380 Search Results for Geriatric Nursing
Leininger's Transcultural Theory and the Health Belief Model: A Synthetic Approach to the Problem of Geriatric Care
Geriatric care is a challenge in most ERs today because this is where geriatrics expect to receive regular treatment. Making this cha Continue Reading...
Ageism, its Impact, and Proposed Interventions
Issue or concern common to my future practice setting: clarifying the proven myths amongst nurses and nursing students regarding geriatric patients
In this case, I would be seeking to further expand the Continue Reading...
Health, Healthcare, and Emergency Preparedness Needs of a Defined Population
Many of the patients at my healthcare institution -- a suburban New Jersey hospital in New Jersey specializing in rehabilitating patients from brain traumas -- have suffer Continue Reading...
Purpose and Overview
Nurse consultation involves the application of change management principles and visionary leadership to the improvement of healthcare organizations. Guided by evidence-based practice and ethical principles of the healthcare prof Continue Reading...
EBP project with Implementation Plan and Evaluation Plan
Picot Question: Among the geriatric population (P), how effective are discrete nursing interventions (I) as against a complex fall prevention initiative (C) for reducing inpatient falls (O) ove Continue Reading...
The Impact of Sociocultural Factors on Patient Assessment in NursingPatient assessment is a fundamental aspect of nursing practice, serving as the foundation for clinical decision-making, diagnosis, and treatment planning. However, assessment is infl Continue Reading...
Support for New NursesProblem: Patient falls are a common occurrence in the Emergency department, often resulting in injury and harm (Campbell et al., 2020). The problem is one that needs to be addressed particularly with new nurses, as falls tend to Continue Reading...
Scientific Merit Paper: Patient Input
This qualitative study of Doekhie (et al., 2018) demonstrated scientific merit in advancing the knowledge base of the extent to which elderly, chronically ill patients can have a role in exercising oversight over Continue Reading...
OUTLINE: HALOPERIDOL Outline: Haloperidol (HALDOL)DescriptionHaloperidol (marketed as HALDOL) is among the major antipsychotic medication (FDA, 2017)Its chemical designation is 4-[4-(p-chlorophenyl)-4-hydroxypiperidino]-4-fluorobutyrophenone and the Continue Reading...
NR 601 Week 5 Case StudyNR 601 Week 5 Case StudyThe World Health Organization (WHO) defines diabetes as a disease that affects the bodys ability to prepare or produce the hormone insulin, resulting in abnormal metabolism of blood glucose and elevated Continue Reading...
Tricyclic antidepressant use to mitigate chronic low back pain has been investigated by researchers as a form of treatment for decades. Some articles go as far back as 1986. The types of antidepressants tested for efficacy in treatment of chronic low Continue Reading...
Article Review on “Mindfulness Meditation and Improvement in Sleep Quality and Daytime Impairment Among Older Adults with Sleep Disturbances”
Introduction
The article by Black et al. (2015) evaluating sleep patterns, assesses these issues Continue Reading...
Summary of Common and Conflicting Findings
Hart, Bergquist, Gajewski & Dunton (2006); Gunningberg (2005); Wipke-Tevis, Williams, Rantz, Popejoy, Madsen, Petroski & Vogelsmeier (2004); and Vanderwee, Grypdonck, DeBacquer & Defloor (2006 Continue Reading...
Student Training in Aged Care
What Factors in Students Training Enhance Retention
Post Placement in the Aged Care Sector?
What Factors in Students Training Enhance Retention
Post Placement in the Aged Care Sector?
Thanks to medical research, bet Continue Reading...
Aspiration Pneumonia Prevention through in-Service Training for Nurses
NR451 RN Capstone Course
Design for Change Proposal: Aspiration Pneumonia Prevention through in-Service Training for Nurses
This is a position paper recommending the implementa Continue Reading...
ethnography of fictional individual who wanted to enter the medical field. The paper starts off with a 2-page assessment of a pseudo-interview that will form the structure of the entire ethnography. The interview and the analysis followed all exhibi Continue Reading...
Survival in Pediatric Dialysis and Transplant Patients
Children that have to undergo kidney transplantation or dialysis at an early age are at much more risk than the healthier ones. The mortality rate risks have been identified to be around thirty Continue Reading...
