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Introduction In the 21st century, the world’s healthcare systems have been undergoing major transformations that stem from a variety of factors. First of all, the very understanding of medical care providers as a one-way avenue has been rendered obsolete. Today, this process is a dialogue between clinical experts and patients,...
In the modern world, almost every person can obtain information regarding their health through various publications. However, people who do not study medicine do not commonly opt for reading scientific medical researches. This happens since these sources need adaptation to more straightforward language, as they are often written for other...
Introduction and Background Nurses are and have always been an essential part of the health system; therefore, it is extremely important to provide them with continuous and high-quality education. Clinical Ladder Programs, or CLPs, are strategies that healthcare facilities use to enable working nurses to increase their professional roles, build...
Introduction Mass shootings may be regarded as a serious complex social issue that regularly affects a considerable number of people. However, in order to minimize its scope, it is essential to understand what causes gun violence. From the medical perspective, mental health disorders are regarded as major factors that lead...
Neuron Communication Neurons refer to specific cells designed to transmit and receive electrical or chemical signals and are what constitute the nervous system. To perform these functions, the glia cells offer support to the neurons. Neuroscientists compare neurons to electrical wires since they have the same purpose of transferring signals...
In long-term crises like Covid-19, Jennifer Cramer (2020) asserts that changes in oral history fieldwork in inevitable. Therefore, before engaging in any activity that might result in more harm, Jennifer shows that following the law might be the one thing that prevents or minimizes the effects of an ongoing crisis....
Interprofessional cooperation and collaboration are some of the key instruments of providing high-quality medical services. It ensures the safety of both doctors and patients and facilitates the job of healthcare providers at all levels and settings (Reeves et al., 2107). The quality of the communication between the medical personnel, as...
Recent research has devoted much effort to exploring mental health treatment as it has been one of the thorniest issues throughout time. Still, the healing of mental problems and the attitude towards it has undergone fundamental changes from the 1400s until now. Even though it is hardly possible to remove...
Introduction The health care sector upholds the importance of shared decision-making in successful treatment processes. It is defined as the process through which health professionals collaborate with the patients in making critical decisions regarding the patient health and treatment (Kon et al., 2016). Another study by Hoffman et al. (2014)...
Introduction This research paper is aimed at a comprehensive and detailed study of two health systems – in the USA and the UK. Moreover, this work explores both the pros and cons of each of the systems. In addition, the paper provides concepts regarding the introduction of new and relevant...
Introduction Burnout is emotional fatigue and complication resulting in a loss of personal success at work and distress. Drained by work, the emotionally distressed healthcare professional can no longer confront the challenges of the job and may not engage successfully with others. The burned-out physician may demonstrate a cynical alienation...
Introduction The provision of qualified and timely medical care is one of the most important aspects of a person’s life. The American healthcare system is often subjected to criticism and proposals for reform. To do this, it is proposed to take into account the experience of foreign countries. This is...
Introduction Mental health is an essential aspect of every individual as it affects how they behave, control their emotions, and think. It influences productivity, academics, and interpersonal relationships among people. In this historical time, the Covid-19 pandemic has adversely affected the psychological health of many individuals globally, even the learners...
Introduction Health and illness sociology is a discipline that scrutinizes the interactions between society and health. The main objective that sociology seeks to achieve is to determine how people’s social life affects mortality rate and morbidity and vice versa. The difference between this sociology and medical sociology is that branches...
Introduction: Characteristics Associated with ADHD ADHD is an abbreviation for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. A person suffering from ADHD experiences challenges in managing high levels of energy, controlling impulses, and maintaining attention. An ADHD patient can rarely sit still even for a few minutes. He or she may become distracted...
Background Collaboration among staff members is one of the vital requirements for effective management of key tasks and responsibilities in the healthcare environment. Owing to the necessity to manage patients’ information continuously and share the relevant data with fellow healthcare staff members, one must ensure that none of the information...
Introduction COVID-19 is a new infectious disease and became a pandemic that caused havoc to the lives and livelihoods of many people. The WHO declared the disease a global pandemic on 11th March 2020 (Sallam, 2021). The March 2020 declaration pointed to over 120,000 confirmed cases of the disease that...
It is believed that a nurse should have strong leadership skills. This should manifest itself in all areas of work and relationships with different people. For example, in dealing with patients, a nurse is a strong and significant person since they help people, “lead” them to recovery as a leader....
The first stage of global health is tropical medicine, which occurred in the 16th century when Europeans explored the world and discovered new lands (Palilonis, 2020). As people were settling, they discovered various diseases and, along with indigenous tribes, suffered from infections and epidemics. The next stage is military medicine...
