1000 Search Results for Nursing and the Quality of Health Care
Nursing theory, research, and practice
Scenario in which theory, research, and practice interact to create good patient outcomes
Imogene King’s theory
Functional Status
Nurse-Patient Relationship
Using the Imogene King’s theory to enhance Continue Reading...
This is one of the many reasons I look forward to being able to work within my own community. Nurses are at the forefront of community outreach and community betterment. As I get to know the local physicians, administrators, and program leaders, I c Continue Reading...
Nursing Organization
The Nurses Organization of Veterans Affairs (NOVA)
Purpose, Mission and Vision
NOVA exists to fulfill a very important function in the United States: Providing healthcare services to the nation's war veterans. To be able to do Continue Reading...
It is saddening to note that as hospital stays grow more expensive, patients are getting less care and families must resort to the private sector and pay still more money to feel as though their loved ones are being treated competently. The problem Continue Reading...
Nursing profession is among the oldest in history. Currently, there is much debate that surrounds the profession because of the need for more trained nurses. In recent years the nursing shortage has become a major problem for the medical profession a Continue Reading...
Nursing Administration -- Controlling
Nursing Admin-Controlling
Situation analysis
The FOCUS model requires the nursing administrator to find out what the main problem is, obtain information about this problem, communicate effectively with the nur Continue Reading...
One of the invaluable experiences I had working with underserved communities was between the years 2007 and 2008, when I was fortunate enough to be involved as a volunteer conducting missionary work in Atotonilco, Mexico. As a community nurse for th Continue Reading...
Nursing Mentor Scenario
Introduction- Just as the theoretical and practical backgrounds of nursing have changed over the past several decades, so has the nursing education environment itself. . Students now entering the field are diverse in culture, Continue Reading...
Nursing Theory: Hildegard E. Peplau
Hildegard E. Peplau was born in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1909. Peplau attended a diploma program in 1931 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, completed a BA in interpersonal psychology at Bennington College in 1943, and re Continue Reading...
The study found that increasing the proportion of nurses who were more highly educated by ten percent lowered the thirty-day mortality rate of patients by five percent. Conversely, if the workload on these nurses was then increased by one patient th Continue Reading...
After taking the Bachelor of Nursing degree, he aims to practice in either the government or private owned hospitals. He intends to serve the public by rendering quality health service based on what he would be learning in the university and from t Continue Reading...
Nursing
Is there a limit to one's professional obligation to the patient? Is that the same as advocacy?
Advocacy can be construed as a professional obligation to the patient, especially when advocacy is framed as an ethical obligation. There are th Continue Reading...
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As a future nurse educator, using technology to gather and disseminate healthcare information will become even more critical for me in the future. Students Continue Reading...
Nurse Staffing Shortage Issue
Nursing Staffing Shortage
One of the greatest challenges to the continued development of a high quality health care delivery system is the continued and frequently increasing shortage of qualified nurses active in the Continue Reading...
In some cases there are administrative issues that are insurmountable and stand on the way of implementation of major researches in the nursing quarters (WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2006).
In some cases there are problems with the res Continue Reading...
In terms of underage drinking, a nurse can act in a public health manner that identifies circumstances and situations that make a population vulnerable, and take steps to either mitigate those circumstances or educate to prevent them in the first pl Continue Reading...
The deployment of evidence-based practice that makes use of cutting-edge research is perhaps most obviously manifest in the greater knowledge research has given about demographic shifts as to who may or may not be vulnerable to particular diseases Continue Reading...
Nursing Ethics
Ethical behavior, especially in the medical community, is important in all aspects, but especially in the treatment of patients. All patients, no matter what their religious affiliations or beliefs, deserve the best possible treatment 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...
FCER Points Out Error to Merck; Merck Confirms Change"
This commentary illustrates the issue of problematic wording within the medical community. A Doctor of Chiropractic expressed concern to the Foundation for Chiropractic Education and Research 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...
Quality Management
Provide a brief overview of the quality improvement process. Be sure to give examples and to specifically discuss what quality improvement teams are.
The quality improvement process begins with an identification of needs. A needs 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...
Nursing Theory
Description of Importance of Nursing Theory
Theories are composed of definitions, concepts, propositions, and models based on assumption. A theory serves as a group of related concepts guiding a professional practice.
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Nursing Philosophy
Concept Synthesis on Personal Nursing Philosophy
Nursing Autobiography
My interest in nursing peaked at an early age when I attended Clara Barton High School for health professions in Brooklyn NY and graduated in 1991. I first w Continue Reading...
Though still worthwhile if it leads to an improvement in nursing or medical standards, whistle-blowing can be damaging to the profession (Fritko & Jackson 2005).
Whistle-bowing can also empower nurses, however, with successful instances of whis Continue Reading...
Healthcare professionals offer their services to the community whilst taking care to fully respect people's dignity. Doctors need to earn public confidence by dedicating their skill all equally, and to the best of their ability. A number of profe Continue Reading...
Of course, as Medicare beneficiaries increase because of the number of baby boomers, the Medicare program may adjust. However, current hospice figures demonstrate that only about twenty percent of all elderly individuals that die are enrolled in hos Continue Reading...
Nursing Home Facilities: A Solution for Long-Term Care
Introduction
Nursing home facilities offer a unique setting for long-term care of elderly persons. Serving as places of residence where the elderly person can obtain assistance with daily living Continue Reading...
Nurse Practitioners Providing the Full Spectrum of Health Care Services
As the National Organizatoin of Nurse Practitioner Faculty (NONPF, 2013) competencies indicate, full spectrum of health care services should include health promotion, disease pr Continue Reading...
115). It seems many nurses or RN who prepare for the role of nurse practitioner are not fully informed of the demands that may be placed on them in their new role. This in turn may lead to job dissatisfaction later down the line and ultimately limit Continue Reading...
Nursing
Nurses have a direct personal responsibility to help, serve, and care for others. This is true especially for nurses working in underdeveloped nations or with underserved, politically disenfranchised, or vulnerable communities. Yet nurses mu Continue Reading...
When nurses put their patient(s) ahead of themselves, it assures that they address and solve any patient problems or concerns about post-hospitalization care (Han, 2009). Patients' health has a more significant chance of improving or remaining stabl Continue Reading...
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Nursing Theory
Theory is a concept that communicates relationships and phenomenon, and with reference to nursing profession, nursing theory assists nurses to prescribe, describe and predict nursing care. In a contemporary healthcare environment, nur Continue Reading...
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Recommendations
Many recommend use of minimally invasive techniques including SEPS to treat and address problems related to chronic venous insufficiency (Kalra & Glovisczki, 2002). Multiple studies confirm the safety and efficacy of Continue Reading...
Nursing: Today and Throughout History
The occupation of nursing has been around for almost all of history in some form or another. In the ancient Roman Empire are found records of the nursing practice, where nurses provided care to in-patients at lo Continue Reading...
The survey population included hospital administrators and physicians as well as registered and practicing nurses, and as such it provides a comprehensive view of this issue. The research was also able to not certain key differences in perception am Continue Reading...
Such is to say that the nurse will be the single greatest resource to the patient and that through this professional, all other necessary resources are channeled. Essentially, this denotes that the relationship established between the patient and nu 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...