43 Search Results for Needle Stick Injuries
The results revealed that this route did not lead to any needle stick injuries. The ESA worked as efficaciously as it would have if needles were used and this was proved by the maintenance of the hemoglobin levels. It was observed that 91% of the nu 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...
Ethical Dilemma: AIDS and Needles Case
Ethical dilemmas, also considered as moral dilemmas, are circumstances that require a decision to be made between two choices, a moral and an immoral act. According to ethical dilemmas' assumption, the chooser Continue Reading...
The safe administration of therapeutic substances involves the five R's - 'Right dose', 'Right Drug', 'Right Patient', 'Right Route' and 'Right time'. [WHO, (1997)]
Attending to patient's comfort needs is one of the important nursing responsibiliti Continue Reading...
There would be a small cost to print the posters in each unit, but nothing extravagant. In order to promote the implementation, the department reporting the least amount of needle sticks per month would be given a small reward such as a free departm Continue Reading...
Nurse-Patient Ratio on Care Quality
Nurse Patient Ratio
The Impact of Nurse to Patient Ratio on Healthcare Quality
The Impact of Nurse to Patient Ratio on Healthcare Quality
It would be hard to understate the importance of a high nurse to patien Continue Reading...
Medication Administration Entails Six Rights, Namely:
Right individual
Right medicine
Right dosage
Right route
Right time, and Right documentation (Six Rights of Medication Administration, n.d; Perry, Potter & Ostendorf, 2015).
Right Indivi Continue Reading...
Successful completion of a competency-based insulin pen administration checklist along with successful demonstration of a mock insulin injection would be required before a nurse could administer insulin to a patient using the insulin pen devices. Du Continue Reading...
As noted above, one of the most prominent leadership theories that has been applied to the nursing profession is transformational leadership. Properly applied and managed, transformation leadership can also be used to facilitate creativity in the w Continue Reading...
medications before administering to patients. What are the six medication rights?
The six rights are Medication, Route, Time, Client, Dosage and Documentation. Medication of course, is about verifying that the right medication is being given, Route Continue Reading...
Health Care Issue and Operation Management
Health care is the prevention, treatment and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well-being through services offered by the medical and allied health professions (Dictionary.co Continue Reading...
A majority of the currently available vaccines are delivered through injection. The disadvantage of this method is that the injections can only be administered by a trained health care professional [1]. This hinders the delivery of the vaccine and pe Continue Reading...
QUALITY AND SAFETY IN HEALTHCARE AND NURSING PRACTICEQuality and Safety in Healthcare and Nursing PracticeQuality and safety are of great relevance in nursing practice. To a large extent, the promotion of quality and safety results in improved patien Continue Reading...
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a major public health problem across the globe as it contributes to nearly 1 million deaths annually. It is an infection that basically attacks the liver and has the potential to generate acute and chronic disea Continue Reading...
Hepatitis C: Brief Overview and Statistics
1. The nature of the problem
Hepatitis C refers to an infectious disease of the liver: it can manifest as either mild or severe and lasting in term for a few weeks or for as long as the infected individual m Continue Reading...
Clinical Risk Management
Hospitals are one of the top listed high-risk places of work. Just like any high-risk workplaces, Clinical Risk Management (CRM) procedures are formulated to enable hospitals in identifying, containing, as well as manage wor 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...
Respiratory Infections
Respiratory Conditions
Respiratory tract infections are highly infectious diseases that involve the respiratory tract. They are divided into upper (URTI or URI) and lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI or LRI). LRIs inclu Continue Reading...
There are various blood tests used to detect HIV, of which the most frequently used is enzyme immunoassay, and if the presence of antibodies is detected, the blood is further tested with the Western blot method (AIDS). A test that measure the viral Continue Reading...
epidemiology nursing research a communicable disease. Communicable Disease Selection Choose communicable disease list: 1. Chickenpox 2. Tuberculosis 3. Influenza 4.
Communicable diseases according to (Copstead & Banasik, 2010) is a condition or Continue Reading...
AIDS in America
AIDS is a devastating disease that has ravaged our world over the past twenty years. The issue of AIDS in America is one of much debate that continues to challenge the medical community. The purpose of this discussion is to examine t Continue Reading...
Hepatitis B screening for health care workers in primary health care
The cause for Hepatitis B is a DNA virus and the complete virus has the name 'Dane particle'. The virus contains three major antigens in structure: The surface antigen, the core a Continue Reading...
Management of Occupational Exposures to Bloodborne Pathogens:
Hepatitis B Virus, Hepatitis C Virus, and Human Immunodeficiency Virus
This paper is written specifically for health care professionals who may, at some point during the course of their Continue Reading...
infection prevention and control theory, critically discuss the challenges of managing Hepatitis B in the community
One of the key public health issues that impacts innumerable individuals worldwide is viral hepatitis. This virus leads to substanti Continue Reading...
The penalties for being out of compliance when OSHA comes knocking should be enough to motivate any healthcare facility to devise a plan to make sure that they are in compliance with OSHA's regulations. The startling thing is that it took an initia Continue Reading...
Women and Health Agenda Over the Last 20 Years
This review is about women's health demands and their contribution in creating a healthy society. For many decades, World Health Organization (WHO) has had tremendous measures that concern women's healt Continue Reading...
Pain Management in Post-Operative Patients
Pain suffered patients undergoing surgery. The severity pain vary patient. It nurse caring patient postoperative phase manages patient's pain. Questions arise pain assessment, nurses estimation mismanagemen Continue Reading...
Reflex pathways
Introduction
Reflexes or reflex pathways are always most easily observed as well as analyzed specifically when the spinal cord directly receives a synchronous volley, particularly of afferent input. Due to such an occurrence, the affe Continue Reading...
differential diagnosis for Mrs. Patrick and give the most likely probable diagnosis.
A review of the case reveals that Mrs. Patrick could be suffering from Fibroblastic rheumatism, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Sarcoid arthropathy, Acute viral polyarthriti Continue Reading...
Health Promotion:
American HIV Prevention in an Era of False Security - an Investigative Study
AIDS is one of the most dangerous diseases to affect humankind. AIDS awareness is best-funded and best-taught in the United States of America. This reali Continue Reading...
The science behind the research was not incredibly profound, but again the article was fluidly written and very easy to follow the logic of.
Reflection:
This is not an aspect of the disease I had thought of before; it is important to remember that Continue Reading...
Overall, though, the biggest problem with HIV / AIDS is that there are so many people in countries like Africa who are contracting it and who cannot get proper treatment for it (Batchelder, 2002).
A large segment of the population is sick in that c Continue Reading...
The doctor said that I'm pretty healthy now, although I was bedridden for about two weeks during which time I changed my diet substantially to eat more fruits and vegetables and less red meat per the advice of the physician. I have also substantiall Continue Reading...
Campylobacter jejuni is a helical shaped, non-spore forming, curved, Gram-negative bacteria which is most often found in animal feces. This bacteria comes from the intestinal tracks of animals where is exists as a mixed surface-associated community, Continue Reading...