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(3) Goal 13A states that the means for patients and their families should be defined and communicated in regards to reporting of concerning about safety and that encouragement should be provided for them to follow through on this.
(4) Goal 15 stat Continue Reading...
Depression in Adolescents
Roughly nine percent of the population - an estimated 18.8 million Americans -- suffers from depressive disorders, illnesses that affect the body as well as the mind.
The effects of depression are magnified in children, wh Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples
1. The Impact of Nurse-to-Patient Ratios on Care Quality:
This essay would explore how different nurse-to-patient ratios affect the quality of care provided in healthcare settings. It could investigate outcomes r Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples
1. The Role of Personalized Medicine in Creating Effective Treatment Plans:
Explore how the integration of personalized medicine, including genetic profiling, can lead to more targeted and effective treat Continue Reading...
Quality and Sustainability Paper
Introduction
Quality and safety are paramount for patients experiencing illness and seeking treatment. The role of the nurse is complex, requiring effectiveness, efficiency, compassion, and understanding. Some aspects Continue Reading...
Open Versus Closed Systems Perspectives: Healthcare Processes
According to Zakus & Bhattacharyya (2007), one of the great paradoxes of modern healthcare is despite the “availability of many cures, treatments, and preventive measures” Continue Reading...
How can Deci and Ryan's (2008) self-determination theory assist individuals in their personal or professional goals?
Deci & Ryan’s (2008) self-determination theory is a theory of motivation that can help individuals set and achieve per Continue Reading...
Evidence-Based Design in Healthcare Facility Planning
This Letter to Stakeholders aims to help the recipients appreciate the importance of evidence-based design in the planning of Healthcare Facilities.
Dear Sir / Madam
I feel happy to share with Continue Reading...
Education of Hemodialysis-Dependent Patients Concerning the Use of Phosphorus Binder in Lieu of Dialysis during Emergencies
Clinical Leadership Theme:
The clinical leadership competency/role and/or magnetism thread that is the framework for this p Continue Reading...
Discharge Education to Promote Self-Efficacy in Heart Failure
An Education Intervention For Patients With Heart Failure
Management of congestive heart failure (CHF) continues to be a financial burden on the economy of the United States of America ( Continue Reading...
Pharmacy Application
Thank you in advance for your consideration of my application to enroll in pharmacy school in Canada. Currently I am in the third year of university as an honours biochemistry major. I am twenty years old and I speak three lang Continue Reading...
2010). A complaint with many people who utilize this data is about the data entry with many particularly against the quality. ETO-HMIS boasts of fast implementation and transfer of data which puts them way ahead of any competitors. It is particularl Continue Reading...
Health Care Communication
As the nation's health care resources become more and more strained, health care professionals are being asked to do more with less. They are being pressured to find cheaper ways to improve the quality of health care they d Continue Reading...
Medical Abbreviations
How can eliminating abbreviations reduce errors?
In the medical profession, time is everything. To make documentation as expeditious as possible, a series of abbreviations have been accepted in records. This has been considere 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...
Political Structure in Obamacare
ObamaCare is a law that the President Obama is extremely passionate about. He built a big part of his political career around healthcare reform. This law will allow millions of Americans who cannot afford health insu Continue Reading...
Addiction in Nursing
Both alcohol and drug abuse are a serious issue plaguing the nursing profession. Drug abuse in nursing includes both illegal drugs and prescribed medications. Not only do they acquire these drugs from dealers on the streets, but Continue Reading...
Because consumers are administering their bank accounts, investments, and purchases online, and many turn to the web for gathering information about medical conditions and will expect the same level of control to be extended to online medical inform Continue Reading...
In 2002, "President Bush signed into law the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002, which, among other things, eliminated the need to convene an advisory committee to amend the list of diseases" listed as quar Continue Reading...
In all, a total of 5317 shifts were studied of which 2,057 shifts were for more than 12.5 hours. Within the 28-day period of the study two thirds of the nurses reported to have worked overtime 10 times or even more. There were a total of 199 reporte Continue Reading...
