998 Search Results for Quality of Care Assessing Needs
Phase 1: Introduction
The research topic selected is the Support for Breast Cancer Patients. The purpose for the selection of this topic is to assess the impact that support for breast cancer survivors has on them. The research will investigate the t Continue Reading...
Today, health care in the United States is characterized by growing demand combined with skyrocketing costs and critical shortages of qualified health care practitioners. In response to these challenges, there has also been a growing consensus among Continue Reading...
One of the most important elements towards developing necessary skills and competencies in the nursing field is shadowing a practitioner in a healthcare setting or unit. The shadowing experience helps in observing how a nurse practitioner applies nur Continue Reading...
Administration & Policy Development
The author of this report is to engage in an assessment task that centers on human services and social workers in a clinical setting. The author of this report shall be focusing on the social work department i Continue Reading...
For example, a hospice nurse who experiences debilitating loss and grief at every death would be just as hampered in the performance of her duties as a hospice nurse who was unable to empathize with her patients and their families.
Likewise, it is Continue Reading...
Nursing Shortage
How can the facility recruit and retain sufficient nursing staff?
Nursing shortage is a global trend (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2012)
Ageing patient population
Long hours and stress mean high turnover
How the Continue Reading...
Health Threat of Medical Ionizing Radiation
Impact of Nuclear Medicine Exposures
In October 2009, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) alerted all healthcare facilities involved in performing brain perfusion computed tomography (CT) to ensur Continue Reading...
Healthy People 2020
Review of Three Articles from Healthy People 2020
Global Health
The goal of improved global health is to strengthen U.S. national security through global disease detection, response, prevention, and control strategies. Threats Continue Reading...
Best Practice/Making Improvements
A clinical audit is an integral part of the healthcare system. Ferris (2002) defined Clinical Audit as the comparison of the actual clinical practice against the agreed and documented evidence-based standards in an Continue Reading...
By improving their self knowledge, leaders can change and develop as leaders of people. Clinical supervision for leaders is sometimes called administrative clinical supervision. This is managerial clinical supervision with a focus on problems relate Continue Reading...
In the first instance, the research undertaken on this topic has attempted to be as inclusive as possible. To this end databases such as Ebscohost and Quesia were consulted for up-to-date sources and data. However the research was also limited to th Continue Reading...
According to the AACN's report, "Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Competencies in Specialty Areas: Adult, Family, Gerontological, Pediatric, and Women's Health" (2002), "Competencies are the domain or body of knowledge and skills that essentially def Continue Reading...
"Hyperkalemia is a potentially life-threatening metabolic problem caused by inability of the kidneys to excrete potassium, impairment of the mechanisms that move potassium from the circulation into the cells, or a combination of these factors "FN12. Continue Reading...
Conflict Resolution
It is common knowledge that the utilization of conflict resolution offers the essential plans to cut down arguments and encourages nonviolent clarifications. Melinda G. Lincoln (2001) elaborates on this point by asserting, "Diffu Continue Reading...
Elderly and their Risk of Depression
Until just recently geriatric depression was not regarded as a medical diagnosis, however, with the elderly suicide rate being the highest in the country it has now come to the forefront of medical research. The Continue Reading...
Health Policy Debate PaperShould Continuing Education be Mandatory for All Nurses, Why or Why Not?The Assembly Regulated Professions Committee of the New Jersey legislature is currently deliberating Bill number A2182, sponsored by Assemblywoman Nancy Continue Reading...
Pesticide RunoffBackground of the Water Quality Issue: Agricultural Pesticide Runoff in Rural Water SuppliesAgricultural pesticide runoff in rural water supplies is a significant water quality issue that warrants a public health response. This proble Continue Reading...
Community AssessmentThere are several ways to obtain data for a community assessment, including surveys, interviews, focus groups, secondary data sources, and windshield assessment (Diana, 2021; Johnson et al., 2020). For example, surveys can be used Continue Reading...
InterestInterview Coding & Reaction
There is little doubt that the experience, events and quality of care that surround expecting and new mothers is extremely important (Berrien, Olledorff & Menard, 2015). The reduction or mitigation of thi Continue Reading...
achievement of the course outcomes in this course have prepared you to meet the MSN program outcome #4, the MSN Essential IV, and the Nurse Practitioner Core Competencies # 7.
