235 Search Results for How Nurses Can Prevent Medication Errors
[Narayan, (2010)]. The review also showed that patients from culture might feel disinclined to take opioid medications due to cultural ban. For instance, in a study conducted by Sandy Lowering (2006) in a multicultural clinical setting in a Saudi Ar Continue Reading...
Proposal for a Nurse Informaticist Role to Enhance Effective Communication and Improve Patient OutcomesNursing Informatics and the Nurse InformaticistNursing informatics is an area of healthcare that combines nursing expertise with information techno Continue Reading...
Nursing shortage is a problem in many countries. It is often difficult to get trained nurses. While nurses are an integral part of the health care system, a shortage of trained nurses leaves an impact on the health care system.
Due to the shortage o Continue Reading...
role of an employee of a medical organization who is attending a general meeting with its management to discuss some changes regarding the Quality Assurance program due to the occurrence of a "never event." Here we will address the questions which w Continue Reading...
Critical Review
The article by Swickard et al considers the role of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Synergy Model for Patient Care in relation to transporting patients between hospital settings for increased levels of care. It reveal Continue Reading...
Read the following scenario and then answer the questions that follow
You are on your hospital's Peer Review Committee (PRC). You are reviewing Nurse A's practice. She works on the pediatric unit. In the past, Nurse A has practiced safely wi Continue Reading...
Workplace violence in the nursing field makes it difficult if not impossible for a nurse to do their job. Whether the bullying is lateral or vertical, the results are consistently the same: decreased self-confidence, fear, and work-related stress. Al Continue Reading...
SYSTEMATIC REVIEW APPRAISAL & GRADING CRITERIAAPA Reference:1. What organization or persons produced the systematic review (SR)?(6pts)Courtney L. WilliamsCardiac Telemetry Unit, Lakeland Health, Saint Joseph, Michigan, USA2. How many persons were inv Continue Reading...
. Complete the following activities to ensure successful translation:Secure a project leader. Identify change champions. Consider whether translation activities require different or ? Schedule time to complete additional members. milestones.Identify Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples
1. The Impact of Nurse-Patient Ratios on Healthcare Quality:
This essay could explore how the number of nurses available in healthcare settings affects the quality of care provided to patients. It can inc Continue Reading...
Hospital Readmissions
In any profession today, quality control means the prevention of problems that were the aim of the business to solve in the first places. Recurrence of these problems means that the business has not been functioning optimally a Continue Reading...
Johnson & Potter’s (n.d.) case study “Walking the Tightrope” demonstrates how different ethical obligations like patient autonomy, beneficence, and non-maleficence often conflict during delivery of care. Pain management is espec Continue Reading...
Healthcare Delivery
Imagine what would go through a person's mind if he or she had wrong site surgery. What emotions would arise? Can he or she take legal action? Are ethics involved? One will study in depth the legal and ethical aspects of healthc Continue Reading...
Still, the concept of guided imagery tends to stray far from traditional methods of pain management. Pharmaceuticals have long been a major method of treatment for pain, but have resulted in major backlashes in regards to patients becoming addicted, Continue Reading...
, 2005). The framework centers strengthening the compatibility with existing values and practices to also ensure a high level of simplicity and observable results, two other factors crucial to creating an effective framework (Rogers, 2003). All of th Continue Reading...
Evidence of improved access and cost effectiveness should soon follow. Over the next two decades, e-health could deliver patient, provider, and planner/manager interactions for all aspects of health care (Detmer, 2000, p. 181). Detmer continued on t Continue Reading...
It provides health-related advice on its website that all readers can benefit from, not simply those who use its services. As well as reaching out to the wider population of patients, it honors those within its fold who serve the organization with n 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...
Witness the result that there was no significant reduction in the measurement/perception of pain. We might also conclude that FM patients are either particularly susceptible to imagery, or that the study proves that there is a clear difference betwe Continue Reading...
technology underlying healthcare information and determine the most pressing need for innovation.
