legal Briefs Hill v. Ohio County 468 S.W. 2D 306 (Ky.1971) Facts lady by the name of Juanita Monroe went to Ohio County Hospital seeking medical assistance. She was pregnant, and the charge nurse she approached assumed she was seeking obstetrical Continue Reading...
Critical Appraisal Wet-to-Dry Wound Care There is a need for surgeons and nurses to understand the impact of using a wet-to-dry dressing of wounds. Research on the usage of this method is over 50 years old and this was carried out by Dr. Winters. Alt Continue Reading...
Adolescent Suicide: An Overview of Nursing Interventions Despite the idea that adolescents are in the prime of life, adolescence is one of the most fraught periods of development, at least within the context of contemporary Western culture. Adolescen Continue Reading...
African-American people from a qualitative perspective. The literature review will provide a brief background on African-American people and leading health problems they face along with a brief inclusion of census data to create a general picture of Continue Reading...
Middleville RHC The author of this report is to look at the theoretical test case and associated statistics of a medical facility known as Middleville Regional Health Care. They are one of three hospitals serving a community of about 350,000 people. Continue Reading...
Health Care continues to undergo fundamental change. Legislation such as the affordable care act has created a much higher percentage of insured citizens. Patent legislation is now allowing for much more competition for popular drugs. Generic drugs i Continue Reading...
Ali, G.; Lalani, N.; Ali, C.; Nadia, A.M.; (2015) Community mental health initiatives in Pakistan, Nursing Standard, 29(22) This article focuses on the mental health initiatives in Pakistan and how they impact and influence the needs assessment appr Continue Reading...
Transformational Leadership Types of leadership and management Though there is no clear prescription of the leadership style that is to be followed by a given industry or type of organization, it is worth noting that leadership styles can be combin Continue Reading...
placement practice I discovered a great deal about pressure ulcers that occur following perioperative care. I am normally community based and I treat patients that have been discharged from hospital that have developed pressure ulcers following an o Continue Reading...
School Nurses Jonathan Zaun For most students who grew up during more prosperous economic times, the school nurse held a position of almost mythical stature, dispensing colorful cough drops and bandaging scraped knees. This matronly figure was a ga Continue Reading...
The ranks of male nurses may be growing, but social perceptions have not. Thus, while much has changed in terms of expanding the ranks of the healthcare profession to nontraditional gender roles in all fields of medicine, perceptions that females a Continue Reading...
Summary of Common and Conflicting Findings Hart, Bergquist, Gajewski & Dunton (2006); Gunningberg (2005); Wipke-Tevis, Williams, Rantz, Popejoy, Madsen, Petroski & Vogelsmeier (2004); and Vanderwee, Grypdonck, DeBacquer & Defloor (2006 Continue Reading...
CERNER software is built to allow for an enterprise-wide view of a patient\'s clinical information in order to coordinate patient care and document at which point care was delivered especially in acute patient settings. Using the software provide Continue Reading...
Room Size Matters in Behavioral Health Outpatient Facilities Importance/Relevance of Problem Patient housing facilities have a crucial role to play in their smooth recovery, in both nursing homes and hospitals. Outpatient healthcare clinics' reside Continue Reading...
countries of the West and other major developed countries throughout the world are notable in many ways. Comparing and contrasting the two is just one way that very interesting topics and debates can be triggered. While many Western and other develo Continue Reading...
Evolving U.S. Health Care System The Role Nurses Will Play in the Changing Healthcare Landscape Nurses have a key role in the perpetually changing U.S. healthcare system and will be responsible for implementing many of the changes on both a strate Continue Reading...
social media and smartphones in the area of healthcare, and how legal and ethical principles are to be applied to ensure their proper use in healthcare as pertains to personal technology. The field of healthcare is eagerly embracing all technology Continue Reading...
Health Policy Letter The health policy being proposed Medicines are primarily used to avert chronic ailments, infectious viruses and alleviate pain. If used incorrectly and without necessary instructions, medicines can instigate harmful outcomes in Continue Reading...
Health History And Screening of an Adolescent or Young Adult Client Save this form on your computer as a Microsoft Word document. You can expand or shrink each area as you need to include the relevant data for your client. Biographical Data Patien Continue Reading...
