This patient was not treated with the ethical respectany patient should receive when seeking help/treatment. It is very alarming that a physician whose job is to take care of other humans would disregard giving a proper
He was on this previously for CIDP. ROS: Genitourinary - History of BPH, for which he is on tamsulosin. EXAMINATION: He continues awake and alert. He converses easily and appropriately.
CC Follow up ER visit for back pain. S The patient is a 59-year-old female who tells me in early June she was moving a rolling coffee table at home. She states she felt a twinge in her back and had pain that radiated down into her left leg.
Patient is a 51 year old Caucasian female living alone in her own home. The patient has a history and current syntoms of geralized anxity disorder, social phoina and panic attacks, which she takes madications for and sees a psychrist 2-3 times per month in Havasu. Patinets lives with six cats and the house environment is somewhat cluttered. The patinet is orinally from Glendale, CA., has a brother in Palmdale, CA, who is stays in contact with sometimes. Pt has a daughter in Big River, who is not supportive of her, but has three grandchildren who visit her.
But the staff understood and Dr. Westwood got an ambulance and reached to ED. He presented with diaphoresis, motor dysfunction, paresthesia, nausea, and ascending paralysis from his leg to the upper body, arms, face and head. He became cyanotic and hyperventilating and it turned to be bradycardiac with a BP 90/50mmHg. After five hour long clinical treatment procedures were followed for tetrodotoxin poisoning, his vital signs were
Even though the economy is getting better and more people are having jobs, but there are still people who are experiencing financial difficulty, therefore it is harder for them to obtain health care coverage. Because of that, there are many people that have limited access to health care. Health disparity can occur through ethnicity, socioeconomic status, age, location, gender, disability status. Because of these factors, patient care can be greatly affected.
A. The needs assessment shows the population that should be targeted is Hispanic females between the ages of 20-59 who live in rural areas of the in Miami- Dade County. According to the Corazon y Alma profile, the hospital has a high C-section rate and many of these patients were considered high risk. The hospital has enhanced OB services but access to prenatal care is absent and this has caused a gap in care. There are financial, geographic and social barriers in the community which contribute to the gap.
He was a known heroin user and was in and out of treatment. You were able to see the track marks in both of his arms. His skin was cyanotic, pale and clammy, along with pinpoint pupils. The ALS provider struggled to get an IV due to the long term drug abuse, so his veins were not adequate. Also, there wasn 't a clear report on when the patient was last seen at his baseline and responsive.
Mrs. Lightfoot Mrs. Lightfoot, 85 years old, has the following symptoms: Agitation when approached at her husband’s grave, with delusions of needing to save him. She has an issue with frequent incontinence. Mrs. Lightfoot has been recently hospitalized twice recently due to poor self-care and dehydration. She has had a rapid deterioration in cognitive function, and as a result, has impaired communication and limited ability to answer questions appropriately.
Mrs. McGoldrick is an 81-year-old patient with chronic diseases - like diabetes and repeated heart attacks - and was admitted to the hospital for a urinary tract infection. She was also cited to have indications of
The next morning when the doctor check on him they realized something was quite wrong as his condition had gotten worse. He had also now become delirious and had tremors throughout his limbs, not violent but very shaky and , was constantly going
This case presentation will include the client’s name and demographics, the problems he is presenting, his personal treatment goals, his possible additional needs, a crisis determination and
D-This writer met with the patient as he was placed on hold to address the no show to his counseling session last week and his AWOL status. According to the patient, he forgot about his 1:1 session and as far as his AWOL status, he first says, " I can 't remember why." But, he then informs this writer about his transportation barrier as he cannot drive due to his pending DUI case, which is tomorrow. Furthermore, the patient reports he is unstable on his dose as he experiencing sweating in the morning, feeling uncomfortable, and sometime having body aches. " This writer addressed alternatives for his illicit use and also addressed the patient recent UDS result as he tested postive for cocaine and heroin.
What do the regulations require? The regulations require hospitals participating in Medicaid and Medicare to have written policies and procedures regarding patients’ visitation rights. Hospitals must: (1) inform each patient of his or her right to receive visitors whom he or she designates, including a domestic partner, (2) do not restrict or limit visitation rights based on sexual orientation and gender identity, among other factors and (3) ensure that all visitors have full and equal visitation rights, consistent with a patient’s wishes. A hospital that fails to comply with these new requirements could be terminated from the Medicare program (the largest healthcare payer in the country), making it ineligible to receive either Medicare or
The patient for the purpose of this essay will be referred to as