Summary Recent trends in the healthcare industry have demonstrated that mergers are an effective means for organizations to manage costs, increase efficiency, and provide optimal and accessible care to populations. Hospital consolidation has reached a peak in the last five years, with the top 10 health systems controlling 24% of...
Introduction Budgets are used to help improve the financial stability of an institution, whether corporate or in healthcare. Preparing an effective budget can help identify areas for improvement, areas that are effective, and overall cost-efficacy within the institution. Within inpatient settings, nursing managers are responsible for monitoring budgets. In some...
Abstract Many patients experience extended stays in nursing homes where a significant number are bedridden. The special attention needed by such clients may take a toll on the nurses due to the constant care needed. Additionally, elderly patients face a particularly challenging time because their health and well-being are affected...
Inadequate communication between professionals of the healthcare team often leads to errors and adverse events that adversely affect the patient and the healthcare team. Effective collaboration and communication are essential to improve the healthcare system quality and reduce the errors associated with risk. Interprofessional learning by nursing students has been...
Built environment such as homes, offices, buildings, open spaces, sidewalks, and transportation options has a direct impact on human health. Healthy built environments have services and resources that contribute to the physical, mental, and social wellbeing of the people who occupy it. An analysis of the existing built environments shows...
Some of the lessons acquired from the video include that people who were infected with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) experienced stigmatization among the people who lived among them. People avoided their association which made them feel unwanted in society. The disease mostly spread through homosexuality and communities who shared...
Introduction Unlike most disciplines of medicine, medical humanity covers a wide range of fields, including social sciences, arts, and humanities. This field of study is the most complex, involving, and considerate because it seeks to strengthen the quality and practices of the involved activities of medical humanities. The discipline is...
Introduction Markets can be organized according to different competitive structures, including perfect competition, monopoly, imperfect competition, and oligopoly. Perfect competition is largely considered theoretical because it comprises certain features that may be impossible to replicate in the real world. Aside from the features of a perfectly competitive market, examining how...
Introduction Cannabis is an illicit drug that is widely used worldwide. It has been estimated that about 181 million people use it all over the world (Archie & Cucullo, 2019). This drug is obtained from three types of the cannabis plant called Cannabis indica, Cannabis sativa, and Cannabis ruderalis (Archie...
Clinical judgment is an essential concept in healthcare and, more specifically, in nursing. It is a process that involves collecting client data, interpreting the data, making diagnoses, and identifying proper steps. Essential components of the process are critical thinking, decision making, and problem-solving. Clinical judgment is required for somewhat ambiguous...
Behavior that would make me label a patient as difficult is when a patient somatizes. This type of patient manifests all the psychological stress they have been going through physically. For example, a patient may decide to punch holes in walls and injure themselves when stressed. Other symptoms may be...
Nurses and internet health-related information: Review on access and utility by Ahmad, M. M., Musallam, R., & Allah, A. H.: Training nurses to use information technology is essential for their continuous professional development. This article serves as an overview of the literature on nurses’ use of and access to health-related...
Practice in rural areas with diverse patients creates an additional challenge for nurses because many individuals might not speak English or have a unique cultural background. Consequently, specific interpersonal connection-related skills must be developed by the professionals to deliver healthcare effectively. In working with non-English-speaking patients, nurses need to integrate...
Today the health care industry is rapidly changing because of the necessity to adapt to the modern lifestyle and scientific progress. Technical advancements made possible health apps, physician portals, text reminders, as well as information and communication technology (ICT) (Gonzales 2017). Certainly, technology changed the approach to health care delivery...
The American Nurses Associations (ANA) is a health organization that is aimed to improve the quality of healthcare all across the country. Their main goals include protecting the nurses’ rights and raising the standards for the nursing practice. In their 2020-2023 strategic plan, the association describes its mission to achieve...
Introduction Medical coding is how services offered in healthcare are converted into billable revenue. Every service provided corresponds to its Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) and Healthcare Common Procedural Coding System codes (Hunley et al., 2021). Claims for services offered are then submitted to Medicare, Medicaid, and insurance companies in possession...
The selected measure of morbidity, mortality, or natality The Natality index, or as some scientists claim fertility rate, is the indicator showing the number of children is to be born theoretically by one woman until she reaches a specific age when she cannot give birth to any child (OECD Data,...
An Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) is a significant element of an organization’s response to potential hazards. Although they may remain the same for one area throughout the years, new tools for vulnerability assessment and population warnings appear, potentially improving the strategy. The EOP under consideration is outdated and requires a...
