999 Search Results for Nurse Practitioners and Nursing
Ergonomic risk factors related to dental office design, equipment and tools are well-described. As dissimilar kinds of dental work, ideal working locations, and dissimilar user groups influence design and precise equipment, postural and positioning Continue Reading...
Initial tests may be culdocentesis, hematocrit, a pregnancy test, a qualitative HCG blood test, a transvaginal ultrasound or pregnancy ultrasound and a white blood count test. An ectopic pregnancy can be distinguished from a normal intrauterine preg Continue Reading...
Exercising Leadership as a Charge Nurse
At some point in their careers, many people are called upon to be leaders at some level. A personal example of this eventuality was my promotion to charge nurse in a hospital setting where I was required to ex Continue Reading...
Letter of Intent
What are your short- and long-term career goals and how will this program prepare you for them?
My short-term goals are to get a very high quality education in the nursing field, learning as much as I can both with hands-on skills Continue Reading...
In clinical situations, for example, problem-solving techniques are often required to ensure best practice. According to Lyth, some authors argue that a balance between roles should be maintained in order to optimize both clinical practice and theor Continue Reading...
Budget: Reducing Risky Behavior Among African-American Female Adolescents
The membership of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) is almost 200,000 in number (AANP, 2014a), but sending a survey to all members would be prohibitively Continue Reading...
Liability
Criminal Liability and Healthcare Organizations
Providing the highest quality care possible to patients is of course the overarching goal for any ethically operating medical establishments, and should guide most practices. There are othe Continue Reading...
Interdisciplinary Relationships
An ER (emergency room) job is both prestigious and requires hard work; it affords individuals a chance to save fellow human beings' lives and build a fruitful career. Of all nursing jobs, the most challenging and inte Continue Reading...
PICOT
In critically ill adults (p), how does the daily use of chlorohexidine (I) compared to sterile water reduce VAP (ventilator-associated pneumonia) (O) during hospitalized stay (T).
Part 2 Identifying a Problem
Of the infections acquired by pa Continue Reading...
G1d, and G1g Planned Intervention
Intervention
Description of Intervention:
Medication adherence is one of the effective interventions for diabetes management. Adherence to medication is the extent patients take medications being prescribed for th Continue Reading...
Hypertensive Crisis
Reference (APA Style): Yeo, T.P., Burrell, S.A. (2010). "Hypertensive crisis in an era of escalating health care changes." The Journal for Nurse Practitioners. 6 (5): 338-346.
This article provides a tremendous amount of analysi Continue Reading...
Ethical Dilemma: AIDS and Needles Case
Ethical dilemmas, also considered as moral dilemmas, are circumstances that require a decision to be made between two choices, a moral and an immoral act. According to ethical dilemmas' assumption, the chooser Continue Reading...
size is an important consideration with regards to data collection for statistical analysis in a study. Sample size plays an important role in a research process since the identification of a suitable sample size for statistical analysis is crucial Continue Reading...
Immersion Project: Best Practice Recommendations for End-Stage Dementia Care
My immersion project created opportunities to interact with other care professionals, including primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, geriatric specialists, hospice Continue Reading...
Policy Change
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) endorsed the policy of replacing peripheral intravenous catheters (PIVC) within 48 hours following insertion in order to prevent and decrease local catheter infections. The institution that this aut Continue Reading...
Prevention and Management of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in the Hospitals
Ventilator-associated pneumonia is an infection in the airways that develops more than 48 hours after a patient is intubated. While the prevention and management of pneumo Continue Reading...
Given the frequency of pressure ulcers, the strategies used in mitigating those wounds must be effective. Sherman reports that 61 ulcers in 50 patients got maggot therapy and 84 ulcers in 70 patients did not receive maggot therapy (instead, those wo Continue Reading...
Change Strategy and Implementation: Interprofessional Collaborative Practice ProgramThe professional environment of interest concerns the need for improved interprofessional collaborative practices in a tertiary health care facility that routinely tr Continue Reading...
Health Care Research
The definition of health care research has evolved over the last one hundred years or so. Many scholars and researchers define it differently. The University of Washington (2011) opines that the most detailed definition of heal Continue Reading...
