The decade-old system that specifies least standards for staffing in nursing homes need to be restructured, the report says. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services must call for nursing homes to have at least one RN within the facility dur Continue Reading...
Impact of Nursing Informatics on Efficiency of Nursing and Improved Patient Outcomes Although some critics charge that innovations in technology are having a negative effect on humankind, virtually none of them deny the positive effect of such innova Continue Reading...
Role and Improving Management Performance: Nurse Shift Leader Management plays a key role towards improving performance in an organization. In the 21st century organizational setting, management is fundamental in ensuring that there is a high perfo Continue Reading...
Patient Falls and Nursing PICO Question -- Among acute care patients on a Medical-Surgical Unit, does hourly rounding, as opposed to only setting the bed alarm, significantly reduce patient falls (at least by 50%)? Modern healthcare and nursing are Continue Reading...
(McCormack, 2003, p.1) V. Seven Concepts that are 'Key' to Client Centered Practice The work of Law et al. (1995) relates seven concepts that are stated to be 'key to client centered practice' as follows: (1) Autonomy and Choice (2) Partnership Continue Reading...
Translation Evidence Into Nursing Health Care Practice. Chapter 6, "Translation Evidence Leadership" Article: Bakke, C.K. (2010). Clinical cost effectiveness guidelines prevent intravascular catheter-related infections patients' hemodialysis. Brief Continue Reading...
Community Nursing The service learning project planned to address the issue of workplace violence is Workplace Violence Prevention to take place at large tertiary care hospital in North Philadelphia. After reviewing current policies and procedures ( Continue Reading...
Therefore, I would tell the patient that their symptoms should not be considered in isolation of their whole person. Websites that address symptoms only are not taking into account the wealth of factors that can influence the diagnosis of a specific Continue Reading...
' It is important to remember the role of weight loss in diabetes health promotion and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. A nurse must stress the need for caloric limitation, as well as merely monitoring blood sugar and consumption of high-sugar foods Continue Reading...
EBP NEW MODELS FOR EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE a professional goal DNP-prepared nurses produce evidence-based models care develop evidence-based guidelines. As continue develop DNP Project Premise engage EBP Project, aim mind. Evidence-based practice Continue Reading...
, 2013). The change in environment and the people that the individual interacts with, hence learns from can fundamentally change the perception on drugs that the patient has. The drug abuse trend is due to the influence surrounding the individual, h Continue Reading...
Medical Futility in Nursing Care CARING AND CHOOSING Bioethics is described as both a field of intellectual inquiry and a professional practice that examines moral questions affecting various disciplines (Arras, 2007). These disciplines include bio Continue Reading...
Cultural Competence Nursing, like any of the fields within the medical professions, requires a wide-ranging set of skills. Some of these can be seen as purely technical, such as knowing how to triage a patient coming into an emergency department or Continue Reading...
IV. What Might be Suggested by John Dewey John Dewey would heartily approve of the teaching practice of Ms. Thompson. She is teaching in the 'present moment' utilizing that which is available for use instead of lamenting that which is not present. Continue Reading...
Applying "Ethical conflicts for new financial planners" to nursing The healthcare industry is increasingly faced with demands that it operate more like a for-profit business with a careful eye upon cutting costs. Reviewing managerial concepts intend Continue Reading...
Servant leadership is a form of leadership that challenges the old top-down paradigm of leadership and suggests that the best leaders are those who work for their followers instead of having their followers work for them. This philosophy does not mea Continue Reading...
Family Nursing Diagnoses Family nursing diagnosis The family in this case study is depicted as one of middle income capacity with the man of the house being the main provider of the house and the rest of the family being dependent on the father. Th Continue Reading...
Culturally Competent Nursing Care -- Asian Pacific Culturally Competent Nursing Care for Asian Pacific Culture Nurses and other healthcare professionals providing services to Asians / Pacific Islanders should understand that there are "…sever Continue Reading...
Health Care The overall health care industry has undergone fundamental change over the last decade. Most of the changes have occurred within the underlying business operation of the healthcare industry. These changes will ultimately effect nursing a Continue Reading...
Drug Abuse in Nursing Nurses and other medical professionals are tasked with taking care of their patients, of healing the body and saving lives. It is the job of these healthcare workers to literally stay death and make the individual well again. T Continue Reading...