Introduction The role of any medical worker is hard to overvalue; these people make an enormous input into the development of clinical organizations and patient treatment. In particular, nurses are a significant link between the patient and the doctor; thus, it is essential to look at how the nurse’s role...
Introduction Ethical theories are visions of our ethical responsibilities and guidance to a person’s decision-making. Ethical theories set standard rules to make people behave reasonably and discreetly when trying to clarify what is right and what is wrong. There are many types of ethical theories that affect every person differently....
MAT 135 Project One Population and selection of response and explanatory variables Target Population People with obesity Study’s explanatory variable Body mass index Study’s response variable Systolic blood pressure Description of relationships The body mass index has a strong positive relationship with systolic blood pressure among individuals. Obesity is a...
Introduction Lung cancer is a disease manifested in malignant tumor located in lungs. Like any other type of cancer, tumors in lungs have a characteristic of an uncontrolled cell growth that takes places in lung tissues. Because of the effects of metastasis, lung tumors may spread far beyond tissues of...
Introduction The effectiveness and efficiency of reimbursements in healthcare organizations are of extreme importance for all stakeholders. A model revenue cycle helps care providers offer services of the best quality, which positively affects patient outcomes and satisfaction. Timely reimbursements also help hospitals to create additional incentives for employees. In other...
Positive changes in the demographic situation, as well as the multinational composition of the population give rise to particular concerns about cultural issues in medicine. Effective doctor-patient interaction is associated with increased patient satisfaction, adherence to recommendations, and a subsequent health improvement. Many people think of cultural competence only as...
Introduction Boards of Nursing (BON) are the institutions responsible for protecting the patient’s well-being by ensuring high-quality nursing services. These professional bodies regulate the scope of practice of nurses within their jurisdiction. They offer licensure examinations for the preparation of nursing in each state. This organization comprises nurses, physicians, attorneys,...
Leadership is an essential component of effective healthcare management. The quality of healthcare management and medical leadership defines the quality of care provided to patients (Sfantou et al., 2017). The healthcare team’s working process needs to be adequately regulated by the hospital administration to provide exemplary patient care. Healthcare management...
Introduction Communication and collaboration in the healthcare sector are indispensable practices that promote relevant information sharing, improve professionals’ knowledge, and contribute to care quality. In this respect, a resource tool kit is a valuable instrument that arms front-line staff with authoritative, helpful resources and allows them to examine specific issues...
The Woman’s Hospital of Texas needs change through strategic plan implementation in ensuring that the quality of care provided to patients improves with time. Strategic planning provides a glimpse of the path to achieving the set standards that have been approved by the Woman’s Hospital of Texas (Kozleski, 2017). The...
Introduction Nursing homes, also known as residential nursing homes or care home with nursing, are facilities that provide health care for people with distinct conditions or various types of disabilities. A Nursing home focuses on providing such care for individuals who may have struggled with daily life and may need...
Adolescence is a pivotal period of a person’s development, occurring between 10 and 24 years of age. During this period, adolescents experience many changes in their physical, cognitive, moral, spiritual, and emotional states. Given the significance of this developmental stage to the overall well-being of a person in adulthood, healthcare...
Article #1 Kim, M.S., Kim, S.Y., Kim, J.H., Park, B., & Choi, H.G. (2017). Depression in breast cancer patients who have undergone mastectomy: A national cohort study. PLoS One, 12(4). Author’s Credentials Min -Su Kim: Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University, Seongnam, Korea, So...
Unjustified patient expectations are one of the difficulties nurses confronted. Patients have very high expectations; however, nurses cannot always satisfy these demands due to budget and personnel constraints. This puts an enormous burden on nurses, who are often taking care of several patients. Hearing their patients are dissatisfied with their...
Introduction Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is one of the most common illnesses affecting large populations across the world. AD is a form of dementia accounting for 60% to 80% of all cases of dementia. Others in the dementia category include Lewy bodies, vascular dementia, mixed dementia, and frontotemporal dementia among others....
Background and Significance The authors used the introduction to contextualize the problem using published research, stating the importance of palliative care and its need by the aging population. They discuss how the increase of chronic non-communicable disease and increased population aging leads to the global need for palliative care. Overall,...
There are currently many myths surrounding medical negligence caused by incompetence in the professional field. Such European countries such as the United Kingdom and France are believed to have one of the highest levels of healthcare in the world. However during the last few years the amount of legal actions...
The global coronavirus pandemic has turned people’s lives upside down since last year. Since then, the situation has seemed to improve as people have learned to adjust to circumstances, but it still causes much discomfort in society. Despite all the real-world tragedies, COVID-19 will long be evaluated by sociologists as...
