514 Search Results for Nursing and Patient Outcomes Identify One Area
Health Care Communication
As the nation's health care resources become more and more strained, health care professionals are being asked to do more with less. They are being pressured to find cheaper ways to improve the quality of health care they d Continue Reading...
Organizational Structure
Mission, Vision and Key Values
This organization will be a new healthcare organization / group home for veterans. The mission is to provide a safe and stable environment for veterans to recover from injury, surgery or trauma. Continue Reading...
Management of Information Systems Business Strategy: Lessons to Be Learned From the Clinic and Resort Cases about the Creation, Implementation and Use of Business Intelligence
The objective of this work is to examine the lessons to be learned from t Continue Reading...
Translational medicine is a new discipline, which covers studies on basic science, on human investigations, non-human investigations, and translational research (Mankoff et al. 2004). Basic science studies address the biological effects of medicines Continue Reading...
All too often, these adolescents end up taking their own lives when their depression gets too painful for them and they have not received the help that they need. Even the medications that are designed to help them get through the depression can som Continue Reading...
Large health care systems with multiple facilities can track as many as 1,000 events each month" (Berntsen, 2004, p. 44). That is an amazing number of cases that came extremely close to becoming medical errors, and they were only stopped by caregive Continue Reading...
Explain how a community nurse can decrease or prevent the occurrence of an infectious disease, chronic illness or safety concern the community is at high risk for. Using the community assessment, describe how you would educate your community on prima Continue Reading...
Abstract
Information technology is one of the major trends in today\\'s world, and it is changing every professional. It is imperative for healthcare leaders to understand the emerging information technologies, and how those technologies can tra Continue Reading...
Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis -- and the People Who Pay the Price.
Brief summary of the book, including strengths and weaknesses
Jonathan Cohn's "The Untold Story of America's Health-Care Crisis and the People Who Pay the P Continue Reading...
Women's Health -- Focused on prevention and care for breast health, mammography, etc.
Transplant Programs - Swedish is one of seven kidney transplant centers and one of just four liver transplant centers serving the entire Pacific Northwest. The O Continue Reading...
In fact it has been proposed that the positive impact observed of PBL on motivation may come from these academically talented individuals rather than the intervention itself (Hwang & Kim, 2006). GPAs and demographic characteristics were not foun Continue Reading...
(Busch, Barber, Overend, Peloso, and Schachter, 2007, p. 8)
Results from this study relate a moderate quality evidence that aerobic-only exercise training at recommended intensity levels produces positive effects "global well-being (SMD 0.44, 95% c Continue Reading...
Nursing
In the pantheon of nursing theories, borrowed theories are those that derive from other disciplines and have been adapted to the nursing context. Many such borrowed theories come from the different social sciences, such as psychology or soci Continue Reading...
Nursing
Advanced Practice Role 5901
The Different Advanced Practice Roles
The Different Advanced Practice Roles
Advanced practice roles
The role of nurses has grown quite complex over years. It is no more simply about cleaning the wounds. The ad Continue Reading...
Nursing -- Annotated Bibliography
Annotated Bibliography
Case, Bette. (1996). Breathing AIR into adult learning. Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 27(4), 148-158.
Bette Case reviews an organizational scheme for adult learning called 'AIR Continue Reading...
Patient Identifiers
The Importance of Patient Identifiers
Adverse events as a consequence of medical treatment are now recognized to be a significant source of morbidity and mortality around the world (World Health Organization [WHO], 2005). Somewh Continue Reading...
Nursing
There are many diseases that can be treated if they are detected at an early stage. A number of such diseases include cancers including colon, cervical and breast cancers. All of the mentioned diseases can be fatal if they are not treated in Continue Reading...
Patient Safety Against Injurious Falls
Description
A White-Paper Testimony on Current Risks
With more than a thousand preventable deaths a day, the need to pay greater attention to improving current patient safety conditions and standards is unque Continue Reading...
Evidence and Expert Interview
SMART Goals - Evidence and Expert Interview
I chose goals in the areas of leadership development and organizational planning because I believe these are pivotal skills for a nurse to have in order to be an effective me Continue Reading...
Diary Entries
Diary Entry
When we first start out in the nursing profession, there are often incidents that come about to test our ability to confront challenges head on. While these challenges often take the form of medical emergencies, they can Continue Reading...
Moreover, EBSCO, U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, PubMed, and Sage Publication databases also contain thousands of research articles on the TEDs, DVT, Pulmonary Embolism, Anti-Embolism Stockings and the safe use of T Continue Reading...
The researchers believe that future research should include studies with large enough sample sizes to assess whether factors associated with satisfaction vary by subgroup such as new graduates in the first year of practice. For instance, the study i Continue Reading...
Mobility
Evidence-based Practice
Progressive Mobility Protocol
This paper is a project based on PICO. The clinical question that serves as the foundation for this data-based design is; for immobile critical care patients, does the use of a nurse Continue Reading...
Furthermore, one of the pillars of collaborative care that will need to be firmly established is the fostering of clear dialogue and a means for strong communication within the care management planning. For instance, there needs to be a clear decis Continue Reading...
Conflict Resolution
The objective of this study is to examine conflict resolution and to describe a situation where conflict resolution has been encountered related to nursing and how the situation was handled. This work in writing will identify any Continue Reading...
reason I selected the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing for graduate studies in nursing is because I ultimately seek to become a leader in the field of nursing, and there are several facets of this institution that legitimize its Continue Reading...
Theatre Nurses Equipped With the Skills Required to Perform Pre-Operative Visits
To Perform Pre-Operative Visits?
Are Theatre Nurses Equipped With the Skills Required
To Perform Pre-Operative Visits?
Dissemination
Are Theatre Nurses Equipped Wi Continue Reading...
Leadership Development Plan
Leadership Development for Mentor
To be in position to coach training nurses and uphold care to patient as a first concern. The core objective of training as a nurse is to attain sufficient expertise in patient care and 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...
In light of the evidence in this literature review then it is of great import that monitoring of the health of pregnant women is vital in reference to LBW infants not only in the sense of present terms but as well to lifelong health considerations f Continue Reading...
This reduces response bias for better reliability of the information gathered and a higher anticipated response rate for an adequate sample size. A one month time frame gives better assurance of an appropriate response rate adequate analysis of resu Continue Reading...
I also need to know the length of time that I have scheduled to speak since professional research conventions usually allocate 10 minutes to 90 minutes for a presentation. If only a short time, I may be advised to present highlights and to give han Continue Reading...
In applying this article to the nursing field, it appears that combining therapies with surgery can enhance care to surgical patients. The article reaction is preoperative anxiety can be reduced with holistic nursing.
Rosenberg, S. (2006). Utilizin Continue Reading...
In 1858, Louis Pasteur identified germs, proving that diseases did not 'spontaneously' arise as nightingale thought (Atwell, 1998). However, it was Nightingale that began work as to the conditions that promoted the growth of germs, but she would not Continue Reading...
, 2005). The framework centers strengthening the compatibility with existing values and practices to also ensure a high level of simplicity and observable results, two other factors crucial to creating an effective framework (Rogers, 2003). All of th Continue Reading...
Verification of Nasogastric Tube Placement
Feeding through nasogastric tubes is an integral part of the care of critically ill patients. Improper placement of nasogastric tubes is not a rare occurrence and has been estimated to occur in 3% of all pl Continue Reading...
Patient Turning Every Two Hours and Positioning Decreases the Development of New Pressure Ulcers
The objective of this study is to determine whether turning and positioning of a patient every two hours decreases in the development of new pressure u Continue Reading...