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...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Impact of Communication Breakdown in Patient Handoffs: Explore the consequences of poor communication during patient handoff on patient safety, the continuity of care, and potential legal implicat Continue Reading...
Strategy to Improve the Performance of Jacobi Hospital / Implementation Plan for Jacobi Hospital Potential Short- and Long-Term Financial Impact of HCAHPS Scores on Jacobi Hospital Solid finances in the current period as well as progress and viabil Continue Reading...
Cultural Diversity Hispanic culture is among the global cultures that are well-known for its unique believes, traditions, and practices that dictate the lifestyles of its people. Hispanic culture has a unique family, community structure, and hierarc Continue Reading...
Patient Satisfaction In the hospital and in other health care settings, patient safety has become one of the most important considerations. This is particularly so in terms of the increasing complexity of related technology. Indeed, it is common for Continue Reading...
Patient Safety Against Injurious Falls Description A White-Paper Testimony on Current Risks With more than a thousand preventable deaths a day, the need to pay greater attention to improving current patient safety conditions and standards is unque Continue Reading...
Nursing Leadership Thinking Critically, Making Decisions, Solving Problems LO1: Response The critical-thinking process can be used by answering 4 questions related to practical experiences. They are: the underlying assumptions, interpretation of Continue Reading...
Nursing Higher Education and Leadership Clinical leadership is very important because of the problems that characterize the health care sector, including workforce shortage, high rates of change, staff chaos, quality issues, and safety concerns, amon Continue Reading...
Caring for the Elderly "Caring for elderly patients with dementia: nursing interventions" The paper is centered around identifying the challenges that people living with dementia face and how these can be handled in order to make their lives easier Continue Reading...
Indeed, this multicultural state of the nursing profession can be very profitably incorporated into one of the key tools that I would use in developing, assessing, and evaluating curricula. The concept of different learning styles has made consider Continue Reading...
The results of this analysis highlight the need for hospitals to fine-tune their discharge process to reduce readmissions, and support the expenditure of additional resources for this purpose as a cost-effective intervention; as an example, author c Continue Reading...
Many advocates of the move feel that lower patient to nurse ratio would lead to additional savings because it would reduce nurse turnover rate, lawsuits, complications and length of stay. Nursing unions in the state of California have asked for a PT Continue Reading...
Nursing: Nurse Practitioner The advanced practice nurse is a graduate with a master's or doctorate degree in nursing, certified to guide others in using the nursing process to maximize the community's health outcomes (Smith & Rose, 2011). These 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...
Nurses use the nursing process in the promotion of health, reduction of risk as well as management of disease in their daily lives. Yildirim and Ozkahraman (2011,p.257) noted that the nursing process has for along time been an integral component of t Continue Reading...
The questions on legal liability issues were minimal as the field of legal issues is new in nursing. The questions addressed a theoretical part regarding the legal liability issues. They were no need of clarification since the questionnaires were ea 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...
This performance data will be graphed to identify general trends and specific repeat offenders for corrective action, including contacting the individual(s) responsible for minute preparation to clarify requirements and reiterate their responsibilit Continue Reading...
Role of Advanced Practice Nurse Framework for Clinical Practice Person/Client/Client System Environment Health Nursing/APN (Factors Effecting APN's Practice and Implementation of the APN Nursing Process) Interrelationships of Client System, En 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...
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...
Healthcare Organizations Health Organizations Patient Care in Healthcare Organizations Overview of the tracer methodology When indulging in tracer methodology systems, the key word is flexibility. The surveyors involve staff members through many Continue Reading...
Risk and Quality Management Assessment This analysis focuses on three different types of risks that are commonly associated with a nursing facility. Risk and quality management is an important aspect to many health care organizations. This is espec Continue Reading...
It is in the nursing homes job description, that the nursing staff employed should be certified, and be able to perform a number of tasks in order to better understand the patient. This includes an assessment of the patient's mental status and thoug Continue Reading...
"Studies of the relationship between managed care penetration in the health care market and expenditures for Medicare fee-for-service enrollees have demonstrated the existence of these types of spill over effects" (Bundorf et al., 2004). Managed ca Continue Reading...
Nursing Theories Nursing is a practice or field that must be based on nursing theories, which contributes to the consideration of nursing discipline as a profession. The significance of nursing theories in the practice is attributed to their provis 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...
Jean Watson Analysis of Nursing Theory Jean Watson is one of the reputable contributors in the contemporary nursing field. She is rather well-known for her work namely, Theory of Human Caring. Other than this eminent theory, she has presented vario Continue Reading...
RFP in Healthcare Industry Request for proposal in health care industry Request for Proposal (RFP) in Healthcare Industry In order to continually provide adequate Medicare to patients, a review of the electronic health record options reveal that t Continue Reading...
What this means is that the lifetime limits on most benefits are barred for all latest health insurance plans. Another interesting thing is the reviews premium increase (Wakefield, 2010). This is saying that insurance companies must now openly defen Continue Reading...
Healthcare and Economics: Health care costs have continued to increase in the past few decades despite of the numerous health reform initiatives. Currently, these expenditures account for more than 18% of GDP in the United States, a percentage that Continue Reading...
NURSING Nursing: Therapy for Patients with Bipolar DisordersBipolar disorder is one chronic illness that has gained emphasis over the past few decades. Depressive symptoms are included in this condition, which could be observed during adolescence or Continue Reading...
Future Trends in Health Care Direct communication with patients remains to be an obstacle in the quest of achieving effective patient-physician relationship. Nevertheless, e-communication with clients by use of websites, telephone, and e-mail has fo 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...
The Role of the Nurse Informaticist in Systems Development and ImplementationThe advancements in technology and the integration of technology in healthcare to increase efficiency and improve patient safety have resulted in additional roles for nurses Continue Reading...
Internationally, for example, most countries do not have protected titles and there is no agreement about the use of titles to distinguish APN roles. Role confusion arises when the same title, such a nurse specialist is applied to different roles wi Continue Reading...
In applying this article to the nursing field, it appears that combining therapies with surgery can enhance care to surgical patients. The article reaction is preoperative anxiety can be reduced with holistic nursing. Rosenberg, S. (2006). Utilizin Continue Reading...
In this regard, the documentation should include the four main assessment components; which are, nutrition, wound etiology, wound appearance and pain (Assessment and Documentation Issues in Wound Care). In other words a careful written as well as v 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...
In reaction, diabetes research looks into pharmacological options and changes in lifestyle to contain the trend. Recent findings point to the need for healthcare professionals to empower diabetes sufferers to take recourse in self-management as the Continue Reading...