Introduction Human body functions properly when it is in a good state of health. The body has mechanisms within itself that help it maintain a good state of health by defending it against attacks from diseases and infections. The white blood cells are known to defend the body against such...
Introduction To understand the differences between leadership and management, an individual should consider his own experience with the terms. The concept of leadership always includes one individual’s influence on a person or a group of people. The influence could occur as a sequence of multiple aspects that include trust, care,...
Introduction The purpose of this paper is to evaluate specific and credible information that pertains to understanding the nursing recruitment and retention process. This process is a very important tool in establishing proper and successful management of healthcare institutions in relation to the nursing profession. Moreover, this paper contains valuable...
Purpose of the Study Nursing stress and anxiety related to their responsibilities and workload is a common problem. A study by Maguire (2020) aims to determine the effect of coloring mandalas on reducing nurses’ anxiety. Consequently, the study researches a connection between mandala coloring, physical indicators such as heart rate,...
The source published by authors affiliated with the American Dental Hygienists’ Association (ADHA) summarizes essential barriers to dental care optimization in the U.S. Basically, the document aims to apply systems thinking to propose viable paths toward positive change. From my perspective, the change-driver chart created by Rhea and Bettles (2011)...
Advanced practice nurses (APNs) are highly qualified professionals in the healthcare field who have high demand. Many positions are available to them, including those of leadership. However, some prefer to be independent practitioners, working as contractors. It allows for flexibility and negotiations, but being formally employed also has its benefits....
The public hearing was a session held by the House Committee on Veteran’s Affairs during which the state of things regarding telehealth provision at VA was discussed. The primary notion was that because of the pandemic, VA as an organization as well as its facilities and providers had to rapidly...
Caring for health is a lifelong and complicated process that has become diversified with the development of technology. Patients become active participants in treatment, which means balancing the efforts of the provider and the audience. Personal Health Record (PHR) is a promising technology because it combines EHR data and information...
The paradigm of nursing experience, although impossible to encompass at its fullest, has been currently explicitly described in a variety of textbooks and scholarly articles. Thus, prior to making a meaningful choice to dedicate oneself to the career of a nurse, it is of paramount importance to secure a careful...
Older adults form one of the most vulnerable groups, requiring additional attention from the public health system. This situation stems from a range of chronic conditions, which are likely to develop as a person nears senior age. Instigated by the aforementioned conditions, such as impaired vision or the general lack...
The development and use of vaccines have allowed the global population to mitigate the spread of severe illnesses and significantly reduce child mortality. Still, there are groups of people who believe that vaccines are harmful and oppose immunization, not allowing their children to be vaccinated. The controversy regarding childhood immunization...
Introduction Modern medical technology enables patients to recover more quickly than at any previous point in history. However, the human connection between patient and care provider remains the fundamental basis of recovery. “I am Here” is a personal story from the patient’s viewpoint. Marcus Engel’s book, Compassionate Communication in All...
Introduction Juvenile recidivism is a major concern in the United States Justice system. Powell et al. (2019) define juvenile recidivism as the tendency of a minor to repeat an offence or antisocial behavior after going through the juvenile justice system. For a long time, the Department of Justice has been...
Introduction The medical field provides clear and concise career paths for nurses that wish to aspire to become better at their jobs by acquiring knowledge and skills necessary to help people in the most complicated of health nurses. The next step from being an RN to becoming an APN involves...
Many natural and human-made disasters occur across the surface of the planet every day. Forest fires, tsunamis, earthquakes, oil spills, hurricanes, and other kinds of cataclysms pose a significant danger to human and animal lives (“Disaster nursing,” 2011). In a case of an emergency, medical institutions are expected to provide...
Introduction Psychologists are essentially more concerned with the study of the human mind. People need not subject their minds to dogmatism. Hence, issues that are akin to critical evaluation of human behaviors must be clear and concise. For this reason, consideration of supervision in the clinical context demands a clear...
Introduction To prove one is solely responsible for expenses means that evidence of negligence has to be produced. Any injury suffered does not necessarily entitle filing a personal injury claim. For the claim to win the monetary award, five elements of negligence, including duty, breach, because, in fact, proximate cause,...
Contribution of Community Health to Addressing the Causes of Death of Young People The health efforts the community makes can affect the leading causes of death for adolescents and the adults in many ways. Adolescents aged between ten and fourteen years have the lowest risk of death compared to other...
There are diverse reasons why individuals sit for long, such as watching television or working. However, it is essential to understand that sitting for long causes damage to the body. Therefore, people should implement various measures to ensure that they remain healthy and prevent diseases. Muscles are the primary consumers...
