Staffing shortages in nursing are a consequence of poor nurse retention and nurse satisfaction. Being a nurse requires a lot of dedication, patience, and ability to keep updated in a constantly evolving world. When hospitals and other medical facilit Continue Reading...
Violence MORE THAN A BRAWL A long-standing epidemic, which is recognized and addressed after 25 years, may be as serious as the diseases, which the healthcare industry has been zealously combating. It is called lateral violence or LV. It is hostil Continue Reading...
Advanced Nursing Ethics and Values It is required that nurses understand their ethical responsibilities when it comes to providing care as well as when they are functioning within a diverse healthcare setting. The paper is based on a case study that Continue Reading...
Medical ethics are basically a collection of values, principles and moral judgments in the context of healthcare practice. For instance at the core of these values, is the aspect of autonomy. In this regard, it is realized that a patient is granted Continue Reading...
Introduction Patient-centered care is the goal of many healthcare organizations, but the ability of an organization to deliver patient-centered care is influenced by a number of factors both internal and external. Business practices, regulatory requ Continue Reading...
2008).. This points to the ethical responsibility of nurse educators -- it is not enough to treat the disease, bit one must treat the patient. Failure to provide the proper level of education to a patient is certainly one way to fail them both ethi Continue Reading...
Ethic - Organ Donation The donation of organs and their eventual transplant have been regarded as a distinct way in which mankind shows and shares its compassion. Cutting out organs from one person and moving them into the body of another is one of 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...
Client Autonomy in Community Health & Nurse Safety in Community Practice Nurses involved in community nursing often face ethical and practical dilemmas, particularly with regard to the issue of patient autonomy. Community practice differs for nu Continue Reading...
Health Nursing Healthcare Perspectives Deontology Deontology decides what one should and should not do based on what is fundamentally right and wrong. It basis ethical theory on what is morally required by duty, what is forbidden or wrong accordin Continue Reading...
Nurse practitioners receive employment within the context of IP or interprofessional teams worldwide (Hurlock-Chorostecki, Forchuk, Orchard, van Soeren, & Reeves, 2013). The 2013 article seeks to describe the role of the nurse practitioner within Continue Reading...
Carnegie National Nursing Education Study investigated the three dimensions of nursing education and formation apprenticeships (Benner et al., 2010). These are the learning of theory and scientific methods, the mastery of skillful practice, and the Continue Reading...
Advanced Practice Nurses and Prescriptive Authority Though the roles of Clinical Nurse Specialist, Nurse Educator and Nurse Administrator are all vital to the health care industry, they are not allowed prescriptive authority per se. However, the rol Continue Reading...
Nursing Staffing Problem Introduction 3 significant aspects play a vital part within the worldwide migration and recruiting of nurse practitioners together with "supply-demand", "globalization" and "push-pull" aspects. & Continue Reading...
Overlap An ethical dilemma that virtually any Advanced Nurse Practitioner can face when he or she is involved in palliative care is encountering a situation in which their patient's ability to get well has been so reduced that the patient's death i Continue Reading...
DRNP Growing up in Africa, I had no concept of the Western approach to mental illness. Rather than treating the mentally ill as sick people, many Africans believe that mental illness is a manifestation of something else, traditionally a curse. There Continue Reading...
Development of a Nursing Peer Review Process at Cypress Fairbanks Medical CenterTask 1: Project ProposalClinical/Organizational ProblemThe need for establishing a nursing peer review (NPR) process has been identified by researchers in the healthcare Continue Reading...
Theatre Nurses Equipped With the Skills Required to Perform Pre-Operative Visits To Perform Pre-Operative Visits? Are Theatre Nurses Equipped With the Skills Required To Perform Pre-Operative Visits? Dissemination Are Theatre Nurses Equipped Wi Continue Reading...
In other words, physicians authorize the nurse practitioner to prescribe certain medications -- perhaps not all but those medications that are most often required by patients -- without getting approval from a physician. It saves time and is primari Continue Reading...
