996 Search Results for Quality Improvement and Nurses
Strategy to Improve the Performance of Jacobi Hospital / Implementation Plan for Jacobi Hospital
Potential Short- and Long-Term Financial Impact of HCAHPS Scores on Jacobi Hospital
Solid finances in the current period as well as progress and viabil Continue Reading...
Translational Research
Emphasis for the last thirty years has been on shifting nursing curricula out of hospitals to universities. The education of nurses is now increasingly leaning towards theory. This has led to an obvious gap between what is exp Continue Reading...
Healthcare Associated Infections: Critical Analysis
The prevention and control of healthcare associated infections is an issue that has attracted considerable attention across the globe given the increase of healthcare associated infections. Despite Continue Reading...
Electronic Medical Records
Over the years, with the technological development and digitalization of almost all the processes, there have been calls for the healthcare technology to be adopted in a wider sense of it. This has been mainly on the devel Continue Reading...
Nursing Profession: Nursing Education
Quality initiatives, magnet status, and patient safety require that nurses practice on the basis of professionalism at all times. Owing to the rapid changes in practice and knowledge facing the profession, the s Continue Reading...
ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING ROLES: NP vs. CNS
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Roles
The United States is home to nearly a quarter of a million advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs). Of these, the vast majority chose to pursue a Master of Sci Continue Reading...
MEDICAL NURSING Medical Nursing: PDCA Cycle (Time Management)The PDCA (plan, do, check, act) cycle is a useful management tool that helps a person create an effective approach for identifying problems and devising solutions (Wu et al., 2015). It is a Continue Reading...
Implementing Structured Contraception Counseling to Increase the Contraception Knowledge of Women of Childbearing Age Seen in a Private Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic: A Quality Improvement ProjectAbstractThis is an evidence-based project that is a Continue Reading...
QSEN Core Competencies: Application
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The story of Josie King is sad and very compelling. It reminds us of the relevance of our role when it comes to the improvement of outcomes in a healthcare setting. Despite having healed well, and due to be rele Continue Reading...
Family Health
When considering nursing practice for families, there is a tendency to think of the family as a static entity, existing as it is when first encountered -- and as frequently described in this paper. But families are not static; they evo Continue Reading...
Nursing InformaticsWhat is Nursing Informatics?Nursing Informatics (NI) unites nursing science, computer science, and information science in the management of data, information, knowledge, and ultimately wisdom and decision-making in nursing. The goa Continue Reading...
Quality Improvement: Complications and DeathsIntroductionThis quality improvement (QI) initiative focuses on reducing complications and deaths related to heart failure in a hospital setting. The two graphs provided illustrate the death rates for hear Continue Reading...
AbstractThe problem is extended wait times among paediatric patients at the selected Paediatric Emergency Department (PED). This is a result of failure by nurses and clinicians to effectively educate patients at discharge, which causes many patients Continue Reading...
Blood Pressure Monitoring of Hypertensive Veterans in Primary Care
Hypertension has been identified as one of the major public health issues in the United States. A significant portion of the American population has been diagnosed with this conditio Continue Reading...
Treatment of Heart Failure in Nursing Home Residents
Heart failure (HF) symptoms may occur because of systemic and pulmonary congestion, structural defects arising on account of HF, structural defects leading to HF, or from treatment complications. Continue Reading...
Health Disparity
Health disparities refer to a certain kind of health-related difference closely tied to economic or social disadvantage. They negatively impact groups of individuals systematically subject to greater economic and social barriers to Continue Reading...
Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators
Nurse Sensitive Quality Indicators
Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicator: Standard Technique Hand Washing
Reports of incidences of superbug infections in hospitals and highly infectious diseases in underdeveloped Continue Reading...
hospital community group with high incidence of diabetes and low literacy presents to the teaching efforts of a hospital nurse.
Description of the selected adult learner, learning topic and related hospital circumstances
I am a registered clinical Continue Reading...
They should accept accountability and responsibility for the decisions they make in their field and should protect the interests of patients by helping in the development of better healthcare policies at a local as well as national level.
Additiona Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples
1. The Role of Clinical Nurse Specialists in Healthcare Innovation:
This essay could explore how Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNSs) contribute to the innovation of healthcare practices. It would examine sp Continue Reading...
Introduction
Nurses are professionals and experts with the capability and responsibility to have an influence not only in the prevailing but also future healthcare delivery systems. Imperatively, the nursing line of work is founded on the skill of hu Continue Reading...
DNP today a clash of culture, power, politics or none of these?
When first instituted, the DNP (Doctor of Nursing Practice) degree was thought to address a very important deficit within the nursing profession, namely a need for greater preparation Continue Reading...
Applying "Ethical conflicts for new financial planners" to nursing
The healthcare industry is increasingly faced with demands that it operate more like a for-profit business with a careful eye upon cutting costs. Reviewing managerial concepts intend Continue Reading...
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Risk prevention policy in practice
The proposed study looks at lateral violence in U.S. healthcare institutions, through the scope of policy formation as it pertains to medical malpractice and organizational behavior in healthcare institutions. Continue Reading...
Creating and Driving Value
Now that we have determined which group of employees can have the greatest impact on patient outcomes, and thus represent key drivers of value within the organization, our next task is to decide what they can do to achie Continue Reading...
DNP 8000: Health Systems Development and Leadership Practice Immersion Experience - Self-AssessmentMy experience with the DNP 8000 course has been enlightening to say the least; for me personally I feel that I have been given a solid understanding of Continue Reading...
Quality Improvement ProposalHand hygiene compliance among healthcare providers is a critical issue in nursing organizations, particularly in acute care settings such as hospitals. Non-compliance with hand hygiene protocols can lead to the spread of h Continue Reading...
Health Problem SolutionPart 1To address the challenges faced by individuals with quadriplegia and co-morbidities who are medically fragile, the following intervention can be implemented:Leadership1. Establish a multidisciplinary team of healthcare pr Continue Reading...
NURSING AbstractThe growing needs of behavioral and mental healthcare have enforced the state regulation to rethink psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners across the country. The advanced practicing specialties need to be greatly emphasized in Continue Reading...
EHR System
Implementation Process of the EHR Change
In recent time, electronic health records (EHRs) have been carried out by a progressively greater number of hospitals across the globe. At the present moment, the small rural hospital will largely b Continue Reading...
Professional Development of Nursing Professionals:
Impact of IOM Report on Nursing Education:
One of the major contents of the IOM report on the future of nursing is the need for these professionals to attain higher levels of education and training Continue Reading...
role of an employee of a medical organization who is attending a general meeting with its management to discuss some changes regarding the Quality Assurance program due to the occurrence of a "never event." Here we will address the questions which w Continue Reading...
Veterans & Retirees; Is Government Keeping its Promise
This study aimed at exploring the experiences and perceptions of Veterans belonging to Lousiana and Mississippi about three variables; the accessibility of organization; the accessibility of Continue Reading...
(Worcestershire Diabetes: a New model of care Stakeholder event, 2007)
The continuum of care for the diabetic patient is shown in the following illustration labeled Figure 1.
Diabetes: Continuum of Care
Source: Worcestershire Diabetes: a New mode Continue Reading...
NURSING Nursing: Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal to Reduce Medication ErrorsMedication errors have been identified as one of the most significant issues causing high rates of adverse patient outcomes in healthcare. It has set the healthcare professio Continue Reading...
Success Implementation of electronic health information technology
There are a number of steps when considering the implementation of a new health information technology system. The government has an organization called HealthIT.gov, and they outline Continue Reading...