An Important Role of the Nasal Cycle

Introduction The nasal cycle is one of the physiological processes that take place within the body without a slight knowledge of a person. Josephson says that the nose has two parallel nostrils (breathing passages) which are separated by a septum (a wall of cartilage) (17). These two passages are joined...

Enzymes and Digestion: Review

Do Now: On your handout list the different parts of the digestive system. If you know their functions, list that as well. mouth (speaking and eating) esophagus (directing food and fluids from the mouth to the stomach) liver (production of bile, particular proteins for blood plasma, cholesterol, and certain proteins...

Philosophy of Nursing Leadership: Transformational Leadership Philosophy

Introduction Presently, the modern economic environment has changed from what it was in the past. The poor state of the economy impacts nursing practices in several ways from budget cuts to layoffs and service delivery. The success of any organization depends on its ability to adapt to the prevailing economic...

I Can’t Stop Coughing’ Case Review

Introduction Prevention and management of asthma as a chronic condition is a challenging task that requires appropriate assistance form a healthcare expert. The case of Mike from Minnesota illustrates the symptoms of cold-induced asthma: “a lingering dry cough and difficulty catching his breath” (I can’t stop coughing: A case study...

Benefits and Disadvantages of Prone Positioning in Severe Acute Respiratory Distress: Article Critique

Introduction The selected article describes the major challenges and issues encountered by nurses while providing adequate care to patients with severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). The authors of the article identified that “earlier trials to provide proper support to patients with ARDS did not show the targeted benefits and...

Aseptic Technique: Review

I took part in the performance of two endoscopy procedures; esophagogastroduodenoscopy or EGD and colonoscopy. The procedures involve the passage of a camera either down the esophagus or into the colon respectively. Endoscopy is a diagnostic and exploratory procedure intended to identify abnormalities which caused the patient to seek medical...

COVID-19: Information About Vaccination

Introduction COVID-19 is an infectious viral high-contagious disease with predominant damage to lung tissue. Pathognomonic clinical signs are respiratory failure and distress syndrome (Cennimo, 2020). In addition to these symptoms, patients complain about a dry cough, fever, and weakness. Although the first wave of coronavirus is already behind and the...

System Failures in Healthcare Facilities

Abstract System failures may occur in healthcare facilities and have deleterious effects on patient safety and ultimate healthcare outcomes. While these failures occur, healthcare organizations can minimize them to improve quality of care for patients. Language barrier has become a common problem because of many Americans who are not proficient...

The Importance of Respiratory Therapist

Health is the main consideration of people in different age and of different welfare. To be healthy means to be successful, powerful and happy. There is a tendency in modern world to the allied health professions. This is a relatively new profession (referencing to the fact that medicine exists for...

Physical Versus Chemical Restraints in Intensive Care Unit

Introduction The use of physical and chemical restraints in acute and intensive care began ages ago. Of these two restraint methods, physical restraint has attracted the most negative attention and criticism from both the health care sector and the human rights organizations. However, both chemical and physical restraints continue to...

Incivility Within the Healthcare Metaparadigm

The healthcare system has always been an extremely complex phenomenon, as multiple spheres constitute its core. All medical workers encounter an enormous amount of stress daily. Therefore, it is of major importance to provide them with the opportunity to work in proper conditions which are free of excessive stress factors....

Plastic Surgery Trend Among Adolescents: Premises and Implications

Abstract This paper aims to examine the risks of excessive engagement in plastic surgery among adolescents, the factors that motivate this age group to change their appearance, and potential health risks. Unrealistically high beauty standards and the availability of appropriate procedures have become the main reasons for the spread of...

Forces as Magnetism: Nurses as Teachers

Introduction Early magnet research showed that nurses are very appreciative and value their teaching roles a great deal. They, therefore, have several roles working as teachers, mentors, supporters, and developers. The role of nurses begins from the time they are in nursing school and when they are employed in a...

Fay Abdella’s Twenty-One Nursing Problems Theory

A nursing theory used in this paper is Fay Abdella’s Twenty One Nursing Problems, which contains 21 statements about the tasks and responsibilities of a nurse. Twenty-One Nursing Problems theory is based on the typical issues that patients face during a hospital stay, including maintaining proper body functions and their...

The Link Between Culture and Nursing Practice

Like most professions around the world, nursing has undergone extensive transformations, with concepts previously practiced in the past currently replaced with newer and more flexible ones. For instance, the nursing profession has been traditionally taught around concepts of apprenticeship and behaviourally-focused concepts, such that, postmodern philosophies like feminism and humanity...

Hypovolaemic Shock in the Intra-Operative Patient

Introduction For anesthetic technicians (ATs) and/or operating department practitioners (ODPs) the process of monitoring patients and delivering care during perioperative stages is one of the direct responsibilities. Abnormalities in blood pressure can be seen as one of the monitored indicators and which can be attributed to hypovolaemic shock. Hypovolaemic shock...

Leading and Managing Evidence-Based Change in Nursing

Summary of Area of Interest The selected area of interest for this study is the nature of communication in different healthcare settings. Over the years, many professionals have ignored this attribute despite being a powerful aspect of medical practice. Medical institutions whose leaders promote effective communication among their followers find...

Patient Care Standards Application

Standards of care as developed both in local organizations and through state and federal policy are critical to maintaining a safe and high-quality level of patient care. These standards of care are commonly based on evidence-based research or the experience of health care professionals. Healthcare organizations are expected to provide...