Sociology -- Medical Dominance on the Profession of Nursing and How is the Profession of Nursing Challenging Medical Dominance in Australia In the context of medical practice, the contemporary medical society is representing a change in the increasi Continue Reading...
multigenerational issues of leadership in the workplace. The discussion explores the differences between the traditionalist generation, baby boomers, Generation X and Generation Y the discussion also focuses on how the differences between these gene Continue Reading...
long-term care settings, ranging from legal issues typical of any care setting such as malpractice suits, accusations of negligence, licensing procedures and/or violations, etc., to issues that are more specific to long-term care provision such as a Continue Reading...
APRNs and State RegulationIntroductionThe evolution of healthcare practice has led to the development of advanced roles such as the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN). Specifically, the role of the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP) has been Continue Reading...
Nurse Leadership Literature Cummings, et al. (2010) found that relational leadership led to greater productivity, effectiveness, and extra effort when compared to task-focused leadership styles. The importance of the study to the current research i Continue Reading...
Ethical Decision Nursing professionals have to make routine decisions bearing ethical principles and regulations in mind. Proper decision-making necessitates a grasp of the interface between nursing, laws, and ethics (Furlong, 2007, p. 29). But nur Continue Reading...
Scenario Selected: The parents of a 5-year-old boy have accompanied their son for his required physical examination before starting kindergarten. His parents are opposed to him receiving any vaccines In the words of Riley, Locke, Skye and Arbor (2011 Continue Reading...
Healthcare Problems in the CommunityThe most pressing problems that I see in my community today are limited access to healthcare, disparities in healthcare, and the high cost of healthcare. There are of course other issues, but they tend to be all in Continue Reading...
cultural diversity issues and its impact on nursing professionals' practice. It assesses a client hailing from a different culture, and employs information derived from the assessment determining and reflecting on health practices and beliefs of the Continue Reading...
Religion and health have long been linked, and continue to be so in most cultures around the world. In fact, both mental and physical health problems were once believed to have supernatural or spiritual origins, a belief which persists until this day Continue Reading...
quality of care and ensuring patient safety. In the home health care organization, peer review also measures staff competence and provides valuable feedback for performance reviews and making necessary changes to improve quality of service or effici Continue Reading...
DNP today a clash of culture, power, politics or none of these? When first instituted, the DNP (Doctor of Nursing Practice) degree was thought to address a very important deficit within the nursing profession, namely a need for greater preparation Continue Reading...
Business Management Plan for Primary Care Setting Develop a business management plan for a primary care setting Promote an APN practice to the public Expertise of professionals specialized in the skills and knowledge are vital towards the achievem Continue Reading...
Imogene King's Attainment Theory King's Attainment Theory The thrust of Imogene King's theory of goal attainment is a loosely-coupled partnership between the nurse and the patient that enables communication about the patient's condition, their heal Continue Reading...
The main finding sof the study were in addition to correlate identification the development of a more clear idea of the real limitations of prevalence of existing PADs, in that 4-13% of study participants had already created PADs of one or both type Continue Reading...
Evidence-Based Practice Translation of Research in Evidence-Based Practice Nursing involves men and women who are willing to help the patients with their skills like health maintenance, recovery of ill or injured people and the treatment. They deve Continue Reading...
Evidence-Based Practice Translation of Research in Evidence-Based Practice Nursing involves men and women who are willing to help the patients with their skills like health maintenance, recovery of ill or injured people and the treatment. They deve Continue Reading...
Scenario 2: A friend calls and asks you to prescribe a medication for her. You have this autonomy, but you don’t have your friend’s medical history. You write the prescription anyway. Many healthcare practitioners will avoid practicing m Continue Reading...
credentialing and regulatory problems encountered by Advanced Practice Nursing professionals (APNs). Further, it will explore the regulatory obstacles they come across, together with historical aspects that played a role in APN development to the le Continue Reading...
Growth and Changes in Nursing Now that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the law of the land, nurses can expect to have even more responsibility and even more opportunities to use their skills. This paper reviews how the restructuring of the U.S. he Continue Reading...
