Prognosis: Looking To The Future

“Will there ever be a cure.” This quote was said by Tella Holloway from Fire and Flood. It was in hope there will ever be a cure for the mystrious disease Tella has. Her Parents are helpless trying to find out an imaginable remodies to cure her as in moving far away to get fresh air. The Puritans would despise the Novel “Fire and Flood” due to swearing, dress, and non sin free lives.

This disease has its own ways of revealing itself to doctors.

Healthcare is continuously advancing and a lot of these advances can be attributed to retrospective analysis and building on the analysis towards future practice. This form of analysis allows for the reviewal of many factors such as: (a) patient situations, (b) past practices, and (c) patient outcomes. Reflections of actions that have occurred in the past begin from the moment something has occurred, but it does not end there. When past events are viewed from the perspective of new skills and knowledge, great insight and growth can be harnessed to improve future patient care.

It helps the patient understand their disease prognosis (Matzo & Sherman, 2015). Although, each patient is unique in their disease progression, it is important for them to know general trajectories to help them in preparing themselves and their family for death. “If patients and their carers gain a better understanding by considering illness trajectories this may help them feel in greater control of their situation and empower them to cope with its demands” (Murray, Kendall, Boyd & Sheikh, 2015, pp. 1007).

In most cases a patient will go through a progression of symptoms leading to death (Glicksman). More than one hundred years ago, German Physician Alois Alzheimer, was doing a test on Auguste Deter. Deter was a patient who was hospitalized in the Mentally

AFTER A DIAGNOSIS OF A CHRONIC OR LIFE-LIMITING ILLNESS Among other experiences that cause an emotional injury to a person is a diagnosis of a chronic or a life limiting illness which is sometimes referred to as a terminal illness. A life limiting illness means that the illness cannot be cured and is likely to cause death within a limited period of time which can be weeks, months or years. A chronic illness may be long-term, not curable but can be managed. Such illnesses include diabetes, multiple sclerosis, autoimmune disorders and arthritis.

The model of the `tragic options` This model was developed by Guido Calabresi and Philip Bobbitt, and was published in their book Tragic Choices in 1978 [3]. The two authors have observed that when society is confronted with the need to allocate critical but insufficient resources, fundamental moral values enter in conflict with one another. According to this model, society chooses to disguise its justifications for difficult choices, of life and death, to avoid social conflicts over different values, conflicts that would paralyze society. For example, transplant organ allocation rules are developed in medical terms to give them an objective neutral charm, although in fact these rules reflect non-medical value judgments on the priority of some

When Larry said there might never be a cure for cancer, it’s disappointing but some people might need to know this and realize that there might never be. There might be come discoveries that can help prevent and help with the pain that cancer gives but again this can take time too and not everything will work for everyone the same way. I believe people should continue with the research to try

This diagnosis meant that I had a hope of getting better in the near future, but that hope was soon demolished by my body attacking itself in a new region.

If the individual is experiencing symptoms that is illness then there is something wrong with his/her body. He or she will then proceeds to the next stage which is illness delay. For example, if the individual is experiencing symptoms such as a lump on the breast then he or she would go through a period of trying to decide what the symptom might mean and then what to do about it.

The doctor said you only have months or weeks left to live. Are you going to try to battle against the illness or are you going to let death run its natural course? No matter the decision you choose, you should make sure you have a DPOA, living will, and have a conversation with your loved ones. Many people don’t fill out the paperwork or have these hard talks. Then, in their final days they realize they hadn 't talked much about the process of dying even though they knew the disease was progressing, and the end was coming.

Unfortunately, medical errors are one of the parts of the healthcare system. In general, medical error is defined as an action which leads to harm to a patient. On the other hand, medical errors can also be classified as errors of medical specialists or like drawbacks in healthcare system which can make patient diagnose and treatment more complicated. Despite the fact that definition of medical error is not determined properly, their classes, clauses and ways of prevention and correction are studied quite well. Analysis of reasons, types and consequences of medical errors is the main purpose of this work.

Most people will agree that a child should never have to go through an accident, a chronic illness, or even hospitalization because he or she is so young and innocent; however, it is a sad reality that children around the world are hospitalized daily for an assortment of medical reasons. Children who undergo hospitalization experience a loss of normalcy and autonomy. Oftentimes, children who are hospitalized are faced with difficult treatment plans that can disrupt his or her once seemingly normal life. Unfortunately, death is an actual possibility for some children who are hospitalized, which can be a difficult concept to grasp. The understanding of death varies by chronological age, personality, family situations, and developmental ages.

You’re lying there, suffering, living a life of pain and agony. You see your friends and family around you, worried, in tears, after hearing about your misery. You have no control over your body, it isn’t responding to you, your inner workings are slowly, but consistently declining. There is no answer, no cure for your disease. Even when the time is good, life is a struggle.

The medical records are required by federal, non-government and state and local agencies. The medical records assist in communication among health providers and other multidisciplinary team in nursing and health care settings. Thus, the provision of planning and implementing patient health care and other recommended treatment based on the information presented in the medical records. In the nursing perspective, the patient assessment, including the initial, shift assessment of the patient is a significant purpose of the nursing documentation.