Application of Bioelectromagnetics in Medicine

Introduction The utilization of bioelectromagnetics has been a topic of discussion within and outside of the medical community. Due to the latest scientific findings, there has been a surge in the popularity of electromagnetic therapy integration to treat arthritis, Alzheimer’s disease, various types of cancer, and diabetic neuropathy. The practical...

Negligence – Medical Malpractice

Introduction Negligence is a serious concern especially in the medical field and it continues to gain greater importance in medical malpractice cases in several nations ranging from the Asia, the US, and Europe. There is a concern of patient-doctor interaction with two dominant models. The first deals with the doctrine...

Problem of Vaping Is Colleges

It is hard to disagree that almost everyone from children to aged people is aware of the danger and harm that smoking cigarettes do to people. Those who cannot give up because they have become slaves of nicotine or this habit itself try to find any possible ways to stop...

Deviance. Definition of Deviance

Definition of Deviance Deviance is any behavioral conduct which is centrally to societal expectations, and as such deserves condemnation by the members of a society; the family, corporate, industrial, academic, religious, ethical, political, environmental, international society etcetera. Behavioral misconducts that warrant condemnation are looked into by the sociological field of...

Universal Health Care Under Free-Market Capitalism

Introduction The promotion of good health is one of the major governmental contributions to society’s development. During the last centuries, certain attempts were made to stabilize healthcare services and choose between universal and single-payer care types. Governments worldwide find it necessary to spend billions of dollars annually to ensure their...

Patient Engagement and Public Data Gathering

The rapid growth of electronic communication and expanding access to the Internet have empowered providers and consumers of healthcare information. The variety of sources has changed the relationship between a doctor and a patient. Healthcare organizations use a variety of patient engagement tools that a big step forward in technological...

Ethical Dilemma: Consenting to Chemotherapy

Abstract Cassandra, a 17-year-old girl, is not legally permitted to make her own medical decisions because of her age. Her mother sides with her decision not to undertake a chemotherapy treatment. The DCF gains custody of Cassandra and decides to compel her to undergo chemotherapy treatment, posing an ethical dilemma...

Nursing Code and Ethical Practices

Nurses are a very essential part of the hospital setup and as such are required in many ways to assist the patient. “Nurses have four fundamental responsibilities: to promote health, to prevent illness, to restore health and to alleviate suffering” (ICN, 2006). Being human beings, nurses may apply their own...

Dementia – The Disease of the Older Generation

Introduction Dementia was an illness which consisted of a group of symptoms characterized by reduction in memory, impairment in the reasoning skills and slow decline of skills required for daily living. Changes in the brain, both structural and biochemical, caused these illnesses. The condition was defined as “a syndrome due...

Biomedical Ethics: Pfizer’s Legal Trouble in Nigeria

Biomedical ethics revolve around the Hippocratic Oath that directs the medical practitioners to ensure that, in their undertaking, they do no harm to patients. In clinical practice, ethics concerns the limit of authority of the patient and physician, the extent of confidentiality between the patient and the physician, and the...

Bipolar Disorder: The Diagnosis and Treatment

Fluctuations of mood are natural in humans as a reaction to internal and external stressors. However, recurrent mood swings that negatively affect a person’s social or professional life can be a sign of a psychological disorder. Bipolar disorder is a mental impairment characterized by abrupt changes from depressive state to...

Should Abortion Be Banned?

Introduction The issue of abortion has led to divergent opinions in the US with the pro-life activists advocating its illegalization and their pro-choice counterparts arguing in its favor. Pro-choice crusaders assert that a pregnant woman ought to be accorded the right to either sire the child or carry out an...

Mycobacterium Tuberculosis: Pathogenesis and Epidemiology

Introduction Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mt) is the organism that is responsible for causing tuberculosis (TB). This disease that existed as from the Neolithic era has been a quagmire to the medical field scientists even after the identification of the causative agent. This paper discusses M. tuberculosis with special focus on its...

Developments in Global Tobacco and Alcohol Policy

The health of the nation is one of the major concerns of any state. Healthy populations guarantee the ability of a country to evolve and move towards the achievement of new goals. However, today the situation remains complex because of multiple problems and health issues linked to the environmental or...

Stress and Time Management

The survey results suggest that the majority of students experience stress when they cannot meet deadlines, and one-third of students feel stress under deadline pressure from time to time. The data is supported by Svedberg’s current information that highlights that an individual can lower the level of anxiety when there...

The Effects of Energy Drinks

An energy drink is a beverage comprising stimulating components, normally caffeine. These constituents serve as stimulants that can influence the body’s electrolyte balance by increasing the amount of fluid that comes out as sweat (Wassef et al., 2017). Other symptoms which may arise from consuming large quantities of caffeine include...

Hypercholesterolemia: a High Level of Cholesterol

Hypercholesterolemia refers to a high level of cholesterol in the blood. This health condition occurs when the inner walls of blood vessels accumulate and store too much cholesterol, which is released to the bloodstream when it reaches excessive levels (Vettor & Serra, 2018). Coronary arteries, the blood vessels supplying blood...

Medication Errors Analysis

One of the unresolved global problems in the healthcare system is medication errors and the damage that is caused as a result. These mistakes can occur at any step of the patient treatment process, from unnecessarily prescribed medications to wrong dosages to issues with monitoring to lack of documentation and...

The Prenatal Development: Three Stages

The timeline of prenatal development is a crucial part of the entire developmental process. It is concerned with the time during which drastic changes occur, helping to build a basis for further psychological development of a child. During the prenatal period, the brain of the child develops, which is crucial...

