Status of Advanced Practice Nursing in Your State or Country The status of advanced practice nurses (APNs) in the United States has changed significant in recent years, and the scope of their practice now extends into areas that were previously not Continue Reading...
Structure and Process in Health Care Organizations and Health Care PolicyUnderstanding the relationship between health care organizations and policy has helped me to see how the quality and accessibility of health care services is shaped from the top Continue Reading...
As noted above, one of the most prominent leadership theories that has been applied to the nursing profession is transformational leadership. Properly applied and managed, transformation leadership can also be used to facilitate creativity in the w Continue Reading...
age of Florence Nightingale, and even before that, the nursing profession has undergone significant transformation. Nurses today are, in their own right, important caregivers with respect to patient wellness -- not simply an extension of the attendi Continue Reading...
The Affordable Care Act Bills (ACA) 2010 enactment significantly impacted the United States Healthcare System.Evolution of the Affordable Care ActWhen the ACA was launched in 2010, it was a period when the United States was recovering from a harsh re Continue Reading...
EMS and Advanced Quality Management Metrics It would be difficult to deny that EMS systems place a great deal of emphasis on responses time and this often serves as one of the primary metrics for performance. Such a metric is entirely reasonable giv Continue Reading...
advance directives. The writer explores what they are and possible solution to reduce problems with them. There were three sources used to complete this paper. The past few decades have seen an increase in law suits revolving around the final medic 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...
Health Delivery System Competencies Program Outcome #4: Evaluate the design, implementation, and outcomes of strategies developed to meet healthcare needs (MSN Essentials). Nursing leaders are in a good position to facilitate the evaluation and imp Continue Reading...
Community Nursing Practice Model For a long time, community nursing has been an issue of major concern to most health care sectors. Values are based on the model for providing grounding for the nursing practice. The transcendent values include carin Continue Reading...
Filling the Gap Wisely Nurse Practitioner Workforce There is no question that healthcare costs have been weighing heavy on policy makers, especially with an aging 'baby-boom' generation and passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 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...
Diversity Management and Nursing Leadership Philosophy In the last two decades, influx of nursing professionals from the different part of the world into the United States has created a diversity work environment within the health organizations. The Continue Reading...
Inadequate Staffing in Nursing Explain the nursing/patient care concern, problems, issues observed at the senior level clinical practice During the past decade, there certainly has been a rapid decline in quality patient care in the healthcare indu Continue Reading...
Social Media Impacts on Nursing As technology advances in the medical profession have proven to have great benefit, this trend has also been seen in society in general. The interwoven aspects of human's ability to function and his or her ability inc Continue Reading...
Student success a - endeavor. The student give 100% instructor provide students a 100%. The student responsibility prepared learn material assigned, turn assignments time, pay attention taught discussed, questions needed. I agree that the process o Continue Reading...
Drug Testing Policy at Northern Lights Nursing School Because student nurses should be fully engaged with their academic and clinical preparations for employment the healthcare field, their sobriety should be assured and their cognitive abilities sh Continue Reading...
Hayes, E. (2007). Nurse Practitioners and Managed Care: Patient Satisfaction and Intention to Adhere to Nurse Practitioner Plan of Care. Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. 19 (2): 418-26. Personal Response: At the heart of healt Continue Reading...
Manuscript Discussion The Grade Experience of Online Nurse Practitioner Students Who Took More Than One Clinical Course Per Quarter The shortage in primary care physicians has increased the demand for nurse practitioners (NPs). Online NP programs a Continue Reading...
H.R.1247 -- Improving Veterans Access to Quality Care Act of 2015 The Improving Veterans Access to Care Act (H.R.1247) sponsored by Representatives Sam Graves (R-MO) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) (hereinafter alternatively "the Act"), is intended to red Continue Reading...
Life Care Difficult Situations as a Nurse Practitioner The scenario for the nurse practitioner centers on Angela Smith and her family. Angela is a 55-year-old who suffered a stroke and admitted after neighbors noticed some really odd behaviors. Th Continue Reading...
Curriculum Development in Nursing Education Knowledge and Skills Curriculum Development Issue in Nursing Education, Knowledge and Skills Nurses make use of wide-ranging theories, models, knowledge and skills in nursing practice. Both their skills a Continue Reading...
Ethical Issue One of the most important ethical issues in nursing is how to approach end-of-life care. Nurses have a duty to provide compassionate care in ways that respects the individual’s autonomy and dignity. As patients live longer due to Continue Reading...
How Registered Nurses can Help Prevent Urinary Tract Infections Background and Context Concepts, models and theories Today, catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) remain one of the primary causes of nosocomial infections in the United Continue Reading...
Culture Care Universality and Diversity Leininger conceptualized the theory of care was developed in the 1950s and provided a way to bridge a culture and nursing care. "Leininger theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality" (Garmon 2011 p 1) Continue Reading...
Running head: Quality of Care in the emergency department provided by nursing practitioners Quality of Care in the emergency department provided by nursing practitioners 5Quality of Care in the Emergency Department provided by Nursing PractitionersDu Continue Reading...
Practicum Project Description: Documentation Speed Improving patient documentation is critical. On a patient-by-patient basis, it can improve individual care, since what cannot be measured cannot be improved in terms of the patient’s overall he Continue Reading...
Editor Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2201 Sweeney Drive Clinton, Pennsylvania 15026 Dear Sir or Madam: This letter is in response to an article that appeared in your newspaper on July 13, 2016 by the president of the Pennsylv Continue Reading...
nursing organizational chart obtained was from this website, http://Hospitals.unm.edu/nursing/. UNM has a Nursing Division meant to solve and identify the most significant questions concerning human health within the community, through care, servic Continue Reading...
The Nursing Home Community: A Critical Ethnography A nursing home is a community of care ideally designed to provide seniors with a safe and supportive environment in which to receive around-the-clock evidence-based healthcare and ancillary services. Continue Reading...
Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 2000 certainly had noble intentions and safeguards. Indeed, there is a definitive reason why physicians are allowed a certain set of rights and responsibilities and why nurse practitioners are just a little further do Continue Reading...
NONPF Leadership Competencies The National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) is an organization that specifically focuses on promoting high-quality education for nurse practitioners. The organization has continued to experience tre Continue Reading...
Diabetes Foot Care Qualitative Research Critique: Diabetes Foot Care Sue Flood (2009) saw a need to examine the nurse-patient interaction in relation to diabetes foot care outcomes, in part because at least one health care organization (Agency for Continue Reading...
New York Times describes how R.J. Reynolds Tobacco was found guilty of breaking its agreement to market cigarette products only to adults. The judge found that the company had pursued an advertising strategy aimed at promoting youth smoking. Importa Continue Reading...
Organizational Analysis -- Hope Hospice Advanced Organizational Analysis - Hospice As a nonprofit, Hope Hospice has undergone a tremendous evolution from a small agency to a major presence in south Florida. What is perhaps most remarkable is the a Continue Reading...
