128 Search Results for Patient Acuity System
Patient acuity system provides the nurses and other healthcare practitioners in health cares' information that can guide them in their attention towards the patients. The nurses track information and then weigh them in accordance to the urgency of as Continue Reading...
Patient Acuity ScalesLiterature ReviewAccording to DiClemente (2018), nurses have a moral as well as professional obligation to ensure that patient have access to the best possible level of care. This could be achieved via the deployment of a wide ra Continue Reading...
Inpatient falls constitute a major clinical, supervisory, and legal issue, though not much information exists on the subject of successful fall reductions (Rosenthal, 2007). CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) has ceased to reimburse hea Continue Reading...
Nurse-to-Patient Ratios in Illinois
The Facts
For many years the ongoing nursing shortage has required nurses to work longer hours and care for more patients, causing many of them to make fatal and near-fatal mistakes on the job that could have oth Continue Reading...
Nurse Patient Ratios and Quality of Care
This study reviews the broad level of issues that surround the nurse/patient ratio: a critical shortage of trained and experienced nurses; increased political and fiscal demands from all sectors of society; r Continue Reading...
Health Information Technology
The development of patient management systems continues to revolutionize the field of healthcare, specifically in the areas of treatment plans, content and records management systems, and predictive analytics. These are 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...
Introduction
As of now, at least fourteen states across the country have legislations on safe staffing. Although California is among the fourteen jurisdictions, it is unique in the sense that its legislation includes a nurse to patient ratio clause. Continue Reading...
Our study is however geared towards the assessment of applicability of the universal triage system in emergency clinical work. The current triage systems are somehow one-sized-fits it all in their design (Veenema,2007).He points out that the main pr Continue Reading...
Safe Environment -- Patient Outcomes
What are the best practices that nurses and nursing leaders can implement to assure safe working conditions and high quality patient care? This paper delves into those issues using the available literature -- sch Continue Reading...
Nursing Leadership and Management and Field Experience
Nursing Leadership and Management Field Experience
Problem Identification
The problem identified concerns about patient safety and satisfaction arising out of shortage in nurse staffing. In th Continue Reading...
Workplace Demands Influences Patient Safety
PICOT Question
PICOT Question: How can the implementation of accurate safety standards reduce errors that hamper patients' safety in healthcare facilities in the short and long run?
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Each standardized nursing language is designed for use in a number of clinical settings, including home care, ambulatory care, and inpatient treatment, with certain languages providing decided advantages within particular circumstances. Although it Continue Reading...
Nursing Role in Patient Safety
The nursing workforce is the biggest workforce in the health care industry. The nursing staff in hospitals is primarily tasked with patient surveillance in both ambulatory settings and care facilities (seldom termed as Continue Reading...
2010). While there is of course a mandate for emergency departments to provide necessary care to any individual that requires it, more efficient and effective care can be proved when crowding in the department is kept to a minimum and releases of bo Continue Reading...
Asthma and ER utilization
Asthma
Asthma is a particularly debilitating condition. Asthma is characterized by a tightening in the chest with difficulty in breathing and wheezing. This difficulty in breathing can result, at best, in a decrease in qua Continue Reading...
Learner-Centered Instruction: Teaching Patients How to Care for Themselves When They Have a Diagnosis of Congestive Heart Failure
Part I
Introduction
Teaching patients how to care for themselves when they have a diagnosis of congestive heart failure Continue Reading...
Hemodialysis on End Stage Renal Disease Patients and the Increasing Role for the Nurse
It is a difficult condition of a kidney failure when one's kidney could no longer carry out the proper metabolism system to eliminate waste products. Kidney is t Continue Reading...
Nursing Fiscal Plan
The author of report is asked to assess a budget framework and compare what has happened to what is set to happen through the rest of the year and ascertain how best to close out the year. The author is asked to assess budget lin Continue Reading...
Improving Health Care Delivery by Integrating Information Technology
In order to modernize the operations of their medical facility, Pleasant Manor nursing home should consider contracting to implement the Epic System of electronic medical record (E Continue Reading...
Future of Radiology and X-Ray Technologists
By tracing the historical development of radiography as a distinct field of diagnostic treatment, along with the evolving role of X-ray technologists in the delivery of quality health care within the publ Continue Reading...
Stress: Concept Analysis
Concepts are the fundamental building blocks of a theory. Nursing theory refers to a blueprint formed to organize skills, interpret occurrences in nursing at a more specific, and concrete level. Nursing theory entails a set Continue Reading...
Emergency Room Efficiency
Improving Emergency Department Flow by Using a Provider in Triage
Emergency room triage plays an essential role in the speed and quality of the emergency room departments. Triage represents only one small part of the proce 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...
Market Orientation of Medical Diagnostic Units
Dissertation for Master of Health Administration i. Introduction ii. Objectives iii. Description iv Administrative Internship v. Scope and Approach vi. Growth vii. Methodology viii. Hypothesis ix. Surve Continue Reading...
Healthcare Practices in Nursing Today
Over the last 50 years, health care systems all over the world have experienced rapid and significant changes. Some of these changes have been the result of innovative developments in medical science and techno 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...
Health Care Roles in Communication
Communication is a fundamental piece of health care education and has been shown to improve health outcomes, patient compliance, and patient satisfaction. Quality health care emphasizes knowledge and utilization of Continue Reading...
Genzyme Sanofi Renasssit Program.
One of the major and overwhelming changes that has occurred within a real life case of the Genzyme Sanofi Renassist Program is the marked increase in applications for this program. In May, we received 87 application Continue Reading...
Nursing
Nurse Practitioner Role: Current and Future Trends
If one is looking for a bare-bones description of today's nurse practitioner, a description presented in quite simple terms, it is convenient to turn to The International Council of Nurses; Continue Reading...
The second purpose was to explore the association of demographic variables and nurses' perceptions of pump implementation to ratings of the management team and job satisfaction. Data was collected via a survey given to 1056 nurses at a tertiary Magn Continue Reading...
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Assists staff to effectively supervise and delegate to other team members;
Models coaching and mentoring;
Effectively builds an cohesive nursing team; and Assists staff in managing conflict. (2003)
In relation to 'Caring for Self, Staff and Pat Continue Reading...
Enhancing Nurse Staffing ModelsResponse to Baez (Discussion 6.1)Analyzing fixed and centralized staffing models effectively highlights their advantages and limitations, particularly in an acute care post-op unit. While fixed staffing offers predictab Continue Reading...
Staffing MatrixPart 1Various organizations usually use a tool known as Staffing Matrix to determine the level of each nursing unit that is appropriate depending on the census. Therefore, the staffing matrix is used as a guideline to make proper adjus Continue Reading...
Introduction
The main objective of this assignment is to conduct a SWOT analysis for a healthcare organization. Essentially, SWOT analysis is a beneficial framework for scrutinizing an organization’s strengths and weaknesses, and the opportunit Continue Reading...
Nursing LeadershipIntroductionNursing leadership is a quality that is best illustrated by way of example. This paper looks at the life and career of Dr. Peter Buerhaus, a prominent nursing leader and healthcare economist, who is renowned for his infl Continue Reading...
Develop a financial strategy for using global nursing strategies to increase fiscal responsibility. Include the positive and negative financial impact of bringing foreign healthcare providers into a financial organization. Examples such as physicians Continue Reading...
A medication error is actually any preventable incident that could result in or pave way towards wrong medication usage or perhaps patient harm. Such incidents might be associated with professional activities of healthcare professionals, healthcare s Continue Reading...