Sentences with phrase «ill patient in»

The successful RN will acquire the requisite knowledge, technical skills and interpersonal behaiors to provide care to the critically ill patient in the CCU setting...

The report also recommends that doctors who assist a terminally ill patient in dying not be charged with a criminal offence.

One terminally ill patient in Oregon, requesting a chemotherapy drug that might extend her life, was refused because her insurance company wouldn't foot the bill.

12:19 - Clegg says doctors there were instructed by manager to ignore seriously ill patients in the name of targets.

In this new research, the goal was to raise blood pressure in critically ill patients in vasodilatory shock by providing exogenous Angiotensin II.

As a comparison, they performed the same test on 161 critically ill patients in the hospital who did not have sepsis and 164 healthy patients who were having outpatient surgery.

Pou was a New Orleans doctor who was arrested but ultimately not indicted for second - degree murder after she gave lethally high doses of painkillers to critically ill patients in the days following Hurricane Katrina.

Forty - five percent of terminally ill patients in the U.S. currently die under hospice, and its use has grown by more than 20 percent over the past decade.

«This would only be used on very seriously ill patients in hospitals,» Avidon noted, «and so would only be given intravenously, usually via an infusion pump.»

Dr. Moss maintains a small clinical practice where he assists chronically ill patients in addressing quality of life issues.

We also provide 24 - hour ongoing care for critically ill patients in our Intensive Care Unit.

Employing more than 2,700 nurses, doctors and other healthcare professionals, we expect to provide care to around 29,000 terminally ill patients in the community and in our hospices this year, along with support for their families.

Patient - focused and compassionate caregiver.LicensesRegistered Nurse, State of California, 2003 - Present First Aid, CPR, and ACLS CertificationsSkill HighlightsMedication administration expert Committed to compliance reporting Diagnostic tools experience Culturally sensitive Skilled in conducting physical examinations and assessmentsACLS instructor Geriatric treatment knowledge Strong medical and work ethics Computerized charting specialist Familiarity with disease management programsProfessional ExperienceAugust 2008 to Current Savoy General Hospital New Cityland, CA Intensive Care Unit Registered NurseProvide exceptional care to critically ill patients in ICU.

Looking for a critical care pharmacist position with a hospital where my clinical pharmacy experience can help in providing cost - effective drug therapy for critically ill patients in consultation with patients» doctors.

Anoka Metro Regional Treatment Centre, Anoka • MN 8/2012 — Present Registered Nurse Handled admission, provided patient care and oversaw discharge of mentally ill patients in a multidisciplinary setting.

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Performed nursing care for acutely and chronically ill patients in hospital and clinic settings.

Conducted comprehensive history and physical examinations for acutely and chronically ill patients in outpatient and hospital settings

Professional Nursing, Inc. (Chicago, IL) 05/2006 — 06/2008 Agency Staff Registered Nurse II — Critical Care & Cardiac Telemetry Care • Serve as an Agency Registered Nurse in multiple hospitals and critical care facilities throughout Illinois • Manage direct patient care of critically - ill patients in critical care unit and cardiac telemetry care unit • Assist physicians, registered respiratory therapists, registered nurses in bedside cardioversion • Perform bedside removal of chest tube, epicardial wires, arterial lines, Central and PICC lines.

Resurrection Medical Centre (Chicago, IL) 06/2005 — 06/2008 Critical Care Float Registered Nurse — Critical Care & Cardiac Telemetry • Manage direct patient care of critically - ill patients in critical care unit and cardiac telemetry care unit • Assist physicians, registered respiratory therapists, registered nurses in bedside cardioversion • Perform bedside removal of chest tube, epicardial wires, arterial lines, Central and PICC lines.

Advocate Lutheran General Hospital (Park Ridge, IL) 01/2002 — Present Clinician II — Cardiac Telemetry Care • Manage direct patient care of critically - ill patients in critical care unit and cardiac telemetry care unit • Assist physicians, registered respiratory therapists, registered nurses in bedside cardioversion • Perform bedside removal of chest tube, epicardial wires, arterial lines, Central and PICC lines.

US research published in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy indicated use of antibiotics was prevalent among terminally ill patients in hospice care arrangements — despite their unwanted side effects and little evidence that the medications improved symptoms or quality of life for these patients.

Not exact matches

In the United States, for example, a trust fund protects vaccine makers from being destroyed by lawsuits while also compensating patients who fall ill from them.

UnitedHealth is in the forefront of deploying data to identify patients most at risk of becoming seriously ill.

Daniel's firm, based in Herndon, Virginia, provides services to hospitals, such as valet parking and «sitters,» who stay with elderly or mentally ill patients after they've been sent home from operations.

In his experiment he would weigh a terminaly ill patient and stay with him untill he passed away.

