Nursing Autobiography I began my career in healthcare as a patient care technician (PCT) in a large hospital. Working throughout the hospital as a float PCT, I gained experience with a diverse group of patients on every unit in the hospital. I event Continue Reading...
The strengths of this design are related to the ease of application and usage. The design of the survey was easy to administer and self explanatory. While the weakness was related to the willingness of the participant to Chapter Three 5 participat Continue Reading...
Nursing Ethical Compassion in Nursing What personal, cultural, and spiritual values contribute to your worldview and philosophy of nursing? How do these values shape or influence your nursing practice? The role played by the nurse professional is Continue Reading...
Nursing Process Improvement and Change Change management or process improvement in healthcare guarantees that the vital systems in the healthcare organizations are functioning at their optimal. The objectives of healthcare procedure enhancement are Continue Reading...
In fact, nursing staff should have access to mobile technologies that allow for decisions to be made instantaneously at the bedside. For example, a PDA would allow nurses to access the literature directly from the bedside without leaving the patient Continue Reading...
Nursing Assessment Taking the history of a patient is a crucial aspect of patient assessment and treatment. A good history can mean the difference between a successful patient outcome and unsatisfactory outcomes. However, taking a complete and usefu Continue Reading...
Nursing Leadership The task that awaits a newly hired nurse unit manager in this particular care facility is going to be challenging. With nurses complaining out loud about assignments, and with nurses calling in sick, being late to work and not bei Continue Reading...
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...
Nursing Theory and Leininger The world of contemporary nursing is a complex, yet rewarding, career choice. Far from the outdated paradigm of the Nurse being just the Doctor's assistant, the contemporary nursing professional takes on a partnership ro Continue Reading...
There are, of course, many individuals besides nurses that are essential parts of medical teams when it comes to providing effective and efficient care to patients. General practitioners (GPs) are primarily tasked with determining diagnoses and dev Continue Reading...
The Shared Governance arrangement: offers an apparatus for registered nurses to show guidance in the development of practice decisions authorizes all nursing staff to add to work redesign advances the quality of patient and family outcomes. In the Continue Reading...
Nursing Culture: Overcoming Barriers to Change Introduction and Theoretical Framework This program of study continues personal research and professional practice in the field of nursing within the area of public and private health systems. In an er Continue Reading...
Clinical narratives are used for the articulation and sharing of knowledge and experience which has been acquired over time and through experiential learning and is a way of enabling nurses to "tap into the thought processes and best practices of ex Continue Reading...
Advance Directives should include documented patient decisions about health care, which should be honored (Advanced practice in nursing: ethical and role issues in end-of-life care, 2004). As medical knowledge and technology increase, so do option Continue Reading...
Communications Effective communications between doctors and nurses has always been a high priority in the medical field, especially in an arena such as a hospital, health clinic or hospice. Communicating effectively between the nurses and the doctor Continue Reading...
Nursing Comm Communication in a Collaborative Healthcare Context Providing leadership in a healthcare context requires one skilled both as a manager and as a collaborator. The modern healthcare context is a highly collaborative environment in which Continue Reading...
Communication Skills Attendant upon my transition into the role of Mental Health Staff Nurse, I have devised the following reflective model-to-action plan for the formulation of workable communication skills. Realizing that "…all healthcare pr Continue Reading...
In this regard, she has demonstrated superior emotional intelligence (EI), a key component of democratic and transformational leadership (Sanders, Davidson, Price, 1996). She also is compassionate and helps the nurses who need more guidance to under Continue Reading...
Within some managed care systems, physicians who perform more procedures and spend more time with patients than is deemed necessary are penalized or physicians are simply paid based upon their number of patients, rather than the extent of the care t Continue Reading...
Nursing Shortage: Its Effect on Patient Outcome In today's environment of rising costs in the health care industry, one of the first casualties in many hospitals is the level of RN staffing. In fact, across the country, hospital RNs are increasingly Continue Reading...
Nursing shortage is a problem in many countries. It is often difficult to get trained nurses. While nurses are an integral part of the health care system, a shortage of trained nurses leaves an impact on the health care system. Due to the shortage o Continue Reading...
The caregiver role includes those activities that assist the client physically, mentally, and emotionally, while still preserving the client's dignity. In order for one to be an effective caregiver, the patient must be treated in a holistic manner. Continue Reading...
Nursing Leadership Issues Reflect on how you would create a safe environment in a healthcare setting by applying the 4 characteristics of a culture of safety. They are: • Psychological safety. People know their concerns will be openly received Continue Reading...
After the change process has been developed a failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) would need to be done. This analysis is done in order to project the likelihood that the process improvement plan will not fail. The interdisciplinary team for t Continue Reading...
Others include delays in data accessibility, albeit shorter delays and the continued need for source data verification (Donovan, 2007). Other obstacles have occurred in the developing of mobile healthcare applications. These have included mobile de 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...
Because patients have an active role in their care plan and are in more frequent contact with their healthcare provider, they gain a better understanding of their condition and become more compliant in their care." (Moore, 1) This speaks directly to Continue Reading...
Theoretical Foundations of Nursing: Nursing can be described as a science and practice that enlarges adaptive capabilities and improves the transformation of an individual and the environment. This profession focuses on promoting health, improving t Continue Reading...
Advanced Practice Roles in Nursing Roles of the Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Educator, Nurse Informatics, and Nurse Administrator The Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Educator, Nurse Informatics, and Nurse Administrator provide health care services although Continue Reading...
ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING ROLES: NP vs. CNS Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Roles The United States is home to nearly a quarter of a million advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs). Of these, the vast majority chose to pursue a Master of Sci Continue Reading...
Theory-Guided Practice A relationship exists between theories, research, practical application, and education. The latter three, in fact, ought to be directed by the former. Further, research works inform education as well as practical application th Continue Reading...
HEALTH AND NURSING Health and Nursing: Practicum on Caregiver Role Strain and Nurse BurnoutThe role strain principally refers to the incompatibility of the social role that an individual has to face when expectations and obligations have to be met. A Continue Reading...
Assessing the Problem: Leadership, Collaboration, Communication, Change Management, and Policy ConsiderationsIntroductionThe patient health problem I will explore during my practicum is the challenges faced by individuals with quadriplegia and co-mor Continue Reading...
This help in solving conflicts between patients in a hospital. In nursing practice, there are quite different in between clinical nursing specialist and nurse practitioner in the scope of operation. Therefore, a clinic nurse specialist works under Continue Reading...
Workflow Analysis in Clinical Settings: A Comprehensive OverviewThis paper discusses the importance of clinical informatics and workflow analysis in healthcare. First, it gives an overview of clinical informatics; then, it looks at what workflow anal Continue Reading...
Safety, Communication, And Placement for the Adult Communication, and Placement for the Older Adult Safety, Communication, and Placement for the Older Adult Nursing practice continues to evolve and revolutionize the health care sector, providing n Continue Reading...
Change Improving Hospice Urinary Infection Rates: An Analysis of Foley Catheter Use in a Hospice Setting Change is a necessary part of any organization. One critical area that demands change in hospice nursing is overzealous use of Foley catheter Continue Reading...
Advanced Nursing Practice Field Experience Lolita Knight Proposal Form Please refer to separate submission in Taskstream CHSI is committed to providing the best quality medical care possible for its population of underserved patients. This summar Continue Reading...