Healthcare Management and Leadership

The importance of healthcare management is being understood on the medicine front with various players and places. It works with a variety of health professionals. Medical experts do advanced researches and healthcare management is devoted to making the best use of the services of these people and places (Ronald Jefferson,2008,...

The Concept of Organizational Culture in Health Care

In today’s nursing practice, much attention is paid to the promotion and management of a working environment, also known as culture. The development of a safe environment plays an important role for employees and patients to choose helpful educational resources, prevent harm, and make positive changes (College of Nurses of...

The Use of Physical Restraints by Nurses

Introduction A considerable number of patients in acute and intensive care settings are normally subjected to physical restraints. This number is said to range between 7% and 17% according to a research study done by Akansel (2007). Common types of physical restraints include: wrist restraint, ankle restraint, chest restraint, chest...

Preliminary Care Coordination Plan

Health Concerns and Best Practices for Health Improvement The individual who has agreed to participate in the care coordination plan session is a 65-year-old woman from Houston, Texas. Based on the self-management practices that the participant currently implements, there are three important health concerns that require attention – high blood...

Professional Roles and Values of Nurses

Introduction The choice of profession is one of the most significant steps in the life of every person. And if a person decided to connect own life with nursing, it says much about personal traits, interests, and goals in life. Being a nurse cannot be compared to being a driver...

Vegetarianism. Literature Review

In recent years, vegetarianism and veganism, especially its stricter form, have been gaining popularity around the world. Some people adhere to a vegetarian diet for ideological reasons, whereas others feel its effectiveness and are exceptionally healthy. This is due in part to the possible benefits of this diet and growing...

Aspects of Sickle Cell Disease

Sickle cell disease is a condition where normal hemoglobin commonly referred to as hemoglobin A (Hb A) is substituted by sickle cell hemoglobin referred to as hemoglobin S (Hb S). Other conditions that lead to the disease are inherited together with Hb S such as beta-thalassemia and hemoglobin C (Hb...

Knowledge Management in Healthcare

Managing activities in medical organizations is an expensive process that is dependent heavily on knowledge flows and communication among various stakeholders that generate external and internal knowledge. A rapidly changing environment that exists nowadays has influenced healthcare organizations and made executives look for knowledge management systems that would structure a...

Government and Private Health Insurance

Nowadays, most American people receive health insurance from private health insurance companies. According to the Census Bureau, government insurance plans have 38% of Americans in comparison to 67% of people who get private health insurance services (Berchick et al., 2018). Nevertheless, managed care models and primary types of insurance businesses...

Varicella Zoster Virus: Epidemiology, Impact and Prevention

The Varicella-Zoster Virus (VZV) is part of the alphaherpesvirus subfamily consisting of HSV-1 and HSV-2, it has a nucleocapsid that covers the inner core. The core has the linear DNA genome that is double-stranded with the protein tegument separating the capsid from the lipid envelope. After the initial exposure to...

Diabetes: Types, Causes, Symptoms and Cures

Introduction Diabetes is one of the major metabolic diseases, which affects a large portion of the population. It is a severe systemic heterogeneous disease in which absolute or relative insulin deficiency develops. Diabetes is an endocrine disease characterized by a syndrome of chronic hyperglycemia, which is a consequence of insufficient...

Aromatherapy as a Treatment

Essential oils are considered to be the medicine for everything from headaches to depression; thus, not many bother to research the benefits and contraindications of aromatherapy, primarily to using it. Limited research on the effectiveness of aromatherapy and therapeutic use of essential oils; however, some empirical studies refer to benefiting...

Improvement Plan In-Service Analysis

Agenda of the In-Service Program An in-service program is an executive training and a follow-up discussion of the outcomes with other staff members. It is a crucial instrument for the professionals and beginning staff members in the field of health care and nursing in particular. During the session, the staff...

Medical Assistant’s Actions in Challenging Situations

Difficult patient encounters Despite the fact that difficult patients do not occur so often in practice, medical staff should be prepared for their appearance. A difficult patient is one who causes unpleasant feelings in the doctor, which can become an obstacle on the way of treatment – anger, fear, guilt,...

Care Coordination Presentation to Colleagues

Patient issues have become more complex recently, and a strain on the healthcare system has increased significantly. Bower (2016) suggests several reasons for these changes: aging of baby boomers, a growing number of people with chronic illnesses, a dramatic increase in outpatient surgery, and a greater reliance on self-care. Under...

A Right to Experimental Drugs

The field of medicine is not restricted to patients’ direct treatment and involves the constant expansion of medical research. Compassionate use programs provide critically ill patients with no other treatment options with an access to experimental new drugs (Munson, 2014). The issue of whether they have a right to use...

Organizational Culture and Diversity: Zappos and Amazon

Introduction Today’s business environment forces organizations to seek new ways to achieve competitive advantage. However, innovations in technology or products do not provide the opportunity for long-term advantage, as they can be copied by competitors. At the same time, organizational culture makes it possible to achieve increased efficiency and competitiveness...

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study

From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service (PHS) conducted a clinical study that was aimed at observing and learning more about the natural process and history of untreated syphilis. The leakage of such a process resulted in numerous questions and criticism. It still remains one of the...

Collaborative Nursing: Care by the Mental Health Professionals

Outline Working together in multidisciplinary as well as multi-agency is an issue that has been discussed and debated extensively over the last four decades, especially in healthcare management. This is largely an effort to address the issue of service failures, lack of clinical effectiveness and efficiency, and the growing economic...

