Would You Have Been Patient? (A Story About Patience) Has there ever been a time where you were very patient, but had every right not to be? Me personally, I’m not a very patient person at all. However, there have been instances where I have been very patient when I usually would not have been. This is a story about a night I spent with my two friends, Jane and Sarah. They both did some things that would normally annoy me, but I was unusually calm through the night. As you know, students in High School party. They drink, smoke, and do things that they really shouldn’t be doing. One night, I decided to go to a party with my friends Jane and Sarah. I was the designated driver, so I was not drinking that night. We weren’t in Worland so we needed to leave to get home at a decent time. Sarah was having a good time, so she didn’t want to leave. I patiently explained to her that it was time to go, and she eventually listened. We got in my new car that I had just bought, and started driving home. We drive for about fifteen minutes, but that’s when things started to get bad. …show more content…
Because of this, we needed to stop every five minutes for at least one of them to throw up. Jane was calm for the most part, but Sarah was acting pretty crazy. We arrived in town and needed to stop for Sarah to throw up. At first, she held her hands to her mouth and motioned for us to stop, but I couldn’t see her from the front seat. As a result, she threw up all over the back of my car. Normally, I would have gotten so angry, and would have been so impatient. There was throw up everywhere. On my seats, on the floor, in the shoes that were back there, and last but not least, all over Sarah herself. Anyone in my shoes would have been overly impatient, but I was actually
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“Ding”, the bell had just come alive with a mighty ring, ending the last day of school. I began shoveling the materials from my trainwreck of a locker into my bag when a close friend of mine approached me. She began bragging about the birthday party she was planning. Her arrogance annoyed me because she did not invite me, claiming that I wouldn’t know anybody. Honestly, she probably was scared of what I would do to her reputation. All she ever thought about was herself, with no regard for others. This wasn’t the first time it happened, and this pattern began to anger me, I deserved better. And that is when I decided I didn’t need her, I left her to live her own life. I felt as free as a bird but she was left alone like Scrooge. My friend
Corcoran, J., & Walsh, J. (2008). Mental health in social work: a casebook on diagnosis and strengths-based assessment. Boston, MA: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon.
The purpose of the paper is to discuss the activities involved during the evaluation of a patient. Evaluation of a patient can be seen as the process of examining a patient critically. It comprises of gathering and analyzing data about a patient and the illness (Allan, 2012). The core reason is to make judgment about the disease one is suffering from. Such judgment will guarantee proper treatment and diagnosis. Typically, gathering of information from the patient is the role of nurses while making judgment and prescription is the doctor’s role (Jacques, 1988). In any case all practitioners are required to know how to evaluate 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.
Picture this. You are heading off to college to begin the next chapter of your life. It is a moment you have always been waiting for. You are past the high school drama, and are ready to start taking classes that will allow you to obtain a degree in something you have always been passionate about. It’s your first week on campus and you are invited to a party being hosted by a group of upper classman. You show up to the party and immediately are handed a red cup with what you know is something you shouldn’t be drinking. You take a sip anyway and soon start talking to that guy in the corner who at first seems friendly, but soon begins to take advantage of you. Just like that everything changes. This is a situation millions of people face every
My first patient that I started as student nurse on one of the long Rehab Center was a seventy two year old man who had Clostridium difficile (C.diff), Dementia, Hip replacement, and Obesity. Due to the above sickness he had many complications. I can still remember his face suffering from pain. Because of his lack of ambulation and incontinence, he had developed a very serious pressure ulcer under his sacral area. I went through to the room with my instructor and the instructor introduces me for the patient as his student nurse from Towson University and will taking care of him. However the patient was not happy and he becomes a challenging patient in my first experience day. But I may learned more from that challenging patient for my future experience.
I hate watching her sit around all day on the couch, too tired from her sugar high to do anything except stare at the TV. She talks about going back to school, but it’s hard to imagine her pulling herself together to even leave the house. How is she going to be a normal person and go back to school while she still like like a scarecrow and eats crap? So I decided to do something about it: I got a garbage bag from under the sink and started throwing all her junk food into it. Then I walked over to her and snatched the tub of ice cream from her hand.(Kaslik 20)
Another tool for verifying naturopathic treatments is patient outcome measures, including blood tests, patient questionnaires, or physical examination methods. As explained by Breakspear (2015), a HbA1c blood test may show a positive change in the blood level, but this value is isolated from the patient as a whole and is not a part of patient-centered care unless it is considered alongside aspects of the patient’s physical, psychological, and social life. Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs), a specific patient outcome measure, allow each patient to respond with their own perspective of the success and quality of the treatment methods as it relates to six categories: health status, quality of life, health-related quality of life, wellbeing
This piece of work will be based on the pre-assessment process that patients go through on arrival to an endoscopy unit in which I was placed in during my second year studying Adult diploma Nursing. I will explore one patient’s holistic needs, identifying the priorities of care that the patient requires; I will then highlight a particular priority and give a rational behind this. During an admission I completed under the supervision of my mentor I was pre-assessing a 37 year old lady who had arrived to the unit for an upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. During the pre-assessment it was important that a holistic assessment is performed as every patient is an individual with unique care needs as the patient outline in this piece of work has learning disabilities it was imperative to identify any barriers with communication (Nursing standards 2006).
