In addition to lecture-based introduction to religious differences, video and/or live presentations from religious leaders and clergy from different faiths and role play exercises, the proposed implementation of training in this area should also inc Continue Reading...
The authors describe findings from a survey designed to gather baseline data about changes organizations experience after implementing the Clinical Practice Model framework, and report how the Clinical Practice Model Resource Center staff used the s 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...
This is one of the most common forms of research and, for some research questions is clearly a strong design (Ethics in Critical Care Nursing Research, 2005). The research that was done in this article would be considered a non-experimental type. T Continue Reading...
In order to better understand women's understanding of unforeseen and upsetting indications in the time after dynamic cancer management, this qualitative secondary examination looked at how women looked at unforeseen and upsetting indication practic Continue Reading...
Nursing & Humanities, Alice Munro SLIDES FOR A PRESENTATION OF HUMANTIES AND NURSING: CHRONIC AND TERMINAL CARE ISSUES PRESENTED IN ALICE MUNRO'S "THE DAY OF THE BUTTERFLY," BELLE & SEBASTIAN'S "IT COULD HAVE BEEN A BRILLIANT CAREER," AND TO Continue Reading...
ethical hospice care is that it must be founded upon honesty. "Frank discussions about death and dying, clarifying knowledge of the underlying illness and knowledge of the dying process" is essential (Guido 2010: 35). However, this must be balanced Continue Reading...
Holistic Nursing Care Plan for Terminally Ill Patient The objective of this study is to create a holistic nursing care plan for a terminally ill patient. This study will explain how perceptions about quality of life and health promotion might affect Continue Reading...
GERONTOLOGICAL & GRIATRIC NURSING Nursing Paper-Gerontological & Griatric Nursing End of Life Issues and the Elderly (2) "Identify and discuss the role of the nurse in providing family centred care to an elderly client who is palliative a Continue Reading...
Life Care End-of-life care may be one of the most difficult aspects of healthcare services. After all, the goal of most healthcare providers is to heal, and providing end-of-life requires a shift in perspective. One of the challenges in planning en 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...
Chest Tubes Nursing -- Chest Tubes As the field of nursing gains more respect around the world, nursing professionals and nursing students becomes increasingly aware of the high degree of specialized knowledge and practice that are necessary to be Continue Reading...
Hisory of Palliatve Care Palliative Care Palliative Care Methods Palliative care entails assisting patients get through pain caused by different diseases. The patient may be ailing from any diseases, be it curable or untreatable. Even patient who Continue Reading...
Government Regulations and Hospice Government Regulations Affecting Health Care in Hospice Hospice Regulations Affecting Health Care in Hospice Impact of rules on Hospice services Annotated Bibliography This paper focuses on how government regu Continue Reading...
health care system has focused on the prevention and cure of disease and illness. When people got sick, every bit of energy and finances went into trying to figure out how to stop it. This was true even when the patient had a disorder or a disease t Continue Reading...
Lone Star Hospice 2012 The FY2011 General Fund budget proposal for the Lone Star Hospice -- our commitment to the community to a new level during a mainly difficult financial period by improving the quality of the hospice and budget experience, hold Continue Reading...
ANA Nursing Code of Ethics ANA Code of Ethics Applied to Current Practice Philosophy The objective of this study is to discuss provisions one through nine of the ANA Code of Ethics and apply it to the current practice philosophy. A well this work w Continue Reading...
Palliative Nursing FOR END-OF-LIFE CASES Palliative Care Nursing Theories Theories and a Theoretical Framework for Nursing A nursing theory helps structure decisions and practice for the nurse professional (Scribd, 2014). The three major types ar Continue Reading...
End-of-Life Health Care Imagine this scenario: a patient has end stage heart failure, coronary artery disease, peripheral artery disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and sleep apnea. She has refused any invasive treatments for many years, Continue Reading...
Palliative Care Queensland is basically an independent not for profit body that represents the palliative care providers, consumers and their families. This organization is concerned with people who have an interest in palliative care in Queensland ( Continue Reading...
(Feldman & Greenberg, 2005, p. 67) Staffing coordinators, often nurse leaders must seek to give priority to educational needs as a reason for adjusting and/or making schedules for staff, including offering incentives to staff not currently seeki Continue Reading...
Most palliative care vocational nurses are generalists. However, there are specialties in palliative care, such as oncology and geriatrics. Hospice and palliative care nurses can become Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurses (CHPN). Palliative nu Continue Reading...
Patient Care and the Nursing Profession From January of 2012 until the present day, I have worked as an LPN. During that time, I have been in pediatric homecare, where I monitored and cared for children on ventilators and with tracheotomies. My expe Continue Reading...
Personal Philosophy What is nursing to me? Nursing is all about caring for and knowing how to take care of patients in illness to help them heal and take care of patients in birth and death. This is just a brief introduction of nursing where we fur Continue Reading...
, 2007). The nurses at the medical-surgical, trauma, neurological, cardiovascular, cardiology and transplant sections directly and personally confront the various needs of families of the death of a loved one. One nursing author, Jane Felgen, set for Continue Reading...
Medical procedures, like chemotherapy and radiation, are frequently used to alleviate pain and symptoms and for cure. Intravenous medications tackle pain but are also costlier than other forms. The appearance of new and costlier drugs blurs the fine Continue Reading...
As Bonsall (2012) points out, The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) has defined specialty certification as “a process by which a nongovernmental agency validates, based upon predetermined standards, an individual nurse’s qu Continue Reading...
Palliative Care/Gibbs DESCRIPTION Palliative care is comfort care for an individual who is no longer in need or desires life saving care. Most palliative care is offered near the end of life. Palliative care often takes a more holistic approach whe Continue Reading...
By definition, this means that sicker patients receive more attention from staff than less sick patients. By contrast, hospice patients all receive much more similar attention. Whereas the medical treatments provided by hospitals are often complica Continue Reading...
Organizational Analysis -- Hope Hospice Advanced Organizational Analysis - Hospice As a nonprofit, Hope Hospice has undergone a tremendous evolution from a small agency to a major presence in south Florida. What is perhaps most remarkable is the a Continue Reading...
Elderly Care in America: A comparison with England's Healthcare System Healthcare in America vs. Healthcare in England Different countries have varying healthcare systems across the world and the systems are set to benefit the local population with Continue Reading...
Intervention Nursing Research Using the COPE Intervention for Family Caregivers to Improve Symptoms of Hospice Homecare Patients: A Clinical Trial This study was designed to test an intervention for hospice caregivers in order to help them better Continue Reading...
Bridge/Prehospice Program: Do Hospice Bridge Programs Increase Quality of Life for Terminal Patients by Encouraging Earlier Access to Palliative Resources? The work of Levy, Bemski, and Kutner (2008) entitled "Are Hospices Establishing Pre-Hospice/P 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...
Day treatment programs can provide services at less cost because the patient goes home at night after being treated during the day, which often is used for rehabilitating chronically ill patients (Sharfstein, Stoline, & Koran, 1995, p. 249). The Continue Reading...
Community Dementia Care and the Chronic Care Model End-Stage Dementia Evaluation Proposal Health Promotion Plan for Community End-Stage Dementia Care: The Chronic Care Model Health Promotion Plan for Community End-Stage Dementia Care: The Chronic 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...
Health Care Reimbursement and Billing Both Mrs. Zwick and Mr. Davis face significant issues in the presented scenarios. Mrs. Zwick has multiple considerations under Medicare Parts A, B and D, in addition to her hospital-acquired urinary tract infect Continue Reading...