The achievement of course outcomes has prepared me to meet the fourth MS Continue Reading...
Leadership Research
Models of leadership and management
Comparison and contrast of leadership models
Application of leadership model: Case of Mark Zuckerberg
Table 1- Leadership Table
Leadership Research
Leadership in public and private sector Continue Reading...
Leadership Discussions First Half
Conflicting Obligations
Identify at least two ethical dilemmas that occur when you are in a position of leadership. What makes the dilemmas ethical? Would you expect each person to react to the dilemma in the same Continue Reading...
Conflict Resolution
The objective of this study is to examine conflict resolution and to describe a situation where conflict resolution has been encountered related to nursing and how the situation was handled. This work in writing will identify any Continue Reading...
Horizontal Violence in Nursing
Nursing and the Prevalence of Horizontal Violence in the Workplace
The core of the nursing profession is undermined by Horizontal violence. Horizontal violence affects the quality of health care that is delivered in i Continue Reading...
African-American Women in New York State
"About 30% of Hispanic and 20% of African-Americans lack a usual source of health care compared with less than 16% of European-Americans" (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2003). "Racial and ethnic Continue Reading...
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Hammer has to acknowledge that current methods are not working, the situation has become worse and something has to be done before the hospital has legal action brought against them or lose their licensure. A combination of methods could be util Continue Reading...
In addition, those who are emotionally troubled and who are overweight -- often a contributing factor to emotional difficulties -- do not receive extra counseling time." Seale, Seale & Zhang (2008, p.425) This is a serious concern and one that m Continue Reading...
Stressors in the environment encompass the health condition necessitating the dialysis but also the stressors of the procedure itself, which can be profoundly disruptive to the patient's sense of dignity and control (Hagopian, 2009, Slide 51). Respo Continue Reading...
By educating patients on early warning signs of hepatotoxicity, this rare but potentially fatal consequence could be detected early to allow appropriate intervention." (Wright and Vandenberg, 2007) it is extremely critical to understand the nature o Continue Reading...
special education from the standpoint of the students' parents. The writer explores the opinions on the accessibility and quality of special education afforded their children in Massachusetts. The writer examines the opinions through the use of rese Continue Reading...
Annotated Bibliography: Public Health PsychologyGourevitch, M.N., Kleiman, N., Brodsky, K., & Falco, K. (2022, April 13). Public health andpublic safety: Converging upstream. American Journal of Public Health (AJPH). 112 (5) 716-718. https://ajph.aph Continue Reading...
Public Program Quality Evaluation
Overview of the Program and the Program Rationale
In 2011, approximately 23% of all children in the United States were children of immigrants. Many of these children have come from countries where the educational s Continue Reading...
Kraft Foods' Competitive Strategy
Kraft Foods is a one of North America's largest packaged food companies. To reach its current competitive position the organization is changed to great deal of the last decade, with increased focus on the core prod Continue Reading...
Gender on Self-Esteem in China
VALID OR NOT
Effects of Gender on Self-Esteem in China
Six studies present varying results on the effect of gender on self-esteem. Watkins & Yu (1993) found gender to have little effect on self-esteem but much o Continue Reading...
Disaster Management Lessons Learned From Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Management Lessons
The quality of public management can be tested in several situations. It is tested in situations when the financial resources are limited and cannot be used in Continue Reading...
S. commercial and Medicaid health plans. Reasons women resisted screening included "1) inability to pay the copayment of a screening test, and 2) lack of knowledge of the asymptomatic nature, high prevalence, and possible adverse long-term reproducti Continue Reading...
There is a need for the nurse to be proficient and efficient in her work, because ED's are experiencing an increasing number of patient visits, and there are normally more patient's waiting to be seen than is appropriate for the size of the facility Continue Reading...
The research also points out the largely unconsidered aspect of 'macho psychology' and its effect on men from seeking healthcare. Of particular significance was the inference from many studies that women tend to be less serious about the symptoms of Continue Reading...