The Improvement of the Healthcare System in California

Policy in California The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, enacted back in 2010 in honor of the President of the United States who approved the reform, was designed to make medical care for Americans more affordable and accessible. It is worth recognizing that despite the...

Quality Management in Healthcare

Quality management in healthcare is essential to ensure patient safety and the effectiveness of care provision. The present course was helpful for understanding the importance of measuring and controlling the quality of provided services and described various methods that help to achieve that. The primary goals of quality management in...

COVID-19: The Impact on Mental Health

Around December 2019, in the city of Wuhan, China, there were reports of a virus called COVID-19 which caused severe pneumonia. A month into the new year, the cases started showing up all over China and Europe and, subsequently, turned into a global outbreak. In the beginning of March 2020,...

Screen Time and Pediatric Obesity

Pediatric obesity negatively influences children’s health, educational achievement, and quality of life. Obese and overweight children have a high likelihood of proceeding with the problem into adulthood, in addition to the threat of chronic illnesses. Decrease of screen time, consumption of a balanced diet and minimal high-calorie foods, and augmented...

Ethical Analysis of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study failed to take into account several critical ethical considerations, consequently raising severe ethical issues. This essay examines some of the ethical problems linked to the investigation. The first major moral issue with the Tuskegee investigations is the lack of respect for persons. Researchers conducting human studies...

The Role of Nursing Metaparadigms in Treating Diabetic Foot Ulcers Patients

Scientists introduced the concept of nursing metaparadigm to improve the caring practice after patients. Jacqueline Fawcett’s disciplinary system variant is the most accepted and used as a standard in the medical sphere. He categorized meta paradigms into four main components: person, environment, health, and nursing (Bender, 2018). Diabetic foot ulcers...

The Theory of Cultural Care by Madeleine Leininger

Introduction Healthcare is an ever-changing industry. New technology, research, advancements and discoveries all shape the landscape of modern healthcare. Patients, too, are ever-changing. Global migration creates a dynamic patient profile as different cultures and ethnic groups relocate around the world. Studies show that patients are more comfortable in a healthcare...

Professionalism and Social Media

The Internet revolution of the 21st century has changed the way people interact with one another. Additionally, it has influenced how nurses could communicate, especially through social media. The different platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, among other related communication channels, provide nurses with options to express their views...

Group B Streptococcal. Brenda Patton: Case Analysis

Brenda Patton’s case is an outstanding demonstration of the key dangers of Group B streptococcal (GBS), which is one of the major causes of morbidity among infants. The simulated experience invoked feelings, such as concern and fear as well as confidence. The former two emotions are the result of the...

Verbal Orders in Medicine: Challenges, Problems and Solutions

Introduction Quality health care is the primary goal of any health institution, and it highlights patient safety as the chief principle. Quality patient care implies avoiding errors, learning from the mistakes made, and applying safety practices to deliver proper care. It is necessary to state that several factors condition the...

Shortcomings of Western Medicine

Introduction An objective comparison of approaches that Eastern and Western medicine takes toward health and treatment is necessary for conducting a further evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of Western medicine. The emergence of the Western approach to medicine in the developed world follows the way of hypothetical deduction, while...

Fall Prevention among Older Adults

Aging is an inevitable process in the life of every human. From the physiological point of view, such a process is impossible to avoid or delay. Older adults are constantly at risk groups concerning many issues; however, one of the most serious and common is falling. With lower mobility and...

The Launch of Healthcare Projects

Artifact 1 includes a description of the situation regarding the use of the EHR system that arose in our hospital. This artifact illustrates my personal growth as an effective communicator and the person prepared to implement change. Communication is a considerable part of nursing practice as we have to interact...

Patient-Centered Care: Interprofessional Collaboration

At present, a patient-centered approach in medical care has proven its effectiveness. However, it became evident that, for increasing positive patient outcomes, collaboration is required not only between patients and single health care professional but within the health care team that jointly provides the treatment. Medical practice has demonstrated that...

Nursing Orientation Program Proposal

Introduction Leadership orientation programs for training new leaders in an organization are vital. This is because it helps create a strong team of accountable individuals. Lack of these programs in the hospital setting results in a decrease in productivity, potential loss of profits, and non-adherence to the culture of the...

Psychopathic Behavior Analysis and Assessment

Introduction Psychopathy is a personality disorder that consists of a myriad of interpersonal, lifestyle, affective, and antisocial traits and behaviors. The behaviors exhibited by psychopaths include trickery, impulsivity, unreliability, lack of compassion, motivation seeking, poor behavior controls, lack of guilt, sexual promiscuity, insolence for other people’s civil liberties, and unethical...

Banning Tobacco Sales: Arguments For and Against

Tobacco is the world’s most prevalent plant used for smoking. It also happens to be one of the most significant preventable causes of death and a powerful industry with considerable economic interests. Consequently, banning or restricting tobacco sales would benefit public health and hurt the economy, but the health outcomes...

Legal Issues Regarding Medical Records

Responding to the subpoena, it is essential to comply with all legal and regulatory rules. Since it is stated that medical professionals have 30 days to respond in writing to the request of the attorney for the subpoena, it is necessary to gather the information and find a possible solution....

Advancing New Technology for Radiology and Imaging

Introduction New technological advancements in any field are always met with some form of resistance due to precautions and concerns regarding the safety of use. It is especially true in the field of radiology and imaging, which is primarily reliant on technology for its proper functioning. Imaging developments made a...

