391 Search Results for Nursing and Hospice Care
Care Planning Analysis
In reality, sound healthcare-related advanced planning is a continuous conversation, involving priorities, values, QOL (quality of life) and what one's life means. Tool kits, in this context, comprise various self-help resour Continue Reading...
Management (Nursing)
Area: Birmingham, AL
Educational requirements of the position
As in all states, the state of Alabama's requirements for certified case managers is that they work with ill and injured clients serving government agencies, healt Continue Reading...
ICU Delirium -- Evidence Review and Synthesis
Evidence Review
Luetz et al. (2014) conducted a study in which they examined how delirium management is an important aspect of intensive care treatment alongside analgesia and sedation management. The m Continue Reading...
Cultural Issues in End of Life Care
In this age of increased social diversity the cultural aspects of end-of-life care have become increasingly important in the nursing profession. This importance is however complicated by technology and the cultura Continue Reading...
Visiting Nurse Service of New York provides in home health care services to numerous patients throughout the state of New York. It was founded by one of the most famous nurses of the 19th and 20th centuries, Lillian Wald. It is a not-for-profit organ Continue Reading...
Health Staff
the Allied health care staffing agency is a staffing agency that focuses on the niche of the nursing jobs within the healthcare industry in Chicago
The Allied healthcare staffing agency works to recruit registered nurses belonging to a Continue Reading...
Diabetes Care in the Elderly
Curriculum Development Project
Curriculum Development Project: Diabetes in the Skilled Nursing Home Residents
Curriculum Development Project: Diabetes in the Skilled Nursing Home Residents
The increased prevalence of Continue Reading...
Predict the economic impact (e.g., costs, benefits, efficiency, cost containment) on healthcare delivery at the local, state, national, or international level if the legislative bill were enacted.
This paper examines the economic impact upon the nat Continue Reading...
Enhancing Service Delivery in U.S. Healthcare System
Any rehabilitative and chronic system aims at a cost-effective healthcare. The move towards the consideration of alternative methods to provide health care for patients emanates from the federal s Continue Reading...
Summary & Conclusion
There are many considerations when attempting to make a decision between assisted living facilities and nursing home care for the individual who is of an advanced age because depending on the medical limitations of the ind Continue Reading...
KATHARINE KOLCABA'S COMFORT THEORY
Evaluation of K. Kolcaba's Comfort Theory
Structure
Are the concepts in the theory explicitly and/or implicitly described in the theory?
(including the four concepts of the metaparadigm of nursing; nurse/nursin Continue Reading...
Balance Scorecard Applications in Healthcare Organizations
Balanced Scorecard
The Learning & Growth Perspective
The Business Process Perspective
The Financial Perspective
Strategy Mapping
General Perspective of Performance Management
Perfo Continue Reading...
Planned change in the eldercare advocacy organization
In the coming years, many countries will experience a dramatic shift in healthcare infrastructure due to an expanding elderly population size. However, the changes may vary across countries depen Continue Reading...
Unlicensed Caregiver Experience in Dementia Care
Dementia Care
Nearly 5.4 million people in the United States suffer from Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia (Chodosh et al., 2012, p. 85). The health care burden this places on nur Continue Reading...
Current status in implementing the affordable care act with regard to veterans' mental health problems
The Affordable Care Act's enactment gave rise to major concerns with regard to greater healthcare expenditure and reduced benefits for the Continue Reading...
Blog -- APRN Quality Improvement Project
Blog: Provider-Associated Barriers to Hospice Referrals
The process of writing the quality improvement project for improving hospice referrals for patients suffering from end-stage dementia care was very ins Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples
1. The Impact of Technological Advancements on Nursing Practice:
Explore how the latest technological developments, such as electronic health records, telehealth services, and advanced medical equipment Continue Reading...
This site contains no information directly related to the problem of substance abuse within the profession. The industry related information on the workplace environment is geared towards serving the nursing professional, and especially protecting Continue Reading...
During that time, I cannot recall mourning, but I cannot recall feeling much of anything else, either.
My grief returned more intensely than before at the graveside service.
Afterwards, I was exhausted by the emotional flood that I had experienced Continue Reading...
