Next, the amount of legal and ethical hoops that electronic health records must jump through is substantial and no doubt overwhelming to someone who is new to it. With the advent of laws like HIPAA and even general ethical concerns that are not tec 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...
Current Issue in Nursing: Nursing Shortage Nursing quality and adequate staffing are intertwined. Adequate levels of nurses, lower nurse to patient ratios, and also more highly trained nurses are associated with better health outcomes and lower morta Continue Reading...
1). This is a problem that needs to be addressed by adding more training to the budget. The problem is, most hospitals' budgets are already spread too thin. Therefore, hospital administrators need to work harder to find sources to help fund their ac Continue Reading...
Nurse to Patient Ratios Fixed to Reduce Nurse Burnout and Turnover Dear Assemblywoman Solages, Senate Bill S1032 addresses the nurse-to-patient ration in New York by mandating that a “safe staffing for quality care” standard be defined an Continue Reading...
COURSE DEVELOPMENTCommunity Health Nursing Course DevelopmentPart ACourse OverviewBSN nurses must be prepared to practice and function effectively in a wide range of settings. Community health is considered an integral part of the public health secto Continue Reading...
Mabel Keaton Staupers Leaders that have shaped the nursing profession over the years have demonstrated a tremendous capacity for growth and development and have had a profound impact on the progression and expansion of the field. In addition, nurse Continue Reading...
GAO report showed that one in every five nursing homes across the country was found deficient in terms of its care practices. It was also discovered that some of the abuse incidents had been serious enough to put the resident's life in jeopardy. In Continue Reading...
baby boomers grow older, America is faced with a growing need to provide for them in long-term care situations, such as Nursing Homes. However, at the same time, we are faced with a growing difficulty finding and retaining a workforce to care for th Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Impact of Inadequate Nursing Staff on Patient Care Quality This essay could explore the direct correlation between inadequate staffing levels in nursing and the decline in patient care quality. It may discuss specific out Continue Reading...
Nurse-Patient Ratios. This is a legislator information sheet on nurse-patient ratios (as adapted from Aikan et al. 2010) for a busy legislator who will only have time to read bullet points: The ratio of nurse patient is lower in California than in Continue Reading...
; Assists staff to effectively supervise and delegate to other team members; Models coaching and mentoring; Effectively builds an cohesive nursing team; and Assists staff in managing conflict. (2003) In relation to 'Caring for Self, Staff and Pat Continue Reading...
Because this is true, it is critically clear that the nursing leadership manager's role is one of a vital nature and that support for nurses in their role is the primary component that must necessarily be integral to leadership in nursing in dialysi Continue Reading...
Proposal for mandatory staffing ratios Introduction: Reflection Public Policy Issue This policy will mandate that mandatory staffing ratios be met by hospitals throughout the nation. This is an important public policy issue because it would oblige ho Continue Reading...
Leadership for Advanced Practice Nursing 1 Staffing is not the main issue in elevating or containing costs: the main issue is retention. High turnover rates in nursing can drive costs up, but proper staffing with an appropriate ratio of nurses to pat Continue Reading...
COURSE DEVELOPMENTCommunity Health Nursing Course DevelopmentPart ACourse OverviewBSN nurses must be prepared to practice and function effectively in a wide range of settings. Community health is considered an integral part of the public health secto Continue Reading...
A summary of the issue and the middle-range theory that could be used There has been a disturbing trend of both surplus and shortage of nurses at different times throughout the healthcare workforce history in the US. There was a nursing shortage in t Continue Reading...
Education Plan for Nurse Burnout at North Mountain Medical The current issue at North Mountain Medical is nursing burnout, which is caused by various factors including inadequate staffing, increased workload, long working hours, poor working environm Continue Reading...
Conflict Management: Nursing Not all conflict is necessarily bad. Conflicts can be productive and bring to light difficult but important issues. This was the case at my workplace when one younger nurse raised objections to the ways in which less exp Continue Reading...