Nashville’s female population is slightly higher than male population but the clinics population is slightly higher in male population. The average age of Nashville’s population is in their middle thirties this is to be expected with the new job opportunities Nashville creates for young adults. However, as expected due to chronic disease, the clinic has a larger older population. The issues with Body Mass index much of Nashville’s population struggles with is also reflected in the recorded and charted information.
The clinical and statistical approaches have both proven to be successful methods in clinical psychology. Each approach has its pros and cons depending on the type of situation that is being dealt with. Clinical judgment can be a complex process because it requires a patient’s data which are composed of samples, observations, signs of underlying states and the clinician’s responses. According to Sundberg, Tyler and Taplin (1973) clinical interpretation may consist of 3 different levels: Level 1 deals with clinicians being familiar with certain experiences, and therefore, making a prediction based off of that. An example of this would be the SAT or GRE assessments. Level 2 is comprised of clinicians carefully observing a patient’s behaviors and coming up with a conclusion based off of the behavior characteristics that the patient displays. In level 3, based off of the individual’s determinants in a specific situation, the clinician seeks a consistent understanding. For example, blood responses on the Rorschach test can be a determinant of hidden aggression, which would then lead to future impulsive outbursts or losing control of oneself (Sundverg, Tyler and Taplin 1973). Although both the clinical and statistical approaches have proven to be beneficial, I believe that clinical psychologists should not rely more on statistical predictions and prepackaged treatments than clinical judgment and individual patients.
It was my first week of my freshman year in college. Normally, you want to survive the first week by going to school events and meeting new people. Being the first Saturday night of the school year my new friend and I decided to go to a party in another dorm on campus. Both of us didn’t know what to expect at a college party, so we dressed up and tried to look our best. As I put my black mascara on I knew that this would be a fun night. My friend Jessica knew one of the guys that would be at this gathering because he lived in the same town that she was from. Finally, we leave our dorms and head out to our first college party. We arrived at the party and started to play cards. As the night progressed, poker was getting a little boring and staying in that dorm room wasn’t too much fun either. Abruptly, one of the guys said we should go to a freshman dorm. Everyone grabbed their belongings and headed to central campus. As we walked to central campus many of the boys were whispering about how they were going to cause a ruckus. No one was a resident of this hall, so we had to ask someone who was outside to let us in.
Before I begin I must say I no longer advocate "partying". it is incongruous to my modified code of ethics I have also realized I am to young to be participating in such things. Keeping it as short as possible my life revolved around working and inciting a good time. Living in a complete fantasy world, I felt I had no responsibility, no worries, and only one rule; don’t fool around.what I didn't realize is that i had responsibilities to myself I was simply ignoring This lead to a proliferation of trouble, whether it had to do with school or my home situation. The worst part was that i was completely apathetic towards the trouble I was instigating. I was only interested in having fun which pathetically pertained to , either smoking, drinking, going out to clubs, or even a combination of the three. Soon enough my fast life perspective abruptly was impeded when I was f...
Hospitals are a necessary part of every individual's life. When one thinks of hospitals, help comes to mind (Hospitals Struggle to Keep Their Promises). Neither a person's age, ethnicity, nor economic background should matter when it relates to access to healthcare. Everyone will need hospital care at one point in their lives, no matter how healthy one may think he or she is. That is the reality. Unfortunately, many of these organizations are in danger. "Hospitals are experiencing a period of financial duress unprecedented in recent history. The number of hospitals that have closed their doors is at an all-time high, and many more might close within the next few years" (Moore et al, 1999). It is ironic to think that the institutions such as Faith Community Hospital that provide healthcare and even save lives, face severe problems. Problems that must be addressed early to avoid jeopardizing an individual's access to healthcare should those same problems lead to the hospital's demise.