The doctor knows that he cannot be as effective as he once was, and the nurse no longer needs him to lead and guide her, so even the changing nature of their relationship on a personal level is important. On a professional level it is also signific Continue Reading...
Armstrong's findings additionally relate that due to previous research and the influence of perinatal loss on postpartum depression on partnered relationships. Armstrong states that differences in continued psychological stress between mothers and f Continue Reading...
According to the U.S.A. Today (Borenstein, 2007), the latest IPCC report states that within twenty years "hundreds of millions of people won't have enough water." And while safe drinking water may not be available to those millions of people, tens Continue Reading...
It brought continuity to the process of dying, and a way to deal with critical issues in a way everyone could understand. it's holistic because it takes the process of dying, coordinates the patient's care, and brings resolution to things often left Continue Reading...
Cultural Issues in End of Life Care In this age of increased social diversity the cultural aspects of end-of-life care have become increasingly important in the nursing profession. This importance is however complicated by technology and the cultura Continue Reading...
Florence Nightingale was born in 1820 in Florence, Italy, the daughter of a wealthy landowner who was involved in the anti-slavery movement. He saw that she was educated in the classics as well as math and science. At the age of 17, she felt that she Continue Reading...
NURS : Transition to Graduate Study for NursingAcademic and Professional Success Plan TemplatePrepared by:Hamzat Oshun, MSN, APRN, ANP-CThis document is to be used for NURS 6003 Transition to Graduate Study for Nursing to complete Assessments 1-4. Ju Continue Reading...
Introduction In order to deliver quality care to patients, care providers must be cognizant of the various strategies and methods that can be used to achieve care objectives. Researching, developing, and utilizing effective communication tools and st Continue Reading...
Emotional Intelligence and the Role it Plays in Project Portfolio Management One of the most important and essential qualities of leadership needed in today's multigenerational business world is Emotional Intelligence (EI). EI is a "people Continue Reading...
Provider Education for Chronic Pain Management Today, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is the largest healthcare provider in the United States and one of the largest in the world. In fact, fully half of the physicians in the United States rec Continue Reading...
Suicide: Duty of Care vs. Self-Care Social Work and the Duty of Care The social work profession aims at promoting social change, solving problems in human relationships, empowering and liberating individuals in order to enhance well-being (IFSW 200 Continue Reading...
As Epstein suggested earlier, there seems to be no downside to this process. James Colliver (2000) would disagree. He dismisses the assertions that favor the efficacy of PBL; his misgivings parallel Hmelo-Smith's earlier remarks. For instance, Coll Continue Reading...
Role of Information Technology in Promoting Lean Thinking/Practices in a Hospital: How it Helps Streamlining Processes Lean Thinking and Healthcare Lean thinking has evolved from well-known business management disciplines such as the Toyota Produc Continue Reading...
A recently enacted policy, however, enforces the use of a dogmatic and uncompromising ideological speech as a standard replacement of informed consent (Minkoff & Marshall, 2009). The policy requires a list of statements, considered "facts," whi Continue Reading...
The growing number of New Yorkers lacking health insurance has been a persistent concern of government as well as the public. (309) In contrast, the distribution of health care resources came to the fore more recently. The New York State Commission 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...
Watson's Theory Of Nursing Florence Nightingale taught us that nursing theories describe and explain what is, and what is not, nursing" (Parker, 2001, p 4). In nursing today, the need for such clarity and guidance is perhaps more important than at a Continue Reading...
Evidence Synthesis PaperBackground and SignificanceThe critical importance of caregivers cannot be overemphasized concerning providing care for people with chronic ailments and disabilities. Caregivers play a crucial role in end-of-life struggles. Th Continue Reading...
Chicago Public School (CPS) system is the most understaffed in Illinois, where throughout the state the average student to staff ratio is 11 to one. In the CPS system, it is 16 to one—16 students to every one teacher, and that is just going by Continue Reading...
Healthcare Philosophies of Christians and Shinto Followers Christianity approaches healthcare from a rather different perspective as compared to Shintoism. The contemporary Western worldview is generally termed 'dualism', which incorporates the idea Continue Reading...
Polit and Beck (2008) Evidence-Based Practice is "broadly defined as the use of the best clinical evidence in making patient care decisions, and such evidence typically comes from research conducted by nurses and other health care professionals" (3) Continue Reading...
Inefficient Healthcare Routines, Examples of Participative Decision-Making in the Workplace Routine practices are performed on the premise that all clients, patients, their families, visitors and residents are potentially infectious even without vis Continue Reading...
Knowledge, and Wisdom Continuum Nursing The selected topic is drug abuse amongst teenagers. The prevalence of drug abuse amongst teenagers has been on the rise over the past decade. The increase is attributed to many factors, but it mostly has to Continue Reading...
Future of Managed Care Medical facilities have become much more important today than they were ever before. The complex diseases are treated by treatment methodologies and the equipment that were nonexistent a few decades ago. But these facilities h Continue Reading...
5) Celebrate the customer decision and ask for feedback- Many customers will be with us for the duration of their lives. Everyone will inevitably become sick and will need to make tough decisions in regards to their health. Whatever their decision, Continue Reading...
Contract learning is a form of learning (and teaching) that involves the student or mentee far more than usual in the formulation of assignments and curriculum. The teacher and student work together to come up with a series of assignments that the st Continue Reading...
Others include delays in data accessibility, albeit shorter delays and the continued need for source data verification (Donovan, 2007). Other obstacles have occurred in the developing of mobile healthcare applications. These have included mobile de Continue Reading...
Many of the same issues that arise in regards to diabetes, also apply to control of obesity as well (Tilghman, 2003). Conceptual Model The symptom-focused intervention model was developed by the University of California -- San Francisco Nursing Sy Continue Reading...
Women were also a significant part of the civilian staff, committing their abilities as typists, phone switchboard operators and facility administrators. Likewise, on the home front, women would commit their services in place of their husbands, figh Continue Reading...
Both of these devices "allow handwritten data entry including sketching with 'electronic ink' and handwriting recognition that converts scribble into typewritten text." (Wales and Zabrek, 2003) Full integration with hospital servers of these device Continue Reading...
The study found that overweight children or those likely to be overweight tended to incur more medical expenses than non-overweight children (Johnson 2006). Socio-economic and demographic differences between them indicated the differences in expens Continue Reading...
Requiring the patient to come to the Clinic or the doctor's office for regular follow-up visits is also an expensive way to ensure compliance. While some office and clinic visits are necessary and desirable, extending the it tools available to at-ho Continue Reading...
UK Healthcare Within this section of Chapter One, a historical perspective of NHS will be provided. This discussion will identify problem areas that have emerged in relation to NHS with an attempt made to address the manner in which such problems ha 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...
nurse is difficult and tedious. It involves a lot more than a mere succession of skills and business activities. In fact, nursing is a part of the many processes, one of which is the process of socialization that is development and internalization o Continue Reading...
