Mandatory Continuing Nursing Education There is a rapid expansion of techniques and knowledge in the field of health. Researchers James Morrison, James Kelly and Carl Lindsay have approximated that the half-life of knowledge gotten in school of medi Continue Reading...
nursing program to a BSN program Over the years, promotion of nurses' higher education has been a focus of national reports. One of several reasons for this is growing evidence tying improved performance with continued education. Another factor is Continue Reading...
Leadership and Management The issue at hand is nursing turnover and nursing shortage. There are many areas of the country where there are chronic nursing shortages. Using a situation like this can be an effective means of illustrating the differenc Continue Reading...
Technology in Healthcare: Ethical ConcernsThe integration of technology in healthcare, particularly in ambulatory care and home health settings, has been helpful in enhancing patient care. However, this advancement also brings with it a range of ethi Continue Reading...
Building Linkages Between Nursing Care and Improved Patient Outcomes: The Role of Health Information Technology Health IT (HIT) is capable of transforming care quality and establishing connections between patient outcomes and nursing care. This arti Continue Reading...
Narrative AnalysisThis paper is designed to provide a narrative analysis of the Family Nurse Practitioner program and how I have adapted the program outcomes to my professional expertise within the field of healthcare. This paper will also identify h Continue Reading...
Personal Healthcare Technology Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center and the Sunrise Children's Hospital The Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, which includes the Sunrise Children's Hospital, is an approximately 55-year-old facility located in Sout Continue Reading...
One proven solution to decrease medication errors is use of medication software such as CPOE. It has significantly reduced errors in prescribing, transcription, and dispensing of medications (Hidle). It also has the potential to decrease errors in Continue Reading...
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Electronic patient information has witnessed a gradual rise in usage. Several factors need to be considered before establishing an electronic patient information system in a medical centre. Due to the fact that nurses t Continue Reading...
Evolution of Nursing Roles in an Enlarged National Health Care System The Affordable Care Act enables the provision of health insurance to 30 million people above the coverage figures prior to the enactment of the law. Because of this precipitous r Continue Reading...
Building a More Effective Workplace With Information Technology The purpose of this essay is to explain and identify the role of information technology in improving patient care outcomes. This essay will explain why incorporating these types of skil Continue Reading...
Competencies of IOM The Institute of Medicine is an American organization founded in 1972 with the aim of training health workers, unlike other medical organizations aimed at profit making. As a non-profit organization, IOM has made remarkable prog Continue Reading...
Family Assessment Description of Family / Genogram Profile of Family The 'T' family has been chosen for the completion of this assignment. Mr. T is the 95-year-old patriarch. His wife and mother of their two children is Mrs. T, 92 years of age. Th Continue Reading...
The goal of any hospital is to provide the best quality care that they can at the least expensive cost possible. The way that they do this is by having the right staff in place to care for patients in the most effective way. Scheduling has notoriou Continue Reading...
" (Doukas, Maglogiannis and Kormentzas, 2006) The following illustration shows the evaluation Platform Architecture. Figure 3 The Evaluation Platform Architecture Doukas, Maglogiannis and Kormentzas (2006) state that the patient state vital signs Continue Reading...
The variability in problems faced by the King Edward Hospital NHS Trust during the period in question, instigated a multi-level response in knowledge sharing and inclusion on practice. Kotter's theory relies upon such a method, where strategies are Continue Reading...
medication errors by nurses. There are six references for this paper. Health care professionals are responsible for the welfare and safety of their patients. One of the most dangerous and preventable mistakes a nurse can make is a medication error. Continue Reading...
Translational ResearchCurrent Nursing Practice in the Healthcare Setting Requiring ChangeThere are numerous areas within nursing that demand change in everyday healthcare practice. More often than not, irrespective of the healthcare setting, an inven Continue Reading...
Translational ResearchCurrent Nursing Practice in the Healthcare Setting Requiring ChangeThere are numerous areas within nursing that demand change in everyday healthcare practice. More often than not, irrespective of the healthcare setting, an inven Continue Reading...
Ethical Scenario: Skills as a Nurse Practioner Nurses and other health care suppliers are the ones that are continuously confronted to make ethical choices in regards to things like life and death matters in giving out care to individuals, communiti Continue Reading...
Systems Theory- Nursing One of the major issues in nursing is the international shortage in staffing of health care professionals. This shortage negatively affects the quality as well as the sustainability of the entire nursing service, as well as t Continue Reading...
Evolution of Nursing and Healthcare Informatics Those working in the field of healthcare delivery have long recognized the importance of obtaining and recording accurate data during their course of their interaction with a patient, from the physica Continue Reading...
opportunity to work at a nursing home, offering my support during physical, occupational, and speech therapy sessions. These sessions offered insight into diverse types of therapy. I worked with a range of different health care workers and specialis Continue Reading...
Critical Thinking in Nursing Education For far too long nursing has been seen as a profession that requires compassion along with obedience to the orders of doctors who were traditionally considered to be the "real" medical professionals. Nurses wer Continue Reading...
growing recognition of the changing educational needs of college students, particularly those attending community colleges. In response to this awareness, reform efforts have been implemented in order to meet the needs of students. As reform efforts Continue Reading...
The healthcare industry has widely adopted IT solutions in the development and maintenance of information systems for this sector. These information system applications will go a long way in boosting medical care goals by reducing costs significantly Continue Reading...
Healthcare Informatics: Tele-health technologies 1) Tele-health technologies represent a sub-division of healthcare information technology which aid in delivering long-distance health education, public health, clinical care, health administration and Continue Reading...
Psychiatric Nursing Education: Challenges and Solutions There is a growing demand for nursing professionals, with rapid proliferation of educational programs for nurses. Nursing education requires opportunities for 'hands-on' clinical practice, yet Continue Reading...
Community Nursing Community Health Nursing Community Nursing in Baltimore, MD Providing care to a few individuals in a hospital setting is a controlled environment that can be difficult but ends at a prescribed time. On the other hand community-ba Continue Reading...
A list of all of the residents was obtained from the two facilities as well as their admission dates. All of the necessary charts of eligibility were reviewed ads well as the data obtained from the Minimum Data Set (MDS) which were recorded by mean Continue Reading...
The reluctance to refer patients to specialists may also mean that nurses must practice more holistic, rather than specialized forms, of nursing. The desire for cost containment has resulted in many nurses assuming physician's duties, such as those Continue Reading...
Err is Human: Summarize how informatics has assisted in improving health care safety in your organization and areas where growth is still needed. The 1999 report "To Err is Human" shocked the medical establishment with its reports of high levels of Continue Reading...
The nurse must 'read' the patient's personality, and know whether acting firm or sensitive is the best way to deal with the individual. A nurse must always comport herself in a professional manner, but needs to take a different tone with a child vs. Continue Reading...
Communications Effective communications between doctors and nurses has always been a high priority in the medical field, especially in an arena such as a hospital, health clinic or hospice. Communicating effectively between the nurses and the doctor Continue Reading...
HITECH Legislation The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act is something that gives the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) with the power to create programs that will improve health care quality, s Continue Reading...
Taken in isolation, some of the new, minimally-invasive procedures are less expensive by far, when analyzed on a procedure-by-procedure basis, than previous significant surgical interventions, as demonstrated below: Procedure Cost Estimated durat Continue Reading...