Introduction Organizational change is a powerful process many institutions consider when they want to transform operations and meet the demands of more clients. Medical facilities that embrace the idea can solve their challenges and be prepared for some of the emerging challenges in their respective sectors. Baptist Health South Florida...
Introduction Nursing theories strongly support specialists in their practice. Also, a purposeful application of nursing theory to research is essential since it allows making the study more credible and reliable. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the nursing theory relevant to the approved clinical issue, which is the...
Background and Significance A dietary approach to stop hypertension, popularly known as the DASH diet, is often recommended by nutritionists and doctors as a good way of managing high blood pressure without the use of medication. The nutritional approach to managing hypertension has gained massive popularity not only in the...
Alyssa, a nine-year-old girl, died because of several medical errors performed by the hospital staff, as it was reported by her mother Carole Hemmelgarn and described in the case. Hemmelgarn’s main emphasis is on the fact that patient safety should be a priority for all medical settings. In this particular...
Integrity as healthcare providers’ adherence to ethical and professional codes plays an important role in medical practice. The situation with a 15-year-old male teenager at Arkansas Children’s Hospital presented an example of the case when the principle of integrity was violated by a surgeon and other healthcare workers. Thus, needed...
Introduction Most health care policies and systems in use by different countries have evidence based approaches incorporated into the procedures. There is a general consensus that is growing about the role of particular health determinants such as healthcare. The last two decades have seen a tremendous amount of change and...
Insights on Psychological First Aid Psychological first aid includes strategies designed to help and support children, adolescents, and parents exposed to disasters and terrorism. The approach recognizes children and adolescents as more vulnerable to trauma and related stress due to their resilience weakness (Friedman, 2015). Psychological first aid is designed...
Introduction and purpose Learning is an active process that requires careful, insightful and guided quest for practical and theoretical application especially when undertaking the graduate program. Activities that are familiar and designed to provoke creativity among students generate greater sense of identity and facilitate personality and cognitive progress. Developing an...
Introduction Research studies have shown the importance of leisure activities on mental health (Laursen et al., 2011). Strategically designed leisure activity programs can improve the mental health conditions of children and adults. Depression is one of the prevalent mental disorders in adults. Post-natal depression is a popular form of depression...
In nursing, it is essential to observe how different practices of caring for patients can influence their well-being, the course of the disease, and the effects of treatment. The primary responsibilities of a nurse as a caregiver include listening to the patients and responding to their needs. From my experience,...
Introduction The concept of moral distress has been broadly researched in various contexts in the healthcare sector. The dynamics facing healthcare organizations resulted to the emergence of complex issues relating to moral distress. On the other hand, the emergence of cutting edge health care innovations have led to numerous developments...
The management of a healthcare organization is a constantly evolving concept. For this reason, there is no definitive answer to the question of the best organizational configuration. For instance, the traditional approach to governance with a strict hierarchy would certainly require a simple structure. However, it is mostly viewed as...
A mandated nurse-patient ratio is a legislative regulation that was passed as a law in the state of California, about thirteen years ago. The idea of the minimum nurse-to-patient ratios was first proposed and implemented in the State, where it was enacted into law. The enactment would facilitate significant changes...
Introduction One of the key research directions devoted to studying the state of health in the contemporary world could be considered the analysis of the formation mechanisms of social-based inequities in health. Reducing these inequities in health could be regarded as an inseparable composite part of state policies, directed toward...
Introduction Modern trends and the high population seeking medical attention have influenced the healthcare industry today. The health organizations therefore have to adopt the new protocols in order to offer efficient services to the public (Myers, 1986). The need for effective management of information and organization in general has therefore...
Introduction The quality of pre and post-operative care provided to adult patients determines the outcome of the condition, the speed of recovery, and the long-term results of their management. Nursing care for patients before any operation should be focused on making the patient comfortable in a bid to prepare them...
The research process is one of the sources that derive theory development through the study of concepts and their related propositions. Notably, the research process answers many research questions and derives other research questions depending on the research outcomes. In the context of a study about Family Nurse Practitioner, we...
Introduction Chronic illness is a term used to describe a group of long-lasting health conditions. In the current world, chronic diseases are comprises of various types of health conditions. Even though chronic diseases such as chickenpox and cold are short-term illnesses, the majority of chronic diseases don’t go away that...
The modern health care sector is characterized by the increased level of attention given to patients and the conditions of the delivery of care. The evolution of the humanistic approach preconditioned the reconsideration of principles according to which this sphere functions and introduced new values that should be respected. For...
When speaking about health care, many people associate it with curing. However, curing is only a part of the necessary care provided by healthcare professionals (Quinn, 2014). The major outcome of the American healthcare system is to contribute to the development of a healthy society where people’s physical, psychological and...
