While Charlotte drank coffee in Charleston, South Carolina, her husband James prepared to move from the Tent City field hospital, near Petersburg, Virginia, to the Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond. James’right knee and leg were injured December 1864 in the battle of New Market Heights and Fort Harrison, southwest of Petersburg, Virginia. The Confederate triumphed, but the many wounded, included James, were carried to the nearby field hospital. Now with the war over, the tent hospital must come down. All patients are to go the Richmond hospital for an examination by the chief medical doctor.
The author of this book is called Anne Fadiman. It is based on a story of a Hmong child known as Lia Lee who suffered from epilepsy. The demise of this condition shows the harm that can be contributed by absence of cross-cultural communication especially in the area of medicine. At the age of three months, the elder sister to Lia known as Yer banged a door which caused Lia to have the first seizure.
The toddler had burns on her chest, face, arm and legs. She also had two black eyes and a badly bruised hand” (Grzegorek 1). The daycare provider then asked the child what had happened. At first, the child refused to tell the teacher what had happened saying only that he “fell.”
She confronts the fact that the doctors and nurses who were treating ill patients, were themselves suffering both emotionally and physically. Having just experienced the trauma that was bestowed by Hurricane Katrina, these caretakers suddenly found themselves working around the clock to treat others. They did all of this without having the necessary time to mentally recover, which proved that they were simply unable to perform at the highest level. “Lamm’s rationing directive rankled for many reasons” (Fink, 47). Not only professionally, but it is also well established that experiencing a trauma has detrimental effects on general human psychology, “The stress of the disaster narrowed people’s fields of vision, as if they wore blinders to anyone’s experience but their own” (Fink, 151).
Background statement: Heritage Valley Medical Center has had a wonderful reputation for providing excellent health care services to their community. Initially, their community was 80% Caucasian, 40% African American, and 5% Hispanic. However, in the last 5 years, the population has changed to more minorities and the whites have moved out to the suburbs. This caused the Center’s occupancy rate to go down 40% because many of their traditional, more affluent, private-pay patients had left the neighborhood. To bring in revenue, they campaigned to bring in more Medicaid patients.
Peter Tourikis Tourikis 1 Mrs. De souza NBE3U0 19 December 2022 Resilience Through Connection in Medicine Walk The novel Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese tells the powerful story of two characters, Frank and Eldon, who have both experienced trauma in their lives. Despite the challenges they have faced, they can find resilience through a willingness to connect with each other. As the story unfolds, it becomes clear that even in the darkest of times, it is possible to find hope and healing through the power of connection. This essay will explore how Wagamese uses the characters of Frank and Eldon to communicate this important message and how their journeys towards resilience offer an uplifting portrayal of the human spirit.
Day after day a mom takes care of her daughter, hoping to alleviate her daughter’s pain and suffering. The mom hopes and prays that her daughter will get better, that her health will improve somehow. Unfortunately, day after day, nothing changes. Day after day, they receive the same results. Her daughter looks at the mom with a pleading look in her eyes, begging the mom to put her out of her misery, a cry for help to end her anguish.
While Tanya felt helpless and that her efforts were in vain, she reached a fork in the road and had to decide whether or not she was getting anything effective accomplished. In the end, Tanya, along with other community organizers, created a healing zone for anyone suffering trauma and offered the community hope and healing. This concept of hope and healing is the central message
Dr. Robert Marion expresses that the biggest epiphany he has experienced during the years of his practice was the realization of how the emotional needs of his patients, his patients’ families, and himself needs to be just as equally emphasized as the physical needs are (Marion, 2010, p.70).In both chapter three and four, Dr. Marion reminisces about his encounter with one of his patients name Scotty, an infant who died five weeks after birth due to trisomy 13. At the end of his reminisce, he realizes that not only was Scotty his patient, but Scotty’s parents, siblings, grandparents and even Scotty’s extended family were also his patients (p. 58). He concludes through his experience that though he could not save Scotty, he would still be able
When I was in third grade, I was diagnosed with a medical condition that required me to go to Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh multiple times per month. It was boring, annoying, and sometimes painful. I never enjoyed going and that didn’t change as I got older. But when I just started going, I was very sick. Between the one hundred two-degree fever I had and the amount of blood they had to take out of me for tests, I felt miserable.
Despite the 25 years of medical experience which taught me the understanding of human anatomy, kinesiology, and compassion for humanity, my campus activities have helped me to envision a professional goal as a visual healing artist. As an Into the Streets student leader, I led our group towards transforming an extremely cluttered classroom into a virtual mall with diverse sectors for adopted teens' free shopping spree. Consequently, we did not realize that we too needed healing. Therefore, we created a sense of our own healing through visual kindness.
Peplau created a theory for interpersonal relationship between the nursing and the patient. This theory explains that the nurse and the patient come into their encounter as strangers who both have preconceived ideas, beliefs, values, experiences that shape their interaction. The nurse should evaluate his/her feeling, emotions, behaviors and thoughts prior to and after his/her interaction with the patient. This will encourage an environment that is free of judgement and allows for a healing (Lutzen, 2015). When I first started taking care of patients from the Middle East right after 911, I really had to evaluate how I cared for these patients.
According to Erickson’s psychosocial theory of development, Eloise enters the play stage, in which she is able to gain initiative and independence (Shaffer, 2012,p.42). On the contrary, if her initiatives are ineffective through denunciation, Eloise is capable of experiencing a sense of guilt (Engler, 2013,p.145; Jennifer et al, 2014, p.57). While on the other hand, Franklin enters the final stage of adulthood and reflects back at life with either a sense of integrity or despair over unfulfilled ambitions (Shaffer, 2012, p.42). Thus, the nursing staff must consider the patient’s age and developmental factors when delivering nursing care. Maintaining skin integrity for Eloise and Franklin is crucial to prevent skin tears, pressure ulcers,
Seeing children at face value who were experiencing such discomfort, or who were severally affected by individuals
There was a young boy at the Kapi’olani Medical Center for Women and Children; Wyndell, who made a notable impact on my continued interest in pursuing a career in the physical therapy field. I was a volunteer at Kapi’olani for 9 months and experienced shadowing patients who had a range of diagnosis including osteosarcoma, cerebral palsy, autism spectrum disorders, but one case that sparked my passion was a child with encephalitis. Wyndell was only 13 years old and had been diagnosed with encephalitis, which is acute inflammation of the brain caused either by infection or the immune system attacking brain tissue. I met Wyndell when his spirit was down. He did not have the normal high energy level that you would expect from most teens at age 13.
