Essays About Patient

The patient protection and affordable care act is a significant healthcare reforms act which has been developed to ensure that the quality of healthcare is affordable to majority of the United States citizens. The affordable care act has significant emphasis on the quality of care...

As a nursing student one thing that always seemed to come up in every lecture was medication errors and how to avoid them. The instructors would always go over the “five rights” of medication administration. These medication administration rights included the right patient, right drug,...

Busy days and increased workloads can place any individual in a higher risk to make errors. In a healthcare setting, the increasing workload for the nurses or physicians can cause them to make errors in medication administration. These may sometimes not cause any adverse effects...

Humanitarian conventions allow for the provision of care for enemy combatants, especially those that are dying. Similarly, the United States Code also explicitly excludes the provision of medicine from a list of prohibited services to terrorists, meaning that medical services are legally allowed. In defense...

Introduction Health assessment is important in clinical nursing practice. A comprehensive health assessment can help to identify the needs of patient and thus develop an individual care plan for them. There are mainly six components of comprehensive health assessment, which are psychosocial assessment, nutritional assessment,...

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...

Abstract The topics discussed include the definition of atrial fibrillation, and how to prevent readmission to the hospital for patients. This will include education of atrial fibrillation by staff, medication compliance, and routine follow up visits with a cardiologist. There will also be a description...

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...

On my first day as a patient care technician, it became overwhelmingly clear just how extensive this job would be. Everything was a new or unknown concept- the employees, the layout of the hospital, the new equipment I would be working with. I was in...

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...

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...

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...

“Sickle cell anemia does not bind me, it drives me. It covers with hurt allowing you to see and taste the freedom of health and when you least expect it makes you beg to be normal. I am its keeper and though it hurts to...

Introduction The role of a radiographer is to select imaging methods which are appropriate for every radiographic examination and to determine if the radiographs produced to answer the clinical question indicated on the request form. In order for a radiographer to fulfill their role, they...

Over the last 20 years, advancements in technology have dramatically changed the way medical care is addressed and administered. This ever-growing, exponential growth of innovation has resulted in easier access to care, greater quality of treatments, and even higher levels of patient compliance. However, despite...

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...

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...

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...

Introduction A stroke is a neurological condition where the blood supply to the brain is disrupted with on following cell death as a result. Strokes can be divided into ischemic strokes and hemorrhagic strokes. Depending on the affected area, the symptoms of a stroke and...

Psychotherapy, in general, is a form of treatment, in which a trained psychologist or other qualified mental health providers will form a professional relationship with a patient, in order to understand their problems and remove or alleviate troubling symptoms, thoughts, beliefs or behaviors. Professionals will...

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...

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...

Being a doctor is first of all about being able to observe thoroughly and listen well. There needs to be a very good interpersonal relationship between doctor and patient. So a doctor should be able to assess the signs, look for symptoms and arrive at...

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...

Abstract Informed consent is a doctrine that has developed and evolved over the last two centuries into a solid health practice. Informed consent has a vast history dating back to ancient Greece but today it is a hugely important topic in the field of public...

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...

The focus on building smart city technologies have gained in significance in recent years due to the demographic changes in life expectancy of the seniors staying in an urbanized community. With the increasing ease and affordability of using technology, it is a necessity to create...

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...

Introduction The smile can assess and reflect one’s personality, a great smile can help some people to build confident during talking, smiling or even laughing in public. In order to have successful result you should have a good communication with the laboratory and the patient....

I am a first-year student, the nursing skill I am going to use in this reflective account is administration of IM Injection and the reflective model I will be using is Gibbs cycle. The name of the service user in this assignment has been changed...