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...
Nursing Autobiography I began my career in healthcare as a patient care technician (PCT) in a large hospital. Working throughout the hospital as a float PCT, I gained experience with a diverse group of patients on every unit in the hospital. I event Continue Reading...
Nursing Diagnosis Care Plan Assessment Data Analysis a) Patient is a 65-year-old male Mexican-born retired bus driver with a relevant past medical history of atrial fibrillation and deep vein thrombosis treated with Coumadin who presents with hemat Continue Reading...
Nurse Study Review Vahey et al. (2004) research indicated the importance of investigating the role of environment and clinical situation for both nurse performance and patient satisfaction. This study is a quantitative approach to investigating thes Continue Reading...
Task 2.3 Step 1: Use your experience identified with the lowest scores as the basis for reflective analysis. Step 2: Write about this experience using the following frame (painting the picture). It is important to me to continue to discuss the P Continue Reading...
Patient Safety Through Medication Reconciliation The adoption of the Affordable Healthcare Act has assisted an increasing number of Americans to have access to health insurance. Despite the benefits associated with the new law, the quality of health Continue Reading...
Nurse Patient Ratios and Quality of Care This study reviews the broad level of issues that surround the nurse/patient ratio: a critical shortage of trained and experienced nurses; increased political and fiscal demands from all sectors of society; r Continue Reading...
He or she will literally take issue with the physician and issue and even sterner and more emotional warning concerning why compliance is essential. Before the patient is released, the nurse will once again speak with the patient and ask, on a sca Continue Reading...
Nursing Theory Theory is a concept that communicates relationships and phenomenon, and with reference to nursing profession, nursing theory assists nurses to prescribe, describe and predict nursing care. In a contemporary healthcare environment, nur 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...
Dialysis organizations would be another opponent to the change due to the cost. Raising the costs of treatment might be necessary to hire new nurses. Dialysis clinics, because of their small size, often have fewer resources than large hospitals and Continue Reading...
The Shared Governance arrangement: offers an apparatus for registered nurses to show guidance in the development of practice decisions authorizes all nursing staff to add to work redesign advances the quality of patient and family outcomes. In the 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...
When this happens, they will be effective in reaching out to different patients (from a host of backgrounds). This is the point that the underlying quality of care will improve. As a result, I have learned how to apply these concepts to real world h Continue Reading...
2004: 45). Recommendations Many recommend use of minimally invasive techniques including SEPS to treat and address problems related to chronic venous insufficiency (Kalra & Glovisczki, 2002). Multiple studies confirm the safety and efficacy of Continue Reading...
It has been shown through research to be critical that the organization make the provision of support for the nursing staff in terms of their education and provisioning career support as well through making time and financial allocations to provide 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...
Patient acuity system provides the nurses and other healthcare practitioners in health cares' information that can guide them in their attention towards the patients. The nurses track information and then weigh them in accordance to the urgency of as Continue Reading...
Why it is nurses' responsibility to report to relevant persons when the level of resources risk compromising the quality of care? It is nurses' responsibility to report to the correct persons when dwindling resources are affecting patients' health Continue Reading...
Perceptual and attitudinal changes are needed to motivate readiness to learn. Self-directed education is key to adult learning and especially to continuing education in the health professions (McClaran et. al, 1999, p. 184). Studies show that nurse Continue Reading...
Nurses are well positioned to identify clinical problems and use existing evidence to improve practice and make care more effective (Beyea, 2006). Evidence-based practices enables nurses to provide high quality care based on current evidence. The p Continue Reading...
Nurses often employ critical thinking without recognizing that they are using those skills because, for many, the process is an automatic one. As the health care environment becomes more multifaceted and nurses are faced with distinctive patient car Continue Reading...
Patients in hospitals often complain of pain regardless of the diagnosis. Several activities in a patient's life contribute to pain. Some of the activities include amount of sleep, daily chores and quality of life (Alaloul, Williams, Myers, Jones, &a Continue Reading...
" (Allen 2008) This means that nursing educators are also a key stakeholder. Other stakeholders include healthcare facility administrators, corporate trustees and public office holders, who will often have entangled or competing interests relating t Continue Reading...
Nursing theory, research, and practice Scenario in which theory, research, and practice interact to create good patient outcomes Imogene King’s theory Functional Status Nurse-Patient Relationship Using the Imogene King’s theory to enhance Continue Reading...
Nursing Leadership In any organization, leadership is a key element of success. The leader is the person who defines not only the organization's mission, but its tone and cultural, and determines how the organization's resources will be deployed to Continue Reading...
Nursing Culture: Overcoming Barriers to Change Introduction and Theoretical Framework This program of study continues personal research and professional practice in the field of nursing within the area of public and private health systems. In an er Continue Reading...
They added newer constructs to a PSC model developed earlier by Gershon and his colleagues (2000), which unveiled the relationship of safety and security aspects and linked it with work performance. They found that when hospital staff used the Gersh Continue Reading...
Clinical narratives are used for the articulation and sharing of knowledge and experience which has been acquired over time and through experiential learning and is a way of enabling nurses to "tap into the thought processes and best practices of ex Continue Reading...
The data gathered is subjected to statistical analysis using statistical methods of linear regression and chi square testing. The main purpose of the study was to confirm the hypothesis that consultation with CNS or RN in a drug-monitoring clinic h Continue Reading...
This is done for the purpose of having a safe and workable discharge plan. The nurse uses their experience and assessment skills reviewing the patient's current course, past medical history and what family or friend support there is outside the hosp Continue Reading...
Although patient resistance may be high in some instances, the proposed benefits appear to far outweigh the unwillingness of the patient to participate. Secure Funding The proposed program can be carried out with minimal funding. If funding is req Continue Reading...
Nurse Case Manager: Case management in the nursing field is basically described as the functions and activities carried out by the nurse case manager within a specific care setting. In some cases, these functions and activities are usually performed Continue Reading...
Nursing Communication Communication between nurses is an important instrument for professionals to deliver safe, quality healthcare as a team. Therefore, provision of quality healthcare in hospitals, depends entirely on the capability of the health Continue Reading...
Nursing Annotated Bibliography A nurse's job is difficult to classify. The nurse must be healer both of the body and of the mind. Usually, when a patient seeks medical treatment at a hospital or other such facility, they will see a nurse before they Continue Reading...
Nursing Leadership Modern nursing has become a multi-disciplinary career that encompasses a number of roles and requires more expertise than ever before. In modern nursing, there are a number of stakeholders: patients, families, the community, insur Continue Reading...
Nursing Informatics Competencies In an increasingly digital world driven by more and newer technology, nurses are still expected to deliver quality, compassionate care to the best of their ability. While this new technology may often seem overwhelmi Continue Reading...
Nursing Informatics Career Viability Analysis Nursing Informatics Career Analysis As the concept of healthcare delivery systems continues a rapid evolutionary path in order to keep pace with technological advancement, the role of health information 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...
