to provide caregivers with useful summaries of patient health at the bedside. The development of novel models for mortality prediction is a popular task in machine learning, with researchers typically...

I read a journal entitled Our View of Courageous Care by Cindy Munro and Richard Savel that was published in the year 2015. The journal is all about building the knowledge base for nursing care and the manifestation or courageous care. Whereas the authors highlighted...

The curvy and lengthy nature of expanded access program of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for experimental drug therapy as well as the inability to enroll all the sick patients in the clinical trials led to the formation of a channel through which terminally...