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Improving Entropic Flow in Healthcare Organisations
Published in Lesley Kuhn, Kieran Le Plastrier, Managing Complexity in Healthcare, 2022
Lesley Kuhn, Kieran Le Plastrier
The link between health practitioner stress and quality of patient care is perhaps best expressed by West and Coia (2019), in their review of the factors that impact the wellbeing of medical students and doctors, ‘Caring for Doctors, Caring for Patients’. They conclude that ‘The wellbeing of doctors is vital because there is abundant evidence that workplace stress in health-care organisations affects quality of care of patients as well as the doctors’ own health’ (p. 12). The multiplicity of studies into the effects of stress on a range of different healthcare practitioner professionals suggests this insight might be expanded to ‘The wellbeing of healthcare practitioners is vital because there is abundant evidence that workplace stress in healthcare organisations affects quality of care of patients as well as the practitioners’ own health’.
Suicide in Doctors and Its Sequelae
Published in Clare Gerada, Zaid Al-Najjar, Beneath the White Coat, 2020
Suicidal thoughts are common. However, having such thoughts does not mean that a person will kill themselves.37 Suicidal thoughts can vary from fleeting ideas such as musing ‘I wonder what if…’ to strategically pre-meditated suicidal plans. The literature on suicidal thoughts does not discriminate between the two extremes. Having suicidal thoughts does not also necessarily mean that the individual is in a ‘pre-suicidal’ state. The skill of a healthcare practitioner is to try to determine the depth of their desire to die. Asking the individual ‘do you intend to kill yourself?’ is rarely helpful and not reliable in determining true suicidal intent. The intensity of suicidal fantasies is made more difficult by feelings of guilt and shame and the need for the individual to protect suicide as a means of escape. In addition, many doctors know how to give the right answers to mask their true feelings.
Rehabilitation and self-care
Published in Barbara Smith, Linda Field, Nursing Care, 2019
Helping people to keep fit and healthy helps them to stay mobile and independent. Many conditions can be treated and sometimes even prevented by the patient becoming more active. The role of the healthcare practitioner is crucial in aiding mobilisation by ensuring that patients have encouragement, support and access to information. Age need not be a barrier to taking up new sports or activities. Extend classes are available for older people in many parts of the UK. This is a nationwide initiative that trains teachers to give movement to music classes for older or disabled people. Details of these classes can be obtained through Age Concern.
Preconception care counselling among women with sickle cell anaemia in the south of Iran: a qualitative study based on social marketing model
Published in Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2022
Asiyeh Pormehr-Yabandeh, Teamur Aghamolaei, Zahra Hosseini, Nasibeh Roozbeh, Amin Ghanbarnezhad
The data gathering proceeded until all of the data had been collected. In addition, 5 key informants (family health professionals and healthcare practitioners) with more than 20 years of experience were interviewed. Four of them were in managerial positions, and one was a healthcare practitioner. Three of them had a bachelor's degree and one had a master's degree. The interviews focussed on how to overcome hurdles to preconception care program participation, how to support and promote preconception care consultation participation, and the sorts of interventions. Among the inclusion criteria were: cases diagnosed with sickle cell disease, the capability of communication, and intended pregnancy. Unwillingness to participate in the interview was among the exclusion criteria.
The potential impact of dietary supplement adulteration on patient assessment and treatment from a healthcare provider’s perspective
Published in South African Family Practice, 2019
A healthcare practitioner is a professional who practises medicine, restores health or maintains good wellness for the patient. In recent times these elements have been applicable to the self-preservation also of the practitioner’s health and wellness. The practitioner is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring better health condition through the study, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments. The important consideration in this paper is the obligation of the healthcare provider to conscientiously take into consideration, through appropriate and rigorous assessment, whether the patient has or consumes dietary supplements when introducing dietary—together with lifestyle—intervention, and where in particular medicine will be prescribed for treatment but not exclusively so.
A Novel Screening Tool for Assessing Child Abuse: The Medical Somatic Dissociation Questionnaire–MSDQ
Published in Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2019
Shir Daphna-Tekoah, Rachel Lev-Wiesel, David Israeli, Uri Balla
The development and description of the new measure enriches the existing literature (Wildschut, Langeland, Smit, & Draijer, 2014) and clinical practice in numerous and diverse ways. First, it offers a short scale, thereby facilitating saving of both time and resources. Second, it offers a multidimensional scale with three different subscales that are related to health and are correlated with victimization. We believe that the scores are sufficiently discriminatory and specific to assess a high level of somatic dissociation, which may often indicate CSA. However, it is important to note that the MSDQ should be used as part of a holistic, multidimensional evaluation done by professional practitioners. In addition, we encourage practitioners administering the MSDQ to further evaluate any patient who is assessed with the Questionnaire by directly asking about past trauma, such as child abuse and especially about CSA. We suggest that in instances of a high MSDQ score, appropriate psychotherapy should be offered, since the high score indicates significant distress. This process of scoring the patients’ physical complaints may enable the healthcare practitioner to offer appropriate treatment and refrain from further medical evaluations that may be uncomfortable for the patient and costly to the health system.