Among this group, top reasons for leaving were working conditions (for example staffing levels and workload), cited by 44 per cent, a change in personal circumstances (such as ill health), cited by 28 per cent and disillusionment with the quality of care provided to patients, cited by 27 per cent.

Fundamentally... the minister seeks to understand what the patient has experienced in his living which has made it necessary for him to become mentally ill.

«Starting a patient on the LCP, is an abandonment of evidence - based medicine in a critically ill section of the hospital population.

It is true that our mental health facilities have pretty much disappeared in the shadow of «drug management of illness» which requires patient compliance when an ill person is not equipped to comply.

When faced, for example, with the decision of whether or not to let a seriously ill or irreversible patient succumb voluntarily in terminal situations, we might avoid making the decision now, arguing for the possibility — maybe next week — that a new cure for the patient's condition will be discovered.

[9] Using a different, continuous weighted scoring system — which admittedly was, like Byrd's scoring, «an unvalidated measure of CCU outcomes» — Harris et al. concluded that «supplementary, remote, blinded, intercessory prayer produced a measurable improvement in the medical outcomes of critically ill patients», and suggested that «prayer be an effective adjunct to standard medical care.»

Arden said she was fired from KCM in 2003 for disagreeing with the church's willingness to take donations from the mentally ill, including institutionalized patients.

But, appropriately used, opiates have an important role to play in controlling pain and allowing terminally ill patients to regain quality of life.

Whereas nonaggressive patients once remained in the family or moved into another normal community specially equipped for adopting a certain number of the mentally ill, today we lock them up except when practical obstacles (mainly financial) discourage us from doing so.

Excluding the terminally ill from suicide prevention services is cruelly misguided, even in states where assisted suicide for such patients is legal.

The patient must be competent and terminally ill, and must make a fully voluntary and persistent request for aid in dying.

«If unquestionable addictions can be present without any physical addiction — as with binge drinkers or compulsive gamblers — and if physical addictions can be present without any true addiction — as in the medically ill patients I just mentioned — then it must be that physical addiction is neither necessary to nor sufficient for an addiction.

He went to Russia in 1970 and studied the work of Yuri Nikolayev, who prescribed fasts for mentally ill patients.

In Vermont, a regulation obligates all doctors to discuss assisted suicide with their terminally ill patients as an end - of - life option, even if they are morally opposed.

Proof of this is found in answers to interrogatories C & C filed in connection with its Montana lawsuit, that asked its definition of a «terminally ill adult patient,» who the complaint claimed had a state constitutional right to assisted suicide.

From the limitation of offering assisted suicide to terminally - ill patients whose prognosis is only six months of life, to the so - called «safeguard» of having two doctors check the patient has a «clear, settled, and voluntary» wish to die (and, er, as we all know, a two doctor requirement was such a powerful safeguard in the Abortion Act!)

To illustrate, family therapists have discovered that children who are «identified patients» (to use family therapist Virginia Satir's term for family members who are emotionally disturbed, delinquent, or psychosomatically ill) often are expressing, in their dysfunction, the hidden conflicts in their parents» marriage.

In listening to our terminally ill patients, we were always impressed that even the most accepting, the most realistic patients left the possibility open for some cure, for the discovery of a new drug or the «last minute success in a research project.&raquIn listening to our terminally ill patients, we were always impressed that even the most accepting, the most realistic patients left the possibility open for some cure, for the discovery of a new drug or the «last minute success in a research project.&raquin a research project.»

A terminally ill patient can turn their lives over to God, be faithful, and still (here is one of the keys people hate to hear) DO THEIR PART in the fight against that cancer.

Making plain the morally infectious nature of euthanasia, large percentages reported that they could «conceive of» killing patients who were not terminally ill or, in some cases, who were not even physically ailing.

As Albert Deutsch showed in his monumental history of care of the mentally ill, some 19th century institutions did provide humane care, as well as general medical and surgical treatment for patients who needed it.

In We Die Before We Live, his book about St. Rose's Home for terminally ill cancer patients, Daniel Berrigan writes: «I am beginning to sense it; you have to be in good form spiritually to work here,» At Cabrini, as at St. Rose's, not everyone is in good spiritual form, but it helps if you arIn We Die Before We Live, his book about St. Rose's Home for terminally ill cancer patients, Daniel Berrigan writes: «I am beginning to sense it; you have to be in good form spiritually to work here,» At Cabrini, as at St. Rose's, not everyone is in good spiritual form, but it helps if you arin good form spiritually to work here,» At Cabrini, as at St. Rose's, not everyone is in good spiritual form, but it helps if you arin good spiritual form, but it helps if you are.

The ability to provide excellent care for terminally ill patients requires medical specialization and ongoing professional education in the particular disease.

In March the New England Journal of Medicine published a trailblazing article «The Physician's Responsibility Toward Hopelessly Ill Patients.»