Decision Making, Problem Solving and Critical Thinking Skills for NursesGiven the critical exigencies of the profession, nurses are routinely required to strictly rely on their education, training and experience to make life-and-death decisions about Continue Reading...
Implementing Diabetes Education in Geriatric unit The diabetes prevalence in the USA is placed at 9.4% which accounts for 30.3 million Americans as of 2015. This statistics goes even higher with increase in the age bracket where 12.2% of Americans ab Continue Reading...
honored to meet a delegation of nurses from ten different countries, because I feel we have a lot to learn from each other in terms of different philosophies of nursing. At the same time, we are all shifting more to evidence-based practice, which tr Continue Reading...
The mission, vision, and values statements guide healthcare policy and practice within the institution. When planning for change, healthcare leaders ideally base their decisions on their alignment with the mission, vision, and values of the organizat Continue Reading...
Interprofessional Care and Leadership to Improve Patient and Population HealthIntroductionThe Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Nurse Leader can help to foster interprofessional collaboration by creating teams composed of professionals from different Continue Reading...
Organizational Needs for DNP-Headed Hypertension InterventionToday, the prevalence of hypertension in the United States is alarmingly high, affecting nearly half of the adult population in the country (Facts about hypertension, 2024). Furthermore, mi Continue Reading...
DNP Assessment: A Self-Reflective Overview Q1: Integration and Application In terms of the direct application of what I have learned over the course of my DNP studies, I feel I have grown in my ability to systematically apply nursing theory to my eve Continue Reading...
Desir, E. (2014). Exploring Obstacles to Success for Early Careerists in Healthcare Leadership. J Healthc Manag., 59(4), 250-3. The article begins with an introduction covering a short story about a young man of Caribbean descent. He showed remarkab Continue Reading...
Disaster Management Case Study Hurricane Victoria that landed on January 10, 2016 in New York City caused significant damage on the area. The storm which was ultimately downgraded to a tropical storm since it lost its strength affected homeless shel Continue Reading...
Evaluating and Applying Empirical Critical Thinking ToolsThe purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive evaluation of two prominent empirical critical thinking assessment tools: 1) the California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST) and 2) Continue Reading...
Case Report: Application of Quality and Safety Concepts Introduction This report will describe an ethical predicament situation encountered by a nurse in line of duty in an emergency department. The predicament will be analyzed using the algorithm fo Continue Reading...
A. Identify a current nursing practice within your healthcare setting that requires change.HIS in Nursing practice1. Describe the current nursing practice.HMISs (Health Management Information Systems) are included among the building blocks vital to s Continue Reading...
setting, definition Sample/Setting Conclusions (Appraisal) Level of Evidence (Flagg, 2015) Implementing patient-focused healthcare within settings burdened by the combined challenges of scarce support systems, huge patient loads and constantly-g Continue Reading...
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Committee Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, in the year 2008, proposed a collaborative program with the IOM (Institute of Medicine) for evaluating and responding to the necessity of transforming the profession of nursing Continue Reading...
Nursing Leadership and Management Organizational Analysis -- The Organization The hospital is well recognized and has been named a top 100 Heart hospital and top 100 hospitals nationally. The organization also has a nationally ranked children's Continue Reading...
Evidence-Based Practice Translation of Research in Evidence-Based Practice Nursing involves men and women who are willing to help the patients with their skills like health maintenance, recovery of ill or injured people and the treatment. They deve Continue Reading...
Errors and Root Causes Why do Errors Happen? How Can We Prevent Them? (Dr. Lucian Leape's video) Error is defined as the failure of a planned series of physical or mental activities to attain its planned outcomes, when these failures cannot be attr Continue Reading...
The Culture of NursingAs Smith (2019) points out, Madeleine Leininger\\\'s Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality, highlighting the importance of cultural competence in nursing. Leininger\\\'s work underscores the necessity of understandin Continue Reading...