Patients Privacy and Confidentiality

Introduction Privacy and confidentiality are important components of universal human rights used in medical care. Healthcare workers are obliged to ensure that discretion in the use of patients’ information is maintained in all settings. Respect for these rights helps in supporting and strengthening the social wellbeing of the sick person....

Servant Leadership: Management Style in Nursing

Research Question Within the scope of nursing, does servant leadership contribute to the significant performance of a team more than the other approaches? Tentative Claim/Thesis (Situated in a Valid Debate) Healthy relationships within a team are vital to productive work and depend on the managerial approach of the leader –...

Patient Teaching Plan Overview

Purpose The purpose of this Patient Teaching Project is to develop a patient teaching plan and create a visual teaching tool aimed at promoting health and preventing disease for a specified patient population. Directions This Teaching Plan is Part 1 of the Patient Teaching Project. You will use this Patient...

Asthma: Causes and Treatment

Asthma is a chronic disease that impacts more than 300 million people around the world. There is evident heterogeneity in the pathogenesis of asthma in the phenotypes of visible traits and endotypes of molecular mechanisms. Asthma is directly correlated with immune system activation as well as airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR), mucus...

Afro-Latin Culture and Approach to Healthcare

Latin American culture is characterized mainly by the contrast of various cultural traditions and inter-civilizational interactions. Latin American ethnos began to form as a result of the collision of three genetically different cultures: Iberian, Indian, and African, which led to the questionable heterogenic characteristics, and symbiosis, inversion of various elements,...

The Concept of a Health Maintenance Organization and Its Types

The value of a health insurance in modern society cannot be overestimated. Common health insurance plan implies payments to a health care organization, in which the patient has received treatment, by an insurance company, with which the patient has a contract. In such a case, the insurance fees are rather...

Statistical Data in Health Care

Introduction Health care settings require decision-makers to navigate the complexity of medical data, which is why the application of statistics needs to guide the operations of hospitals, government entities, and pharmaceutical companies. The utilization of statistical knowledge helps health care providers to identify the problem, develop appropriate interventions to solve...

Taking Vitamin Supplements: Advantages and Disadvantages

Introduction In order to stay healthy, one needs to make sure they have a daily dose of vitamins. However, many individuals are not able to follow this medical advice due to their busy schedule that does not allow them to plan well-balanced meals that would contain all necessary nutrients. In...

Case Study of Biomedical Ethics in the Christian Narrative

Medical Indications (Beneficence and Nonmaleficence) James has a critical form of acute glomerulonephritis, which resulted from complications associated with a strep throat infection (streptococcus infection). This condition requires immediate treatment, as the patient has high blood pressure and needs temporary dialysis to relieve fluid build-up. James’s parents rejected the dialysis;...

Pressure Ulcer: PICOT Question

Introduction Prolonged immobility is one of the most common factors causing pressure ulcers in patients in the emergency department. Most often, such injuries are hospital-acquired and caused by improper skincare. The consequences of pressure ulcers can be critical because, in addition to external tissues, internal organs are also deformed. This...

Pathology of Pneumonia: Overview, Symptoms, and Treatment

Pneumonia is one of the most common chest pathologies one can deal with in the clinical setting. It is commonly described as an acute infection in the lung parenchyma (Frank et al., 2013). It can also be of several types: bacterial, viral, lobal, or fungal pneumonia depending on the cause...

The Healthcare Industry from an Economic Perspective

When looking from an economic perspective, it is clear that the healthcare industry is unique, and its specific characteristics differentiate it from other sectors. It is necessary to investigate supply and demand in the healthcare market for the understanding of those characteristics. Healthcare insurance also plays a big role in...

Rising Health Care Costs: Analyzing Issues

Introduction American health care is, on the one hand, an ordinary branch of the capitalist economy with all its characteristic features. On the other hand, it is a special socially oriented sphere of the modern economy. Substantial elements of state regulation are embedded in the mechanisms of market relations, which...

Delirium Disease and Older Adult Patients

PICO Question In older adult patients with delirium, does increase rounding as compared to normal rounding decrease fatality from this condition? P – older adult patients with delirium I – increased rounding C – normal rounding O – decrease in fatality Practice Issue and Scope of the Problem Older adults...

Ultrasound Program Overview and Analysis

My Experience in This Program From the very beginning, the ultrasound program that I have chosen has set high standards that must be met. My understanding was that the program would require my full commitment and best efforts to achieve my academic goals. Despite my initial hesitation, I was encouraged...

Health and Physical Education Curriculum

Learning Ambassadors in the sphere of health and professional education have enriched schools with their vast experience and contributed to the development of standardised physical education in a range of elementary schools. One of the examples became Sandusky city school in Ontario. The weakness of that was that it lacked...

Healthcare Information Systems: Components, Benefits

Standard Components of Healthcare Information Today, information systems are at the foundation of many businesses, including health providers. Healthcare information systems help care providers and institutions to manage critical information. However, there are also numerous challenges associated with health information systems that must be addressed by providers. The present paper...

Childhood Obesity: Problem Analysis

Introduction Changes in lifestyle, coupled with poor feeding habits and lack of physical exercise have contributed to the rise in the cases of childhood obesity. There are various causes of childhood obesity that health care providers and parents or families need to understand to guarantee the well-being of their lids....

Nurse Empowerment, Self-Efficacy, and Patient Safety

Introduction Patient safety, as defined by the National Patient Safety Foundation, is “the avoidance, prevention and amelioration of adverse outcomes or injuries stemming from the process of health care” (National Patient Safety Foundation, 2016, para. 12). Patient safety is an expected characteristic of hospital stays. Although patients, their families, and...