Virginia vs. Texas In 2018, Virginia passed a bill that visibly extended the scope of practice for APRNs. House Bill 793 established relative freedom for nurses in the framework of basic practice – starting from obtaining a health history and ending with diagnosing a patient. APRNs are allowed to treat...
Introduction This essay paper reflects on my teaching effectiveness and efforts necessary in teaching students in the clinical setting. It takes into consideration learning theories, models, and strategies used in delivering content to learners. Much of the theories and models are discussed based on research conducted. These strategies helped improve...
Abstract Leadership may be defined as the process of socially influencing people to follow ones’ way. It can also be taken as a group of people who are influenced by a common goal to achieve a collective gain together. In nursing, leadership is very important as it sets out a...
Attention Getter Who among you likes needles? (Pause) To be honest, I hate needles. (Transition) But they can be a tool that makes you feel better and increases your happiness. And not by injecting any illegal substances! I am talking about blood donations. Thesis Statement (Statement of Purpose): I want...
The flu is an infectious respiratory disease caused by influenza viruses. The outcomes of the illness can be mild to severe, mostly depending on people’s age and health conditions. The symptoms may include muscle pain, fever, runny nose, fatigue, sore throat, and cough, subsiding within a week. However, influenza can...
The internet today has become indispensable. The various areas that the internet has impacted on include the way friends and family communicate, facilitation of trade of goods and services, made research on different topics easy, and it has acted as a means through which people can entertain themselves through (Kardia...
Nephrotic Syndrome refers to the condition of collective symptoms caused by kidney damage such as the presence of proteins in the urine, reduced albumin levels in the blood, increased lipids, and noticeable swelling. The condition occurs as the patient loses 3 grams of proteins in a day through the urine...
Accountable Care Organization as Described in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 Since ACOs are concerned with transforming non-financial and financial incentives as far as health care providers are concerned, it is anticipated that health care costs will gradually reduce. If ACOs use some of the provisions...
Introduction Public health nurses (PHN) play a critical role in providing healthcare for individuals, families, and society through delivering medical service, intervention, preventive care, and health education. In this respect, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) poses a significant concern for the US population, requiring enhanced public awareness and careful consideration...
Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) is an exceptionally important tool in counseling since it helps a client accurately identify self-defeating thoughts, challenge their rationality, and successfully replace them with healthier feelings. REBT primarily focuses on the present as the main task of this approach is to recognize unhealthy patterns of...
Introduction: All Hope Abandon Ye, Who Enter in Dentistry has always been one of the fields of medicine where even angels fear to tread. Mostly because of the unpleasant feelings which presumably one might feel in the process of curing the teeth, people tend to avoid visiting the dentist often...
The differences of each of the selected organizations While there are striking similarities in the overall mission, vision, and values of the four healthcare facilities, notable differences are also present. Johns Hopkins Medicine stresses the relevance of patient-centered and family-centered healthcare, innovative research and effective treatment of childhood diseases while...
Variables play a critical role in nursing research; thus, clearly defining and properly employing them is essential. There are three types of variables present in most studies – independent, dependent, and extraneous. Undoubtedly, it is vital to compare independent, dependent, and extraneous variables and determine how to control the third...
Introduction Technology has become one of the most important aspects of healthcare in the modern world bearing in mind that it has been embraced extensively. In this regard, it has been integrated into various operational functions in the Indian healthcare information system. New programs have been developed continuously to solve...
Introduction The purpose of this reflective study is to discuss a thorough understanding of the procedure of anesthesia. The case that I worked on along with other operation theatre professionals and practitioners is of a patient who was undertaking hysteroscopy surgery. Before taking up the surgery, I along with her...
Introduction The practice of nursing is the most challenging and demanding as compared to other jobs since nurses are also called upon to provide patients care in hospitals and homes. This requires nurses to put their patients as their priority in order to ensure quality service delivery and guarantee quality...
Armando Dimas’s case presents different issues that medical professionals in the healthcare industry face. Armando Dimas, a Mexican immigrant who comes to the hospital, raises essential moral and ethical questions about gender, race and ethnicity, class, patient’s right, choice, hospital’s control, and connection (Belkin, 1993). The case highlights the crucial...
Introduction In the world today millions of people are suffering from severe and complex diseases that are terminal or chronic in nature. The aftermath of these diseases is normally pain, distress, suffering, early death and grief to the people affected. Some of these diseases are “cancer that is chronic, terminal...
Introduction Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains a complicated insult that has diverse ranges of signs and restrictive conditions. Therefore, TBI effects can be devastating to the patient and relatives. Studies attempt to highlight management processes from shock and despair when a brain injury occurs and provide coping mechanisms and solutions...
