Pain Management Assessment WHAT it TAKES Because moderate to severe postoperative pain is a common experience among patients, pain management is an essential part of nursing care (Yuceer, 2011). Nurses must evaluate the pain, teach the patient appr Continue Reading...
Ambulatory Care Unit Designing your own healthcare unit Designing a health care unit The health care system in the world continues to grow amid the several challenges it faces from the developments in the related sectors. The world health organiza Continue Reading...
Nursing Leadership and Management Approaches of Nursing Leaders and Managers to Issues in Practice Providing quality healthcare to individuals in need is imperative for all the stakeholders involved in the provision of healthcare. Among the stakeho Continue Reading...
Evidence-Based Practice citation that was of interest to the author of this document is called "Closing the quality gap: A critical analysis of quality improvement strategies: volume 5 -- asthma care." It focuses on the phenomenon in which "there re Continue Reading...
Name Class Professor Gaps occur in various situations. They can be in lesson plans or healthcare. When it comes to the MICU, practice gaps happen. To implement a quality improvement proposal one needs to see what works and how to use it to meet the Continue Reading...
Fictional Hospital Create imaginary health care organization (hospital). Evaluate organization basis Baldrige National Quality Program Health Care Criteria Performance Excellence listed. (1) Leadership: (a) Describe senior leaders' actions guide sus Continue Reading...
Nursing Doctoral Business Proposal The benefits of staffing Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ARNP) as ARNP Case Managers A Nurse Practitioner (NP) is a registered nurse educated and certified to operate autonomously and collaboratively in an advanced Continue Reading...
Health Care Information Technology Changes in health information technology Healthcare and Information Technology Information Technology (IT) can be briefly defined as "the branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommuni 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...
Enhancing Postoperative Patient Safety: A Quality Improvement Initiative on Monitored Anesthesia Care (MAC)Introduction and BackgroundHealthcare quality and safety are critical components of postoperative care, particularly for patients undergoing pr Continue Reading...
Accessed 08 Feb, 2012 from http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0DUD/is_12_27/ai_n17165803/pg_4/?tag=content;col1 Part 2 Quality improvement research enables hospitals and doctors a means of maximize their services and ensuring that the patients Continue Reading...
Future of Healthcare as it Relates to the Geriatric Population Description and Problem Statement The geriatric population in the United States is growing and compared to the population of health care providers the geriatric population growth is adv Continue Reading...
Nursing Education Does nursing have a unique body of knowledge or is it the application of various other fields of knowledge in a practice setting? Nursing does have a unique body of knowledge as Moyer and Whittmann-Price (2008) state "it is nursin Continue Reading...
Accreditation According to the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), "accreditation is a nongovernmental process conducted by representatives of postsecondary institutions and professional groups. As conducted in the United States, accr 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...
Employing Evidence-Base Practice The influence of evidence-based practice (EBP) has found reverberations in the field of medical care giving, academia and scientific endeavors. The need for evidence-based quality arises from the need to afford impro Continue Reading...
Long-Term Care Administration Long-term care refers to the wide range of medical activities designed to assist the needs of people living with chronic health issues. Debates concerning hospital quality, and nursing care often occur independently to Continue Reading...
Healthcare Administration Risk Involved in Poor Chart Documentation: An Overview in Total Quality Management Poor chart documentation in the behavioral health field is a concern for risk management and a critical area for total quality improvement. Continue Reading...
American History: Discussion Today, the existence of America is often assumed to be obviously good because of the existence of American democracy and positive American democratic values exported all over the world. However, that was not always the c Continue Reading...
participation and personal experience with regulatory visit preparation and about the Quality Improvement process in your healthcare organization. Include a reflection about an observation you made about how a nurse leader used her power to implemen Continue Reading...
Healthcare Organizations Health Organizations Patient Care in Healthcare Organizations Overview of the tracer methodology When indulging in tracer methodology systems, the key word is flexibility. The surveyors involve staff members through many Continue Reading...
In the U.S healthcare environment, the clinical practice guidelines are the effective healthcare protocol to enhance patient’s safety as well as achieving evidence-based practice. The clinical guidelines provide recommendations to the best avai Continue Reading...
Piney Woods Hospital Satisfaction is the pivotal problem for Piney Woods Hospital to address. Satisfaction across all stakeholders has a substantive impact on the other key challenges the hospital is facing. When customers are satisfied with the ser Continue Reading...
Medication Reconciliation Evidence-Based Practice and the Procedural Education of Nurses Medication reconciliation is a critical issue in healthcare reform. Today, improvement in this area of treatment could have a transformative effect on the curr Continue Reading...
Healthcare We can compare the healthcare workplace to what is seen by a person when he/she looks through a kaleidoscope: since there are numerous different patterns that appear as the moments pass by. The shortage of nurses which has been publicized 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...
Healthcare Practices in Nursing Today Over the last 50 years, health care systems all over the world have experienced rapid and significant changes. Some of these changes have been the result of innovative developments in medical science and techno Continue Reading...
Theoretical Foundations of Nursing: Nursing can be described as a science and practice that enlarges adaptive capabilities and improves the transformation of an individual and the environment. This profession focuses on promoting health, improving t Continue Reading...
Emergency Room Efficiency Improving Emergency Department Flow by Using a Provider in Triage Emergency room triage plays an essential role in the speed and quality of the emergency room departments. Triage represents only one small part of the proce Continue Reading...
The inclusion of a database system in the workplace induces efficiency, in that it allows management and nurses to monitor daily tasks accomplished and services given to patients, not to mention enabling every member to be informed of the right cond Continue Reading...
Computerized Hospital Management Systems The paper is about the benefits and costs of a computerized hospital management system from a nurse's perspective. The author is placed in the position of a nurse of a small 100 bed-community hospital who is Continue Reading...
Apologies -- must have sent the wrong file.) 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...
Nursing Ethics and ExpectationsNursing ethics, diversity, global health policy, and social justice are all essential components of the professional development of nurses. Nurses need to understand and integrate these aspects into their nursing practi 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...
Nursing Fiscal Plan The author of report is asked to assess a budget framework and compare what has happened to what is set to happen through the rest of the year and ascertain how best to close out the year. The author is asked to assess budget lin Continue Reading...
Diabetes Management Early Detection and Management of Diabetic Neuropathy in a Clinical and Homecare Setting The objective of this study is to examine early detection and management of diabetic neuropathy in a clinical and homecare setting and spec Continue Reading...
Nursing is a tough profession to perform well. There are constant innovations and changes in healthcare that make research and education a top priority among nurses to achieve the goal of providing high quality care. Evidence-based practice offers nu Continue Reading...
They added newer constructs to a PSC model developed earlier by Gershon and his colleagues (2000), which unveiled the relationship of safety and security aspects and linked it with work performance. They found that when hospital staff used the Gersh Continue Reading...
The trust from volunteers on the research is set to bring about an understanding of the relevance of the study to the nursing environment. The participants will have a certificate of confidentiality, so they can have their identities and input towar Continue Reading...