Ethical Issues in Nursing Over the last ten years, the demand for long-term care services has been facing increasing amounts of pressure. Part of the reason for this is because of the large portion of the population that is becoming older (the Baby Continue Reading...
Leadership Qualities and Nursing Practice Effective leaders often leave a mark in the lives of those they lead, even many years after the encounter, even if the encounter was a brief one. One of the greatest leaders that have had significant influen Continue Reading...
Field, Marilyn Jane & Cassel, Christine K. (1997). Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of the Life. National Academic Press. This work emphasizes the necessity to improve end of life care as a way to help ease fears about death and re Continue Reading...
Community Nursing Generally, in any Hospital or Health Care Center, the patient would be looked after and taken care of by the Primary Care team, comprised of General Practitioners, Health Visitors, Practice Nurses, Physiotherapists, Podiatrists, Di Continue Reading...
Home-based Nurse-Coached Inspiratory Muscle Training Intervention in Heart Failure In order to devise an optimal experimental study, the primary information required and used by the researcher in this study is identification of the specific researc Continue Reading...
Health Care and Nursing As the medical profession gains a greater understanding of the various approaches to healthcare delivery, the concept of segmenting the services proscribed to a patient into primary, secondary, and tertiary care has emerged Continue Reading...
Evidence-Based Nursing and Research In the field of nursing, understanding how to apply specific research can help everyone to provide more effective care to patients. This is because the techniques and ideas that are discussed will have an impact o Continue Reading...
Interview Questions for Nursing Leadership Roles Candidate Name: *DOB: *Last 4 digits Social Security Number: Name(s) used While in School: Date Completed: *DOB and SS# are used to verify licensure and credentials only and will not be shared wi Continue Reading...
I knew she was researching subjects on her own, so I tried not to talk down to her, but explain things in terms she would understand. I think talking down to patients and family does them a great disservice, and makes you appear untrustworthy in the Continue Reading...
Cardiology Nursing This is a 12 lead ECG taken for Mr. Long at the Emergency Department. He presented with a two hour history of chest pain radiating to his left arm. The ECG is suggestive of an antero-septal Myocardial infarction. Further scrutiny Continue Reading...
Evidence-Based Practice using PICO The question posed for this search activity will be, "Does early referral of terminally ill patients into a hospice program results in better patient outcomes, in particular, with regard to pain management?" The pa Continue Reading...
" (Jacobs and Skocpol, 2007) Brown and Sparer (2003) state that Medicare is "...administered by the federal government. Not only eligibility criteria and financing policy but also the benefit package, policies governing payments to providers, and de Continue Reading...
I believe that in many cases, the early stages of dementia do not necessarily make it impossible for continued life to be worthwhile. However, there is a point of mental decline beyond which I have trouble recommending aggressive treatment of certai Continue Reading...
Diabetes Evidence-Based Practice Diabetes Diabetes is a disease which stays with the patient life-long except in some cases where the diabetes is gestational which occurs during pregnancy and often goes back to normal after the delivery. Typically Continue Reading...
Although only one mother died in the current study, 85% of the fetuses from mothers with Type B dissections perished after the invasive procedures. Conclusions: Type B aortic dissections require special attention and intervention. To influence safe Continue Reading...
Ebm Evidence-based practice is a fairly recent paradigm in medicine that places emphasis on applying new skills for healthcare workers such as nurses and physicians that include performing efficient literature searches and applying formal rules of e Continue Reading...
Knowledge, Theory, And Practice: Epistemology Epistemology, or the nature of knowledge, is often different for each person, from the standpoint of perspective. In other words, each person sees knowledge differently, and that can make what is "true" Continue Reading...
Mandatory Continuing Nursing Education There is a rapid expansion of techniques and knowledge in the field of health. Researchers James Morrison, James Kelly and Carl Lindsay have approximated that the half-life of knowledge gotten in school of medi Continue Reading...
Application of TheoryIntroductionAdvanced practice nursing is a specialized field that requires a comprehensive understanding of nursing theories and models to ensure that nursing care is delivered effectively and efficiently. Two relevant nursing th Continue Reading...
Nurses Leaving? Findings from an Initial Qualitative Study on Nursing Attrition Substantive and Theoretical Dimensions Problem and Significance Conceptual Framework Methodological Dimensions Ethical Dimensions Interpretive Dimensions Presenta Continue Reading...