Executive Summary Acute coronary syndromes (ACS) are documented as one of the world’s leading health problems and the most expensive cluster of diseases to treat and manage. Expenditure on ACS runs into billions of dollars each year due to high direct health costs, productivity losses and informal care for the...
Introduction When it comes to leadership I am a participative leader. Participative leadership employs democratic principles of inclusion whereby colleagues, peers, subordinate members and other stakeholders are duly involved in decision making and other roles of leadership. Leadership aims at furnishing goals and forging ways towards achieving preconceived goals. It...
Personal Growth Reflection Reflecting upon sexual activity among adults, one has to understand what sexuality means. The author of the article about sexy seniors, Vicki Mabrey (2006) defined it as a long-life activity. The author underlined that having sex in any age is equal in significance to taking food. Besides,...
Introduction This essay focuses on such a concept as Continuous Professional Development and its importance for contemporary nursing practice. It should be noted that the modern world is marked by technological innovations, which have served to improve the form of care provided. In addition, treatment procedures are constantly being improved...
Introduction As Tate points out, “senior nurses are likely to engage in a range of leadership activities in their daily routine and some may find the concept hard to understand” (34). Leadership in nursing is an art that involves quality delivery of care and facilitating positive nursing growth among other...
Introduction This paper focuses on the health promotion model introduced by Nola Pender in the 20th century. This model is aimed at protecting a given population against health problems (Marriner-Tomey, 2006, p. 452). This model perceives health as a dynamic concept which is merely characterized by the absence of disease...
Introduction Massage therapies have been shown to minimize the theoretically observed signs of pain in a patient getting medical care. The current research aimed to investigate how massage therapies would impact patients’ view of pain particularly in the intensive care environment. Past research has generated the gains associated with massage...
The word vitamin was initially referred to elements that are soluble in water and essential in the nutrition of babies and they were separated from milk, yeasts, and wheat germ. The word vitamin was taken from the initial invention of the anti-beriberi factor in 1912 by a well-known scientist called...
It is unethical for any health care professional to prescribe or administer medical tests or treatments to protect themselves against potential liability. They need to do what they believe is in the patients’ best interest. In Mr. Wilson’s doctor’s case, it is ethical to order a coronary angiogram since he...
Introduction Medical records are a crucial tool for clinicians in the provision of health care to patients. For more than a century, these tools have been used to record observations, provide knowledge, justify the proposed medical intervention, and monitor the performance of a patient. Traditionally, doctors all over the world...
Abstract Health care insurance is an important facet in one’s life because it increases one’s access to health care. However, individuals tend to take advantage of this fact by seeking services even if it is not necessary, all because it is being catered for by an insurance company: Moral Hazard....
Introduction Grounded theory and phenomenology are two methods of qualitative analysis. According to Tracy (2020), grounded theory is used to explain a particular phenomenon through a “ground up” approach (p. 62). This way suggests addressing data without preconceived theories, building upon research through the concept of a blank slate (Tracy,...
Extant literature demonstrates that a fundamental component of early Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) treatment is patient education, which in turn sets the foundation for effective treatment and management throughout the disease continuum (Robertson, 2012). It is reported in the nursing scholarship that, due to lack of effective education, many...
Sentinel events “are complicated situations in healthcare institutions that can result in loss of limb or even death” (Athanasakis, 2012, p. 779). They can also lead to serious physical or psychological injuries. Nurse Administrators (NAs) and caregivers should use their skills to address such events. They should embrace the best...
Introduction The Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) is a draft state law provides a definition of death mainly for application in situations that require legal intervention (Holland, 2013). The Act was drafted in 1981 and offers explanations for when a person can be legally considered dead. According to the...
Introduction Nurses encounter numerous dilemmas in their daily life notwithstanding the working environment. Regardless of where the nurses work, they face multiple ethical dilemmas, which affect them as well as the patients. Bandman and Bandman (2002) argue that there is no “correct” answer to an ethical dilemma. According to Bandman...
Introduction A health care system is the totality of people, resources, and other means that healthcare organizations provide to satisfy health needs of the target public. Each country has its own historically formed and developed way to attract economic resources for the provision of health care, preservation, and promotion of...
Introduction Management of risk in health care institutions seeks to reduce any potential negative occurrences to all stakeholders such as patients, staff and, generally the entire organization (Lighter and Fair, 2000). This is done by engaging the nursing department to identifying quality improvement initiatives in nursing. One of the initiatives...