Technology in any field is critical, but in healthcare, because of the importance of the product, it is even more important. Healthcare information te Continue Reading...
Standards of Nursing Practice
Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice
Scope and Standards of Nursing Practice in Ohio
Scope and Standards of Nursing Practice in Ohio
As a pediatric hematology registered nurse (RN) practicing in the state of Ohio Continue Reading...
Workplace Demands Influences Patient Safety
PICOT Question
PICOT Question: How can the implementation of accurate safety standards reduce errors that hamper patients' safety in healthcare facilities in the short and long run?
P -- Patients in hea Continue Reading...
Err is Human: Summarize how informatics has assisted in improving health care safety in your organization and areas where growth is still needed.
The 1999 report "To Err is Human" shocked the medical establishment with its reports of high levels of Continue Reading...
Healthcare Economics
Overall Healthcare And Economics
Healthcare economics: Current challenges from a nursing perspective
Although the subject of healthcare economics has been hotly-debated, on one issue there is widespread agreement: the aging of Continue Reading...
Difficult Patients
Mitigating Risks from Dementia
Providing adequate care for an individual suffering from dementia presents many difficulties for nurses. Patients with dementia often have debilitating conditions such as Alzheimer's or similar neu Continue Reading...
Horizontal Violence
The Victorian and Other Healthcare Facilities still have issues with horizontal violence in their work environments where many of these incidents occur, however, their facility feels, according to the Contemporary Nurse web site, Continue Reading...
Nursing Leadership
Regardless of the field, most research studies show that collaboration and teamwork are among the top examples of job satisfaction and performance. In the modern healthcare situation, this tends to move far beyond just the physici Continue Reading...
Nursing Philosophy
The author of this report is asked to offer three main points of discussion within this report. These three sections all related to nursing theory and they will be compared and contrasted to the personal philosophy of the author o Continue Reading...
Workflow Analysis in Clinical Settings: A Comprehensive OverviewThis paper discusses the importance of clinical informatics and workflow analysis in healthcare. First, it gives an overview of clinical informatics; then, it looks at what workflow anal Continue Reading...
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The role of nurses in improvement of health care delivery in medical - surgical units
An increasing number of nurses are working in medical - surgical units and being involved in the care of medical - s Continue Reading...
These skills are vital for them to make an impact, considering the powerful relationship between leadership strength and influence. (...)
In Australia the following study has noted a change in skill mix may be necessary:
Rising demand for health s Continue Reading...
Elderly and their Risk of Depression
Until just recently geriatric depression was not regarded as a medical diagnosis, however, with the elderly suicide rate being the highest in the country it has now come to the forefront of medical research. The Continue Reading...
Establishing an NP Led Wellness and Recovery Center for Deinstitutionalized Individuals
Historically, nursing, and medicine professions have been loath to utilize tools commonly linked with mercenary aspects of business, such as market research and Continue Reading...
Consultant Pharmacists Impact on the Treatment of Hypercholesterolemia
What is Cholesterol, and Why is it of Concern?
Guidelines for Treating Hypercholesterolemia
Management of Hypercholesterolemia
Management of Hypercholesterolemia By Different Continue Reading...
Organizational Leadership Strategies
Falls in the elderly due to polypharmacy and possible approaches
Polypharmacy refers to the use of multiple medicines by the elderly especially those above sixty years. Most times, it involves the use of more th Continue Reading...
In this case, that power dynamic was only exacerbated by the fact that the entire MSICU nursing team had never received training in management of the type of clinical issues presented and by the fact that they were excluded from any consultation in Continue Reading...
A chain of communication needs to be established for future cases.
More concrete recommendations for the organization include a clear system for assigning and determining a physician-in-charge for every admitted patient at all times, such that ther Continue Reading...
Policies and procedures that are used by any hospital are vital to the care of its patients and can help decrease the length of the patients' stay by days or even weeks in some cases, depending on how these procedures and policies are implemented and Continue Reading...