Management of Care Case Study Josepha is working on a medical surgical unit with three other RNs and one LPN. There is also a male and a female patient care tech. Josepha has been a nurse for four months, and after completing two months of orientation she takes a full assignment as a registered nurse. Josepha feels that the assignments she receives are not always fair, as she tends to get the most challenging clients. In addition, she is most frequently assigned any change of shift admissions. While she understands that she is part of a team, she often feels that the consistency of the inequity of these assignments is not fair. She is self-aware of how this is affecting her. As she starts her shift today she is again assigned to the …show more content…
Mary Harvey, a 42-year-old African American female, postop day 2 from abdominal surgery. Has an NGT still. She is also Muslim. • Ms. White, a 60-year-old female, admitted 3 days ago with a diagnosis of bacterial pneumonia. She still is dyspneic with exertion and on 2L of oxygen via nasal cannula. Uses a walker. • Mr. Raj Singh, a 68-year-old admitted with chest pain and scheduled to have a cardiac catheterization done today at noon. He is very anxious and rings the call bell every 15 minutes to ask whether he is going to die and if the cardiac catheterization is really necessary. • Mr. George Rivera, a 38-year-old Mexican male, admitted with high blood sugars and newly diagnosed with diabetes. He is scheduled to be discharged today, but still needs some reinforcement of diabetes education. He does not speak English very well. • Scheduled admission is Mrs. Mary Smith, a 75-year old black female admitted with change in mental status. ER calls to give report at 0800. Based on the information provided determine the priority order in which the clients should be seen and the reasoning behind the nurse’s …show more content…
How might the ANA code of ethics and the Nurse Practice Act help to guide Josepha? The legal and ethical issue that Josepha has to use is. He has to know how to discuss the issue he has with the higher or manager of the head nurse. It is good to communicate the issue you have with the managers instead of felling bad thing about them. As I read the “Team STEPPS makes strides for better communication”, some of the tools like; (SBARQ) is used in many organizations, especially during patient hand-offs. It provides a systematic way to convey patient information, which is essential during high-stress situations. In a stress situation, taking responsibility to prevent human errors. As ANA code of
On 10/29/2015 SO EMT Perez was dispatched to PV-119 regaurding foot pain. SO EMT Perez knocked and was verbally greeted in by the resident a Mrs. Suzanne Truss. Mrs. Suzanne Truss was very stressed and seemingly overwhelmed and she stated that she had foot pain but before SO EMT Perez had a chance to evaluate Mrs. Suzanne Truss got up on her own strength from her bedside and proceeded to walk to her bathroom with assistance of her walker. Mrs.Suzanne Truss wanted SO EMT Perez present in the bathroom because she stated it made her less nervous. After Mrs. Suzanne Truss finished in the bathroom and walked to her bed SO EMT Perez began an assesment which revealed the following; Blood Pressure 110/72, pulse rate of 75bpm, and foot pain of the
On 1/20/2015 SO EMT Perez was dispatched to KC-304 regarding skin pain. SO EMT Perez knocked, announced his presence and was verbally invited in by the resident. The resident, a Mrs. Marian Fox stated that she has been having some severe skin irritation the last couple of hours and she wanted a second opinion on what she should do. SO EMT Perez performed an assesment which revealed the following; Blood Pressure 120/80, Pulse 64, no visible lesions or abrasions of the area where Mrs. Fox was complaining of pain and no other pain outside the ordinary. Mrs. Fox than decided to lay back in her bed.
On 8/1/2015 S/O EMT Perez was dispatched to FC-609 regarding a fall. S/O EMT Perez announced hispresnece and knocked at the door and was verbally greeted in by the resident. The fallen resident, a Mrs. Ida Looney stated she lost her balance and fell while trying to get up from the living room couch and was unable to get up on her own strength, Mrs. Looney was on the couch by the time S/O EMT Perez arrived. Mrs. Looney stated that; she was unaware of any change in medications nor was she aware that she was on any blood thinners, She did recall and remember the fall and was unaware and or could not recolect weather or not she was seeing a doctor here at riderwood. Mrs. Looney seemed to be a bit complacent mentally to which her spouse said was
On 1/17/2016 SO EMT Perez was dispatched to HG-407. SO EMT Perez knocked and announced his presence at the door. SO EMT Perez was greeted at the door by the resident. The Resident, a Mrs. Elsie Cooperman answered the door and was activly bleeding from her face as she was trying to explain what had happened. SO EMT Perez immediatly began to controll the active bleeding and had Mrs. Elsie Cooperman sit down in a nearby chair while he tried to also calm the resident down so he could get some information about what happened.