Similar to becoming a Board Certified Physician, credentialed nurses bring a far higher quality of professionalism to the field, and allow the public and medical community a standard by which staff must be held. Do think it is important for clinica Continue Reading...
Telemedicine Some of the traditional barriers to health care have been eliminated or reduced by the use of technology that helps deliver health care to patients from a distance. This is defined as telemedicine. According to the American Telemedicine 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...
Affordable Care Act will improve several aspects mentioned in this paper. Cost This act regulates costs that affect the consumer as well as those that affect the industry. The Affordable Care Act seeks to impact various groups, some of which includ Continue Reading...
New-Hire orientation process for a home health agency in La Mesa. CA A needs assessment survey is "a way of asking group or community members what they see as the most important needs of that group or community" ("Section 7," 2015). The purpose of Continue Reading...
Policy Change for Long-Term Care Too many nursing homes and long-term care facilities have become complacent and are happy to engage in the absolute minimum when it comes to the level of care that they provide for elderly residents and for patients Continue Reading...
All managers would be full-time employees with benefits and salaries ranging between $35,000 to $40,000 with benefits and the opportunity for business equity. In sum total, the facility would employ 30 nurses. The distribution of schedules and shif Continue Reading...
Medical Management of Adolescent Athletic Knee Fractures is a 13-year-old middle school student who was admitted to Antelope Valley hospital complaining of severe pain in the right knee while playing football in his Physical Education class at schoo Continue Reading...
Pangman and Seguire Journal Review "Sexuality and the Chronically Ill Older Adult: A Social Justice Issue" "Sexuality and the Chronically Ill Older Adult: A Social Justice Issue" is an article by Verna C. Pangman and Marilyn Seguire, first publish Continue Reading...
c. What types of validity were used? Is the validity adequate? Multiple trials, yes validity is adequate d. Are the instruments clearly described? All instruments utilized in the study are clearly described. e. Is interrater reliability describe 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...
Hospital Emergency Plan According to a study, about 99% of hospitals have plans to cope with disaster, and 95% of them even had committees for that purpose. There were reports from 90% or more of the hospitals which showed that they were in collabor Continue Reading...
Program Evaluation Summary The Better at Home Program, prompted by United Way of the Lower Mainland, was launched in 2012. It offers basic non-medical support services to seniors in BC and is financed by the BC Government. Services are rendered by o Continue Reading...
Troubling Issue of Elder Abuse & Neglect Recent research by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) reveals that one in ten Americans over the age of 60 have experienced physical abuse or neglect. Thesis: Family members and othe Continue Reading...
nursing research findings into clinical practice. Nociceptive Pain at the end of life Conduct a Medline/PubMed & CINAHL search to identify 2 (two) PRIMARY SOURCE research articles that were published within the last 5 years that are not cited Continue Reading...
hospitals with regard to postmortem care. In particular, the procedures used in postmortem care involve methods for appropriate care of the body after death, sensitive and appropriate notification of death to the significant other and family, as wel Continue Reading...
Veteran's Affairs According to VA.gov (2016), the Department of Veteran's Affairs has its roots in a policy passed in 1636 when soldiers at the Plymouth Colony who had fought on the war with the Pequot Indians were granted support by the colony. Aft Continue Reading...
clinical cases and examine malpractice perspectives. Background Info Concerns over mounting healthcare expenses have resulted in increased inquiry into medical practices. With the rise of malpractice risk and medical liability to unprecedented lev Continue Reading...
Mayo Clinic Strategic Marketing Determine the key characteristics of the users of the products and/or services of the health care provider you selected The key characteristics of the users of the products and services of Mayo Clinic encompasses tho Continue Reading...
HCC Life Insurance vs. Coventry Purpose of the INSURANCE COMPANY: The purpose of HCC Life Insurance Company is to provide Short-Term Health Insurance for a period of six months. Applicants must reapply for a policy every six months. The purpose of C Continue Reading...
Pathopharmacological Foundation Asthma Analyze the Pathophysiology of Asthma The complex chronic inflammatory disease known as asthma, involves several inflammatory cells, more than a hundred distinct mediators of inflammation, and various inflamm Continue Reading...
