c. Mary returns to the MDs office in a month and says she doesn’t like the phenobarbital and wants to go back on the phenytoin but it upsets her stomach. The MD put her back on phenytoin and also on cimetidine. What is concerning to you about this? What may be a drug that would be a better alternative to cimetidine? d. At the next exam Mary
Bearing, being a hard-nosed, uncompromising type, agrees to the treatment. She attempts to be tolerant and suffers through endless tests, "fake" concern from staff, and the poking and prodding of fellowship doctors on rounds, who gleefully gaze upon her like a child's science experiment; viewing her simply as "research" and not as a human being. Through this ordeal, Dr. Bearing faces the loneliness of the hospital, as well as the grueling passage of time in the isolation ward as she suffers the after effects of chemotherapy. She takes this time to reflect upon her life, and how "putting a semicolon instead of a comma in the wrong place, can change the meaning of
The Nurse’s Dilemma: Being Asked Not To Tell The Nurse’s Dilemma: Being Asked Not To Tell Nurses face ethical dilemmas on a regular basis. As nurses work to provide health care services, we often are asked to participate in ethically questionable activities (Potter, Perry, Stockert, & Hall, 2012). Today, a patient who was newly diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer with metastasis to her bones was admitted to the hospice unit. Her daughter is her primary caregiver and has asked me to deceive her mother by “turning over” my badge and telling her mother that I am from a home health agency. She specifically requested that I “do not say hospice” because she believes that her mother doesn’t know she has been admitted to the hospice unit.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Application REF: Page: 73 TOP: Nursing Process: Implementation MSC: NCLEX: Safe, Effective Care Environment 3. A multidisciplinary health care team meets 12 hours after an adolescent is hospitalized after a suicide attempt. Members of the team report their assessments. What outcome can be expected from this meeting? a.
The physician did perform an exploratory laparotomy on her for a small bowel obstruction after the patient came in complaining of severe abdominal pain. Second, the patient has to prove that the physician was derelict. This means the patient has to prove that the physician failed to comply with standards of a physician. The physician left a sponge in her abdominal area which they later say is not the cause of her death but it caused severe abdominal pain and her and her husband kept reporting the pain to the nurses and morphine was kept given. If the patient didn’t die from heart failure first then she would had complications persisting from the sponge left in her body.
Four years later, she was admitted to the school clinic, supposedly to have her appendix removed. It was years later that Muir learned that she had been sterilized.” (Unknown, The Sterilization of the Intellectually Challenged) The Famous Five are supposed to be a group that supports and aids others; ironically the Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act, that they helped to pass, was hurting others. If history books do not record everything, both negative and positive, the suffering and agony felt by Muir and others like her, will be forgotten. In doing so, everyone would live a lie; that all famous figures were and are perfect. Plus, Members of the Eugenics Movement saw themselves as nation-builders.
A known female hypertensive patient in the critical care unit can have elevated blood pressure and has to be reported to a medical assistant. Blood pressure of the patient was found to be elevated after consuming two cups of coffee and having a stressful week at work. The ADN may check patient’s blood pressure again while not knowing how to further assess the situation. However, the BSN qualified nurse would not do that because of the higher knowledge. The nurse that is BSN qualified may question and deeply investigate into the patient’ situation further.
In the article “Gender Bender by Jill Vollbrecht we learn about a diabetic woman and her hairier problem. Her deep voice, furry arms and her bald spot points to a hormonal imbalance, but a deeper look into her problem reveals an even better explanation to why this is happening. As we read on we learn about Judy, the diabetic patient and her doctor visit. Dr. Vollbrecht seemed to been having a busy day. She had just finished seeing what seemed like a hundred diabetic patients, one after the other.
After four weeks, Livia wrote the following letter to the president of Olympia. The conduct of your personnel in pursuing payment for a purchase I never made is having a horrendous impact on my health and emotional stability. My physician is giving me tranquilizers around the clock to control the acute anxiety I have been experiencing, This situation is intolerable, and I expect you, as president of the store, to clear this matter up before I become a complete
They cannot read the waivers that they sign preceding surgical procedures. Several women I known in Boston have entered a slum hospital with the intention of obtaining a tubal ligation and have emerged a few days later after having been subjected to a hysterectomy.” 5. What IS the “human cost” of a society in which so many people cannot operate at the level of functional literacy? The cost is not being able to enjoy the most simplest of things and risking important things. For example, the luxury of reading captions on a television show or reading the newspaper to consuming something bad that maybe bad for your health or losing a job because you weren’t able to understand what exactly you needed to do; and everything else in between.