Mary L Walsh is a 84 y.o. female who presented on 5/6/2017 with chief complaint of back pain and leg pain after a fall. Mary was tearful and reported feeling sad. Mary reported she was in significant pain and requested I asked her nurse for more pain medication. Mary reported she fell at home on Saturday but did not tell anyone until her son David came to the home later that day. Mary reported "I am just getting old and having lots of problems".
SC, Jennifer Stoker contacted provider, Latonia Jennings via telephone. SC introduced herself and told provider that she was Barry’s SC. SC asked how Barry is doing towards his outcome of wanting his health monitor. Latonia noted the nurse is monitoring his health. There has been no issue and he staff monitor his health daily to insure he remains health.
Mildred was transferred to Hebrew Rehabilitation Center, less than 72 hours post op, which for a risky patient is unfathomable to me. When I visited her the same afternoon she felt as though she’d “been given the bum’s rush”, meaning there was a sense of urgency at NEBH to have an x-ray, and bowel movement requiring an enema or suppository before she left. The continued low blood pressure, worried her. Furthermore, she felt uneasy about the surgical blood loss requiring RBC transfusions.
It left a bad taste in Darry’s mouth. The doctors weren’t that helpful either. Their short, clipped words and clinical dealings with people. More information once Soda was out of surgery before bustling away to ‘help’ another family desperately seeking answers.
Daryl Garrison is a 62 yeas old male with PMH of ESRD, HTN, Depression, chronic pain, neuropathy, tobacco abuse, recent GI bleeding, hyperkalemia, HLD, and acid reflex. He was recently hospitalized for GI bleeding and received multiple blood transfusions. During SOC, he was found to have unsteady gait (had falls without injury 2 weeks ago), generalized weakness, and increased back pain (on Percocet). He also will benefit with education about low potassium diet, HTN disease management, and teaching about medication purpose and regimen.
They had not been checked off on vital signs or any part of physical assessments yet. Therefore, I assisted students and their patients with the proper way to ambulate and get non-independent patients on the commode or to the bathroom. Overall, I felt that my biggest
Leadership occurs when others willingly follow that direction. (Gaiter, D. 2013). In the early months of 2012, under the direction of Mr. Lee, data was gathered and feasibility studies were analyzed, it was decided that chronic care service roll out will be piloted in Atlanta. Managers were mobilized to establish systems, rules and procedures to help with the service roll out. The pilot project was embraced by the walk in clients in Atlanta.
After reading the case, "Nursing Facilities Case: Mary", one can't help but to feel sympathy for the family members involved with making the decision to do a hip replacement on such a frail body. Should Mary's family members authorize the double hip replacement? What factors should be considered? Who else, if anyone, should be considered? What are the implications of that decision on the parties invlved: Mary, her children, the faculty staff?
In this model medical and non medical professional staffs are co-ordinate by a case/care manager to address the needs of a client. Case meetings, care planning and exchange of information are coordinated by case manager. An individual care plan is often the product of case management meetings. In this model, the professionals are linked together, because their working relationship with the case manager. • Key worker assumed leadership role; • Coordinating care, reporting back to the professionals; • Addressed patient needs in a co-ordinate manner; • Professionals usually came from the same organization, but involved other community
Scenario: A 13 year old female is admitted to acute care for sickle cell crisis. The patient has an accessed port with maintenance IVF running and has a Dilaudid PCA for pain. The patient develops a fever of 103 and has a white blood cell count of 18 on recent labs. Due to the patient having a central line, fever, and increased WBC the patient triggered a CLABSI score of 3 on the watch list and antibiotics are not ordered. Per protocol, the paramedic notifies the bedside nurse and the attending physician of the CLABSI score so that appropriate antibiotics can be ordered.
The patient then proceeded to become confused and disorientated. He was then discharged to a nursing home facility until he was cleared by his psychiatrists. After he was discharged, he failed to keep taking his antibiotics to eliminate the infection. He returned to the hospital several weeks later with a grossly purulent knee. The surgeons concluded that the only way for the infection to be controlled, was for the components of the knee replacement to be removed.