Health Systems Administration - Improving Patient Safety
Medical errors are responsible for the deaths of an estimated 48,000-98,000 patients each year. Such errors are estimated to cost more than $5 million per year in a large teaching hospital, an Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples
1. The Impact of Electronic Health Records on Nursing Workflow:
This essay could analyze how the adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) has transformed the nursing workflow. It can explore benefi Continue Reading...
Decision Making in Clinical SettingsIntroductory Information about Interprofessional Engagement in Shared Decision-Making Definition of interprofessional engagement. Although no universal definition exists, interprofessional engagement can be regarde Continue Reading...
Background
Located in Bronx, New York’s Norwood section, Montefiore Medical is a teaching hospital named after Moses Montefiore and affiliated with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In the top ten of NYC hospitals, it boasts a large and Continue Reading...
NURSING
INTERPROFESSIONAL TEAMS AND TEAM-BASED DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE
Specific qualities are possessed by the most effective team members. I possess many of those qualities but need improvement in one area in particular. Certainly, my nursing trai Continue Reading...
Hospital Evaluation Project
The world of healthcare is continually evolving. For professionals, this means that they must possess certain skill sets. In the case of graduate nurses, these issues are becoming more pronounced with the increasing deman Continue Reading...
Patient Safety Against Injurious Falls
Description
A White-Paper Testimony on Current Risks
With more than a thousand preventable deaths a day, the need to pay greater attention to improving current patient safety conditions and standards is unque Continue Reading...
ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS & QUALITY LEADERSHIP
Organizational Systems and Quality Leadership
Efforts to measure and improve the quality of nursing care provided to patients began with Florence Nightingale, who measured patient outcomes and worked Continue Reading...
Clinical Decision Support Systems:
Decision support systems were first developed and implemented in the corporate world in order to support business management. In the past few years, these support systems have been integrated into health care organ Continue Reading...
working of operating room nurses as a result of the nursing shortage and the general strain and intensity of the health care arena in general. Nurses in general fulfill a truly crucial role within the arena of patient care, these are the individuals Continue Reading...
Health Care Information Technology
Changes in health information technology
Healthcare and Information Technology
Information Technology (IT) can be briefly defined as "the branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommuni Continue Reading...
The master patient index (MPI) value was mainly liked by the personnel in the medical record section.
The Golden 90s
Equipped with MPI and record-keeping growth, software designers sustained to generate and progress with a new emphasis on individu Continue Reading...
Financial and Economic Impact of Worker's Compensation Regulations And Compliance
The program and concept of Workers' Compensation might appear to be a product of a civilized society and the modern era, but nothing could be further from the truth. I Continue Reading...
Another person reading this information might think, "Well, this sounds good but I don't think I can do it." This person feels sad and discouraged. So it is not a situation which directly affects how a person feels emotionally, but rather, his or he Continue Reading...
O'Meara stresses that a system known as a Decision Support System of DSS can be integrated into existing it to identify potential errors that could be made on any given case and provide the staff with flags to help them avoid such errors. (December Continue Reading...
For patients whose primary concern is a loss of language abilities due to loss of cognitive abilities therapies to help improve cognitive function will be combined with exercises that ask the patient to perform various language tasks. Speech and la Continue Reading...
Nursing
One need only read the newspaper "Classified" ads to realize that employers are trying many clever marketing tactics to attract prospective nurses into their organizations. Many are offering sign-on bonuses, extra benefits and other amenitie Continue Reading...
Healthcare Government Regulations
The role of government regulatory agencies and government regulations in general is particularly important in health care. The reasons for this are many, but the most important of those reasons is that health care d Continue Reading...
Nursing Leadership and Management
Introduction
Nurse handoff communication during shift change is one of the most frequent, though key, nursing duties which provides the basis for delivering safe, reliable care (Eggins & Slade, 2015). Study res Continue Reading...