511 Search Results for Should Clinicians Use Evidence based Practice
Implementation of Patient-centric health information management system 4AbstractPatient-centered care is a philosophy and a level of care that explains how to organize the well-being program around the individual to increase healthcare outcomes. The Continue Reading...
pneumonia is a recurrent mechanical ventilation complication affecting almost 25% of ventilated patients. This type of pneumonia is referred to as ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and it accounts for up to 90% of nosocomial infections among the Continue Reading...
Family Nurse Practitioner
The expansion of healthcare coverage through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is expected to create an enormous increase in the number of people seeking medical treatment and healthcare. A number of demographic issues exacerba 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...
It was noted that factors affecting the removal of third molars vary from country to country depending on the stakeholders (Esposito, 2005).
In this section, we discussed the origins of third molars, as well as the different types of impaction that Continue Reading...
In many clinical practice situations, research and use of current evidence is neither prized nor supported as part of the nursing culture. One of the earliest and best-known nursing research utilization activities was the Conduct and Utilization Res Continue Reading...
SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS AND META-ANALYSESDiscussion: Systematic Reviews and Meta-AnalysesAccording to Corcoran and Pillai (2008) systematic reviews come in handy in not only the identification, but also the synthesis of the evidence considered to be of re Continue Reading...
Quality of care provided by nursing practitioners at the emergency departments.AbstractOver the previous couple of decades, overcrowding in emergency rooms has now become progressively typical. Longer wait durations in the emergency room are linked t Continue Reading...
Nursing Leadership and Management
Introduction
Nurse handoff communication during shift change is one of the most frequent, though key, nursing duties which provides the basis for delivering safe, reliable care (Eggins & Slade, 2015). Study res Continue Reading...
Healthcare Products
Examine the need in the organization for your proposed change
The change aims at transforming the pharmacy of the organization to avail prescription medication to our clients at reduced cost compared to the existing rates, and Continue Reading...
Nosocomial Infections and Hand Hygiene
Kampf and colleagues (2009) assert that the regular use of hand sanitizers has a better antimicrobial effect than regular hand washing and they suggest that this practice -- in conjunction with improved availab Continue Reading...
Running head: Biomedical and Psychosocial Treatments for Depression Biomedical and Psychosocial Treatments for Depression 8Biomedical and Psychosocial Treatments for DepressionMajor Depression is the second most significant source of disabilities and Continue Reading...
Effectiveness of EMDR Psychotherapy for the Treatment of PTSD
Introduction
Most people who undergo traumatic life experiences often find it difficult to cope and adjust and may, from time to time, not only contend with uncontrollable thoughts about t Continue Reading...
The Impact of Using Professional Bilingual Interpreters
Abstract
Elderly Hispanic patients experience numerous challenges when seeking for healthcare services since they are only eloquent in their native language and are classified as Limited English Continue Reading...
Geriatric Pharmacotherapy and Medication Challenges
Prescription Problems in Elderly Patients
In elderly patients, prescriptions, over the counter (OTC), and herbals may cause problems because they suffer from several chronic disorders resulting in t Continue Reading...
Ineffective Communication Between Shifts in Acute Care Settings
Significant
A recent statistics of the adverse effects arisen from ineffective communication between shifts in acute care setting range from 2.6% to 7.6%, however, Okoniewska, et al. ( Continue Reading...
Psychology Dual Diagnosis: Substance Related Disorders and Co-Occurring Disorders
The abuse of substances and the dependence on it are considered to be two separate types of disorders. This is according to the DSM-V use of the terms. The DSM-V is a Continue Reading...
Psychology Dual Diagnosis: Substance Related Disorders and Co-Occurring Disorders
The abuse of substances and the dependence on it are considered to be two separate types of disorders. This is according to the DSM-V use of the terms. The DSM-V is a Continue Reading...
Cultural bias implies an emphasized distinction or preferential status that indicates a predilection for one culture, over another. It is often discriminative, and is characterized by an absence of integration in a group, in terms of social principle Continue Reading...
Changing the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorder is crucial for psychiatry. The importance of such manual, assists psychiatrist classify mental disorder and in diagnosis o 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...
People living with mental illness are often marginalized, demeaned, and seen as being outside the normal boundaries of society. For people with BPD, this is doubly painful as it reinforces their sense of worthlessness and victimization, and may eve Continue Reading...
They show that mood swings in depressed children alternate with days of a pervasive down mood. These moods involve sadness, loneliness, unhappiness, hypersensitivity, overreactivity, and negative attitudes. All of this is combined with irritability Continue Reading...
Essay Titles
The Role of Corticosteroids in Managing Acute COPD Exacerbations: A Balancing Act
Systemic versus Inhaled Steroids for COPD Exacerbation Treatment: Efficacy and Outcomes
The Controversy Surrounding Long-term Steroid Use in Chroni Continue Reading...
Reduce the Proportion of Adults with ObesityI. IntroductionGlobally, obesity is rising to epidemic levels. If current trends persist, it has been estimated that the percentage of overweight or obese adults worldwide will rise from 33 percent in 2005 Continue Reading...
Patients in hospitals often complain of pain regardless of the diagnosis. Several activities in a patient's life contribute to pain. Some of the activities include amount of sleep, daily chores and quality of life (Alaloul, Williams, Myers, Jones, &a Continue Reading...
Psychopharmocology: Psychotic Disorders
Psychopharmacology: Psychotic disorders
Accepted psychological and biological theories regarding the causes of each disorder
Psychosis is an undefined syndrome that manifests in delusions, bizarre behavior, Continue Reading...
Pathopharmacological Foundation
Asthma
Analyze the Pathophysiology of Asthma
The complex chronic inflammatory disease known as asthma, involves several inflammatory cells, more than a hundred distinct mediators of inflammation, and various inflamm Continue Reading...
Performance Improvement Plan For The John Hopkins Hospital
The John Hopkins Hospital Patient Care and Safety
I. Purpose and Quality Statement:
II. Patient safety can be defined as the measures to prevent errors and negative effects that often arise f Continue Reading...
Gouveia, Gouveia, Hale et al. (2017)
"Correlates of health-related quality of life in young-old and old -- old community-dwelling older adults"
Although the authors framed the research problem of interest in terms of the purpose of the study, the Continue Reading...
Role of Information Technology in Promoting Lean Thinking/Practices in a Hospital:
How it Helps Streamlining Processes
Lean Thinking and Healthcare
Lean thinking has evolved from well-known business management disciplines such as the Toyota Produc Continue Reading...
Telemedicine: How does it impact patient care?
Introduction
The modern health care system is better and considerably more complex than what the situation previously was a decade and several decades ago. According to various researchers, the modern he Continue Reading...
Abstract
Today, there are dozens of deadly diseases in the world, but the Ebola virus disease (alternatively “EVD” or “Ebola”) is among the most virulent and lethal. Although intensive research is underway, there is no cure cu Continue Reading...
Flick et al., 2010
To determine nurses awareness that activities can reduce daytime sleepiness for patients and increase the quality of sleep during the night in nursing homes and the consequences of this awareness
Case-control study
32 nurses and ca Continue Reading...