Nursing: Therapy for Patients with Sleep-Wake DisordersCase IntroductionA 31-year-old male has insomnia since he mentioned he has been finding it extremely difficult to fall asleep for the past six months. Recently, the problem had aggravated due to Continue Reading...
Preventing 30 Day Readmission on Medicare and Medicaid Patients One of the most costly and common phenomenon in the modern healthcare system is the increased rates of readmission to hospital of Medicare and Medicaid patients within a short period a Continue Reading...
NURSE-SENSITIVE INDICATORS OF QUALITY RELATED TO PATIENT CARE Nurse-Sensitive Indicators of Quality Related to Patient CareNurse-sensitive indicators of quality measure elements of patient care that are directly impacted by the nursing practice. The Continue Reading...
ED Patient Boarding | Emergency Department Patient Boarding Emergency Department (ED) crowding is a nationwide crisis which affects the efficiency and the quality of patient care (Sox, Burstin, Orav, et al., 2007). A huge contribution to patient ov Continue Reading...
Gonzalez (2007), discusses the company WellPoint Inc. that provides its members with the capability to develop their own personal health records, an option to receive test results online, provide a limited set of records to their providers and to al Continue Reading...
Assessing and Treating Patients with Bipolar Disorder Bipolar disorder, also referred to as manic depression, is an episodic or chronic mental disorder characterized by fluctuating and often extreme changes in energy, mood, and activity levels, thus 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...
Improving Provider-Patient Communication Among LEP Patients Abstract Elderly Hispanic patients experience numerous challenges when seeking for healthcare services since they are only eloquent in their native language and are classified as Limited Eng Continue Reading...
The Importance of Informatics in Patient Fall PreventionIn order to improve anything, it must first be measured in some fashion to establish benchmarks and evaluate progress and this is certainly applicable to healthcare settings where there are mult Continue Reading...
Introduction As of now, at least fourteen states across the country have legislations on safe staffing. Although California is among the fourteen jurisdictions, it is unique in the sense that its legislation includes a nurse to patient ratio clause. Continue Reading...
Readmission of Bipolar Patients and Lack of Education among Healthcare Providers: Nursing Staff Need Education on Motivational Intervention to Teach Patients How to Prevent ReadmissionBackground and PurposeThe readmission rate for bipolar patients ra Continue Reading...
Health Information Technology The development of patient management systems continues to revolutionize the field of healthcare, specifically in the areas of treatment plans, content and records management systems, and predictive analytics. These are Continue Reading...
Professional Practice Development Experience Immersion: Week 5 ReflectionThe guiding PICOT question for my DNP project is: In adults diagnosed with hypertension (P), how does the implementation of a hypertension management program including lifestyle Continue Reading...
Assessment 3: Professional Accountability and Patient Safety Defining the Issue: Violence from Patients towards Nurses: In this discussion, I concern myself with ‘violence from patients towards nurses.’ It is important to note, from the Continue Reading...
RESPONSEResponse: Staffing and Patient SafetyI have in the past reviewed plenty of literature which appears to clearly indicate that there is indeed a strong link between staffing and patient safety. For instance, Griffiths, Recio-Saucedo, DallOra, B Continue Reading...
Title: Safe Patient Handling/Moving 1. Problem/Challenge/Need Description Nonfatal occupational injury and illness rates in healthcare institutions tend to be relatively high. Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) continue to be a major injury source for 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...
High Nursing Turnover in a Hospital Affecting Patient Operations In every healthcare institution, it is the expectation of every patient to receive adequate medical care when he/she visits the health care institution. Often, the hospital management Continue Reading...
Patient-Centered Care for Native Patients Implications for Clinical Practice for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) form a heterogeneous population with varying sub-tribes; thus, different cultures, reli Continue Reading...
Concept Analysis: Team Work in Professional Nursing1. IntroductionAlthough many nurses on the frontline in delivering high quality health care services may regard themselves as an army of one, they are still an integral part of an overall multidiscip Continue Reading...
Acute care facilities try to maintain low costs and employ quality nurses. Within this statement is a double standard. How can we have quality nurses and cut costs at the same time? This is where the skill mix comes into play. In the skill mix, the Continue Reading...
Healthcare Management First Student A healthy population is often associated with a country's economic prosperity. As such, governments have often been in the forefront of supporting the healthcare sector through staffing and funding medical resear Continue Reading...
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in the Care of Terminally Ill Children Pediatric nurse practitioners provide a valuable contribution to the care of chronically and terminally ill children. This position is essentially a subtype of advanced practice nu Continue Reading...
The Role of Empathy in Enhancing Trust and Efficiency in Healthcare: A Patient-Doctor PerspectiveIntroductionEmpathy, an integral part of human interaction, has been demonstrated to significantly impact various aspects of healthcare delivery (Decety Continue Reading...
Therapy for Patients with Major Depressive DisorderAccording to psychiatrist Fernando of Johns Hopkins Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, the prevalence of mood disorders in the United States is far higher than one can imagine. Irresp Continue Reading...
Stakeholders' interest, power, and influence Outpatient unit administration has a principal reputational and financial interest in any alteration made within a healthcare setting. This comes from having the authority and power to carry out or reject Continue Reading...
Quality Improvement Project Diabetes -- Chronic Condition Background Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Risk factors for type 1 diabetes Risk factors for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes Risk factors for gestational diabetes The Rationale for Selection Continue Reading...
Nursing Shortages "The United States is projected to have a nursing shortage that is expected to intensify as baby boomers age and the need for health care grows. Compounding the problem is the fact that nursing colleges and universities across the Continue Reading...
Nurse practitioners play a crucial role in the modern healthcare system given their responsibilities in administering patient care. One of the critical components in the delivery of healthcare services in the modern healthcare setting is collaboratio Continue Reading...
According to Daughton, a researcher at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Indeed, deaths from medication errors occurring both in and out of hospitals exceed 7,000 annually in the United States -- exceeding those from workplace injuries" (20 Continue Reading...
Vulnerable PopulationsIntroductionThe intersection of patient safety and quality improvement (QI) in healthcare is an important concern, particularly when addressing the needs of vulnerable populations such as the homeless, migrants, and prisoners. T Continue Reading...
Enhancing Postoperative Nursing Management to Minimize Postoperative Complications in Surgical PatientsIn the dynamic landscape of healthcare, the provision of exceptional postoperative care holds pivotal significance for fostering positive patient o Continue Reading...
Implementation of Patient-centric health information management system 4AbstractPatient-centered care is a philosophy and a level of care that explains how to organize the well-being program around the individual to increase healthcare outcomes. The Continue Reading...
Key Issues in Nursing Informatics Since as early as the 1980s, information technology, computer science, and nursing science have all been integrated under the rubric of nursing informatics: with the goal of improving patient care and quantifiable ou Continue Reading...
Health Information Management SystemSelecting and implementing an EMR system involves a range of stakeholders, adherence to regulatory standards, and significant financial investment. This paper discusses the various aspects of this process, includin Continue Reading...
ICU and Delirium Evidence-Based Project Proposal Patients that are sixty-five years or older account for an average of more than fifty percent of the visitors to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and there are a host of known risk factors that are asso Continue Reading...
Decision Making, Problem Solving and Critical Thinking: The Shared Decision-Making ProcessToday, there is growing recognition concerning the importance of shared decision-making for the nursing profession, but the process is challenging for multiple Continue Reading...
