For my observation, in the health care setting, I shadowed Nancy McAuley. She is a licensed speech-language pathologist. She works for the Mon Valley Hospital, but provides therapy at the outpatient rehabilitation facility that is still though the Mon Valley Hospital. This is for patients that were recently in the hospital, but is home bound now but still need some type of therapy. At the facility there is physical, speech, and occupational therapy. I shadowed her when she was at the Mon Valley rehabilitation center. I was able to watch two different types of clinical focuses. The first patient that I was able to observe had many clinical focuses that include apraxia, aphasia, and dysphasia. The other patient that I observed was working on cognitive tasks to work the brain on the right and left hemispheres. The speech-language pathologist said she does not have a particular therapy approach that she used but focuses on the functional aspects of task that the patient is doing. She focuses more on the functional everyday functions that individuals do rather than working on a task that that they will just become frustrated. Traditional approaches work on grammar focus on describing words through prescribing terms such as
During the therapy session, they administered VitalStim therapy. VitalStim was used for the patient because he was suffering with difficulty swallowing also known as dysphasia. Electrical stimulation is used to aid muscle strengthening and muscle recruitment to rehabilitate the swallow. The clinician applied the VitalStim while working with the patient on swallowing exercise. To make this happened she has the patient read one to two pages out a book to get the VitalStim to be effective. The patient was not only working on dysphasia, but was also working on aphasia and apraxia. All of these focuses are being worked on, but the therapy session that I saw was
Having worked as a rehab aide in an outpatient clinic, my pediatric observation experience was completely different from what I am used to seeing. The therapist I observed was Allie Ribner who works at All Children’s Child Development and Rehab Center. Each session was completely different from one another for the session was geared towards the goals of the child and families. I found this to be a great learning experience for I saw a wide variety of different treatments and age range from 14 months to 15 years old.
Ranked third by U.S. News and World Report on the list of “Best Health Care Jobs of 2017”, the Physician Assistant career has a 96 percent job-satisfaction rate, and represents one of the fastest growing jobs in the nation. Created as a position to relieve the job shortage of primary care physicians, Physician Assistants first came to be in the mid-1960s. Since then, the number of PAs in practice has just about doubled with every decade helping to improve health care not just nationally, but on a global level as well. Physician Assistants are licensed to practice medicine, prescribe medication, treat chronic illnesses, and assist in surgery in all 50 states under supervision of a physician. Although some medical practitioners perceive the role
What are routine daily clinical observations that are found on a care plan that would you perform on a patient?
Regina Geis is a ten-year old female who is diagnosed with celiac disease. No one in her immediate family has been diagnosed, including her parents and her younger sister. Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease of the digestive system that is usually indicated by long-lasting inflammation in the small intestine that occurs when a protein from the plant called gluten, which is usually found in grains such as wheat, barley, and rye, is consumed, resulting in an interference of absorption of nutrients from food (Calvo, Soriano del Castillo, & Vinuesa, 2012.) Regina was diagnosed with celiac disease when she was five. After she was diagnosed, she was put on a gluten-free diet.
The patient is a 78-year-old gentleman who is brought to the emergency room because of increasing confusion. Evidently the daughter has taken to the bank to get some money when the daughter try to assist him to put his money in his pocket he became aggressive and combative and began to swing at her with his cane and then walked off. She was the unable to find for approximately 4 hours. When he was found he was brought to the emergency room. In the emergency room the patient was placed initially in observation status. Despite being treated in observation with fluids he remained confused and somewhat aggressive and it was determined that the patient required acute inpatient hospitalization. His medical history is significant for hypertension,
The foundation to being a good coder is having a thorough knowledge of medical terminology. When we communicate with other people in the healthcare field, the universal language used is medical terminology. When we abstract information from the doctor's notes to code, they will be using medical terms. If we do not have an understanding of the terminology, we could code for the wrong thing and have the claim denied.
