385 Search Results for Nursing and Hospice Care
Hospice Leadership
The United Kingdom has recently experienced an increase in the number of children and young people with long-term health conditions. Actually, recent surveys have indicated a 30% increase in the number of these children and young Continue Reading...
This makes retention essential, as new nurses must stay with the hospital and become nurse specialists for CMC to continue to maintain its reputation. Nursing education is also essential.
Unfortunately, a stressed and pressured environment that is Continue Reading...
Hawaiian elder care professionals improve patient eldercare services to Japanese nationals, taking into consideration Japanese cultural norms and expectations
Caregiving for elderly parents in Japan
Japan has witnessed a significant growth in its Continue Reading...
Healthcare Organization Case Study
Health Care Organization Case Study
Banner Healthcare
Health Care Organization Case Study
Banner Healthcare represents a set of diverse healthcare related facilities that provide healthcare services to societies Continue Reading...
Kbler-Rosss Five Stages of GriefIntroductionThe mystery of death can be so overwhelming that the mind cannot grasp it when one is literally faced with a death sentence due to terminal illness. When confronted with this mystery, people can go through Continue Reading...
Insured/Uninsured and the Effects on Hospice
As a Healthcare Organization
The United States healthcare system includes health plans, physicians, hospitals, clinics, consumers, and public health programs as well as hospice organizations. This report Continue Reading...
Change
Improving Hospice Urinary Infection Rates:
An Analysis of Foley Catheter Use in a Hospice Setting
Change is a necessary part of any organization. One critical area that demands change in hospice nursing is overzealous use of Foley catheter Continue Reading...
Communications
Effective communications between doctors and nurses has always been a high priority in the medical field, especially in an arena such as a hospital, health clinic or hospice. Communicating effectively between the nurses and the doctor Continue Reading...
Health Promotion Plan
Health Promotion in Hospice
The use of Dorothea Orem's Self-Care Theory as the framework for the health promotion plan, for improving depressive symptoms among hospice patients (Nursing Theories, 2012), is appropriate and cons Continue Reading...
One study examined the gender roles associated with social supports in nursing home residents. The aim of the study was to link the connection between gender identity and willingness to engage with social supports. The study surveyed 65,838 nursing Continue Reading...
Family Interventions
-Mother can attend cancer support groups and receive advice and education through other channels regarding proper methods of providing care and improving quality of life for her husband
-Son can explore employment options as Continue Reading...
If the area wage index is greater than 1, the labor share equals 69.7%. The law requires the labor share to equal 62% if the area wage index is less than 1.0.
2) the wage adjusted labor share is added to the non-labor share of the standardized amou Continue Reading...
hospice nurses cope with patients at end of life and death?
Nursing is an emotional job since nurses' experience emotions and feelings towards their patients. On top of having the clinical skills of nursing, end-of-life care requires skills to deal Continue Reading...
Palliative Care for Terminal and Non-Terminal Patients
Although palliative care is sometimes viewed as a synonym for care for patients with terminal illnesses, a wide variety of different types of patients can benefit from palliative care. "Palliati Continue Reading...
Stress and Job Performance in the Nursing Profession
Sources and Consequences of Stress
Participants
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Job Satisfaction and Feelings of Adequacy
Job Performance
Gender and Menopausal Status
Expected Results and Discussion
The relatio Continue Reading...
Palliative care is a specialty that is relatively new but that has evolved steadily over the past few decades. Its goal is providing advanced cancer patients with end of life care. Its rise was because of the public's growing dissatisfaction and conc Continue Reading...
Field, Marilyn Jane & Cassel, Christine K. (1997). Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of the Life. National Academic Press.
This work emphasizes the necessity to improve end of life care as a way to help ease fears about death and re Continue Reading...
elderly population is continues to rise nationally and this also true for the Sunnydale and Shadyville communities. In order to be prepared for both the rise in the aging population and any competition in the healthcare from Shadyville it is importa Continue Reading...
Tucker-Culturally Sensitive Health Care Provider Inventory -- Patient Form (T-CSHCPI-PF) is simply an inventory for the culturally diverse patients to assess provider cultural sensitivity in the health care procedure. The T-CSHCPI-PF is like a narra Continue Reading...
Family Assessment
Description of Family / Genogram
Profile of Family
The 'T' family has been chosen for the completion of this assignment. Mr. T is the 95-year-old patriarch. His wife and mother of their two children is Mrs. T, 92 years of age. Th Continue Reading...
Ruth E. Mathias and a.E. Benjamin (2003) report that social workers are becoming increasingly concerned about elder abuse in long-term care settings (p. 174). A study conducted by these social scientists/authors, reveals that Medicaid related agency Continue Reading...
Servant leadership is a form of leadership that challenges the old top-down paradigm of leadership and suggests that the best leaders are those who work for their followers instead of having their followers work for them. This philosophy does not mea Continue Reading...
Bereavement
The interest in palliative care, or counseling for bereavement comes to different people in different ways, and one doctor came into it through home care as long ago as 1975. The doctor had just finished working as a house staff in the U Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples
1. The Importance of Communication in Palliative Care:
This essay would explore how effective communication between healthcare professionals, patients, and families is crucial in palliative care. It would discuss the impact of c Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples
1. The Ethical Dimensions of End-of-Life Care in Nursing:
This essay will explore the ethical challenges and moral dilemmas nurses face when providing care to patients at the end of their lives. It will ex Continue Reading...
Improving Health Care Delivery by Integrating Information Technology
In order to modernize the operations of their medical facility, Pleasant Manor nursing home should consider contracting to implement the Epic System of electronic medical record (E Continue Reading...
Introduction
The relevance of care givers when it comes to assisting persons with disabilities or chronic illnesses cannot be overstated. Towards this end, caregivers come in handy in ensuring the continuous care – especially when it comes to e Continue Reading...
Risks for Falls
Critical Analysis
'Risks for falls' have been an area of concern for medical professionals especially nurses. Statistics have shown that an increasing number of falls in hospitals and hospice settings not only raises question marks 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...
This will also take the focus away from individual grief by sharing and understanding the concerns of others.
IV. Group structure
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Recruitment will occur by means of advertisement in a variety of media. The notice boards of medical facilities an Continue Reading...
Madeleine Leineger's Cultural Care Theory
Theories are made of interrelated ideas that systematically give a systematic view about a certain phenomenon (an event or fact that is observable) that can, then, be predicted, and explained. Theories entai Continue Reading...
Motivation as a Factor in Nurse Retention
The decreasing recruitment and retention of nurses throughout the United States and internationally is a growing concern that must be addressed and remedied. As front-line workers, nurses play an integral ro Continue Reading...
Job Aid
Electronic health records are information systems that allow for the convenient storage and retrieval of patient health records. These systems make it easier for health professionals to have a full patient history, which can aid with diagnos Continue Reading...
The Nursing Home Community: A Critical Ethnography
A nursing home is a community of care ideally designed to provide seniors with a safe and supportive environment in which to receive around-the-clock evidence-based healthcare and ancillary services. Continue Reading...