Neuropsychological Assessment of Memory Difficulties

Assessment of memory difficulties especially neuropsychological memory assessment can only be done by clinical professionals (Walsh 1978). Normally negative scores in regard to these assessments do not always mean the presence of serious memory problems. It’s only the complete memory assessment that can establish this. While taking these tests the...

Health Education Program: Perceptions, Enablers And Nurtures, Cultural Empowerment

Health education is a vital part of learning because of the rising health hazards that need to be addressed to ensure that human health standards are improved. The best approach to deal with a health education program is by identifying the behaviours and lifestyles of the members of the neighbourhood...

Florence Nightingale’s Nursing Contributions

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was an outstanding human and left the priceless legacy for future nurses. She devoted her life to globally raising awareness of health issues and successfully transferred her message: widespread nursing care is essential for reaching “local-to-global health” (Beck, Dossey, & Rushton, 2012). Nightingale made a great contribution...

Healthcare System in Republic of Panama

Abstract In the Republic of Panama, both the public and private institutions provide health care. The healthcare system comprises national health care, social security, and a low-cost system. The quality of health care varies depending on the institutions proving the care. The private sector boasts of quality services provided by...

Principles of Bioethics Relations

Introduction The “Practical Decision Making in Health Care Ethics” has been at the focal point of research across the many fields of studies, precisely in the disciplines of Religion and Theology, Bioethics, Medicine, and Nursing. Raymond Devettere, one of the most renowned researchers and authors in this field, contends that...

The Capella University Mental Health Counseling Program

Rarely do people stop to think of mental health unless they are forced by circumstances. In my case mental institution is a topic that always fascinates me because I have been around people who happen to have mental problems, I find them very interesting, and I would love to help...

Outsourcing in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Introduction Our world is living differently than about a decade ago. Some say we are living in a global village. We mean proximity when we talk of village. So, it is just so near, or a short distance. This is the twenty-first century where everything and everyone are interconnected. Communications...

How to Reduce Obesity and Maintain Health?

Health and Obesity Health is becoming a matter of grave concern, especially the health of teenagers and adolescents, who are becoming increasingly overweight and obese. Obesity is now being regarded as an epidemic by the World Health Organization (WHO, 2000) due to the increasing occurrence of obesity among children and...

Diabetes in Children: The Prevalence and Prevention

Outline Diabetes is a very common disease among children in Canada. Several studies have shown that genetic factor and inactive lifestyle plays an important role in the prevalence of the disease among Canadian children. Several programs have been initiated at the community level that has proved successful in preventing the...

Linear Accelerator in Radiation Therapy

Introduction Radiation therapy, more commonly known as radiotherapy, is the application of radiation as a mode of treating cancer, according to Dobbs et al. (1999). As a curative therapy, the method promotes survival and can eventually cure. As a palliative medication, the therapy can not offer cure, but it controls...

Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia

Introduction Panic disorder is a chronic a psychiatric condition that can be treated. This condition is normally found in young adults, and it has been estimated that about sixty percent of patients who suffer from panic disorder also have agoraphobia. Agoraphobia often coincides with Panic Disorder. Agoraphobia is defined as...

Nurses in Handover Communication Analysis

Abstract The study represents the evaluation of communication between nurses in handover reports in ward setting. This present the guide and design to improve and develop of flow nursing communication. The information takes place between the nurses is to be said complex. Furthermore, it is not yet known how the...

Proposal for Providing Healthier Food Choices for Elementary Students

Introduction Many people think that kids will eventually grow up to be healthy individuals, without being given the attention they need; they ignore the fact that children of all ages need a vigilant eye on them, for proper growth and development. For the body’s functions to carry out normally, it...

Methamphetamine Addiction and Interventions

Introduction Methamphetamine was synthesized in 1919 by Ogata, a Japanese scientist. In the 1930s, Temmler Werke’s pharmacists in Berlin developed the stimulant called Pervitin. Since 1938, the substance has been used systematically and in large doses, both in the army and defense industry: tablets of Pervitin were officially included in...

Rheumatoid Arthritis: Causes and Treatment

Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is more than just arthritis. Indeed, many doctors call it “rheumatoid disease” to emphasize the widespread nature of this process. The term rheumatoid arthritis is trying awkwardly to say the same thing; rheumat refers to the stiffness, body aching, and fatigue that are often termed “rheumatism.” “Rheumatoid”...

Pharmaceutical Industries: Changes and Challenges

Introduction Pharmaceutical industries are responsible for the manufacture of drugs. Like any other industry that we know, they aim at making profits. However, they are not exempted from the challenges that other firms go through. Like any other firms, they face challenges. Environmental factors are part of those challenges. In...

The Role of the Nurse in a Palliative Care Setting.

Introduction Nurses play a crucial role in Palliative Care Setting providing communication and patients’ support for diverse patients groups. Palliative care has grown rapidly during the last two decades. Stimulated by the development of life-saving and monitoring techniques requiring specialized personnel and equipment, palliative care units developed in a relatively...

Parental Refusal of Medical Treatment for Children

Parents refusing medical treatment for children the tendency towards the increased level of refusals deterioration of the healthcare sector image poor quality of suggested services the unreasonably high price of treatment nurses inability to meet diverse demands cultural and religious issues Today, we could observe the tendency towards the increased...

