Iatrogenesis

“Cascade iatrogenesis is a series of adverse events triggered by an initial medical or nursing intervention initiating a cascade of decline” (The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, 2005). A combination of treatments may be needed in order to properly treat urinary incontinence. A commonly used medication used to treat over active bladder and urge incontinence is anticholinergics. Some examples of anticholinergics is oxybutynin (Ditropan XL), tolterodine (Detrol), and darifenacin (Enablex)

Organizational Systems Task 1 Western Governors University Task 1 A. Nursing-sensitive indicators By understanding nursing sensitive indicators, the nurses in this case could improve the structure, process, and outcomes of their nursing care. The structure of nursing care is indicated by the supply of nursing staff and the skill level of the nursing staff. By the nurses having increased knowledge of the issues hip fracture patients are prone to having, such as decrease mobility, increase

Zin Myo Han Enjoli Flynn English 105 06/18/14 The problem and solution “The medication error reporting project (MERP) estimates that confusion surrounding drugs with similar names accounts for up to 25 percent of medication errors.”(www.jcaho.org). The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says that” about 10 percent of all medication errors reported result from drug name confusion. A patient taking the wrong drug is an impact to the safety goal.”(www.fda.gov) The confusion of two medications with

Medical errors and unsafe care harm and kill thousands of Americans each year. Approximately two million healthcare-associated infections occur annually in the United States, accounting for an estimated 90,000 deaths and more than $4.5 billion in hospital healthcare costs (Patient Safety, 2015). Safety is one of the six competencies the QSEN faculty and National Advisory Board explained to be initiated in nursing pre-licensure programs in order to increase the quality and safety of healthcare systems

Every day, millions of people enter some type of health care facility seeking medical treatment. They go to these places because they trust the physicians, nurses, and all other medical personnel are there to provide them with adequate, quality care with hopes that they will be discharged in a healthier state. Inadvertently, each day millions of people entering these facilities and experiencing more complications than expected due to some type of medical error. Medical errors are becoming more and

In 2003, as an outcome of all the sentinel events reported to the Joint commission lead to the creation of the “The Universal protocol for preventing wrong site, wrong procedures, and wrong person surgery” (Mulloy & Hughes 2008). So, one of the ways that could have potentially prevented the situation from happening at the first place was implementing the universal protocol procedure. According to the protocol the conduction of proper pre as well as post-operating procedures are extremely mandatory

In part one of this assignment, we took a closer look at medical errors, including why errors occur, and what is considered to be a medical error. In the busy clinical setting, nurses are often interrupted by phone calls, patients, and even other staff members. Research shows that medical errors are now one of the top three leading causes of death within the United States, therefore it is time to work on addressing this problem (Daniel, 2016). Theory in nursing provide the “basis of understanding

In Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes introduces the dualistic idea of a sharp split between mind and body. This mind-body split is a Western secular idea and discounts many important aspects of the human experience. Descartes argues that, “…a body, by its very nature, is always divisible. On the other hand, the mind is utterly indivisible” (Descartes, 56). This idea that there is a distinct difference between the mind and the body is nonsensical from both a phenomenological and a scientific

The purpose of this paper is to bring forth awareness when it comes to patients and medication errors and further educates health care professionals on the importance of communication especially during transition of care. According to Williams and Ashrcoft (2013) “ An estimated median of 19.1 % of total opportunities for error in hospitals.” Although not all medication errors occur during transition it is the time most prevalent for these errors to occur. As per Johnson, Guirguis, and Grace (2015)

Diazepam Paired With Psychotherapy Dissociative Identity Disorder is a disorder that is hardly talked about, however has extreme effects on patients that suffer with it. However, this topic is important because it can lead to finding treatments that may be more effective for patients with DID. Past studies have shown that the main treatment for Dissociative Identity Disorder usually involves therapy. The most popular types of therapy are psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, and family therapy. Treatment