999 Search Results for Patient Care and Nursing
Nursing
The Nurse as Learner and Teacher
Nursing is truly a lifelong study. While in school, a future nurse learns the tactics and the theory of the profession, and while in practice, he or she learns the social part of the profession, including in Continue Reading...
Patient Management -- Heloma Durum
Presentation and Management
The patient suffering from heloma durum typically presents with complaints of discomfort from the formation of hardened tissue in localized areas of the foot such as the on the dorsolat Continue Reading...
According to the South Carolina Nurse Practice Act, the practice of nursing includes "the provision of services for compensation," and the use of "nursing judgment." Nursing judgment is clearly defined as "the logical and systematic cognitive proce Continue Reading...
(Newman, 1) Here, it can be evidenced that the empathy accorded by the theoretical framework will provide an ideological umbrella for how best to address one's condition while simultaneously abiding the regulatory medical requirements common to most Continue Reading...
Nurse Lit Review
TYPE OF RESEARCH STUDY - Quantitative or qualitative
Descriptive, correlational, experimental, quasi-experimental, phenomenological, grounded theory ethnographic, historical
SAMPLE METHOD & SAMPLE SIZE
Knoll, Lautenschlager & Continue Reading...
Nursing Practice Act
California Nursing Practice Act (NPA)
The Nursing Practice Act (NPA) stands out as the framework of California legislation that requires the Board to put down the scope involving practice as well as obligations for Registered n Continue Reading...
Nursing
Contemporary Nursing Stereotypes on Television
Author Carol J. Huston writes in a boldly honest narrative that the nursing industry must seek to be populated with "smart… bright…highly motivated" nurses who "want to make a diffe Continue Reading...
Why do I want to go to Georgetown?
The Nursing program at Georgetown strives to continue its tradition of preparing what Georgetown calls "…morally reflective health care leaders and scholars who strive to improve the health and well being o Continue Reading...
" Nurses in Indiana are also represented by the American Nurses Association, headquartered in Washington, D.C. And the International Council of Nurses, based in Geneva, Switzerland. These organizations now investigate health facilities and help contr Continue Reading...
Nurse Implementation Plan
Implementation Plan
It is important to understand that plans do not simply manifest themselves into existence and a specific implementation effort is needed to ensure that the evidence presented in research efforts can be Continue Reading...
Nursing Practice Act
California Nursing Practice Act (NPA)
The Nursing Practice Act (NPA) stands out as the framework of California legislation that requires the Board to lay out the capacity of practice as well as duties for Registered Nurses. The Continue Reading...
Nurses in advanced roles -- practitioners, educators, and administrators -- have a 'professional and moral imperative' to conduct and/or promote ethically- and culturally-sound nursing research. One of the challenges presented to nurses is how rese Continue Reading...
Nursing Theory from the View of a Mirror, Microscope and Telescope
The objective of this work is to examine perspective of nursing theory from the view of a mirror, a microscope, and a telescope.
Theories are described as "a set of interrelated con Continue Reading...
Nursing
Elizabeth Kerr Porter
Elizabeth Kerr Porter "was a leader in nursing education and an advocate for nurses' rights," (ANA 2011). Porter advocated for nurses' labor rights in terms of the right to collective bargaining and professional organi Continue Reading...
"
Types of Reasoning
One of the main types of reasoning discussed in the readings is logical reasoning. This type of reasoning features the use of inferences in order to come into knowledge about a certain experience or phenomenon. Essentially, inf Continue Reading...
Nursing Dilemma
Research and Nursing Questions
Research is a complex and nuanced concept which means that one approach might not, in and of itself, answer the full scope of one's research questions. This is why it can sometimes be useful to combine Continue Reading...
Though in theory these methods sound hokey the practice is actually relatively simple to see if one takes elements of application for the theory and divorces it from the ideological, such as equating the terminology laying of hands with the use of t Continue Reading...
Nursing Case Study
Managing a possible Case of Gastroenteritis: A Nursing Case Study
The effective delivery of optimal nursing care requires a comprehensive treatment plan that addresses both the patient's symptoms and the security of the immediate Continue Reading...
The data gathered is subjected to statistical analysis using statistical methods of linear regression and chi square testing.