Occupational therapy was based off of psychology; we evolved from treating mentally ill patients with isolation as an efficient treatment plan. We must never forget we are known to be “the art and science of helping people do the day-to-day activities that are important and meaningful to their health and well being through engagement in valued occupations” (Crepeau, Cohn, & Schell, 2008). To other professional disciplines this article explains the difference between each of us, yet can also express our relation to one another. The basic goal of all therapeutic disciplines is to better our clients life, through physical, speech or occupational therapy. Every discipline targets different goals, may it be body mechanics, reducing a stutter or buttoning a shirt, at the end of the day our clients well being may it be through science, art or both is all that matters. To the occupational therapy field this article means progress for what we do. Reading this article today in the year 2015 did not seem like old information to me, it is still relevant, I am proud that our field is not only evolving with contemporary time but it is also maintaining its
However, after my instructor left from the room, I reintroduced myself, and started a conversation, stating my objectives for the day. As I began to speak my actions while I administer vital sign, I was promptly damped by an expectedly attitude from my patient. Whenever I attempt speaking, I...
Knowing that dementia has no cure, most elderly with are concern and have requested to spend their last days with families and loved ones in their homes. Yet it is reported that their wishes are not granted and most die in hospitals or acute care centers with less trained providers that understand their illness. Bayer, A. (2006), reported a case in 2003 which occurred in london. Patients that had died with cases of dementia were not recorded or evaluated for cognitive dysfunctions(p.101). Although other forms of methods were provided such as the mechanical ventilation and central venous lines, however they were not used as frequent as they should have been. In addition, dementia patients did not receive adequate
My chosen career field is the medical field( EKG Technician). The importance of knowing the medical terminology in this particular is something that you need too know and you must study hard. Working in a doctors office or a hospital and speaking with other physicians or assistants you should know these terms and what they are talking about. If you are not sure of what is being said then it is always good to ask someone who knows what they are talking about so that you may get a better understanding of what's going on. Knowing what the physicians are talking about can help you in the long run. It can also help you in your everyday life and work. Learning these medical terms will help you to carry on a conversation and not look baffled when
What is the importance of learning medical language and terminology as a healthcare professional? Their are many different reasons why learning medical terminology is important. However, I believe the one that stands out the most is communication. To prosper in the medical field you have to be able to understand doctors and communicate with co workers. If a surgeon doesn't know or have a clear understanding of how to perform the procedure the doctor asks him to perform things could get worse a lot quicker than expected. Another reason learning med term is important is time. Someone who work's in the ER doesn't have much time to waste so knowing the med term information is a lot easier versus having to go look up what word's mean or trying to
I enjoyed this assignment of observing a health care facility. I decided to observe the atmosphere of Mercy Hospital Emergency room. When observing the emergency room, I decided to take a seat to get a better look at the environment. The emergency room was very quiet. When you first walk into the emergency room there is a security desk for visitors and a check in center for the patients. The dorms are always locked, and you need to check in with security to get in.
The third observation site I visited was my professor, Dr. Saltarrelli’s private clinic Autumn Oaks. Her clinic is a relatively new clinic, but the area around the building is old. Her clients range from toddlers to adults. Some of her clients see her for either speech therapy or for audiology. The clinic is quite small; there was a small hallway with a trophy case displaying equipment used for hearing aids and some pictures. Along the hallway there was a designated therapy room, two offices, a restroom and a kitchen. The therapy room was quite small it contained one adult sized table with two chairs, a children’s table with two chairs, a set of hanging cabinets, and a huge storage cabinet filled with board games and other play equipment.
I had the opportunity to observe the surgical ward in Seremban Hospital. What really overwhelmed me was how the ward actually looked disorganized when patients' families visited during lunch time. One of the patients, who was undergoing vacuum dressing, was resting on the bed next to a partition. He was hardly noticeable from far because there were two trolleys blocking the view around his bed. One was piled with patients' charts and another one had been forgotten to be removed by the nurse when she rushed to attend another patient. It was a reckless thing to do but it made me see that the nurse must have had so much on her plate to be negligent about this seemingly-insignificant thing. It caught my attention when the patient was staring at
There are many section in the clinical laboratory in general the clinical laboratory is responsible for analyzing patient specimens in order to provide information to aid in the diagnosis of disease and evaluate the effectiveness of therapy, the hospital department that performs these function may also be also be called the department of clinical pathology or the department of laboratory medical , analyze patient specimens (e.g. blood , body fluids , bone marrow , urine ,