Rhetorical Analysis
Many people believe hospitals are one of the safest place to be when sick, injured, or in need of care. This article suggests hospitals have many risk factors that are taken into consideration during the care of a patient. Post truth is defined as one's opinion with reasoning, instead of a pure fact. People will still consider a hospital a very safe place, even though the risk factors can be very high. Pathos and logos are the main rhetorical component I will be focusing on. Majority of this article is based on reasoning and opinions. Logical and Ethical components are combined in this article about risk factors in nursing. The set-up on this website is very different than most websites. It has seven different sections, …show more content…
Under that first section, there are four different subsections titled Falls and Pediatric Inpatients Falls, Fall Risk Assessment Tools, Caregivers, and Aim. This website allows one to click on each of the sections/ subsections, and to go straight to their paragraphs. Under the first subsection, Falls and Pediatric Inpatients Falls, it talks about the authors and their opinion on falls. The authors are MD's in pediatric nursing. Hospitals are a very busy place to work, especially since they’re dealing with people all day. Many MDs and RNs have a ton of experience with dealing with healthcare and dangerous situations. I believe a hospital being considered a safe place is in greater focus rather than dangerous even with all the risk factors involved; simply because of all the experience within the building. “In terms of being an indicator of the quality of health care, many hospitals are trying to take all necessary measures to reduce falls that occur in hospitals.“ Hospitals are meant to keep the patient safe, and heal them.” I believe they wrote this article to inform everyone that hospitals are so strict because of the possibility that a child could fall and further injure himself. “Caregivers' attention, concentration, fatigue and sleep conditions, stress level and anxiety are the most important factors influencing inpatient pediatric falls. This makes caregivers the most important environmental factor associated with falls in hospitalized children.” Caregivers are known to keep a safe environment and to provide as much care as possible. This quote suggests that it’s hard for the caregiver to always be up to par due to stress and lack of sleep. They’re informing the reader that perhaps the falling risk factors aren’t the hospital itself at all, it’s the caregivers’ fault. Journal of Pediatric Nursing states that one shouldn’t blame hospitals for being unsafe, but should blame the caregiver for