Patient Falls and Teaching Program in Nursing Home: SWOT Analysis

Introduction Staff training is an essential part of the responsibilities that are assigned to advanced practice nurses since it provides the opportunity to educate nurses and improve care services. In order to ensure the proper implementation of the educational program for identifying the risk factors that lead to patient falls,...

Clinical Healthcare Problems in Primary Care

It should be noted that, in the past few years, some of the problems and challenges observed in primary care have been addressed; nevertheless, many of them remain critical. Overall, the difficulties in healthcare are related to variable quality, decisions made on different levels, shortage or burnout of the personnel,...

Health Maintenance, Protection, and Restoration

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as a state of complete physical, social, and mental well-being, but not only the absence of disease and physical defects (Ray, 2016). The culture of health in any society is a part of the society’s vision, and family relations are of great importance...

The Moral Status of the Human Fetus

Introduction In the modern world, there are two popular opinions concerning the appropriateness of abortions. Crudely speaking, some people are convinced that pregnancies should always be controlled by women, whereas others tend to equate abortions with crimes. However, apart from these extremities, there is a number of intermediate positions that...

Virtue Ethics in the Wrong-Operation Doctor Case

In the case of a doctor operating on a patient and making a crucial mistake of not checking the details of the operation, the question of professional integrity can be raised. It can be argued that failures are inevitable and occur from time to time. However, for a medical professional,...

Abnormal Fetus, Its Moral Status and Abortion Ethics

Abortion is a medical procedure that involves the surgical elimination of the fetus from a female’s womb with the purpose of ending a pregnancy. This procedure results in the fetus’s death. Although potentially dangerous to the woman, abortion has been advocated as a fundamental right in line with the agency...

Understanding Ebola: Epidemiology of Virus Disease

Epidemiology is a key pillar of any public healthcare system. It ensures optimal health for human populations through surveillance, data-driven health promotion, and prevention. Epidemiological tools are used to screen for disease-causing agents, their natural hosts, and means of transmission for effective interventions. This paper applies the concepts of epidemiology...

Leadership Styles and Theories in Healthcare

Introduction Leadership is a very important subject in nursing and healthcare. This process includes interacting and coordinating the efforts of various groups as well as serving as part of a coordinated effort. Knowing and understanding leadership theories is key for successful healthcare management. The article by Giltinane (2013) provides an...

Hypertension in Elderly: Clinical Research Question

Aging is one of the inevitabilities of life, and it comes with physiologic decline together with high vulnerability to diseases. One of the common health complications that come with aging is hypertension. This condition is a common risk factor for different cardiovascular complications and chronic renal failure, especially in the...

Global Health Crisis and Initiatives to Tackle It

The World Health Organization (WHO) is continuously tracking global health shifts and challenges that arise around the world. One of the health crises that appeared recently is a novel coronavirus. The World Health Organization has recently declared a coronavirus to be “a global health emergency” (“Coronavirus declared global health emergency,”...

Fall Prevention Programs for Elderly in Nursing Homes: Implementation and Impact

Introduction The elderly are usually at a higher risk of falling at home and their respective nursing homes or clinics. These events are capable of causing both serious and non-fatal injuries. The affected individuals will have to be admitted in order to receive high-quality services. Both the affected institution and...

Falls Prevention in the Elderly and Risk Assessment Tools

Due to the fact that the risk of falls among elderly patients in emergency departments is high enough, it is necessary to find a way to reduce the number of victims. As a potential solution, the use of appropriate tools can be considered as a technique of effective intervention. As...

Hypertension and Intervention Practices

Introduction Hypertension is one of the most common conditions that family health practitioners assess routinely in individuals of all ages and elderly patients, in particular. The prevalence of the given disease substantially increases with age. At the same time, certain factors define older persons’ ability to manage their disorders, as...

Arguments Against Physician-Assisted Suicide: Ethical and Legal Perspectives

Introduction In modern healthcare, there are many practices that polarize society, and physician-assisted suicide is one of them. Since the practice involves what many associate with an act of killing, the universal legalization of PAS has implications for medical ethics. Judging from modern researchers’ works, PAS is considered as an...

Importance of Effective Communication in Nursing

Introduction Workplace communication is a critical component of professional interaction among colleagues as its effectiveness directly impacts a variety of performance indicators. In nursing practice, effective communication affects a wide range of competency and healthcare outcomes. Oral communication among staff helps to eliminate misunderstandings and mitigate conflict. Productive communication enables...

Spiritual Wellness Journey: Insights from Hrabe’s Wholeness Approach

The assigned paper topic is spirituality as a concept and its application in nursing. The article examined in this paper is “Spiritual Wellness: A Journey Toward Wholeness” by Hrabe, Melnyk, and Neale (2018). This paper summarizes the idea of spirituality and its connection to well-being. The text has a significant...

Healthcare, Sociology, and Connection Between Them

Discussion Prompt 1 Working in the field of healthcare involves the necessity for close collaboration with people from different cultural backgrounds, and this is why there are numerous links between healthcare and sociology. In particular, these links are related to the concepts of role, culture, subculture, and role conflict. In...

Database Elements for Tracking Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Adult patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) require the inclusion of particular elements into a database. It is assumed that certain key data that are not connected to ARDS are already incorporated into relevant database tables. For instance, it is routine to consider gender and age, as well as...

Quality Improvement Paper on Hand Hygiene

Issue of Hand Hygiene Washing hands properly is a health requirement so basic that it barely warrants discussion, yet the recent increase in the demand for high-quality care has defined stricter guidelines and standards for care. Thus, the problem of hand hygiene has risen as one of the issues that...

