997 Search Results for Healthcare and Nursing Practice Quality and Safety
EHR Database and Data Management
Database Management Approach
The issue to address is the negative effects of drugs. Adverse reaction to drugs is "a significantly unpleasant or dangerous response caused by an intervention that is linked with using Continue Reading...
Nurse-Patient Ratio on Care Quality
Nurse Patient Ratio
The Impact of Nurse to Patient Ratio on Healthcare Quality
The Impact of Nurse to Patient Ratio on Healthcare Quality
It would be hard to understate the importance of a high nurse to patien Continue Reading...
Healthcare Practices in Nursing Today
Over the last 50 years, health care systems all over the world have experienced rapid and significant changes. Some of these changes have been the result of innovative developments in medical science and techno Continue Reading...
Quality Evidence From Rickard, C.M., et al. (2012)
The objective of this study is to critically appraise quality evidence in the work of Richard, et al. (2012) which focuses on routine vs. clinically indicated replacement of peripheral intravenous Continue Reading...
The trust from volunteers on the research is set to bring about an understanding of the relevance of the study to the nursing environment. The participants will have a certificate of confidentiality, so they can have their identities and input towar Continue Reading...
Accreditation
According to the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), "accreditation is a nongovernmental process conducted by representatives of postsecondary institutions and professional groups. As conducted in the United States, accr Continue Reading...
The dilemma is often easier to resolve once those emotions and assumptions are put into their rightful context.
For this paper, critical thinking came into play was logic. It is understood that initially the nursing profession had issues with HIPAA Continue Reading...
Nursing Staff Levels Affect Patient Mortality
Managing unnecessary variability in patient demand to reduce nursing stress and improve patient safety.
Litvak, E., Buerhaus, P.I., Davidoff, F., Long, M.C., McManus, M.L. & Berwick, D.M.
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Family centered care is a noble belief deeming family members and health care staff as equal partners and working collectively to address the needs of the kid. Competency rises when a system synergizes as nurses and patient / family member's honors Continue Reading...
Healthcare Delivery Systems and Informatics
Meaningful Use (MU)
Under the HITECH Act (2009) financial incentives were offered to physician practices and hospitals who adopted certified electronic health record (EHR) systems and used this technolog Continue Reading...
Introduction
One of the main objectives of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion’s Healthy People 2020 campaign is to increase access to care for patients (ODPHP, 2018). However, with more and more primary care physicians leavin Continue Reading...
Introduction
Since 1986, the World Health Organization has promoted a Healthy Communities/Healthy Cities initiative, also known as the Alliance for Healthy Cities, with hundreds of participating municipalities across the world (Hancock, 1993; World Continue Reading...
The shortage of nursing staff remains a major challenge in the U.S. According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) (2014), the shortage is expected to be even greater in the next one decade or so. The shortage has been fuelled by Continue Reading...
Nursing Documentation
Importance of the Issue
Nurse need to keep the records and specific information about their patients. The services in the hospitals require that every detail of the patients be kept in the records. For patients whose condition Continue Reading...
Standardized Nursing Terminology
STANDARDIZED TERMINOLOGY TO COMMUNICATE NURSING INTERVENTIONS
STANDARDIZED TERMINOLOGY TO COMMUNICATE NURSING
Nursing practice is the fabric of patient care with threads running through nearly every patient experie Continue Reading...
Essentially, the book covers all the details of CTA methods, from examples and guidance to directions on how to study cognition in real-world settings and face the difficulties associated with rapidly evolving technology.
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ECMO
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation is a procedure that allows for the oxygenation of a patient through the use of an external machine. Oxygen is required in order to keep a body healthy and alive. The definition of oxygenation is the amount of Continue Reading...
How information and technology connect to patient care outcomes and a safe care environment
Explain why information and technology skills are essential for safe patient care.
Within the context of healthcare, Information and Communication Technology Continue Reading...
Nursing is a challenging profession where nurses take care of patients dealing with mental or physical illness. Nurses are the primary contact points for the patients since they are the ones who check patients' vital signs before giving them appo Continue Reading...
