Over the semester we have had to take many ATI exams, with those exams we get Individual Performance Profiles. After looking at those profiles you can see what areas went wrong and who long you took for the exam as well. After looking at the profiles and taking the next exams, I realized that each time I took more time in total for the exam because I read through the questions more in depth and I also for the longer…
The primary roles and responsibilities of a nurse in the events of a natural disaster are to work as a team, some nurses may do tasks that they normally would never do like coordinating team huddles and providing updates to staff so they know what’s going on. During different disasters there are going to be different roles that will be needed but everyone should always know what is going on. For example, during a power outage many of the nurses…
My preconceived thoughts about dying with dignity include, terminally ill patients having the choice of when they want and how they’ll end their life. I knew that only certain states allowed for this to happen and that there was a long process that people needed to go through. I knew some information on this topic because freshman year I took an ethics class and we talked about this but at that time I believe it was still a newer topic…
My initial thoughts on the use of Electronic Health Records were that they were used in the hospitals and other health care services but not much other than that. I knew doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers had access to their patients records but anything more I didn’t know that they could go to past patients that had or that other hospitals could pull up records of patients. I knew that have the electronic health records was an easier way…
Trauma exposure can impact all aspects of someone’s life, it can impact someone’s psychological well being by increasing their risk for having depression, anxiety and even PTSD, which can then impact someone’s social well-being as well. If someone has bad enough anxiety or depression, then it can impact how they interact with others especially if someone has PTSD and something triggers them without any waring. Trauma can also impact someone’s spiritual well-being as well, many time when someone goes through…
There are many different factors that influence the health of vulnerable and marginalized populations, looking more deeply at individual, environmental and societal factors. Some individual factors would include race, age, gender, sex, and income would all influence the health of a population. Environmental factors include where they live whether it is in the city or the suburbs, how many people they live with, whether they have transportation and if so what kind like a car or if they must take…
