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Post Hospital Elder Life Program
Throughout my volunteering in the hospital elder life program (HELP), I was able to work with multiple patients who were experiencing delirium. This helped me realize that by orienting the patient, socializing with them, and ensuring the patient was getting adequate sleep, nutrition, and fluids delirium can be prevented. The HELP program provides a great opportunity to ensure a patient isn’t developing delirium and if the patient is, the volunteers in the program can notify the nurse so interventions can be implemented. The most meaningful part of my HELP volunteering experience was when I got to do a friendly visit with a patient who didn’t receive many visitors. This patient…
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Proposing Change
This is the Final Project Proposal for Clinical Group 8. Our project examines the use of oral care and how it is used to prevent tracheostomy infections. Our project outlines how education on oral care will be implemented and evaluate the effectiveness of the education. Authors are Brett Collard, Hanna Freeman, Grace Howard, Sophia Jones, Shannon O’Roak, Celine Pelton, and Rhiannon Regan. If there are any questions about this project, please contact myself, Shannon O’Roak, at @soroak Since researching and composing a project proposal, I have learned a lot about our topic, which is the affect oral care has on tracheostomy related infections. I always knew that oral care was…
