Leadership and Management of Nursing Nurse turnover refers to the rate at which nurses quit work in relation to the rate at which they are employed. Just like any other employees, nurses are affected by a number of issues that can either make them Continue Reading...
Clinical Nurse Leadership Nursing Leadership Interview summary, literature review, and professional plan Nurses are increasingly being called upon to fulfill clinical leadership roles as well as in their traditional spheres of practice. This is a Continue Reading...
Health Care The overall health care industry has undergone fundamental change over the last decade. Most of the changes have occurred within the underlying business operation of the healthcare industry. These changes will ultimately effect nursing a Continue Reading...
Instrument Measures Nurse Practice In a hospital or any medical care setting, nurses make up the majority of the environment, and are the backbone of facilitating patient care between physicians. However, between meeting the demands of the patients Continue Reading...
Introduction The progressive care unit (PCU) is a practice setting in which the researcher’s health care team is often failing to meet quality care objectives according to patient reporting on the hospital consumer assessment of healthcare prov Continue Reading...
Conflict Resolution The profession of nurses is perhaps the most dynamic and the most complex as it is very difficult to draw the lines of duty. Almost all the patients challenge the nurses to look after them and yet so many see them as either enemi Continue Reading...
Critique of Research Studies: Quantitative Title: The Effect of Bullying on Burnout in Nurses: The Moderating Role of Psychological Detachment Abstract Horizontal violence, or workplace bullying of nurses, remains a serious problem for the nursing pr Continue Reading...
Healthcare Innovation Healthcare is one of those industries and fields of work where the promotion of innovation and change management is key. It is also one of those fields where managing that change through tried-and-true practices such as evidenc 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 a nurse to be an effective caregiver, the patient must be treated in a holistic mann Continue Reading...
Careers in Registered Nursing Today and in the Future The need for registered nurses has never been greater. In today's healthcare environment, cost and quality, as well as an organization's ability to delivery positive outcomes, will largely determ Continue Reading...
2015 for a hospital's human resources manager to recruit, prepare, and employ ten new nurses in the space of three months. The statistics indicate the level of difficulty inherent in doing so: Hernandez and O'Connor (2010) quote the forbidding stati Continue Reading...
Understaffing is the Number One Challenge Facing Nursing TodayThe most pressing challenge in nursing today is the profound adverse impact of chronic understaffing on both patient care and nurse well-being. This issue is not just about numbers on a st Continue Reading...
Patient Electronic Access The objective of this study is to investigate the application of the electronic health record at the inner City health hospital. The goal of implementing the program is to allow patients to have easy access to their health Continue Reading...
Termination Summary Upon termination from the hospital ward, the patient smiled. Her demeanor was much calmer and more serene than when she was admitted, which was under severe stress. Therefore, I noticed many behavioral changes in both the patient Continue Reading...
If Bruce were to charge his managers to implement a TQM Paradigm, what would the basic premise be for care? How would this impact the financial performance of the hospital? Discuss. 4. Perform a simple PEST analysis of Blake Memorial Hospital. How Continue Reading...
Palese et al. (2011). According to Wood & Haber (2014) " the critique is process of critical appraisal that objectively and critically evaluates a research report's content for scientific merit and application to practice." Using the text's unde Continue Reading...
The Antecedents and Consequences of Decision-Making and Critical Thinking on Healthcare Policy and Patient AdvocacyAlthough some aspects of critical thinking and effective decision-making such as inquisitiveness and open-mindedness are inherent and n Continue Reading...
Workplace Issues/Disaster Management -- Journal Review Nursing profession faces pervasive horizontal violence and there is even a saying "nurses eat their young." Nurses should take efforts to bring a change in their existing professional culture. T Continue Reading...
Cultural Competence Health Practioner Assessment for Nurses In this situation, the nurse must be very kind, gentle, and firm in emphasizing to the parents that urinating on a newborn baby is fairly harmful to the health and the life of the infant. I Continue Reading...
