The main aim of every study is to find solutions to a certain problem in the society. It is through the understanding of certain challenges in the nursing profession and society in general that long lasting solutions can be realized. The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze and summarize the results of a qualitative and quantitative peer reviewed articles discussing the issue of hospital readmission and patient education. Qualitative study Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) is a chronic, serious and pricey health condition with a huge medical, social and economic impact. Caring for patients with heart failure is not only about treating the disease’s physical symptoms; it involves educational, supportive, emotional, and cooperative care
1.Congestive Heart Failure also known as (heart failure) is a life threatening condition. Heart Failure is caused when someone has a weak heart. It usually happens when the bodies blood pump to the heart is not pumping blood to the heart correctly.
At the age of two, doctors told her family that her heart was relatively too weak for her body, and that she would require treatment and worst case scenario, a transplant. Two months later her
Staples & Earle (2008) used a phenomenology research design, where they used a convenience sample of CHF patients to determine effective technologies for monitoring patients with heart failure admissions and mortality. The effectiveness of CHF patients through the use of telephonic assessments and interventions was implemented. Congestive Heart Failure study participants (n=591) were managed by a team of registered nurses and nurse practitioners. Data was collected using a telephone log and appropriate medical protocols were provided. Data was analyzed; determining frequency of calls, level of care required and scope of practice needed to ensure proper care of the patients.
Mezrich and Scalea describe the wishes of an ALS patient who wants to donate his organs before he dies. Mezrich and Scalea consider the risks of the hospital shutting down its transplant center and operating on a weakened patient. They recount the history of organ transplantation, and examine ethical and legal concerns while advocating for a new model of organ donation. They depict their second thoughts on not performing the procedure, while pondering what the results would be.
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The reason for such a quick change is because of the staggering cost of a heart transplant, which is "209,000 plus $15,000 a year for follow-up treatment" (188). Lopez found these numbers out from Landsberg’s story, and his major question is why this guy gets the "Cadillac of heart transplants" (188). While many Americans would need to take out a loan for this kind of surgery, a prisoner got it for free and got to reap the benefits of an extra life, while "4,119 people" were waiting for this possible second chance at life (188). This quote also addresses the limited availability of organs since there are so many people waiting to receive a new heart. Lopez also brings up the argument of merit and whether it matters.
Systolic and Diastolic Heart Failure Heart failure occurs when the heart cannot pump enough blood for the body due to a weakened or damaged heart. The heart 's pumping action moves oxygen-rich blood as it travels from the lungs to the left atrium, then on to the left ventricle, which pumps it to the rest of the body. The left ventricle supplies most of the heart 's pumping power, so it 's larger than the other chambers and essential for normal function. (American Heart Association). In left-sided or left ventricular heart failure, the left side of the heart must work harder to pump the same amount of blood.
Throughout history, disease has ravaged the world. Many people cannot explain this phenomenon, but others believe that God planned for it to happen. These individuals believe that God has a reason for everything. In the world today, heart disease has become a real problem among other conditions. According to the National Institute of Health, “it may become possible to generate healthy heart muscle cells in the laboratory and then transplant those cells into patients with chronic heart disease” (“Stem Cell Basics VII”).
Refusal of Organ Donation After Death Organ donation definition: it takes healthy organs and tissues from one person(the donor) for transplantation into another(the recipient). An organ transplant may save a person's life, or significantly improve their health and quality of life. Main Social Problem: Refusal of many people to donate due to many factors and obstacles. A chronic shortage of organs for transplantation has and continues to be one of the most controversial pressing health issues in many developed countries.
According to Christiaan Barnard, a cardiovascular surgeon, ‘’for a dying person, a transplant is not a difficult decision. If a lion chases you to a river filled with crocodiles, you will leap into the water convinced you have a chance to swim to the other side. But you would never accept such odds if there were no lion (First Human Heart Transplant). ’’ A heart transplant is a medical procedure done through surgery for people in need of a healthier heart (Barnard).
Saint Luke's Hospital emphasizes that “During a heart transplant, a surgeon removes your badly working heart and replaces it with a healthy heart from a donor. The immune system sees the new heart as a strange object and can start to attack it” (What is heart transplant rejection?). What Saint Luke’s actually means is that if a heart attacks then it could harm one’s body severely. A person's body could end up worse than when they had their old heart or go back to the way it was with their original heart. If the heart does not attack then the new heart helps the body function regularly and efficiently.
“Supply and Distribution of Hearts for Transplantation: Legal, Ethical, and Policy Issues”, as told at the beginning of this paper, explains that every person who could be a possible candidate for a transplant has to go through a complexed allocated system that will let doctors know who will use the organ to its full potential. Summarizing, “Rates and Risk Factors for Nonadherence to the Medical Regimen After Adult Solid Organ Transplantation” there are cases when a organ does not get used to its full potential because the patient did not follow doctor instructions. If a person is shown to be untrustworthy or has a not so good medical background then, of course, the organ should be given to someone who will use its full life
Organ donation is currently the only successful way of saving the lives of patients with organ failure and other diseases that require a new organ altogether. According to the U.S Department of Health and Human Services there is currently 122,566 patients both actively and passively on the transplant list. This number will continue to increase, in fact, every ten minutes another person is added to the list. Unfortunately, twenty-two of these people die while waiting for an organ on a daily basis. Each day, about eighty Americans receive a lifesaving organ transplant.
Those who have had a heart transplant can only receive a transplant from a deceased donor. The patient most likely has gone through some form of heart failure and is in urgent need of a replacement. Short-gut syndrome patients are those mainly in need of intestinal