Nurse-Patient Ratio on Care Quality Nurse Patient Ratio The Impact of Nurse to Patient Ratio on Healthcare Quality The Impact of Nurse to Patient Ratio on Healthcare Quality It would be hard to understate the importance of a high nurse to patien Continue Reading...
Cross-Sectional Study to Determine Factors in the Educational Advancement of the Licensed Practical Nurse to the Registered Nurse in the State of North Carolina According to the Harvard Nursing Research Institute, United States nursing school enrol Continue Reading...
1997, the average pass rate for first time test takers on the NCLEX-RN was 93%. Since 1997, the national average pass rate on the NCLEX-RN has declined to 83.8% (National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, 2002). The pass rate for the state Continue Reading...
Finally, if the nurse and others concede that her ideas regarding policy change are successful and needed in the medical profession and that other medical professions would benefit from the implementation of these changes to their activities and sy Continue Reading...
Translational Research Emphasis for the last thirty years has been on shifting nursing curricula out of hospitals to universities. The education of nurses is now increasingly leaning towards theory. This has led to an obvious gap between what is exp Continue Reading...
Healthcare We can compare the healthcare workplace to what is seen by a person when he/she looks through a kaleidoscope: since there are numerous different patterns that appear as the moments pass by. The shortage of nurses which has been publicized Continue Reading...
Curriculum Development in Nursing Education Knowledge and Skills Curriculum Development Issue in Nursing Education, Knowledge and Skills Nurses make use of wide-ranging theories, models, knowledge and skills in nursing practice. Both their skills a Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Evolution of Nursing Services: A Historical Perspective: Explore how nursing services have changed and improved over time, examining the historical milestones, the influence of wars and pandemics, a Continue Reading...
Leadership and Management Nursing Issue: Nursing Shortage and Turnover Nursing shortage and nursing turnover is a key contemporary issue that has an adverse impact on nursing with respect to health care delivery to patients. Owing to the increase Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Role of Empathy in Nursing Care: This essay will explore the critical importance of empathy in nursing, examining how empathetic practices can influence patient outcomes, enhance the therapeut Continue Reading...
Nursing Leadership and Management Introduction Nurse handoff communication during shift change is one of the most frequent, though key, nursing duties which provides the basis for delivering safe, reliable care (Eggins & Slade, 2015). Study res Continue Reading...
components of value-based purchasing (VBP) that are most pertinent to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) based on its vital mission to provide high-quality health care services to the nation's veterans while identifying opportunities to re Continue Reading...
Nurse Communication Communication is one of the most important aspects of nursing, as the case study of the student and the instructor indicates. The student nurse failed to communicate to the instructor the patient's abnormal oxygen saturation read Continue Reading...
Nursing -- Leadership and Management ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Davies, A., Wong, C. A., & Laschinger, H. (2011). Nurses' participation in personal knowledge transfer: The role of leader-member exchange (LMX) and structural empowerment. Journal of Continue Reading...
In addition to the above the authors are very cognizant of the fact that surgical patient wellness is also directly attributable to patient-nurse ratios. According to the authors this ever-important factor impacts the patient mortality and failure Continue Reading...
Nurse BurnoutIntroductionAmong the various factors contributing to nursing shortages and high turnover, nurse burnout stands out as significant (McDermid et al., ). Indeed, burnout is a serious problem because it impairs individual nurses\\\' health, Continue Reading...
They could see that nursing staffs were spread more thinly in some hospitals than others. They knew that nurses believe they provide valuable, sometimes life-saving services. The authors connected their issue directly to nursing practice and the qu Continue Reading...
There is an increased incidence of worry and concern over malpractice claims which increasingly award patients higher amounts of money for patient's winning cases. Unfortunately this has led to many nurses practicing defensive care rather than preve Continue Reading...
The conceptual framework that I feel best helps to explain ethics, morals and laws is that found in the Aristotelian framework, which stipulates that ethics describe the theoretical beliefs and standards that are held individually or in a society, mo Continue Reading...
intervention for my PICO problem is changing the policies and procedures in hospital with the goal of reducing instances and severity of catheter-related urinary tract infections among affected patients. Although it is an administrative intervention Continue Reading...
