In fact, nursing staff should have access to mobile technologies that allow for decisions to be made instantaneously at the bedside. For example, a PDA would allow nurses to access the literature directly from the bedside without leaving the patient Continue Reading...
Even under the best of circumstances, nurses are regularly exposed to patients experiencing pain and they routinely encounter grief in situations involving disability and death. All of those environmental factors can be the source of emotional stres Continue Reading...
Advance Directives should include documented patient decisions about health care, which should be honored (Advanced practice in nursing: ethical and role issues in end-of-life care, 2004). As medical knowledge and technology increase, so do option Continue Reading...
That nurse must go deeper than the superficiality of "nursing helps people maintain health (Nursing Philosophy it Matters, 2012). "The fight against post-operative wound infections has long been undertaken by practitioners. We appreciate that surgi Continue Reading...
8% of the patients and was resolved or improved in 86% (Buchwald H, Avidor Y, Braunwald et al. 2004). This need for such extreme measures underlines the difficulty of patients to alter their entrenched lifestyle patterns. The sooner these patterns ca Continue Reading...
Nursing Field In the field of Nursing there are a number of challenges that will have an impact on the ability to attract and retain qualified candidates. To fully understand how this is taking place requires comparing recruitment strategies and det Continue Reading...
Nursing -- Measuring Patient Outcomes Measuring Patient Outcomes Measuring patient outcomes is crucial to evaluating the quality of healthcare since achieving positive patient outcomes is the most fundamental of all goals of healthcare in general ( Continue Reading...
Bruner's main points suggest that adult learning is an active process and that adult learners actively "construct" knowledge by "relating incoming information to a previously acquired psychological frame of reference" (Shermis & Bigge, 136). Pa Continue Reading...
As a result, it becomes more difficult to ascertain exactly what mode of intervention would best be suited for helping children overcome health matters that are at least to some degree beyond their control. That said, a defining strength of the res Continue Reading...
Nursing (a) provides an account of your observations on the management of peripheral intravascular devices from your clinical practicum in NMIH202; Clinical practicum NM1H202 introduces nurses to the management of peripheral devices via scholarly i Continue Reading...
, 2010). It is perfectly conceivable that this nurse leader would welcome more collaborative or shared leadership responsibilities, particularly since the setting for empirical clinical research on this very issue was, in fact, an ICU (Rosengren, Bon Continue Reading...
This is one of the most common forms of research and, for some research questions is clearly a strong design (Ethics in Critical Care Nursing Research, 2005). The research that was done in this article would be considered a non-experimental type. T Continue Reading...
They also need to research how much increasing the staffing levels will increase costs, and where funding will come from to cover those costs. There is another aspect of the argument that must be addressed, as well. There is a nursing shortage, and Continue Reading...
A healthy community needs to be built from the bottom up. Those things that affect the children need to be addressed so that the children can have a better shot at growing up into healthy adults. Low birth weights, poor nutrition and a lack of phys Continue Reading...
Role of Schools on Childhood Obesity Eating and Exercise Behaviors of School Professionals What Should Schools Do to Make a Difference? Address physical activity and nutrition through a Coordinated School Health Program (CSHP) approach. Designate Continue Reading...
Nursing Heritage Assessment The Heritage Assessment Tool is a useful way of examining how strongly a person identifies with his or her heritage. It asks questions that can give a healthcare provider information about how long the family has been in Continue Reading...
Nephrologists are expected to play a role in this determination, but all too often the nephrologist, like other physicians, must be prompted to deal with end-of-life issues. If no one is available to do the prompting, the patient's death may be need Continue Reading...
Nursing Home Facilities: A Solution for Long-Term Care Introduction Nursing home facilities offer a unique setting for long-term care of elderly persons. Serving as places of residence where the elderly person can obtain assistance with daily living Continue Reading...
The modern nurse must then be willing to move beyond a simple catch-all of medical jargon and bureaucracy and become someone who is both supportive and critical of the system. This may seem dichotomous, but in reality is not. The system is designed Continue Reading...