Pronouncing a Brain-Dead Patient’s Death: Yusef Camp’s Case

Introduction Yusef Camp is a nine-year-old child who has been brain dead for four months. Several compounding factors have developed: one of his feet has become gangrenous, and maggots have infested his respiratory tract. However, his father insists that treatment should not be stopped, and the boy may recover from...

Professional Development Goals for Advanced Nurses: Key Considerations

Introduction A professional development plan is an important planning tool that plays a central role in the setting and achieving of specified career goals. As an Advanced Professional Nurse (APN), a development plan is a contract with oneself detailing personal career direction together with goals and objectives that should be...

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Pros & Cons

Introduction Rapidly advancing artificial intelligence technologies are gradually changing health care practices and bring a paradigm shift to the medical system. While increasing the availability of data and enhancing analytics techniques, they facilitate practices that were previously considered to be an area only for human experts. Although there are several...

A Chief Nursing Officer’s Impact on Nurses

The job of a chief nursing officer (CNO) involves a variety of duties and responsibilities and requires a number of professional skills, such as leadership, communication, and knowledge. Although much of the CNOs’ work is done behind the scenes, the value of these professionals in healthcare organizations cannot be overestimated....

Addressing Nurse Bullying: Legal Interventions and Strategies

Introduction Bullying has been an issue for many years, discussed both in media and on television. However, the primary focus is usually on high school students and bullying among schoolchildren, which is not the only domain where this problem exists. Despite the fact that nursing as a profession implies compassion...

Respiratory Diseases Caused by Climate Change

One of the most critical medical issues associated with climate change is air quality, which is rapidly deteriorating. The whole population of the nation is at threat, although some groups of people are at higher risk due to the complex socio-genetic factors (“Climate change health,” n.d.). Respiratory diseases caused by...

Creating a Safe and High-Quality Health Care Environment

Introduction The sphere of health care is among the fastest-growing in the United States economy, which points to the need for recognizing its key problems and improving the quality of care provided to a large population of patients. In the assignment, the topic of safe and high-quality care environments was...

The Importance of Nurse Delegation Policies

Introduction The practice problem selected for this project is that insufficient nurse staffing leads to medication errors. A medication error is a preventable occurrence in the hands of a healthcare provider leading to or causing inappropriate medication use, potentially resulting in patient harm. Medication errors in healthcare environments may occur...

Nursing Research Designs and Purposes

Introduction One of the essential tasks of nursing is to achieve the highest efficiency and quality of nursing care for the population. Nursing research is based on study of various phenomena with a scientific approach. Being a nurse means being a professional, and research is one of the basic premises...

Registered Nurse Course Reflection

Before enrolling in the RN-BSN program at WCU, my perception of nursing leadership and management roles was very limited, as I viewed managing positions as distant and authoritarian at its core. However, with the introduction of the nurse management role in patient care during classes, I learnt a multitude of...

Nurse Managers’ Leadership Styles

Introduction Nursing is an integral part of the healthcare system, and the nursing staff is currently the largest category of health workers. The role, functions, and organizational forms of activities of the nursing unit – nurses are extensive. In modern conditions, it is worth highlighting such features of nurses as...

Nine Tenets in Nursing Practice

Introduction The nursing profession is of high importance as the main objective of it is to care for the patient’s health. Due to the seriousness that the nature of work has, it is crucial for nurses to uphold the highest standards of work. The way in which a medical worker...

Nurse’s Role in Influencing the Legislative Process

Nurses’ Influence on Different Stages of the Lawmaking Process The process of lawmaking in the United States is rather complex and involves multiple stages. According to Mason, Gardner, Outlaw, and O’Grady (2015), after the bill is introduced, it is referred to various committees and subcommittees before reaching the floor action...

IOM Recommendations Impact on Nursing and Healthcare Policies

IOM Report Discussion The four recommendations proposed by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) produced a considerable impact on nurses and nursing organization across the U.S. The IOM report called The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health identified the four major issues in nursing that need to be addressed in...

Flexible Work Schedules in Nursing: Benefits and Implementation

Introduction Topic The primary research question for this project is the importance of flexible work schedules in the workplace and especially in the nursing profession. The working thesis is that flexible work schedules improve employees’ performance, and thus employers should adopt the concept for successful and profitable organizations. Context/Background Flexible...

Marlaine Smith’s Theory of Unitary Caring

Introduction The provision of high-quality health care is an integral part of contemporary society, and it is essential to observe that nurses are directly responsible for this task (Dyess, Prestia, & Smith, 2015). One of the primary contributors to the development of the modern healthcare system is Marlaine Smith, who...

The Problem of Burnout in Nursing

Introduction Burnout is among the essential human resources issues in nursing. Nurses experience burnout due to high workload, poor working conditions, lack of support structures, and many other factors. However, research surrounding the issue shows that some leadership and human resources management strategies can be useful in reducing burnout. Researching...

Registered Nurses’ Career Choices: Insights and Influencing Factors

Introduction Introduction and Statement of Purpose The main purpose of this interview is to communicate with a registered nurse and collect information about her experience, feelings, emotions, and factors that impacted her decision to become a nurse. It will help to understand the motivation of health workers and their experiences...

Transitional Nursing Care Project: Planning Phase

Introduction to the Problem Transitional nursing care emphasizes the need to pay attention to the process of discharging a patient from a hospital and their transfer to home care. These patients often have multiple comorbidities and have to be consulted by different specialists. Upon discharge, the patients can experience difficulties...