American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses Why Organization Exists Community Interaction Effect on Society Organization's Effect on Social Change Structure Power and Outcomes Leadership Decision Making Communications Change Environments and Continue Reading...
Nutrition: Ethical or Unethical? Should nurses withhold or withdraw nutrition & Hydration from terminally ill patients? This is a question that boggles the mind. Some feel that withholding anything from any patient is unethical, while others fe Continue Reading...
Carroll, J.S., Williams, M. & Gallivan, T.M. (2012). The ins and outs of change of shift handoffs between nurses: A communication challenge. BMJ Qual Saf (2012). doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2011-000614 Shift handoffs can be used as benchmarks to assess qu Continue Reading...
Magnet Status in Hospitals Overview of A Magnet Facility A Magnet facility is defined as a healthcare organization where nurses have a high level of job satisfaction, nursing delivers excellent patient outcomes, and there is low nurse staff turnove Continue Reading...
NY Scope of Practice for Nurses The scope of nursing for nurses is largely similar but differs across states because of different practice environments. The variance is nursing scope of practice across states is also attributable to the differences Continue Reading...
Quality and Sustainability Paper Part Two - Identifying Opportunities to Reduce Medication Error Rates by Nursing Staff As reported previously, medication errors can occur in virtually any treatment setting, including patients’ homes, but the p Continue Reading...
Baird, J., Rehm, R., Hinds, P., Baggot, C., Davies, B. (2016). Do you know my child? Continuity of nursing care in the pediatric intensive care unit. Nursing Research, 65(2): 142-150. Barid et al. (2016) provide a grounded theory, qualitative asse Continue Reading...
Psychiatric Readmission Implementation of Strategies to Reduce Psychiatric Readmission To this end, it is clear that hospital readmission remains a prevalent phenomenon in adult psychiatric patients, placing a huge morbidity and economic burden on Continue Reading...
Restructuring Victorian Public Hospitals The case study narrates the impact of policy changes in the Victorian public health system on nurses. When the Kennett Liberal-National Coalition government came to power in 1992, a number of changes were und Continue Reading...
APRNs and State RegulationIntroductionThe evolution of healthcare practice has led to the development of advanced roles such as the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN). Specifically, the role of the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP) has been Continue Reading...
PICOT Analysis on Chronic Heart Failure One may describe heart failure (HF) as a complicated medical condition which may arise due to functional or structural cardiac disorders capable of hindering ventricular capability of ejecting or filling blood Continue Reading...
Philosophy of Nursing Leadership What are the best leadership theories when healthcare and nursing are involved? What style of leadership is most effective in today's healthcare environment? This paper addresses those questions and provides the scho Continue Reading...
poor morale in emergency room (ER) nurses and identify an empirical approach and research question involving factors that can improve morale in ER nurses. Interestingly enough, the United States "has the most expensive healthcare system in the world Continue Reading...
An effective communication channel must be identified. The initial step involves the identification of all the characteristics of the appropriate target audience (such as the area of specialty in nursing, years of experience as well as the types of Continue Reading...
Incidence rates of obesity are rising globally, with tremendous impacts to the cost and nature of healthcare intervention. As measured as body mass index (BMI) of 25 or over, being overweight affects as many as 67% of all American adults, while up to Continue Reading...
Executive SummaryThe systemic problem identified in this gap analysis is medication errors in a hospital setting, which contribute to adverse patient outcomes, including hospitalization, disability, and even death. To address this issue, several prac Continue Reading...
Informally, each time the nurse interacts with the patient they can provide information; formally, training on specific medications, or procedures; or explaining to the family situations about upcoming tests, operations, or expectations, can be most Continue Reading...
In addition to the above the authors are very cognizant of the fact that surgical patient wellness is also directly attributable to patient-nurse ratios. According to the authors this ever-important factor impacts the patient mortality and failure Continue Reading...
Nurse Leadership Literature Cummings, et al. (2010) found that relational leadership led to greater productivity, effectiveness, and extra effort when compared to task-focused leadership styles. The importance of the study to the current research i Continue Reading...