In an acute care setting, such Veterans Affairs, this objective is executed by educating patients about how to maintain a healthy diet and lifestyle after the leave the facility, while in a long-term care setting-such as Cobble Hill-this objective i Continue Reading...
[Roberta S. Rehm]. Thus, the need for nurses to upgrade their skills in handling assistive technical gadgets becomes more pronounced. The most frustrating and stressful situation for parents is when school authorities fail to show an active interest Continue Reading...
Preferably, females should be vaccinated before onset of sexual activity. Sexually active females may also benefit from vaccination since there are very few young women are infected with all four HPV types that are targeted by the vaccine. Females w Continue Reading...
People who are in poor health are less likely to work and, when in work, are less prolific. They are less probable to invest in their own schooling or to save for retirement, and so to support the broader economy. Experts believe that the present ec Continue Reading...
Advanced practice roles that include blended roles of the CNS and NP, the CNM and the CRNA Nursing began as a generalized discipline but has become increasingly specialized as the profession has grown more technical in nature. "From these early begi Continue Reading...
(Feldman & Greenberg, 2005, p. 67) Staffing coordinators, often nurse leaders must seek to give priority to educational needs as a reason for adjusting and/or making schedules for staff, including offering incentives to staff not currently seeki Continue Reading...
Nurse Practice Specialties The objective of this study is to locate four evidence-based research articles in nursing peer-reviewed journal. Specialty nursing includes various areas of nursing practice, which are examined in this study. Articles rev Continue Reading...
nursing education and specifically that completed in Saudi Arabia. The review will what the level of education is in Saudi Arabia now and historically, what efficacy critical thinking has as a component of nursing education and how that component ca 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...
Chief Nursing Officer in a Nursing Unit What is the role of today's Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) in the medical workplace? Are there issues that need resolution within the CNO purview? Is there a turnover problem in the field when it comes to the CN Continue Reading...
Family nurse practitioner is a member of a specialized group of healthcare providers. "Nurses represent the single largest group of health care providers in the United States and are the initial point of patient contact in many settings" (Naylor & Continue Reading...
Family Nurse Practioner Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) in family surburban clinic The paper provides information on an advanced nursing role (Family Nurse Practitioner). It consists of the requirements of the nursing role in terms of certification Continue Reading...
Masters in Nursing for Clinical Teaching The objective of this study is to examine the importance of a Masters in Nursing for the Nurse in Clinical Teaching endeavors. The work of Orton (2007) entitled "Nurses As Clinical Teachers" Variables Affec Continue Reading...
Licensing As a family nurse practitioner, I would expect work in a type of organization such as a doctor's office. There are several factors that have led me to consider this highly distinct possibility, not the least of which is the increasing tren Continue Reading...
C919Course Title: The Role of the BSN Nurse in Promoting Community HealthPart ABSN Nurses play an undeniably crucial role in efforts to promote and sustain community health. To a large extent, community health happens to be focused on groups, familie Continue Reading...
Nursing Theories Nursing is a practice or field that must be based on nursing theories, which contributes to the consideration of nursing discipline as a profession. The significance of nursing theories in the practice is attributed to their provis Continue Reading...
A significant example of this extends from the nurse's new role as a qualified medical professional capable of delivering diagnosis and treatment without the presence of a physician. For the nurse practitioner -- the agent of advanced nursing practi Continue Reading...
nursing profession has been a vital part and backbone of health care all over the world. Its methods and practiced discipline focuses on the assistance being rendered to an individual or a group, a family and a community with its primary concern on Continue Reading...
Introduction Although senior management and public policy are also integral to the creation and maintenance of a culture of safety in healthcare organizations, nursing leadership is the most critical component in promoting desired patient outcomes. T Continue Reading...
Future of Nursing Education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia The primary objective of this book is to provide the reader with evidence-based nursing education and practice principles. The goal of this work is to help nursing educators and nurse practi Continue Reading...
