Hi, and welcome back to the course vigilance during hospital stay of loved ones a guide in how to help towards a healthy and rapid recovery of your loved one. Here's an overall outline of the course. In the context of this course, the word vigilance has the same meaning as alertness, attentiveness, and watchfulness. Therefore, I will first focus on vigilance in terms of research. hospital staff, such as doctors and nurses, then I'll discuss alertness In terms of nurses aides, attentiveness when it comes to social workers and case managers, and watchfulness when it comes to hospital environment. Next, I will describe how intuition can influence in the recovery of a patient and how a patient's cooperation is important in his or her own recovery.

Furthermore, I will highlight the communication aspect in the whole process of vigilance during the hospital stay of a loved one. And two sets of examples will be provided as practical guys that might help with similar or even different case scenarios. I shall then conclude with some final observations Let us start with research. One of the best ways to fight a disease is being motivated by your care, love, affection and respect for your loved one and by doing some research, and use scientific skills to help for a quick and healthy recovery of your loved one. This research could be on the cause of illness, diagnostic methods, treatment options, such as the latest ones, or prognosis, so on and so forth. The most common way, of course, is to do a simple Google search on a particular illness or condition that can provide us with some tons of data or information.

Yahoo Answers is also very popular website forums allow for a platform where experiences are shared from those suffering from the same or similar illness and by relatives of the patients. However, the obvious word of caution in this case is that Google search engine results have been sorted out according have to be sorted out according to reliable sources and in the context of the patient situation. websites such as the Mayo Clinic Web MD and the Center for Disease Control, or CDC, as we call it, in short, can be clustered more than some of these.com websites. research articles published in peer reviewed journals should also be useful. One good source For that is PubMed. Research Papers will use scientific jargon.

However, they will provide us with an understanding of the basic mechanism of diseases and inform us of how a treatment can be sorted out, or a new diagnostic tool that is being tested will be explained more in the research article. The use of statistics and sampling size will help us understand how reliable the articles are. clinical case studies are interesting because they are unique and focus on an individual basis. They are usually cases that do not follow the so called rules learnt in medical school and do not go by the book and therefore, they tend to be interesting Doctors on a personal note, the care and attention given to hospital admitted patients in the US is truly amazing. There are different doctors that read the patient once he or she comes to the hospital. The first one is the admitting ER doctor who may visit the patient.

Once he's admitted in the hospital, that is once the patient gets a bed and a room The first one is the admitting ER doctor. The hospital is the main doctor responsible for the care of the patient once the patient is in a hospital room. When the situation of the patient becomes so grave that he or she's in danger of survival. The ICU doctor can admit the patient to the ICU To you, the on call doctor is or should be present in the hospital which actually may not be the case, but will be called when required. surgeons and specialists come to visit when there is a need for either a surgery or a clinical specialist consultation. However, I have noticed that the routine schedule of doctors visiting the patients to set times either in the early or late morning hours and more in the evenings.

Sometimes patients may show signs and symptoms that need to be brought to the doctor's attention during a time when the doctor is not present. And that is worth mentioning to the doctors. However, not all nurses are willing are smart are a dial and sensitive to pass on the relevant messages to the doctors. Most of the time, the nurses reaction is to tell the relatives to inform the doctor the following morning or when they meet with the doctor. However, if time is of the essence then it bears on us as patients, relatives and friends to pursue the matter on behalf of the patient. Nurses.

While it is good to know that the medical community does its best in improving the lives of patients in the hospital, one should be aware of several aspects of interaction with nurses. Nurses take care of the patient. And as they do, they can do some procedures and administer medications. They have very limited authority to change medications in the treatment care of patients without the doctor's permission for a good clinical reason. If you do not see the doctor, you can always send a message through the nurse this can be considered an indirect communication. Nurses are also the ones that can refer a request to a nurse manager such as a request for physical therapy or occupational therapy, or for other requests that cannot be done by the duty nurse.

Now one of the many aspects to observe about nurses is their schedules. In the United States, nurses in the hospitals tend to work four hour shifts three days a week or so. I have observed that the change in shifts occurs in the mornings around 7am. This is important to know since patient family members and friends who are visitors who come to visit that is around that time could expect a delay in the relay of information about the patient's status during the night before. This is mainly because they will have to fill all the information in the computer and pass on the main information on the patient to the next shift nurse. However, I think this is a vulnerable time as patients conditions need to be continuously monitored.

Again, this would be a time that is in it would be a time that it is incumbent on us as family members and loved ones to inform or bring to the attention of the medical staff have any unusual events. Now finally nurse managers, nurse managers can help in setting up therapy for the patient while he or she is in the hospital. But they can also be called If the nurse is not able to fulfill some requests, any concerns and comments or complaints can also be addressed to the nurse managers. With this, we conclude this the first part of the course.