Example sentences of "patients ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past they have been made implicitly by the providers , although general practitioners may have adjusted their referral patterns based on knowledge about their patients ' preferences and clinical practice in given hospitals . |
| 2 | Freud , however , did not hold this view and hoped to find the true root of his patients ' hysteria . |
| 3 | maintaining a safe environment : patients ' problems and related nursing |
| 4 | As has been implied from the comments made , the nurse 's ability to identify patients ' problems with the AL of maintaining a safe environment which result from impairment/loss of the senses , to a great extent depends on an ability to be imaginative and empathetic . |
| 5 | Communicating : patients ' problems and related nursing |
| 6 | Against the background of the general discussion in the first part of this chapter , the remainder of this section highlights some types of patients ' problems related to communicating and the relevant nursing activities . |
| 7 | There are countless other examples but the above should serve to alert nurses so that they can prevent patients ' problems in this area . |
| 8 | Sometimes it is incorrectly assumed that listing patients ' problems precludes inclusion of psychiatric diagnosis . |
| 9 | Because of the immediate nature of such patients ' problems it is important that whatever form of help is offered should be available without too much delay , and for this reason health-centre-based therapists may be of particular value , as has been shown in the case of psychologists ( Robson et al. 1984 ) and social workers ( Shepherd et al. 1979 ) . |
| 10 | Discrimination learning is especially important for nursing practice as nurses are constantly faced with distinguishing between one set of conditions and another in the form of signs and symptoms , in the form of differences in kinds of equipment and their use , and in the form of differences in patients ' problems and needs . |
| 11 | Drs Smith and Bothwell appeared to represent a minority view amongst our sample ; most of the respondents appealed to a different set of work orientations which emphasised personal involvement with patients ' problems , ‘ family doctoring ’ and continuity . |
| 12 | He found that he was able to identify the causes of patients ' problems , especially the small , less obvious ones which other prosthetists might miss or regard as trivial . |
| 13 | A few people found that being disabled had the effect of trivialising patients ' problems . |
| 14 | Dr Mumby , supported by his staff , said that he always asked patients ' permission before giving their names to journalists . |
| 15 | Although no independent assessment of quality of life was performed in these patients , from the objective assessment of exercise capacity and left ventricular function in each case combined with the full time employment of most of the long term surviving patients , the patients ' answers to a simple telephone questionnaire were probably accurate and did not reflect any inappropriate bias . |
| 16 | Hospital tea , hospital phones , hospital Kit-Kat dispensers , corridors , lifts , bedpans , other patients ' progress , other patients ' parents , and suddenly , one day , you turn a corner and he 's sitting up . |
| 17 | The patients ' parents gave their informed consent to the study . |
| 18 | It may mean that a neonatal intensive care unit , after careful reflection , rather than emotional appeals and ‘ shroud-waving ’ , may have to give way to a number of other services , relating , for example , to the mentally ill , all of which can be financed for the cost of one such unit , which , in combination , will facilitate a measure of improvement in the patients ' conditions and their integration into society . |
| 19 | Once again where the patients ' conditions are changing rapidly , in general , more time will be required . |
| 20 | For example , it is suggested that : " The rooms should be grouped in a simple manner , easy for patients and visitors to find their way around ; the whole building should be on one level and should look as far as is possible both externally and internally like a house not a hospital : there should be a clearly defined main entry/exit point for patients , staff , visitors and supplies which should have a ramped approach and in which the main door should be lockable : WC and washing compartment should be shared between pairs of single bed rooms and should be readily accessible to the sitting and dining rooms ; the bathroom should be readily accessible to both day and night areas ; the WC and the bathroom should be equipped for wheelchairs and standing users : the sitting and dining rooms and the external enclosure should be accessible by wheelchair : rooms should be differentiated in colour and finish while remaining domestic in scale and character : an informal , welcoming and comfortable reception/waiting area is required at the entrance to provide shelter and waiting spaces for visitors : the area between main entrance and sub-section entrances is likely to be an extensive area of circulation and will be the hub of the building but it could also be , spaciously , rather than an enlarged corridor , a positive amenity and focus if designed as a conservatory , for example , to contain plants or even birds and fish providing a stimulus to patients ' visitors and staff , and , finally : the safe external enclosure ( to which I referred earlier , ) should take the form of a walled garden matching the materials of parent buildings , suitably softened with appropriate planting . |
| 21 | But most of the patients ' notes are marked ‘ Not for Resus ’ ! |
| 22 | In addition to dispensing , community pharmacists could offer the same range of services as their hospital counterparts : they could screen and recommend new products to prescribers , analyse prescribing patterns , and ensure safe and appropriate drug therapy since they would have access to patients ' notes . |
| 23 | Receiving new patients ' notes from FHSAs |
| 24 | The patient 's charter states that general practitioners should receive new patients ' notes from their family health services authority within six weeks of requesting them . |
| 25 | Now that we had decided to refer to the team leader ( who would be the care manager ) we devised a simple referral form and agreed that all communications with and from social services would be made in writing and filed in our patients ' notes . |
| 26 | Shelley was putting her drawer of patients ' notes in alphabetical order , but she looked up from her work to ask quietly , ‘ Do you care for Dr Rafaelo ? ’ |
| 27 | Nobody can have any faith in Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley who says that the NHS needs good managers to get patients ' waiting lists down . |
| 28 | Psychiatric social workers work with doctors , obtaining reports on the patients ' home situation and helping patients retain contact with the outside world . |
| 29 | While in hospital , because of the long-term nature of the disorder , patients ' morale deteriorates and normality is lost . |
| 30 | The effect upon the patients ' morale is absolutely tremendous . |