Introduction This paper focuses on Roy Adaptation Model (RAM). Callista Roy is the founder of this nursing theory. She came up with this model in 1964 in the course of her graduate studies at the University of California. Sister Callista Roy studied together with Professor Johnson who was the founder...
Aging is the process through which an organism matures and grows old. It is characterized by progressive biological and psychosocial impairment of normal functions, as a result of internal and external influences. This paper shall explore a personal reflection of what aging entails. In our societies, it is an acknowledged...
Introduction An emergency-room is special medical treatment care that normally specializes in providing acute care to a number of patients who visit the hospital without any appointment, either through ambulances or by their own means. The emergency department is a department that is found in all hospitals and also in...
Abstract Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) affect many people in different parts of the world. Many youths are currently engaging in unsafe sexual practices. New infections are being recorded every day. A powerful campaign will encourage more youths to change their behaviors. This essay presents effective messages that can deal with...
Research databases with journals and articles on the nurse-patient ratio Description: Wiley Online Library is a collection of online research journals and books. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell, the online publishing business arm of John Wiley and Sons, Inc. The site is not named as a database, but it qualifies...
Introduction According to Burns, Richardson, and Brady (2010), type-2 diabetes is classified as one of the common lifestyle diseases known to be more prevalent among the elderly. This does not necessarily mean that children cannot fall victim to the disease. Type 2 diabetes is becoming increasingly common not only in...
Introduction The concept of grief is an emotional and psychological reaction that occurs in people during bereavement. For the bereaved to accept the loss of a loved one, they should undergo the grieving process, which entails denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Thus, grieving is the process of accepting and...
Regarding the case under analysis, organizational and operational issues are at the core of the problems within Uptown Hospital (Agoritas, 2009). The manager failed to define the root of the problem and provide the corresponding solutions to it. Lack of standardization indicates the shortcoming of the currently established managerial polices...
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is widely debated as one of the controversial and less-researched medical conditions. The prevalence of GDM is at an all-time high of 15%, which is expected to grow significantly due to the increasing amount of obese women of reproductive age (Mensah et al., 2019). The reason...
The Nightingale Pledge was written in 1893 by a committee chaired by Lystra Eggert Gretter (American Nurses Association, 2013).The committee was from a nursing school, Farrrand Training School in Detroit. It is modeled from the Hippocratic Oath which is an oath usually taken by physicians who promise to practice medicine...
Different cultures are characterized by following various health traditions based on the aspects of the cultural heritage. The role of the heritage assessment in the health care practice is significant, and much attention should be paid to the cultural differences of such groups as the Indians, Chinese people, and African...
Professionalism is always associated with professional ethics and the ability to respect client’s needs. Unsurprisingly, dentistry has its own Code of Ethics and, therefore, the perceptions of how a true professional should interact with the clients. Dentists commit to society and the society, in its turn, awaits high-standard help from...
Introduction In various professionals, it is necessary to apply the S.M.A.R.T goal approach, in a bid to attain the desired outcomes. This enhances the achievement of these goals, and hence the ultimate development in one’s career. Professionals apply various steps in making smart goals. Usually, this systematic approach ensures the...
All people in the world come across with stressful experiences in life. It is a major problem that leads to many of the life disturbances such as emotional, physical and mental changes and in the long run precipitating factor to the development of various diseases. It is proven that the...
HIV is a human immunodeficiency virus which kills body cells aimed at helping people combat with different kinds of viruses. Human body is protected by the immune system which helps fight with viruses and illnesses. HIV destroys this system. AIDS is an acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, a disease a person gets...
Social Stratification in Modern Industrial Societies Since its emergence, the human society has been heterogeneous, being divided into different layers based on the particular criteria of the particular historical era. Unlike slavery and feudal societies, industrial society is characterized by easier movement by social strata and more democratic principles of...
Summary Pharmacology can be defined as the field of science that deals with the source, essential qualities or characteristics, chemistry, consequences and uses of drugs; or the analysis of the science and clinical application of medications; the detailed critical inspection of drugs, their sources, essential qualities or characteristics and properties....
Introduction Advances in cosmetology have led to the development of novel ways of dealing with skin issues such as acne, scarring, solar lentigines and wrinkling. Chemoexfoliation (chemical peeling) is the directed cutaneous ablation produced by precise caustic agents (Soleymani, Lanoue and Rahman, 2018). Conversely, microneedling is a dermaroller procedure that...
This paper focuses on the Expanded Function Dental Auxiliary (EFDA). Specifically, the paper covers benefits of EFDA, laws and regulations in Ohio for EFDA, and it presents a single case scenario in which EFDA was particularly useful. An EFDA personnel are highly trained and competent dental hygienists or dental assistants...
