Effective Leadership and QualitiesToday, increasing numbers of nurses are leaving the profession due to the burnout caused by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic as well as the rigorous and sometimes-overwhelming demands placed on nurses, especially those Continue Reading...
Coordination of Care at Nursing HomesOverviewOne of the key ethical issues affecting the coordination and continuum of care for a nursing home community organization is the question of informed consent. Informed consent is important because it ensure Continue Reading...
Quality Of Healthcare Provided By NPsThere has been a rise in the need for nurse practitioners services in the emergency department units in recent years. These individuals offer services that complement the seemingly fewer doctors and other speciali Continue Reading...
Leadership Framework Pacific Regional Hospital is currently facing a crisis that has contributed to its near closure for the past 20 years and filing for bankruptcy three times within the same period. Despite the challenges, the hospital is still o Continue Reading...
Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Nursing Home Patients With growing numbers of the American population joining the elderly ranks, there has been a corresponding increase in the number of residents of long-term care facilities including approximately 16 Continue Reading...
PICO Question Dissemination and ImplementationEvidence-Based Recommendation:Based on the synthesis of the peer-reviewed research previously reported, the evidence-based recommendation for pressure ulcer prevention and management in long-term care set Continue Reading...
National Nurses United was founded in 2009 and has nearly 200,000 members today across the U.S. (it is the largest union of R.N.s) (Gordon, 2014). It has a "democratic governing structure consisting of an RN member, elected Board of Directors, all of Continue Reading...
Advocacy Through LegislationIdentify a problem or concern in your state, community, or organization that has the capacity to be advocated through legislation. Research the issue and complete the sections below. For each topic that requires the listin Continue Reading...
DNP PROJECT : DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSISImplementation Plan/ProceduresPhase 1: Program Development (Months 1-3) Conduct comprehensive literature review on evidence-based practices for culturally tailored hypertension self-management Collaborate wit Continue Reading...
Nurses and the Ethics of Abortion Abortion and Virtue Ethics In the Crossfire: Nurses and the Ethics of Abortion In the Crossfire: Nurses and the Ethics of Abortion Nebraska's Attorney General, Jon Bruning, announced his efforts to revoke the lic Continue Reading...
Often home-based caregivers, either a spouse or adult child, rely on institutional care only as a choice of last resort, and this is often reported only after their own health and well being begins to be perceived as degraded by caring for the indiv Continue Reading...
Psychiatric Nursing Education: Challenges and Solutions There is a growing demand for nursing professionals, with rapid proliferation of educational programs for nurses. Nursing education requires opportunities for 'hands-on' clinical practice, yet Continue Reading...
Providers Over the last several years, the majority of graduating medical students (90%) has been focused on careers in specialized care. (Pickert, 2009) This is because they will make more money in comparison with doctors that are working in a pri Continue Reading...
The reluctance to refer patients to specialists may also mean that nurses must practice more holistic, rather than specialized forms, of nursing. The desire for cost containment has resulted in many nurses assuming physician's duties, such as those Continue Reading...
baby boomers grow older, America is faced with a growing need to provide for them in long-term care situations, such as Nursing Homes. However, at the same time, we are faced with a growing difficulty finding and retaining a workforce to care for th Continue Reading...
Systems Theory- Nursing One of the major issues in nursing is the international shortage in staffing of health care professionals. This shortage negatively affects the quality as well as the sustainability of the entire nursing service, as well as t Continue Reading...
Critical Thinking in Nursing Education For far too long nursing has been seen as a profession that requires compassion along with obedience to the orders of doctors who were traditionally considered to be the "real" medical professionals. Nurses wer Continue Reading...
Dissemination The student in a Doctorate of Nursing (DNP) program has an obligation to get permission when launching a scholarly research project; and the student also has a responsibility to disseminate that research once it is completed. This pap Continue Reading...
Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) Systems DRG Systems and its Implication on Nurse Administrators Introduction to Diagnosis Related Group System Implication for Nursing Practices Quality of Healthcare System Work Load of Nurses Job Opportunities f Continue Reading...
National Health Goals and Behavioral Influences Nurse Educators in Downstream, Midstream, and Upstream Obesity Interventions The professional nurse has numerous opportunities to advocate for changes in social policy, community awareness, and behavi Continue Reading...
Evidence of this can be corroborated with a study conducted by the California Nurses Association, which found similar positive effects. At the same time, researchers found that reducing these ratios in various specialty environments inside the hospi Continue Reading...
One proven solution to decrease medication errors is use of medication software such as CPOE. It has significantly reduced errors in prescribing, transcription, and dispensing of medications (Hidle). It also has the potential to decrease errors in Continue Reading...
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder presents itself in many different ways for many different people. It is further complicated by the fact that there are three types of ADHD recognized by the DSM-IV and even further evidence that females and ma Continue Reading...
Leadership Qualities and Nursing Practice Effective leaders often leave a mark in the lives of those they lead, even many years after the encounter, even if the encounter was a brief one. One of the greatest leaders that have had significant influen Continue Reading...
Theorist In the field of Nursing there are those individuals who had a major impact upon the way care is provided. One such person is Dorthea Orem. She developed a critical care theory that redefined the industry. To fully understand these ideas re Continue Reading...
"Participants were instructed to drink no more than 3 caffeinated beverages and no more than 2 alcoholic beverages per day" (pg. 2457). Two features from this study that stand out when compared to the previous study (as read about earlier) was that Continue Reading...
opportunity to work at a nursing home, offering my support during physical, occupational, and speech therapy sessions. These sessions offered insight into diverse types of therapy. I worked with a range of different health care workers and specialis Continue Reading...
Evolution of Nursing and Healthcare Informatics Those working in the field of healthcare delivery have long recognized the importance of obtaining and recording accurate data during their course of their interaction with a patient, from the physica Continue Reading...
Search the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Guideline Clearinghouse website at http://www.guideline.gov / for a quality guideline that pertains to the area of nursing in which you are interested. Describe the guideline and how th Continue Reading...
Family Interventions -Mother can attend cancer support groups and receive advice and education through other channels regarding proper methods of providing care and improving quality of life for her husband -Son can explore employment options as Continue Reading...
Gerontology The interview subject is from Germantown, Pennsylvania, the third of seven children. For the purposes of this report and to preserve her anonymity, we will call her Ms. S. Ms. S's mother did everything she could to keep her family togeth Continue Reading...
Health Care Past, Current, And Future The health of any nation should be a top priority for leaders and elected political representatives, but in the United States it took several centuries for the nation to begin to come to terms with providing hea Continue Reading...
Healthcare Organizational Readiness & Strategy Healthcare Organization Network Company Profile Vanguard operates 25 acute care and three specialty hospitals in urban and suburban areas of Arizona, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Texas. Continue Reading...
Special Populations Profession psychology The future of professional psychology: The influence of special populations on the field of professional psychology According to the American Board of Professional Psychology: "It is expected that clinica Continue Reading...
That approach was innovative in that it reflected a recognition of how much nutritional support in infancy reduces the subsequent need for medical services such as those that are largely attributable to problems linked to poor nutrition in infancy a Continue Reading...
Personal Strengths and Weaknesses Personal and professional accountability Personal growth and development Competent Ethical behavior and practice Expert Professional association involvement Novice Certification Expert I am quite satisfied Continue Reading...