Quality Control in Healthcare
Quality control essentially represents a means to develop a procedure for contemporary organizations to tackle the multifaceted challenges they come across in this era. Its basis is that, in the health/healthcare sector Continue Reading...
Breastfeeding #NAS #Neonates
Opioid use and dependency has become a serious problem in the U.S. Research has shown that opioid-dependent women run significantly high risks of giving birth to children with NAS. Children with NAS face some serious he Continue Reading...
Still, the unifying factor that is prevalent in both types of physiologic futility is that there is absolutely no chance of recovery or of beneficence to be gained by a particular procedure.
Due to the varying nature of both forms of medical futili Continue Reading...
Jerry McCall Dr. Williams Office Assistant
Licensed Practical Nurses and Medical Assistants: Legal and Ethical Implications
According to recent reports from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, medical assistants and licensed practical nurses (LPN) Continue Reading...
Evidence-Based Practice Project: Reducing Rate of Psychiatric Readmission
The purpose of the evidence-based practice project is to examine ways to eliminate psychiatric readmissions. More specifically, literature is reviewed to examine evidence supp Continue Reading...
health care problem is the first and most critical step in curriculum development, only after which it is possible to outline core elements of the curriculum and how to address the identified problems (Bass, n.d.). In this case, medical trauma manag Continue Reading...
Evidence-Based Practice, or EVB, is a strategy that uses research, quality control measures, and other forms of evaluation data in order to improve practice methods within the healthcare setting.
EVB utilizes innovative clinical research study find Continue Reading...
health care IT strategy
Hospitals form one element of the health care industry, proving medical care for patients. There are three main types of hospitals in the U.S. -- for profit, non-profit and government. While many hospitals operate independent Continue Reading...
Ethic - Organ Donation
The donation of organs and their eventual transplant have been regarded as a distinct way in which mankind shows and shares its compassion. Cutting out organs from one person and moving them into the body of another is one of Continue Reading...
Doctors and Nurses
Over the decades, both doctors and nurses have been playing an important role in determining the kind of health care services that are provided to patients. This is because the basic model in meeting these demands has been contin Continue Reading...
Safety of Laser Eye Surgery
Prior to the advent of laser technology, ophthalmologists relied purely on mechanical means of surgically correcting myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (far sightedness), and astigmatism.
Automated Lamellar Keratectomy Continue Reading...
massive shortage of radiologic technologists of the 1990s has abated, there is still some shortage of workers in the field. Most such workers ply their trade in large hospitals, which average 21 imaging workers. Rural facilities have a harder time r Continue Reading...
Facility Research and Selection
The report describes the facilities, need and services offered in an Ambulatory Care Clinic.
VICTIMS RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Health practitioners should expect some very dramatic changes in the area of ambulatory care withi Continue Reading...
Telehealth Recommendation
E-medicine and Telehealth are ways of sharing medical information pertaining to patients through the use of electronic/digital communication portals. Various technologies enable health care providers to use these means -- f Continue Reading...
Quality Improvement Project
Diabetes -- Chronic Condition Background
Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes
Risk factors for type 1 diabetes
Risk factors for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes
Risk factors for gestational diabetes
The Rationale for Selection
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Healthcare: Discussion Questions
Discussion Questions: Healthcare
The author stated the major steps in the policy analysis process. Which stage do you think is the most important? State reasons using one policy analysis example
Policy analysis sim Continue Reading...
Healthcare: Discussion Questions
Discussion Questions: Healthcare
Numerous policies have been developed and implemented in a bid to improve the quality of care, and to make healthcare more accessible to patients. The Donabedian model presents a cle Continue Reading...
Migrant Health Problems
Understanding the Migrant Health Problem
Currently access to health and social services for the majority of migrants is based on their legal status. Needless to say undocumented migrants have little or no access to health c Continue Reading...
Physician
A written report preferred profession, Medical doctor. The report 3-4 pages long (including Literature Cited) 1.5 line spacing. Please read carefully attach Instructions Professional Report file. Ask questions.
The road to becoming a phy Continue Reading...
Rationalism Politics Impacts Public's View
Web Article Review
The principle best-practice strategy elucidated within Louis DePaola's article entitled "Infection control in the dental office" is for practitioners to adhere to sanitary and hygiene m Continue Reading...