Stevens Star Model and New Tech to Improve Patient OutcomesThe Stevens Star Model of Knowledge Transformation is a framework that guides the transformation of knowledge from research into practice. This model consists of five points: discovery, summa Continue Reading...
Introduction Organizational behavior is the study of the way people interact within an organization. The aim of organizational behavior is to facilitate efficiency within the organization. The better understood the interaction of workers within a gr Continue Reading...
PODCAST: Customizing the Employee Orientation Process for Optimal Benefit Conducting employee orientations that are a good fit with the organization and with new hires is challenging. A home health agency in La Mesa, California was considering ways Continue Reading...
QI JournalOverviewQI drives excellence in patient care and fuels the optimization of healthcare systems (Greenes & Del Fiol, 2023). Nurses must combine their clinical expertise with QI principles in accordance with the American Association of College Continue Reading...
Clara Barton Introduction In any discussion of pioneers of Human Services, one name should immediately come to mind—Clara Barton. This self-taught nurse and founder of the American Red Cross left of legacy of humanitarian aid behind when she di Continue Reading...
Peer Responses 2Response to APGood points on APN role development issues and barriers, especially when it comes to regulatory challenges and role ambiguity. I would like to add one more barrier, which is the lack of mentorship and support during the Continue Reading...
UnitedHealthcare: Readiness Assessment and Strategic PlanIntroductionUnitedHealthcare is one of the largest health insurers in the United States. It serves millions of people across all 50 states as well as populations within the international market Continue Reading...
Today, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) operates that nation’s largest health care network, including 170 major medical centers that provide health care services of some type to more than nine million veteran patients each year (VA Continue Reading...
Healthcare InequityHealthcare inequity refers to the gap between those who receive care they need and those who do not and that this difference is unfair (Artiga et al., 2020). The distinction between equity and equality refers to different approache Continue Reading...
Patient Outcomes and Sustainable Change: Identifying Leadership Roles for Doctors of Nursing Practice Today, the United States spends more taxpayer monies on healthcare services than virtually any other industrialized country in the world, yet Americ Continue Reading...
Asian-Americans with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes perceive barriers to implementing dietary and lifestyles changes to reduce A1C levels in the first 3 months after diagnosis"? Method of obtaining necessary approval(s) and securing support from y Continue Reading...
Application of Statistics in Health CareStatistical application plays a significant role in healthcare, from monitoring patient outcomes to improving quality of care and promoting patient safety (Han & Roh, 2020). Healthcare professionals across all Continue Reading...
1. In Dr. Pape’s video on Systems Theories, she discusses the fact that systems theories are a good way to approach the care of an individual or group in a complete or holistic way. This allows health care disciplines to work together for the g Continue Reading...
interviewed the pastor of Grace Life Baptist Church in Ruby Michigan, USA. Would you say that your congregation (or the people within your particular department or area of ministry) is "Thinking Like Jesus" (i.e. Unity, Humility, Selflessness) as t Continue Reading...
Benjamins, M., Whitman, S. (2014). Relationships between discrimination in health care and health care outcomes among four race/ethnic groups. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 37: 402-413. The researchers are based out of Sinai Urban Health Institut Continue Reading...
Health Care Staff Trends The healthcare system has seen various changes over the decades with the aim of making the care more efficient and quality to the citizens. One of the most important changes is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care (PPA Continue Reading...
Public Health and Patient EmpowermentAndrea must address the increase in sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among 15-19-year-old females and Andrea plans to use the CHANGE (Community Health Assessment aNd Group Evaluation) method, which is a stru Continue Reading...
POLICY MODELS Policy Models: Reducing Mental Health Disparities among LEP IndividualsA policy is a course of action or plan used by an agent of change to realize a certain outcome or goal (Porsche, 2023). The policy is the process that the agent uses Continue Reading...
Complexity Theory and Management: A Balance Complexity theorists to indeed recommend that organizational leaders not focus so strongly on command-and control styles of management but rather establish performance goals and set simple rules that their Continue Reading...
