Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing Education Track Rubin (2009) defines evidence based practice (EBP) as “a process in which practitioners use the most rigorous scientific research evidence available as an important part of the basis for making Continue Reading...
Infant Mortality Health Care Disparities in Infant Mortality Numerous empirical studies have demonstrated a significant discrepancy in survival rates of newborns of different race. It has been shown that black infants are two times more likely to d Continue Reading...
Nutrition: Ethical or Unethical? Should nurses withhold or withdraw nutrition & Hydration from terminally ill patients? This is a question that boggles the mind. Some feel that withholding anything from any patient is unethical, while others fe Continue Reading...
Self Scheduling PDSA Self-scheduling with hospital nurses: A literature review and proposal for change Recently, there has been a great deal of frustration amongst both nurses and patients about the strict, inflexible, and counterproductive sched Continue Reading...
HIV Nursing The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus (actually a lentivirus) that eventually causes the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS; World Health Organization [WHO], 2014). There are two subtypes of the HIV virus: HIV -- 1 Continue Reading...
The hospital used for the study already had protocols in place to prevent patients from getting pneumonia. Published data was provided and posters were placed in all units. However, the nurses chose not to follow the protocols set forth. This is th Continue Reading...
Introduction The progressive care unit (PCU) is a practice setting in which the researcher’s health care team is often failing to meet quality care objectives according to patient reporting on the hospital consumer assessment of healthcare prov Continue Reading...
Status of Advanced Practice Nursing in Your State or Country The status of advanced practice nurses (APNs) in the United States has changed significant in recent years, and the scope of their practice now extends into areas that were previously not Continue Reading...
Implementing Structured Contraception Counseling to Increase the Contraception Knowledge of Women of Childbearing Age Seen in a Private Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic: A Quality Improvement ProjectAbstractThis is an evidence-based project that is a Continue Reading...
Job Satisfaction in Nursing Related to Generational Differences The proposal is based on the aspect of job satisfaction in the nursing sector taking into account the levels of satisfaction in relation to the age differences or the generational diffe 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...
Diabetes and Self-Care Ability of High School Diabetics The diabetes menace has become on of the central health challenges that ail our contemporary society. The trends have change significantly over the last 50 years and now the high school populat Continue Reading...
Psychiatric Readmission Implementation of Strategies to Reduce Psychiatric Readmission To this end, it is clear that hospital readmission remains a prevalent phenomenon in adult psychiatric patients, placing a huge morbidity and economic burden on Continue Reading...
Diabetes is a chronic and debilitating disease that has long-term consequences for those that become insulin-dependent. One of those long-term consequences is the formation of foot ulcers. Foot ulcers can lead to amputation of an insulin-dependent pa Continue Reading...
Nursing -- Annotated Bibliography Annotated Bibliography Case, Bette. (1996). Breathing AIR into adult learning. Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 27(4), 148-158. Bette Case reviews an organizational scheme for adult learning called 'AIR Continue Reading...
Knowles stated "The richest resources for learning reside in the adult learners themselves" (p. 66). An instructional strategy like gaming may help to facilitate tapping into the adult learner's experience. Through collaboration during the play of a Continue Reading...
Lesson Plan In response to a learning needs assessment at the Samaritan Medical Center, this lesson plan focuses on an educational opportunity for the highest identified opportunity in terms of education needs among the nursing staff at the Center. Continue Reading...
Nursing Intro / Job Description for Endoscopy Nurse An endoscopy nurse is a position available to Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs), as well as Registered Nurses. Therefore, the minimum requirements of the position are the LPN or RN degree. The serv Continue Reading...
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Faculty development programs are necessary in allowing students better access to competent and prepared instructors/faculty. A suitable online faculty development program should be established with the foremost support of central nursing faculty. Pri Continue Reading...
594 1.409 N Knowledge Pearson Correlation .117 1 Sig. (2-tailed) .128 Sum of Squares and Cross-products 42054.186 Covariance 1.409 N There is no statistically significant correlation between age of the participant and the self-assessed Continue Reading...
Exploring the Leadership Practice Experience: Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating a Continuing Education Program on Cerebral PalsyIntroductionCerebral palsy is a neurological illness that affects children. The exact cause is unknown, but it is bel Continue Reading...
Ethical-Legal Nursing Discussions - Part II Moral Distress and Moral Integrity Comment by Ileana: OverviewMoral Distress in Advanced Practice NursingThe meaning of moral distress has been changing in nursing. No definition fits all dilemmas. Moral d Continue Reading...
When working in hospital settings, physical therapists have frequent interactions with nurses. According to an interview done by XXX with XXX, physical therapists communicate with nurses daily as part of secondary patient care. The hospital's origi Continue Reading...
career of Home Health Nursing. With the baby boomer generation aging quickly, there will be an increased need for in home health care and home health nurses. This is a career with a future, since many aging and disabled patients want to remain in th Continue Reading...
Managing Barriers Barriers encountered in the Capstone project revolved around the idea that the staff felt it was not there job to read rhythm strips, and did not make the time to get off the floor for any continuing education. Good leadership can Continue Reading...
Planning and Implementing Change Pressure ulcers are one of the most serious concerns facing hospitals and nursing homes today. This is particularly the case with older people and those with serious disabilities that keep them bed-bound for an exten Continue Reading...
curriculum development must be a dialogue between its designers and the affected stakeholders: if a curriculum is imposed upon students and faculty members, they will inevitably resist it. Common agreement amongst faculty members also fosters greate Continue Reading...
Nursing Informatics NEW COMPETENCIES Nursing informatics or NI is a field specialty that blends and integrates the nursing, computer and information sciences in managing and transferring information and insights in nursing (Anderson, 2008; Coleman Continue Reading...
Leadership Discussions First Half Conflicting Obligations Identify at least two ethical dilemmas that occur when you are in a position of leadership. What makes the dilemmas ethical? Would you expect each person to react to the dilemma in the same Continue Reading...
IOM Report The impact of the IOM report on nursing education. The IOM report had an impact on nursing education by transforming the focus. This is occurring by concentrating on a number of different areas to include: basic standards and continuing Continue Reading...
Nursing BA vs. Associates Nursing Competencies -- Associates vs. Baccalaureates The difference competencies between nurses prepared at the associate-degree level nursing vs. The baccalaureate-degree level are significantly different on many levels. Continue Reading...
2. The key question the author addresses is whether a change to administrative practices and leadership styles will promote retention of newly recruited nursing staff. 3. The author uses a literature review to bolster the main argument and support Continue Reading...
Role of Advanced Practice Nurse Framework for Clinical Practice Person/Client/Client System Environment Health Nursing/APN (Factors Effecting APN's Practice and Implementation of the APN Nursing Process) Interrelationships of Client System, En Continue Reading...
Nursing Practice Act of Virginia: The scope of practice in medicine, nursing, law, dentistry, and various other disciplines are usually established and regulated at the state level. This implies that the legislative body in every state establishes p Continue Reading...
(Chizek, 2003) The Role legal nurse consultant may provide service in a number of roles, including but not limited to: Consulting expert Testifying expert Facility-based investigator Trainer and in-service presenter Peer reviewer Quality impr Continue Reading...
Secondary Career Option Cardiovascular Perfusionist Second Career Option Cardiovascular Perfusionist Second Career Option: Cardiovascular Perfusionist Second Career Option: Cardiovascular Perfusionist A cardiovascular perfusionist is a specialize Continue Reading...
