Essays About Medicine

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Briefly describe the key principles of person centred care and demonstrate how you implemented person centred care in practice, Illustrate with examples. Use academic literature and the insight that it provides to inform your understanding of the key principles of person centred care. Person centred care can be viewed in many different aspects. The eight […]

Computers are widely used in day to day activities. A computer is a general purpose device that can be programmed to carry out a finite set of arithmetic or logical operations. Since a sequence of operations can be readily changed, the computer can solve more than one kind of problem. A patient is any recipient […]

Good training can help provide a positive experience for the patient or client while they are in need. Without training many things can go wrong and this can provide a negative experience for the patients and clients and you may even make things worse and this could be fatal and lead to death. With good […]

This reflective essay focuses on my learning development from performing a health assessment on food preparation and IADL’s, including vital signs. In nursing, a detailed health assessment is crucial in forming care plans, making a diagnosis and observing progress which is important to the patient (Gamble and Brennan, 2006). The health assessment indicated I can […]

Technology has made connecting with the rest of the world more convenient. One of the more recent breakthroughs in science and technology, which has taken our world by storm, is the computer. The discovery of modern technology was the great function of modernity to make work easier, more capable, and more adaptable for the humanity. […]

Effective Communicator is a vital in the healthcare workplace. It’s the welfare of others and the fundamental that focus and effective communication that is between colleagues that can make the difference in quality and the consistency of care that is delivered to the patients. When people consider themselves to be good communicators, and Identifying the […]

The doctor-patient relationship is the key element in all branches of medicine, including physical and mental health. Examining history, theories, treatments, and even movies reveals the analysis and evaluation of various ethical approaches that have influenced the development of client-therapist relationships. These approaches span from outdated to contemporary ethical practices. When evaluating and critiquing different […]

Sister Callista Roy, a nurse educator, developed the Adaptation Model, also referred to as “Roy’s Adaptation Model”. This model prioritizes patient care and is utilized in both nursing care and nursing education. It focuses on four concepts and can be implemented for different diagnoses while always keeping the patient as the main focus. Presently and […]

During placement we were required to complete a CPA report. My problem was that the placement I was allocated – Older persons inpatients – did not compile CPA reports. This situation was compounded by the fact that this was a very short placement of 5 weeks and thus limited opportunities to seek an additional day […]

The purpose of this paper is to gain an understanding of Patient Satisfaction Research in health care. By understanding the definition of patient satisfaction as well the use of patient satisfaction surveys in health care, others will be able to comprehend how managers of Health Care Organizations use the scores to improve the quality of […]

Communication is the exchange of information, thoughts, ideas, and emotions. It involves a sender who encodes and sends the message through a communication channel to the receiver. The receiver decodes the message, processes the information, and sends a suitable reply back through the same communication channel. In health and social care settings, there are different […]

The purpose of this essay is to devise a plan of care for a patient. The plan must be in relation to an actual or potential problem as identified under the Activities of Living (ALs) using the Roper Logan and Tierney model of nursing. For this a patient has been selected after meeting with them […]

Nurse staffing refers to the ratio of nurses to patients in a particular unit. The current global nursing shortage is simply wide spread and dangerous lace of skilled nurses who are needed to care for individual patients and the population as a while. A study on the nursing shortage by Linda Aiken of the University […]

As a senior, I had the opportunity to job shadow an OB nurse at. During my time in the baby/mother area of Carilion Hospital, I experienced the admission process and discharge process of patients. I observed both mother patients and baby patients being assessed for vitals and given vaccinations. After each assessment was done, I […]

1. Should ABM maximize its profits? I do not think ABM should maximize pill’s profits. If scientists researched long time only for a new stem-cell based drug, it deserves to get high profits, because they spend their time, money and every only for the research. But they were working a different study and they discovered […]

Nurses play a very important role in our healthcare system. From the very basic definition of nurses as healthcare providers, the field of nursing has largely expanded into a network of serving with various levels of education and expertise, and a wide range of specializations- one of which is emergency nursing. What is an emergency […]

The purpose of this essay is to reflect on my personal role in the inter-professional team and the delivery of healthcare that I have encountered during my duty as a health care assistant in one of the hospitals here in England. In accordance with the NMC (2002) Code of professional conduct, confidentiality shall be maintained […]

Nurses need to understand that the care they provide directly affects patient outcomes. Nursing Sensitive Indicators were created as a national measuring tool to assess outcomes in relation to nursing care. By recognizing gaps in care, situations of poor quality, and high-risk safety concerns, nurses can potentially prevent negative outcomes from happening. (Montalvo, 2007) Nurses […]

Interactions with people can be formal or informal. Formal interactions are likely to involve a social worker talking to an official capacity. Informal interactions in contrast are more themselves and relaxed the different types of interactions are verbal and nonverbal. Verbal interaction occurs when the person speaks when people talk to each other one to […]

Abstract As a young woman, Nightingale often accompanied her mother when she visited the sick. This inspired her to want to be a nurse, and against her parents’ wishes she entered a nurses’ training program. During the Crimean war she was asked by a family friend to come and care for the British soldiers at […]

A society lacking in humanity It is not enough to be shocked at the report by the Health Service Ombudsman into the care of old people in Britain’s hospitals, which found thousands of examples of patients who were left hungry, thirsty, unwashed, in soiled clothes, and without adequate pain relief. We have had report after […]