Nursing Professional Boundaries There are boundary issues in every aspect of nursing practice. Some of the issues range from stopping to purchase some groceries for a home-bound client, accepting gifts from clients, having friendship with clients an Continue Reading...
Nursing Administration-Staffing A strategy for recruiting nurses for the acute care units The effect of the nursing shortage crisis combined with higher patient acuity has become a crucial concern for the nursing management team. This relates large Continue Reading...
Nursing Case Study Managing a possible Case of Gastroenteritis: A Nursing Case Study The effective delivery of optimal nursing care requires a comprehensive treatment plan that addresses both the patient's symptoms and the security of the immediate 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...
Patient Handoffs Majority of the medical errors take place in the patient's handoffs. A shift among the doctors is a common practice. There are a number of old patients who approach around 16 different doctors in a year, while young patients who are Continue Reading...
Critics of holistic nursing have occasionally insinuated that holism is somehow incompatible with evidence-based practice such as that which underlies the Magnet standards. That is truly unfortunate. Holistic concerns in nursing are more than merel Continue Reading...
Nursing Theory -- a Patient Centered Approach In the opinion of this author and from personal experience, nursing has to be patient centered. It is the author's experience in years of working in the field that someone who stays in the profession ine Continue Reading...
Nursing Theory: A Microscopic Perspective on the Theory-Practice Gap Jerniganm A paradigm in nursing theory exists today that equates nursing theory to a mirror, a microscope or a telescope. Meleis talks about this equation of nursing theory to a m Continue Reading...
Nursing Theorist: Sr. Roy Adaptation Model The Roy Adaptation model for Nursing had its beginning when Sister Callista Roy happened to get admitted in the Masters Program of pediatric nursing in the University of California, Los Angeles, in the year Continue Reading...
Nursing: According to the World Health Organization, hand hygiene is an essential measure for preventing nosocomical infections. This organization has prioritized the improvement of hand hygiene as a means of lessening these infections. The consider Continue Reading...
Nursing Leadership Batcheller, J.A. (2011). On-boarding and enculturation of new chief nursing officers. Journal of Nursing Administration, 41(5), 235-239. This article examines the on-boarding process for new chief nursing officers by examining t 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...
The inclusion of a database system in the workplace induces efficiency, in that it allows management and nurses to monitor daily tasks accomplished and services given to patients, not to mention enabling every member to be informed of the right cond Continue Reading...
A person's health is an ever-changing state of being resulting from the interaction with the environment. Optimum health is the actualization of both innate and obtained human potential gained through rewarding relationships with others, obtaining Continue Reading...
The procedure itself and the hospital stay associated with it is only one small chapter in the patient's life. They will eventually go home and will have many years after the procedure. It is important for the nursing staff to make a positive impact Continue Reading...
It is also quite possible that there is a significant "placebo effect" when dealing with GI (or other) treatments. The patients may be truly relaxing, but may also believe that they are managing their pain through breathing and imagery, meaning they Continue Reading...
Nursing (a) provides an account of your observations on the management of peripheral intravascular devices from your clinical practicum in NMIH202; Clinical practicum NM1H202 introduces nurses to the management of peripheral devices via scholarly i Continue Reading...
Nurse, Legislation and Regulation Identify a legislative issue/policy change related to a workforce/patient care issue that you believe to be a priority. Describe legislative efforts surrounding your interest. The developments and strides in distan Continue Reading...
Nurse-headed telephone triage has increasingly been employed for managing physician consultation demands in British general practice. Prior research works are vague when it comes to delineating the association between nurse triage call results and pr 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...
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...
Healthcare incentive program Nursing Informatics/Meaningful use Meaningful Use Program Overview of Meaningful Use program Meaningful use is basically an enticement program available for healthcare providers and hospitals for attaining the aims a Continue Reading...
Introduction Although senior management and public policy are also integral to the creation and maintenance of a culture of safety in healthcare organizations, nursing leadership is the most critical component in promoting desired patient outcomes. T Continue Reading...
Culture in Advanced Nursing Practice Abstract Culturally competent nurses can assess the psychological, spiritual, physiological, social, environmental, and epidemiological data on a particular cultural group to provide culturally sensitive and patie Continue Reading...
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and the Council on Graduate Education for Administration in Nursing (AACN, 1996; Dienemann & Aroian, 1995) operationally define the professional nurse as one who has been prepared with a min Continue Reading...
Difficult Patients Mitigating Risks from Dementia Providing adequate care for an individual suffering from dementia presents many difficulties for nurses. Patients with dementia often have debilitating conditions such as Alzheimer's or similar neu Continue Reading...
Search for Literature and Levels of Evidence Evidence-based practice has emerged as one of the most important approaches towards addressing the healthcare needs of different patient populations. Evidence-based practice is applicable to all healthcar Continue Reading...
Nurses in executive roles like Chief Nursing Officers (CNOs) build bridges between various members of the healthcare team, between healthcare team members and patients, and also between the legislative environment and organizational practices. In a p Continue Reading...
APN COLLABORATION IN CULTURALLY SENSITIVE END-OF-LIFE CARE Advanced Practice Nurse Collaboration in Culturally Sensitive End-of-Life CareAdvanced practice nurses (APNs) are crucial in providing comprehensive and compassionate care to seriously ill pa Continue Reading...
Self-AssessmentSelf-assessment is an essential process that enables individuals to evaluate their skills, knowledge, and abilities objectively. It involves analyzing one's performance, identifying strengths, and areas of improvement. Self-assessment Continue Reading...
How Doctors of Nursing Practice Can Influence the Quality of HealthcareToday, doctors of nursing practice (DNPs) serve as nurse educators, researchers, and administrators as well as serving in vital healthcare leadership roles in their local communit Continue Reading...
Magnet Status in Hospitals Overview of A Magnet Facility A Magnet facility is defined as a healthcare organization where nurses have a high level of job satisfaction, nursing delivers excellent patient outcomes, and there is low nurse staff turnove Continue Reading...
Data Science Applications and ProcessesIn nursing, big data refers to the large amount of patient care and health data. Nurses can use data analysis to determine the best and most efficient treatment methods. Big data will allow you to analyze gazill Continue Reading...
Role of Technology in Patient Education The patient care is improving in most health facilities because of the interactive technology that supports learning. Inventions and innovation are shaping health care because of new approaches to patients ca Continue Reading...
National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI) data enables nurses as well as nursing leadership to assess and evaluate nursing performance in association to patient outcomes. Hospitals or medical institutions can employ the information to i Continue Reading...
In many clinical practice situations, research and use of current evidence is neither prized nor supported as part of the nursing culture. One of the earliest and best-known nursing research utilization activities was the Conduct and Utilization Res Continue Reading...
Quality & Safety The quality and safety of health care services has been a major issue in the recent past because of the significance of these factors in the improvement of patient outcomes and enhancing the effectiveness of the health care syst Continue Reading...
