I've learned to be a little bit more patient with her and other people. ... When my mother was ill years ago, I felt like life was not worth anything and I felt like I was not worth anything. ... I want to experience different patients with different situations. ... I learned that you have to be patient with people and give them some time. ... My mother and my sister's situations have guided me in a way to become better at being patient with people and to have more sympathy for those who are ill and can barely get up out of their beds because that could be anybody, a loved one, a clo...

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Not only does the patient have to suffer, but the family of the patient as well, all because of someone not following what they were hired to do. ... It is a job based solely on the well-being of the patients. ... Specifically, people entering nursing homes are elderly, and in most cases, somewhat ill, so they are very easy to take advantage of. ... Smith needed, she got very ill and required medical attention. ... Smith to get severely ill, the nurse in charge failed to get her to the hospital on time, which caused her to pass away. ...

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Emotionally it causes stress when friendships are grown with ill or dying patients. ... Nurses administer medicine to patients, change their bedding when its messed up, check patients vital signs and much more. ... They often serve as a spokesperson between a patient and the doctor. Nurses do more than just assist patients physically, they provide comfort in their time of need. ... Nurses that work for hospice agencies care for patients in their home. ...

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It will re-assure the patient that you truly care. ... The core of nursing is being an advocate for the patient. ... Nursing advocacy requires that a nurse has the ability to speak up for the patient when they are too ill or weak to do so. ... I believe that the patient's family and significant others should be involved in all aspect of the patient care if they choose to do so. ... Therefore, it's important to me to treat my patients how I would want to be treated because that day will come when I will be the patient. ...

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L. is a 23-year-old homosexual patient Hospitalized in a large medical center on the East Coast. He is seriously ill with an AIDS related disease. ... Legally you have an obligation to the patient to keep his confidentiality, if he is not a minor. ... Instead of deliberately lying about the patient's condition the nurse should instead withhold the information and encourage the patient to tell the truth about his condition to his parents. ... Although if the patient requests that the family not to be let known of the disease, than we as healthcare providers are to respect the patients...

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WHY I WANT TO BE AN LPN There are several reasons why I want to be an LPN. The desire to help people has always been there for me. When I was fifteen years old I became a candy striper and loved it. I continued to volunteer as such until I was seventeen years old and then entered into the loca...

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And the situation will keep getting worse, until hospitals may be forced to turn away all but the most critically ill patients. ... Physicians check on their patient's daily or more often, but the lives of critically ill and post-surgery patients depend on the 24-hour-a-day presence of nurses, and on their skill, experience and vigilance. ... The nurses hardly spend any time with the patient. An interview that I had with a nurse, one of my questions to her was "How many patients do you take care of per day?- Her reply was sometimes up to 8 patients. ...

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Hospice As my grandmother lay dead in her bed, I had come to a conclusion about the choices she made once she found out she was terminally ill. ... When a loved one is terminally ill with no chance of recovery, the family and loved one's have to choose the care program that will provide for them until the inevitable death. ... They would say that it "disrupts" the other patients by having the schedule changes and odd visitors. ... They could never tell me her mental state (sad, happy, etc ), which makes sense because they had never once taken the time to know her in a non-nurse-patien...

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Hospice As my grandmother lay dead in her bed, I had come to a conclusion about the choices she made once she found out she was terminally ill. ... When a loved one is terminally ill with no chance of recovery, the family and loved one's have to choose the care program that will provide for them until the inevitable death. ... They would say that it "disrupts" the other patients by having the schedule changes and odd visitors. ... They could never tell me her mental state (sad, happy, etc ), which makes sense because they had never once taken the time to know her in a non-nurse-patien...

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Research Paper Everyday in this world, children become ill or get into accidents and need medical attention. ... They assist in procedures, testing, and diagnosing the patient. ... Becoming impatient with a child when they are ill and hurting would scare the child and they would lose their ability to trust their nurses. ... "Consider the critically ill child who is surrounded by beeping monitors and alarming machines" (Vestal 606). ...

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He was the person who showed her what an institution for the mentally ill should be like. ... Shocked by the inhumanity of such treatment, she set out to visit every place in the state of Massachusetts where they confined the mentally ill. ... At the war's conclusion, Dix returned to her work on behalf of the mentally ill. ... Dorothea was mostly hated by male doctors and officers, because they didn't like it when she made jokes about how they ran their hospital and when she would stand up for her nurses and patients whenever there was a problem. ... She got so ill that Dr. ...

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At that point, Nightingale was ill and suicidal. ... Second, she insisted that any poor and ill woman should be admitted, not only those who were members of the Church of England. ... To make things even worse, the injured and diseased patients were crowd in rooms with little, most of the time no ventilation. ... Finally, the doctors noticed how amazing Florence and the nurses' work truly was and allowed them to care for the patients and assist the doctors. ... In the midst of all this positive change, Florence still battled military and government officials and religious leaders who we...

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