Ans) Various interventions have been utilized for prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism. These include mechanical devices such as graduated compression stockings (GCS), intermittent pneumatic compression (IPC) devices, and pharmacologic agents such as unfractionated heparin, low-molecular-weight heparin, and fondaparinux.
- Practical Steps to Keep DVT Risk Low:
• Ask your doctor about need for “blood thinners” or compression
stockings to prevent clots, whenever you go to the hospital.
• Lose weight, if you are overweight.
• Stay active.
• Exercise regularly; walking is fine.
• Avoid long periods of staying still.
Describe how the programs can be applied to the care of your patient/s or patients in...
Describe how the programs can be applied to the care of your patient/s or patients in the medical surgical unit. Preventing falls in hospitals
Thoroughly justify why these programs would promote safe and quality patient outcomes. Preventing hospital-associated venous thromboembolism: and Preventing falls in hospitals :
1. Describe the characteristics of patient-centered care AND the importance of each characteristic. 2. You are taking care of an 80 African-American year old male patient in a medical surgical unit who was hhospitalized with congestive heart failure. He is being discharged with multiple medications and home health care. Describe the steps you would take to provide patient education including cultural considerations. 3. Describe how you will evaluate the effectiveness of your education on the scenario stated in question Each...
Describe how a Patient-centered medical home has or can impact: Chronic care management Care transitions Unnecessary hospitalizations (admissions, re-admissions) Coordination of care
You are taking care of an 80 African-American year old male patient in a medical surgical unit who was hospitalized with congestive heart failure. He is being discharged with multiple medications and home health care. Describe the steps you would take to provide patient education including cultural considerations. Describe how you will evaluate the effectiveness of your education on the scenario .
After reading Sally Wilde's article, “The Elephants in the Doctor-Patient Relationship: Patients' Clinical Interactions and the Changing Surgical Landscape of the 1890s,” who would you say makes most of the decisions about patients' medical care in today's health care system in America? Also, how did people’s financial state of affairs factor into 1890s medical care, and how does it factor into medical care today?
You are the manager of patient registration at a community hospital. When registering patients, your staff is required to obtain insurance information. The largest employer in your town has recently changed its employee benefit plan from an indemnity plan to a managed care plan. As the manager of patient registration, you must educate your staff as to the differences in registering patients in a managed care plan versus an indemnity plan. What will be your process for obtaining co-pays? How...
In the book, Professionalism in Health Care: A Primer for Career Success, the author, Sherry Makely, outlines quality improvement goals: eliminating adverse effects, reducing waste and unnecessary expense, avoiding costly hospital readmissions, and preventing undesirable outcomes that place patients at risk. Provide an example of a quality improvement initiative that can be proposed in a health care organization. Describe how the initiative would work to achieve the goals associated with quality improvement.
Community Hospital is a 400-bed urban hospital, one of six hospitals in a health care system. The nursing department of the hospital is applying to the American Nurses Credentialing Center for Magnet status. Nursing units are working on a number of projects to prepare for the Magnet application process. 1. You are a staff nurse on a medical-surgical floor at the hospital. The unit is trying to improve its culture in patient safety. How would you go about helping to...
Please help 1. Briefly describe a patient with Cardiac problem in the clinical setting and describe how you applied what you are learning in med/surg and pharmacology to your clinical practice. Entries should be a minimum of 3 paragraphs Grading criteria (5pts each): Paragraph #1: Patient’s age, sex, brief PMHx, explanation of current medical situation Paragraphs #2: Clearly describes application of medical surgical concepts discussed in class thus far. Paragraph #3: Clearly describes application of pharmacology to clinical practice. Does not...