Children and Bereavement
How do healthcare professionals, psychologists and others help a child transition to a life without its mother or father? What are the best support methods for children when they are dealing with bereavement? This paper shed Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples
1. The Evolution of Palliative Care: From Past to Present:
This essay would explore the historical development of palliative care, tracing its roots from ancient civilizations to the modern healthcare system. It will examine key Continue Reading...
In these kinds of situations, the health care professional is taking the middle ground to satisfy both parties (which will lead to a number of challenges). This is from both sides feeling that they have won and will want more down the road. The only Continue Reading...
In the case of the former of these groups, there is a demand for proper training and experience in helping family members face the practical realities imposed by the death of a loved one. Further, research demonstrates that many acute care settings Continue Reading...
journal articles (one of each of the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of health promotion) in nursing practice.
Health promotion as a whole is defined as the best way to promote health of the patient, be that by preventing disease from occur Continue Reading...
All these professionals work together in order to establish a
rehabilitation plan that works best for each individual. The component
members of the team are subject to change in accordance with each
individual's needs and requirements. Also, the cen Continue Reading...
patients turn to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in pursuit of healing as a last resort following unsuccessful application of traditional or Western medicine. A National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) which also included an aspect of al Continue Reading...
Transitioning From Closed to Open Systems: How Effective Nurse Leaders Approach Problem Solving and Decision Making in Organizations
The objective of this study is to examine transitioning from closed to open systems and how effective nurse leaders Continue Reading...
When patients with chronic or acute illness in the setting of a severe chronic illness with a declining functionality so that death is expected within days to weeks, no CPR will be initiated.
The keys to the policy are severely chronic illness as r Continue Reading...
worldview is a schema that includes values, beliefs, and principles that shape one's vision of reality. As such, a worldview is a lens through which the world is viewed. Personal experience, background, culture, gender, ethnicity, age, religion, edu Continue Reading...
The way that this can be accomplished is by forming boards that are similar to Long-Term Care Committees. The only difference is that they would severe a similar role as a medical control board. Where, they will have the responsibility for determini Continue Reading...
The hypothesis for the proposed study asserts: When over-treatment is implemented for the patient in the oncology setting, then the partnership between the nurse and the doctor may be in peril.
1.3: Study Structure
Chapters following Chapter I, the Continue Reading...
Ethics
As a new graduate of six months working night shift on a small cancer unit, I am faced with a dilemma. Mr. V has been in and out of the unit several times over the last few months. He has liver cancer and has gone through several episodes of Continue Reading...
Elephant in the Room Project is a research that was conducted for the purpose of improving the efficiency of care through effective and compassionate communication with palliative care patients. The research recognized that nursing is not only a scie Continue Reading...
Academic and Professional Goals: Doctorate in Nursing Practice
Shortly after beginning my career as a licensed practical nurse I became interested in palliative and hospice care, in addition to advancing my professional career through further academ Continue Reading...
Personal Leadership Plan
Personal Leadership Development Plan
The nursing profession is about helping people. The nurse has an innate sense of caring for others and wanting to ease their suffering. This is the central reason why anyone wishes to be Continue Reading...
Nurses are also usually the first medical professionals to encounter patients, and so they have to be good at making quick assessments of a patient's condition, to ensure that the patient gets the appropriate care. Obviously, an emergency room nurse Continue Reading...
Wallace C., Robins J., Alvord L, Walker J. The effects of earplugs on sleep measures during exposure to simulated intensive care unit noise. American Journal of Critical Care 8, 4:210-219.
Six paid volunteers (self-selected) were tested on five 8-h Continue Reading...
Community Health Scenario
Death is an inevitable destiny of life. It is essential to be able to provide the best care that a patient may need during his last days, when all medical treatment fails. Frequently, the battle of life and death leads one Continue Reading...
Role of Government in Healthcare/How Government Influence Sunnydale
Similarities between Monopoly, Perfect Competition and Oligopoly
Importance of Government Involvement with Health Care Entities at the Local, State, and Federal Levels
Structure, Continue Reading...
In this way, any concerns that could come up and be problematic will be avoided and the information contained in the study can be accepted as being reliable, valid, and unique.
As has been mentioned, limitations are too often overlooked in studies, Continue Reading...