The main purpose of the study was to confirm the hypothesis that consultation with CNS or RN in a drug-monitoring clinic h Continue Reading...
Bibliography
Mendes, IA, Trevizan, MA, Noqueira, MS, Mayashida, M. (2000) Humanistic Approach to Nursing Communication: The Case of hospitalized Adolescent Female.
Rev Bras Enferm (2000) Jan-Mar, 53(1):7-13.
Williams, Carol A. & Gossett, Mon Continue Reading...
Combined with the widespread entry of women into the labor force, an aging population, and minimal assistance for high quality long-term care at the end of life, these economic and social conditions raise a set of difficult policy questions for heal Continue Reading...
Had I better defined the problem early on in the call, I could have cut the frustration on both our parts by going directly to the objective of requesting an appointment via a message for cold signs and symptoms. Being more decisive would have led m Continue Reading...
Advance Directives should include documented patient decisions about health care, which should be honored (Advanced practice in nursing: ethical and role issues in end-of-life care, 2004).
As medical knowledge and technology increase, so do option Continue Reading...
b. The nurse must ascertain the status of a health care proxy and other mandates by the patients request such as DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) orders, etc.
c. The mental stability of the patient may need to be reviewed to ascertain whether such decisio Continue Reading...
Nursing
Informatics is important to the health care system, especially when it comes to creating and maintaining a culture of safety. Medication errors, and other treatment errors, can be eliminated with the use of informatics systems. With informat Continue Reading...
A person's health is an ever-changing state of being resulting from the interaction with the environment. Optimum health is the actualization of both innate and obtained human potential gained through rewarding relationships with others, obtaining Continue Reading...
Nursing Informatics Career Viability Analysis
Nursing Informatics Career Analysis
As the concept of healthcare delivery systems continues a rapid evolutionary path in order to keep pace with technological advancement, the role of health information Continue Reading...
Even under the best of circumstances, nurses are regularly exposed to patients experiencing pain and they routinely encounter grief in situations involving disability and death. All of those environmental factors can be the source of emotional stres Continue Reading...
Successful completion of a competency-based insulin pen administration checklist along with successful demonstration of a mock insulin injection would be required before a nurse could administer insulin to a patient using the insulin pen devices. Du Continue Reading...
Nursing Practicum: Learning Objectives and Timeline
As a future primary care provider seeking NP board certification, one of my primary areas of focus will be how to enhance my patients' understanding of preventative medicine. This directly relates Continue Reading...
Nursing Students Attitude Towards the Elderly: Literature Review
The changing demographics in many of the populations in industrialized countries has changed the aggregate needs of the nursing workforce and this trend is expected to continue into th Continue Reading...
Nursing
Patient expectations and goals
When one is unwell, there are expectations that the individual has and these vary from one patient to another bearing the peculiarity of the sickness the person suffers from. However, there is the other level Continue Reading...
The budgeting process at CHOMP is varied and requires that nursing managers and department heads keep a close eye on the daily activities of staff. It is described as a structured process that begins with planning meetings in August with the financi Continue Reading...
The legal and professional authority to delegate certain medical responsibilities and to supervise the administering of care by other healthcare workers is conferred to registered nurses upon their licensing and registering with the appropriate gove Continue Reading...
Nurses are rarely alone and assistance is usually right outside but if someone falls, has a seizure, or requires me to move them immediately, I should be able to handle it. Nurses also do a lot of walking on shift so I should be able to walk around Continue Reading...
Nursing
What area(s) of the cultural assessment would you focus on?
Jarvis urges the use of cultural assessment in conjunction with other types of assessment including family and community assessments. An understanding of culture can inform strengt Continue Reading...
Nurse of the Future
The developed worlds are becoming older. America's population is approaching retirement age due in large part to the baby boomer generation. Those individuals born between 1946 and 1964 will be eligible for more social security a Continue Reading...
What is the most valuable lesson you've learned as a nurse that you've tried to impart to your students?
Get to know your patients. You can make a valuable human connection with any of your patients, if you just put in the attempt. Their care will Continue Reading...
Nurses are well positioned to identify clinical problems and use existing evidence to improve practice and make care more effective (Beyea, 2006). Evidence-based practices enables nurses to provide high quality care based on current evidence. The p Continue Reading...