who offers primary, specialty, or both primary and specialty, nursing services in long-term, ambulatory and acute care settings. NPs are engaged in the chronic or acute episodic ailment assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management. They are specialists in the areas of illness prevention and health promotion, and perform the tasks of ordering, performing, overseeing and interpreting lab and diagnostic tests, prescribing non-pharmacologic treatment and pharmacological mediators, and educating and advising their patients (American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 2015).
History of the Nurse Practitioner Role, in General
The demand for individuals providing primary care in the nation grew with the launch… Continue Reading...
Application: Systems Theory
Healthcare organizations provide nursing services centered on multiple theories. For instance, the Open Systems Theory established in 1978 by Katz and Kahn considers the healthcare organization as social systems divided into interconnected subsystems (Meyer & O’Brien-Pallas, 2010). Meyers and O’Brien-Pallas (2010) provide that these interrelated subsystems include outputs, throughputs, inputs, negative feedbacks and a cycle of events. The primary care hospital environment has various units that handle different cases including the intensive care, intermediate care, medical-surgery, emergency department (ED) etcetera. This paper delves into system theory in the emergency department, identify goals and… Continue Reading...
home and hospital care, outpatient treatment and home nursing services to individuals aged above 65 years (QIO News, 2014).
Numerous major attempts at quality improvement have been made in the last 50 years, largely initiated by academicians’ health quality campaign. Examples of such attempts are patient care delivery system reengineering and reorganization, incentivizing inter-institutional/provider competition, and peer review encouragement. Additional efforts were determination of medical procedures influencing patient health, performance assessment, offering rewards for good performance, penalizing poor performers, improving monitoring techniques, public quality data reporting, adopting swiftly-advancing quality improvement instruments, and professional medical education reform (Pearson &… Continue Reading...
