Information technology transforms healthcare services. However, the integration of information technology into existing healthcare systems has been challenging. This course has helped me to understand how healthcare workers and their organizations ca Continue Reading...
Care for Diabetic Foot Ulcers in Long-Term Care Residents Diabetic foot ulcers are chronic wounds that negatively affect the morbidity, mortality and quality of life of diabetes patients. Diabetic patients who develop foot ulcers are at greater ris Continue Reading...
Salary Inequities for Nurses in Florida Inequities in Nurses' Salary Schedules In the decade between 2004 and 2014, the estimated number of open positions for registered nurses was anticipated to be 2.1 million. This number reflects both attrition Continue Reading...
nursing practice, the author demonstrated how outcomes research is becoming an efficient method of determining intervention effectiveness and success in the healthcare practice and setting. Resnick's article focused on describing the procedure of ou Continue Reading...
Verbal intervention is the first thing to try, and can often be effective for many standard situations if it is approached with patience and true compassion and understanding (Mohr 2008). At the same time, keeping space between the person intervenin Continue Reading...
Response to Peer Discussion PostIn the present write-up, my colleague opted to focus on RN retention. As my colleague points out, the demand for nurses has been on an upwards trend in recent times. This is largely true owing to the aging nurse workfo Continue Reading...
Sand-Jecklin, K., & Herman, J. (2014). A Quantitative Assessment of Patient and Nurse Outcomes of Bedside Nursing Report Implementation. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 23(19-20), 2854-2863. This particular research piece is quantitative in nature. Continue Reading...
Moreover, a nursing externship will allow me to better synthesize what I have learned. By seeing the concepts I have learned applied in a hospital or clinic setting, I will be able to put that knowledge into its proper context. As well, when I go b Continue Reading...
Care Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Care Primary Care Primary care, also called the medical care, is the first point of contact between the patient and the health care unit, which can be an office or clinic (Timby, 200). The patient visits healt Continue Reading...
Dorothea Orem Nursing Theory A theory is related concepts, and propositions used to guide a professional practice. Moreover, nursing theory serves as the interrelated concepts, predictive in nature, statement explanatory that assists in understandi 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...
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...
Philosophy of NursingIntroductionThe nursing metaparadigm is of major importance in nursing, and its concepts should intersect with the philosophy, mission, vision, and values of a healthcare organization. In this paper, I examine that metaparadigm a 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...
Reflection Paper on the Collaborative Nurse-Client Relationship Introduction The collaborative nurse-client relationship (CNCR) is vitally important in achieving high quality of care in the field of nursing. However, as Feo, Rasmussen, Wiechula, Conr Continue Reading...
Leadership for Advanced Practice Nursing 1 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...
Ida Jean Orlando 1926- Theory of the Nursing Process Discipline The Deliberative Nursing Process Theory was developed by Ida Jean Orlando and consists of the five stages of assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. The domain Continue Reading...
One of the most important elements towards developing necessary skills and competencies in the nursing field is shadowing a practitioner in a healthcare setting or unit. The shadowing experience helps in observing how a nurse practitioner applies nur Continue Reading...
Quality of Care Provided by Nurse Practitioners The use of nurse practitioners in providing primary care services has increased in the recent past as the number of trained NPs also increases. This study focuses on examining the cost-effectiveness a Continue Reading...
NP "role" definition A nurse practitioner is any independent certified nursing care provider who offers primary, specialty, or both primary and specialty, nursing services in long-term, ambulatory and acute care settings. NPs are engaged i 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...
Health Care Economics Monopsony power is defined as a situation where there is only a single buyer in the market (Investopedia, 2014). In a monopsony situation, all of the bargaining power rests with the buyer, such that the seller is a price taker, 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...
Nursing as Art and Science: History and TheoryRelationship between Nursing History and Theory DevelopmentHistorical nursing figures, such as Florence Nightingale, laid foundational work for modern nursing practices and theories. Nightingales emphasis Continue Reading...
My Nursing PhilosophyEvery nurse has a philosophy that guides her approach to care. Even if the nurse is not consciously aware of her personal philosophy, there is always some underlying construct in the nurses mind that helps her cope with split-sec 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...
Introduction Senior nursing staff ought to aid peers in their career development through helping them practically employ theoretical knowledge and promoting testing of novel skills within an encouraging, safe work climate. This illustrates a combinat 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...
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...
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...
Knowledge Through Lifelong Learning Nursing is a field that is constantly evolving because of several factors, especially the ever changing needs of patient populations. As a result, lifelong learning is one of the most important elements of nursing Continue Reading...
Professional Responsibilities The practice of nursing has continued to evolve over the years given rapid societal changes, emergence of new diseases, and constant technological developments. Since the 1900s when nursing practice was characterized by 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...
Quality of Care Provided by Nurse Practitioners Cost and quality of healthcare access are two inter-related concepts that are central to the healthcare debate in the United States of America. The study will compare the effectiveness of quality and 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...
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP), Research, and Quality Improvement (QI) in Nursing Evidence-Based Practice (EBP), Research, and Quality Improvement (QI) in Nursing PracticeAbstractThis paper differentiates Evidence-Based Practice, Research, and Quality Continue Reading...
A summary of the issue and the middle-range theory that could be used There has been a disturbing trend of both surplus and shortage of nurses at different times throughout the healthcare workforce history in the US. There was a nursing shortage in t Continue Reading...
Introduction What causes staffing shortages in the field of nursing? Staffing shortages can be the result of many variables—turnover, unmet demand for services due to a lack of RNs, overwork (nurses calling in sick), and so on. Buchan (2002) i Continue Reading...
Introduction In the American civil war era, “nurses” were largely upper- and middle- class white-American females. The profession of nursing was yet to be instituted, with a majority of individuals who assumed the nursing role being requi Continue Reading...
