, 2005). In addition, the workload on clinicians is often increased past the point of reasonable because it is too intrusive and time consuming to document patient encounters during clinic time (Grabenbauer, Skinner, and Windle, 2011). The amount of Continue Reading...
participation and personal experience with regulatory visit preparation and about the Quality Improvement process in your healthcare organization. Include a reflection about an observation you made about how a nurse leader used her power to implemen Continue Reading...
Patient, Mr. D., is a 74-year-old male Caucasian, married and retired. Mr. D. complains of dizziness and weakness. Type-2 diabetes was diagnosed in 1994, hypertension in 2002, and arthritis in 2007. Mr. D. is currently taking 20mg Lipitor/daily; 81 m Continue Reading...
Self-Care Strategies Self-care is a widely acknowledged aspect of Counseling. Through research, studies and hard-earned self-knowledge, experts have defined personal attributes, strategies such as mentoring, and qualities that can lead to developmen Continue Reading...
Physical Activity in Prison The effects that prison incarceration has on the health and well-being of inmates are multi-faceted and complex. The prison environment presents stressors not experienced outside of the prison context that can bring about Continue Reading...
This is going to get done by means of using email, text messaging and the Internet to interact with my workers in a professional manner. Regardless, I am shaping my staff to change and become better people. I will have to maintain an open mind to th Continue Reading...
Caregivers of Alzheimer's Patients Community Health Promotion Project Design As we have discovered in the first part of the study, Alzheimer's is a major health issue for the population of seniors 65 years and older. Alzheimers costs taxpayers and Continue Reading...
RN Risk prevention policy in practice The proposed study looks at lateral violence in U.S. healthcare institutions, through the scope of policy formation as it pertains to medical malpractice and organizational behavior in healthcare institutions. Continue Reading...
Facility Risk Management Risk Management Facility Issue: Infant Abduction Risk is defined as "anything that threatens the ability of [a] business to accomplish its mission." (Pakeys, 2010) The risk management plan is held to be "much broader than t Continue Reading...
Findings showed that medication was the most common treatment, followed by physiotherapy and no treatment. The majority preferred physiotherapy and no surgery was the third most popular choice. Their preferences and choices evolved from previous exp Continue Reading...
Community Philosophy The current community philosophy regarding smoking among teens is foundational to the development of a comprehensive risk behavior intervention standard. Smoking behaviors among teens in the community are highly visible, while Continue Reading...
The Foundation called specific attention to the prospect of institutional and policy-level strategies to increase the participation of under-represented minorities in the health professions. In response, the Institute Committee on Institutional and Continue Reading...
2. The key question the author addresses is whether a change to administrative practices and leadership styles will promote retention of newly recruited nursing staff. 3. The author uses a literature review to bolster the main argument and support Continue Reading...
More is learned every day in the field of medicine and nursing, and articles such as this one serve to point out that there is much more that needs to be learned. Serving the elderly population with Alzheimer's disease and treating them for their pr Continue Reading...
Individuals are asked to work toward those goals and values they hold while experience their thoughts and positive feelings." (Gregg et al., 2007) ACT is stated to have "shown positive outcomes for a wide variety of conditions including for chronic Continue Reading...
Expressive functioning is related to communication such as emotional, verbal, and nonverbal communication, problem solving and roles within the family. Beliefs within the family are also a part of expressive functioning. For the purpose of the Calg 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...
Evidence Based Practice University of Illinois Evidence Based Medicine Resources: Lessons Learned From the search resources I learned that in evidence based medicine, patient values comprising of their unique concerns, preferences, and expectations i Continue Reading...
Clinical Experience Sunrise Clinical System Version 6.1 The Emergency Room: Hybrid System Meetings and Collaborative Care Councils Workflow of the EMR The KBC ( Knowledge Bas Charting) 3.4 Upgrade 6 The Role of the Nurse Informaticist Compreh Continue Reading...
Mr. B Case Study The case study in question which saw the loss of MR. B suggests many practical learning points in developing successful hospital emergency department (ED) procedures. This writing will propose a complete root cause analysis that tak Continue Reading...
Promote Team Effectiveness Promoting Team Effectiveness In which health care settings would the selected health professional work and if applicable how would their job title differ between each setting? The selected health care professionals in th Continue Reading...
