Emergency Room Patient Fatigue Analysis

( You, Aiken, Sloane, Liu, He, Hu,& et al. ,2013). Another studies revealed the effects of burnout on quality of nursing care. One study show that the higher the burnout level among critical care nurse the poor quality care provided which

before patient contact, 2. before performing an aseptic task, 3. after exposer to body fluid, risk (and after removing gloves), 4. after patient contact, 5. after contact with the patient’s surroundings.

Unfortunately, there are many ways a patient can be injured or harmed while staying at a hospital. Even though there have been several attempts to make a hospital visit one hundred percent injury preventable, accidents and mistakes still happen. The three leading types of patient injuries are medication errors, patient falls, and pressure ulcers. However, if the entire health care team, such as: health care providers, pharmacists, nurses, etc, work together then hopefully the percentage of patient injury will decrease each year. (Berman, A. 2011)

Without being diagnosed correctly, “7.5 percent of U.S children between the ages [of] 6 and 17 take medication for ‘emotional or behavioral difficulties’” (Insel). Overmedication is the inappropriate medical treatment that occurs when a patient is given or takes unnecessary or excessive medications. Many are wrongly diagnosed by doctors, or self-medicated. With every disorder comes an evaluation and many doctors do not evaluate their patients or their behavior, they get straight to medicating.

An interesting finding of this study is that patient-centeredness was adversely perceived result over the period of 3

When these actions are not done properly, back pain can be experienced frequently by the nurses. Joey C. Bergeron et al. (2006) state that much literature indicates bad posture is the predominate cause of low back pain in otherwise healthy individuals. Proper alignment of the spine is crucial while walking, sitting, and sleeping to support ligaments, tehndon, and disks in the lumbar area. Any deviation in proper posture relating to these daily activities put the spine in a vulnerable position for

2 Sleep Deprivation in the Nursing Profession Sleep deprivation is known as a condition of not getting enough sleep that can affect the brain and cognitive functions. "It occurs when a person sleeps for fewer hours than necessary over multiple days or week" (Eanes, 2015). When we think of nurses we are reminded of people who promote the health of others. However, many are unknowingly compromising their own health by working those 12-hour shifts. Many times, its more than 12 hours when they are finally able to go home.

Integrative Literature Review: Malignant Fungated Wound Odour Management among Patients with Cancer Submitted to: Dr. Nijmeh AL-Atiyyat Submitted by: Faten Odeh 1470684 The Hashemite University Faculty of Nursing Advance Oncology Nursing ( 1 ) Abstract Background: Malignant fungating wound (MFW) odour management among cancer patients is a significant rising problem; this problem causes extreme physical and psychological distress not only for patient, but also for his or her family and their health care provider, and impaired the quality of life. Therefore, MFW odour management increase the challenges in providing good care for cancer patient.

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23 May 2011. Print. Campers, Susan M. “A Failing Correctional System: State Prison Overcrowding in the United States .” Salve Regina University, 2012, digitalcommons.salve.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.bing.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1079&context=pell_theses. Chandler, Redonna K., et al.

A., Fisman, D. N., Moineddin, R., & Daneman, N. (2014). The magnitude and duration of Clostridium difficile infection risk associated with antibiotic therapy: A hospital cohort study. PLoS One, 9(8), e105454. doi:http://dx.doi.org.southuniversity.libproxy.edmc.edu/10.1371/journal.pone.0105 Connelly, L. M. (2014). Use of theoretical frameworks in research.

Continuous mandatory onsite consultant intensivists in the ICU: Impacts on patient outcomes. J Patient Saf, (00)00, 1-6. Ezziane, Z., Maruthappu, M., Gawn, L., Thompson, E.A., Athanasiou, T., & Warren, O.J. (2012).

One study by Arnold et al. (2010) directly compared the two drugs in question for this project and provided credible information to the development of an evidenced-based answer to the problem (Arnold et al., 2010). A second systematic review by Akl et al. (2014) researched the effects of the two drugs in question in the thromboprophylaxis treatment of patients (Akl et al.,

The scandal caused the deaths of the people that the program was there to protect. The mismanagement was not only in the waiting lists but also with the money. Four VA construction projects in Las Vegas, Orlando, Denver, and New Orleans an extra cost of $1.5 billion because poor scheduling and unnecessary luxuries. (Devine) The lack of leadership for a program that is dependent of people living and dying is disgusting and needs to be fixed.

As the patient ages they become more susceptible to infection. The geriatric population has defective host defenses that compromise their ability to ward off infectious agents; factors influencing immunocompetences including chronic diseases, medications, malnutrition, functional impairments.” Changes in the aging body including thinning of the skin, enlarge prostate, decreased cough reflux and dysphagia may also increase their risk of infection. (STRAUSBAUGH). The frequency of these infections is unsafe.