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...
Public Policy Annotated BibliographyOne potential public policy issue that may be of interest to me is the issue of mandatory staffing ratios for hospitals so as to ensure that adequate quality care is available to patients. Fox and Abrahamson (2009) Continue Reading...
Evidence- Based Patient Safety Initiative Introduced in the year 2003, Transforming Care at A Bedside (TCAB) represents a national- level initiative originally formulated and headed by the IHI (Institute for Healthcare Improvement) and RWJF (Robert W Continue Reading...
Organizational Leadership in a Health Care Setting Current Practice Setting Recent work environments among practicing nurses show that the domain of personnel lacks in collaboration with patient and family in the job descriptions and policies durin Continue Reading...
Quality Improvement: Complications and DeathsIntroductionThis quality improvement (QI) initiative focuses on reducing complications and deaths related to heart failure in a hospital setting. The two graphs provided illustrate the death rates for hear 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...
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...
Barcode ScanningIn a large metropolitan hospital, there have been multiple instances where patients received incorrect medications due to barcode scanning errors. The barcode system is meant to help nurses make certain that the right patient receives Continue Reading...
The researchers believe that future research should include studies with large enough sample sizes to assess whether factors associated with satisfaction vary by subgroup such as new graduates in the first year of practice. For instance, the study i Continue Reading...
Attendance in Adult Day Care Centers of Cognitively Intact Older Persons Reasons for Use and Nonuse" by Iecovich and Biderman (2012), attempts to determine the factors as to why patients and families don't use centers like these for older adults an Continue Reading...
The participants of the case study were the members of the medical surgical nursing staff and patients were in hospital since last 6 months. Data was collected and summarized by Gallup Organization, which surveyed 200 medical surgical patients in fo Continue Reading...
Capital Budgeting The aim of hospitals is to measure and improve the quality of health care service for the patients. Patient satisfaction is the foremost concern. However, to run a hospital, there are a lot of other factors are also involved; e.g. Continue Reading...
Evidence-Based Quality Nursing Practice As a result of a variety of conditions, hospitalized patients may experience extended times in their hospital bed, unable to ambulate, and forced to rely on call buttons to communicate their needs or anxieties Continue Reading...
Marketing Forces and Diversification As American society becomes increasingly ethnically diverse through immigration, relocation, birth rates and other factors, our hospitals must hone their sensitivity to resulting changes in community health needs Continue Reading...
Health Services Administration Developing an Action Plan Imagine that you are the Director of the Admitting Department of a hospital, and your strategy to increase patient satisfaction is to hire additional staff to register patients. Outline the a Continue Reading...
al., 2010). Nursing and the ER The Emergency Room is often one of the most visible parts of healthcare for political debate. It is also one of the most difficult environments for a modern nurse. It is interesting that one of the founders of modern Continue Reading...
Emergency Room Efficiency Improving Emergency Department Flow by Using a Provider in Triage Emergency room triage plays an essential role in the speed and quality of the emergency room departments. Triage represents only one small part of the proce Continue Reading...
The dependent variable in the study is the nursing rounds (which involves undertaking the prescribed protocols and actions to be taken as well as the frequency of rounds, i.e. one hour rounding and two hour rounding). The study aims to see the beha Continue Reading...
What barrier to implementing evidence-based practice do you face at your workplace? One barrier, of course, is partially logistic -- it is necessary to have greater numbers of nurses to make more frequent rounds in any setting, and the larger the Continue Reading...
With the ever-changing health care sector, reimbursement has increasingly been tied to care quality and health care outcomes. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have particularly been changing the way hospitals are reimbursed, with Continue Reading...
Narrow focus performance improvement area. This area focus chosen organization develop a QI plan. Research methodologies integrating QI strategies performance measurements. Research information technology applications components QI management. Organ 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...
Concisely, Comfort results when an individual keeps of negative or unhealthy living and sticks to positive and healthy living. Comfort has been associated with positive institutional outcomes that include patient satisfaction. The outcome of Comfor Continue Reading...
" (North, 2005) Plan Design As indicated from the literature review, an effective approach to establishing a performance improvement process is to establish a 'Champion" to drive the process through the organization and to obtain ensure management Continue Reading...
While intervention may not make a difference in their actual physical disease, it can make a patient more comfortable, more satisfied, and more at peace with themselves and their circumstances. Patient satisfaction is extremely important for overall Continue Reading...
Ethics and Nursing One of the complexities of 21st century medicine is the evolution of nursing care theories in combination with a changing need and expectation of the stakeholder population. Nurses must be advocates and communicators, but must bal Continue Reading...
Teaching Staff Title of Teaching Plan: The title of the teaching plan is the importance of hourly rounding with long-term psychiatric patients. The target audience will be RNs, LPNs and Nursing Assistants. They work in long-term care settings. This Continue Reading...
Employee Motivation Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is perhaps the most commonly known theory of motivation, which is likely due to the broad applicability of the theory. Maslow developed his hierarchy of needs as part of his research on human potential Continue Reading...
Envisioning Future of Physician Leader of Medical Group Practice Health care industry to get financial and management praises are also adopting the strategies of retail giants Wal-Mart, Google and Amazon. A research study have suggested that merely Continue Reading...
Market Orientation of Medical Diagnostic Units Dissertation for Master of Health Administration i. Introduction ii. Objectives iii. Description iv Administrative Internship v. Scope and Approach vi. Growth vii. Methodology viii. Hypothesis ix. Surve Continue Reading...
Quality of care provided by nursing practitioners at the emergency departments.AbstractOver the previous couple of decades, overcrowding in emergency rooms has now become progressively typical. Longer wait durations in the emergency room are linked t Continue Reading...
Translational ResearchCurrent Nursing Practice in the Healthcare Setting Requiring ChangeThere are numerous areas within nursing that demand change in everyday healthcare practice. More often than not, irrespective of the healthcare setting, an inven Continue Reading...
Translational ResearchCurrent Nursing Practice in the Healthcare Setting Requiring ChangeThere are numerous areas within nursing that demand change in everyday healthcare practice. More often than not, irrespective of the healthcare setting, an inven Continue Reading...
Excessive Wait Times in Healthcare Literature Review Excessive wait times in healthcare are a problem for both patients and care providers as they affect patient satisfaction, which in turn impacts the job satisfaction of nurses and other care provid Continue Reading...
Evidence-Based Practice on Hourly Rounding Impact of Hourly Rounding on Falls Preventions, Reduction of Pressure Ulcers and Call Light Use In the contemporary health environment, falls are the common phenomenon that may cause fatal injuries to olde Continue Reading...
Translating an Evidence Into Practice Among the older adults aged 60 years and above, falls have been identified as a leading cause of fatal injuries and non-fatal injuries. In the United States, nearly 50% of hospitalized adult patients face the ri Continue Reading...
Hourly Nurse Rounds Critiquing Validity and Robustness of Research in Hourly Nurse Rounds There are different kinds of studies that are carried out in the nursing field to examine various issues in patient care. An understanding of these issues re Continue Reading...
Leslie L.C., (2010). Hourly rounding benefits patients and staff. http://Www.americannursetoday.com/From-our-readershourly-rounding-benefits-patients-and-staff/ This article states that even as hourly rounds have been proven to have its good effects Continue Reading...
Introduction and background Healthcare centers all over the US have been looking for cost- cutting techniques whilst simultaneously retaining the superior quality of their patient care delivery. Considering the present economic scenario, cost- cuttin Continue Reading...