Mr. Medicare's Myocardia Mr. Medicare Patient and his wife Mrs. Medicare were sitting on the couch watching a football game one Sunday, when Mr. Medicare began to feel ill. It began with a feeling like indigestion, which he attributed to the spicy c Continue Reading...
The subject is now part of a national political task force, with the goal of eliminating the problem within one generation (Ferran, 2010). Formally, teen pregnancy is based on a woman who will not reach her 20th birthday by the expected birth of he Continue Reading...
hospital community group with high incidence of diabetes and low literacy presents to the teaching efforts of a hospital nurse. Description of the selected adult learner, learning topic and related hospital circumstances I am a registered clinical Continue Reading...
The first group will receive a placebo. The second group will receive a spiritual chakra treatment designed to correct electrochemical imbalances within the body. The third group will receive medication to treat psychosis. The specific medication do Continue Reading...
In Mrs. K's case (as in terms of all patients to whom the test is administered) her educational attainment and age need to be considered. Mrs. K's rating was low - 14 points - and although this does correlate closely with dementia, caution has to b Continue Reading...
26) Research Methodology This work will first provide a synopsis of a more detailed review of literature developing the case of transformational leadership model in healthcare, exploring some of the claims of the model as it is observed in practic Continue Reading...
Nurses, who have first hand knowledge and understanding of how to live healthy and how to take proper care of themselves, are far better equipped to teach others about these concepts. Certain populations can benefit greatly from prevention, especial Continue Reading...
It does not happen overnight; 3) Reflective practice occurs best when learners work with role models; 4) as noted by Fink, instruction needs to be learner-centered, of interest to the learners and long-lasting; 5) the institution in which the nurses Continue Reading...
As a result, children and adolescents are at risk of delays and impairments in cognitive development" (Levy 2009). Such delays are far from inevitable, but they do underline the need to assure that Sarah 'keeps up' with her studies and that reasonab Continue Reading...
When one throws the element of ethnicity into the mix, the process of diagnosis becomes even more difficult. Let us take, for instance the effect of religion on the diagnosis of a mental illness. In some religions it is considered to be "normal" to Continue Reading...
(Eljamal; Stark; Arnold; Sharp, 1999) To conclude, it be said that if we will not be able to master imparting the capability to think in a developed form, our profession, as well as perhaps our world, would be influenced and taken over by someone w Continue Reading...
The better the pain management is in any case, regardless of age, the more likely a patient is to recover fully and in comfort and not feel afraid when injury or illness occur. From a clinical nursing perspective this is essential to the development Continue Reading...
Aunt Hattie and Chester What might Chester have done to avoid this tragic outcome? Relatives like Chester want the best for their family and loved ones. However, when Aunt Hattie was no longer able to live completely independently, Chester had lit Continue Reading...
Diabetes II Description of the Client Situation: This case examines Type II Diabetes in a 45-year-old black woman, an immigrant from Africa and a high school graduate, whose husband died a year ago. She is a restaurant manager and has a health insu Continue Reading...
Spirituality Positively Affects Those With Terminal Illness Medicine and the dimension of spirituality were before bounded apart from each other in terms of belief, specifically in the field of science. As a universal practice, the field of medicine Continue Reading...
Reliability a. Dependability means emphasis on the need for researchers to take into consideration, the ever-evolving context within research as it happens (Creswell & Miller, 2000). The responsibility of qualitative research is to describe the c Continue Reading...
Hospital: Peer Review Applying Rule 217.16 Minor Incidents Read the following scenario and then answer the questions that follow You are on your hospital's Peer Review Committee (PRC). You are reviewing Nurse A's practice. She works on the Continue Reading...
infer an answer to a particular section, then you must so state and JUSTIFY your statement. DO NOT LEAVE ANY SECTION BLANK. Caution: Do not provide a "Yes" or "no" answer without an EXPLANATION. YOU MUST JUSTIFY ALL YOUR RESPON Continue Reading...
Interview Transcript Would you describe yourself as a spiritual person, a religious person, or neither? I would not describe myself as a spiritual person, but I am open-minded. I do not typically talk about my religion or my beliefs. I respect othe Continue Reading...