Effective Approaches in Leadership and Management
Nursing turnover is one of the most important issues facing the health care industry today. Turnover rates increase costs for health care facilities and decrease the quality of care for patients, as n Continue Reading...
As a student who had only just completed the first semester of the course, I had no experience with pediatric patients prior to the shadowing task. Thus, the nurse shadowing task was a rather exciting experience for me, exposing me to several new asp Continue Reading...
1. Discuss the concept of cost-based analysis. Provide an example of a program where it could be used to show outcomes.
The concept of cost-based analysis is delineated as the process for approximating all of the costs involved and the conceivable pr Continue Reading...
Workplace Harassment in Healthcare Settings
Nurses experience a wide range of abuses in the workplace including physical and psychological harassments and physical violence. Patients, patients’ families or friends, and coworkers can all precipi Continue Reading...
Hiring a Nurse Practitioner reduces wait times (overcrowding) in the Emergency Department
estimation of the ED (Emergency department) compromise with care afforded to patients because of overcrowding from the perspective of the provider of services. Continue Reading...
Advance Practice Roles in Nursing
The Main Roles Within Advanced Practice Nursing
Nurse Practitioners
They are charged with the responsibility to provide primary health care for clinics, hospitals and similar settings. They diagnose and treat comm Continue Reading...
Introducing Informatics Early in Nursing Education
Introduction
As Shackelford (2019) notes in “Industry Voices—Healthcare is Changing,” there is a serious need to reach future workforce members at an earlier age, before they ente Continue Reading...
Leadership for Advanced Practice Nursing
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Staffing is not the main issue in elevating or containing costs: the main issue is retention. High turnover rates in nursing can drive costs up, but proper staffing with an appropriate ratio of nurses to pat Continue Reading...
COURSE DEVELOPMENTCommunity Health Nursing Course DevelopmentPart ACourse OverviewBSN nurses must be prepared to practice and function effectively in a wide range of settings. Community health is considered an integral part of the public health secto Continue Reading...
Reeves, S., Macmillan, K., & van Soeren, M. (2010). Leadership of interprofessional health and social care teams: a socio-historical analysis. Journal of Nursing Management, 18(3), 258-
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2834.2010.01077.x
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Proposal for a Nurse Informaticist Role to Enhance Effective Communication and Improve Patient OutcomesNursing Informatics and the Nurse InformaticistNursing informatics is an area of healthcare that combines nursing expertise with information techno Continue Reading...
Case Scenario: Nursing EthicsHealthcare providers are in a profound position of trust in regards to the patients in their charge. In the case scenario, an ADN nurse and a transport tech were not sufficiently watchful of an elderly patient due to comp Continue Reading...
1997, the average pass rate for first time test takers on the NCLEX-RN was 93%. Since 1997, the national average pass rate on the NCLEX-RN has declined to 83.8% (National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, 2002). The pass rate for the state Continue Reading...
The four categories derived from the questionnaire are: Shared decision-making, Leadership and Safety, Well-being, and Professional development. The selected administration theories are: Innovation leadership, Transformational leadership, and Strateg Continue Reading...
Leading in a Complex, Evolving Environment
Introduction
Nurse leaders of today face a wide range of challenges in the execution of their mandate. It is important to note, from the onset, that to be able to effectively address some these challenges, t Continue Reading...
Mentorship has emerged as one of the most important aspects towards enhancing staff retention in the healthcare environment. This paper examines the need for developing a mentor program for Northwell health system. Northwell health system is currentl Continue Reading...
Health Literacy
CRITIQUE OF CONCEPT ANALYSIS (HEALTH LITERACY)
Significance of Concept to Presenter
Health literacy is very important to me because the concept is vital when it comes to health care in general specifically in nursing. It has a gre Continue Reading...
RESPONSE (INFORMATICS)Response (Informatics)AlexaAlexa points out that the relevance of informatics in nursing practice cannot be overstated. This is more so the case given that informatics come in handy in various aspects of healthcare such as resea Continue Reading...