Pangman and Seguire Journal Review
"Sexuality and the Chronically Ill Older Adult:
A Social Justice Issue"
"Sexuality and the Chronically Ill Older Adult: A Social Justice Issue" is an article by Verna C. Pangman and Marilyn Seguire, first publish Continue Reading...
Immersion Project: Best Practice Recommendations for End-Stage Dementia Care
My immersion project created opportunities to interact with other care professionals, including primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, geriatric specialists, hospice Continue Reading...
Leaning does not only imply facts, but continual and fluid evolution of the brain. This is the identical process that the brain takes when improving itself and reducing aging. If the brain continues to receive stimuli and appropriate chemicals for e Continue Reading...
Evidence-based nursing interventions that will provide quality care to vulnerable populations
There is evidence in innovative health programs whose outcomes are Hospice care with increased patient and caregiver satisfaction costs lower than the conv Continue Reading...
New-Hire orientation process for a home health agency in La Mesa. CA
A needs assessment survey is "a way of asking group or community members what they see as the most important needs of that group or community" ("Section 7," 2015). The purpose of Continue Reading...
Evidence-Based Practice Project: Reducing Rate of Psychiatric Readmission
The purpose of the evidence-based practice project is to examine ways to eliminate psychiatric readmissions. More specifically, literature is reviewed to examine evidence supp Continue Reading...
Patient Safety Through Medication Reconciliation
The adoption of the Affordable Healthcare Act has assisted an increasing number of Americans to have access to health insurance. Despite the benefits associated with the new law, the quality of health Continue Reading...
Anomic Aphasia is also known as nominal aphasia, dysnomia, and amnesic aphasia and refers to a disorder that generates difficulties in recalling names or words. This brain disorder is considered as a dearth of expressive language that makes it diffic Continue Reading...
Elderly Falls
With the help of a thorough clinical evaluation, the risk factors, risks associated with falling and working out adequate intervention methods to curb the rate of elderly falls can be achieved. As per the 2011 AGS / BGS guidelines, (Pa Continue Reading...
PONV was not seen at 24 hours significantly lower rates of PONV at four and eight hours were found in the septoplasty group in which pharyngeal packing was not used
Habib, et al. (2010)
prospective, double-blind, randomized study
104 Patients und Continue Reading...
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References
Cooney, C., & Mortimer, a. (1995). Elder Abuse and Dementia - a Pilot Study . International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 41, 276-283.
Dong, X., Simon, M., de Leon, C.M., Fulmer, T., Beck, T., Hebert, L., et al. (2009). Elder Self Continue Reading...
Healthcare Administration
It has been in the last 3 decades that a rapid increase has been seen in the providence of geriatric healthcare. The main reason for this increase is the increase in demand and need of these services for the elderly people. Continue Reading...
budget template that is being produced for Shatin Hospital, which is a rehabilitation hospital. This hospital is run by the Hospital Authority, which is the main health care provider in the country. The proposal is basically highlighting the issue o Continue Reading...
Clinical Decision Making Process in Regards to Drug Therapy for the Elderly
The objective of this study is to examine how an undergraduate student nurse would use the clinical decision-making process in regards to drug therapy for the elderly. Inclu Continue Reading...
educational curricula or the educational environment influenced by news media? By attitudes or activities of educators and facilitators? By community events or expectations? By regulatory or accrediting agencies?
The most recent example of the effe Continue Reading...
KC but my friends and family call me Mary. I was born in the Philippines, on the island of Luzon in 1965. I lived in Philippines for roughly 22 years and then moved to Los Angeles, in 1992. My first few years in the United States were difficult. I h Continue Reading...
Advanced Practice Nursing
Advanced Practice RN's in the Home Health Care Arena
Identification of the phenomenon.
There is an urgent need for APRN services in the home health care environment. That is the pivotal position this paper proposes to pu Continue Reading...
Stakeholders in Home Health Care
Stakeholders
In thinking about the info set out in the previous researches we have to keep in mind that the overarching rationale for the participation of any of the stakeholders is the advantageous results that the Continue Reading...