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...
Studies suggest that more computerized order entry of medications helps reduce errors by limiting interpretation errors due to handwriting (Meadows, 2003). Thus more order entry is involving computers to protect patients. A culture that supports sa Continue Reading...
Nursing Nurses have a direct personal responsibility to help, serve, and care for others. This is true especially for nurses working in underdeveloped nations or with underserved, politically disenfranchised, or vulnerable communities. Yet nurses mu Continue Reading...
The new nurse should not be left to muddle through alone. Benner's work (cited in Messmer, Jones & Taylor, 2004) showed that nurses become more proficient and develop better cognitive skills and judgment when they are exposed to competent and p Continue Reading...
"As such, the one caring and the one cared-for, both connect in mutual search for meaning and wholeness, and perhaps for the spiritual transcendence of suffering" (Cara 2010). Support groups can be particularly effective in dealing with cultural an Continue Reading...
As the percentage of older Americans continues to increase, the need for timely and accurate assessment screens and the formulation of effective clinical interventions will become even more pronounced. Fortunately, the research also showed that ther Continue Reading...
Nursing Research Analyzing Qualitative Data Qualitative data, which usually consists of narrative materials (Polit & Beck, 2008, p. 507), is analyzed by three major styles. Template analysis involves development of a guide to which gathered dat Continue Reading...
Nurse Practitioners Providing the Full Spectrum of Health Care Services As the National Organizatoin of Nurse Practitioner Faculty (NONPF, 2013) competencies indicate, full spectrum of health care services should include health promotion, disease pr Continue Reading...
Nursing Problem: Shortage of Nurses in Healthcare Nursing Shortage The researcher works at Phoebe Memorial Hospital, where there is an extreme nursing shortage. Without an adequate amount of nurses, patient care and safety may turn out to be compro 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...
Nursing Research HIPAA Proposal Patient privacy protection is a cornerstone of any patient bill of rights and is a major goal of any nurse or medical professional. Without privacy, the basis of trust necessary to facilitate patient healing simply ca 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...
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...
Management Issues and Practices James Strong, the former CEO and managing director of Qantas Airlines, twice sat on the panel convened at the Sydney office of CPA Australia to select those who would be recognized for the annual 40 Young Business Lea Continue Reading...
Care plan Nursing problem 1: Mary's pain must be contained so she does not injure herself. Because children cannot always express their sensations of pain, their pain may go unnoticed until it becomes severe and frightening. Nursing problem 2: V Continue Reading...
Specifically, deficient care may result in a child's being vulnerable as a consequence of a low intrinsic level of self-esteem and self-worth (Parker, Barrett, and Hickie, 1992). It is clear that a number of factors are likely to affect the teenaged Continue Reading...
Besides facing stress, and having easy access to medications, critical care and emergency nurses may use recreational drugs more often because they are more likely to have a sensation-seeking personality trait (www.nurseweek.com/news/98-5/25e.html). Continue Reading...
Nursing Home Abuse Irrespective of the fact that the sphere of elder ill-treatment prevention has traditionally been concentrated on ill-treatment in the domestic environment, growing interest is seen against the ill-treatment of residents in nursin Continue Reading...
Nursing Theory Framework Attachment Theory Recognizing Addiction through Attachment Theory Affect Regulation and Addiction Handling Addiction as an Attachment Disorder The First Phase of Therapy Concepts Autonomy Beneficence Nonmaleficence Continue Reading...
In order to better understand women's understanding of unforeseen and upsetting indications in the time after dynamic cancer management, this qualitative secondary examination looked at how women looked at unforeseen and upsetting indication practic Continue Reading...
Drug dosing is often based overall on the "volume of distribution for the loading dose and on the clearance for maintenance, with volume of distribution being increased if drug is distributed among lean and fat tissues (Casati & Putzu, 2005). C Continue Reading...
Nursing Annotated Bibliography Nursing Annotated Bibliography Annotated Bibliography This article categorizes diabetes as an epidemic that can responds well with the adjunctive treatment of HBOT. The authors use two clinical case studies in their Continue Reading...
(NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, 2008) The Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors are stated to be "recommended as first-line treatment in all people with left ventricular systolic dysfunction (LVSD) "with or without symptoms of hea Continue Reading...
Nursing Related Case Study Tom's vitals, in the emergency department, revealed an elevated respiratory rate, heart rate and blood pressure. His oxygen saturation was also considerably low. Tom's Body Mass Index (BMI) falls in the overweight category Continue Reading...
Lee is only the first step in the process of building a team that is able to cover all aspects of Mrs. Lee's care. The team approach involving a social worker, nurse, physician, pharmacist, and physical therapist affords Mrs. Lee a full range of pro Continue Reading...
The caregiver role includes those activities that assist the client physically, mentally, and emotionally, while still preserving the client's dignity. In order for one to be an effective caregiver, the patient must be treated in a holistic manner. Continue Reading...
Nursing Care HIV / AIDS is a condition that has taken on pandemic proportions. Nursing and other health care professionals are therefore highly concerned not only with the current care of patients suffering from the condition, but also with new adva 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...
Nursing homes and facilities that are somewhat less restrictive are needed and necessary in some situations so as to allow for the proper level of care and supervision. However, the isolation and removal from the outside world that people experience Continue Reading...
In Oklahoma there is a state-wide effort known as the Oklahoma Physical Activity and Nutrition Program (OKPAN). This is an effort to avert obesity and other chronic diseases by way of healthy eating and increased physical activity. Its task is to r Continue Reading...
Nursing Literature Review (Nursing) McCArthy, A., Shaban, R., Boys, J., & Winch, S. (2010). Compliance, normality, and the patient on peritoneal dialysis. Nephrology Nursing Journal, 37(3), 243-251. Key Words, data bases, limitations: complian Continue Reading...
The prescriptions include wisdom, honesty, and courage, as well as human dignity, integrity, respect, health, and independence. Part 3: Formulate possible evidence-based practices and an action plan that could work towards achieving improvement out Continue Reading...
Nursing Objectives By synthesizing knowledge from the natural and behavioral sciences, as well as the humanities, into nursing practice, a nurse can provide much more value when it comes to the proper level of care for all patients (Fitzpatrick & Continue Reading...
It is believed that this is related to some basic dissimilarity in women's the way women's hearts work (Ricciotti, 2012). Women are just as liable to have a heart attack as men, but the fact that they are more apt to die after their first heart att Continue Reading...
Third, lack of attention to evidence-based practice can lead to inconsistent delivery of care services. Evidence-based practice relates to almost every aspect of health care at every stage of a client's relationship with the institution. For exampl Continue Reading...
The chief concern of the researcher should be the safety of the research participant. This is carried out by carefully considering the risk to benefit ratio, using all available information to make an appropriate assessment and continually monitori Continue Reading...
Others include delays in data accessibility, albeit shorter delays and the continued need for source data verification (Donovan, 2007). Other obstacles have occurred in the developing of mobile healthcare applications. These have included mobile de Continue Reading...
Successful completion of a competency-based insulin pen administration checklist along with successful demonstration of a mock insulin injection would be required before a nurse could administer insulin to a patient using the insulin pen devices. Du Continue Reading...
Diabetes-related deaths are impacting Oklahoma minority groups at a disproportionate rate. For instance, the age-adjusted death rates are over 200% higher for Native Americans and over 130% higher for blacks compared to whites. Because diabetes is a Continue Reading...
