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For a long time, the labor market has experienced a severe shortage of medical personnel, especially nurses. Hospital staff suffering from a lack of labor is forced to work longer and with many patients during the day, which affects the effectiveness and quality of services. Moreover, the world pandemic of...
Introduction Vaccination has become an issue of discussion for years now due to indifferences on whether or not they should be given to children and if they should be optional or mandatory. Benefits of vaccinating children are numerous considering the condition of children’s immune system at birth. However, some people...
Interview Summary In order to provide an appropriate foundation for the following project, a detailed interview with a nursing colleague was conducted. The organization that was discussed during the conversation was a regional hospital that provides a wide range of healthcare services to the population. It is a for-profit community...
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...
Executive Summary Purpose: The purpose of this project was to discover a way to facilitate effective communications between nurses, patients, and their family members, leading to better outcomes. To that end, it was decided to implement an educational program that would improve nurses’ communication skills through role modeling and simulation...
Introduction Conflicts that occur within professional settings are commonplace, including the sphere of nursing. While there is a broad range of definitions of a conflict, it is characterized by either perceived or actual objection or contradiction in views, values, interests, or needs between two or several parties, which results in...
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...
Nursing is a discipline and a practice profession that requires individuals involved in it to practice holistic health care that is guided by the principles of human freedom, responsibility, and choice. It is expected that nurses would use clinical judgment and critical thinking in order to facilitate evidence-based care to...
The accelerated development of technologies made online learning possible, allowing many students who would not have had a possibility to study otherwise, in a face-to-face setting, to continue their education. Access to a number of courses and educational opportunities also has been granted by this phenomenon. Online learning can be...
Employee turnover remains one of the biggest challenges to many organizations’ success, and it is more calamitous in the healthcare sector. The quality of care and patient safety are affected, both directly and indirectly, by nurses entering and quitting their jobs at a high rate. Nurse leaders and managers have...
Introduction Writing a Guided dialogue is quite challenging and does not only require realism but proper intent towards the characters in that dialogue. Dialogue is a way of telling stories in a more comical manner that acts to depict the characters. In writing dialogue, one should ensure that he/she is...
Introduction This study is a case analysis of a mental patient who goes by a fictitious name, Sandy. The patient has a history of mental disorders and therefore has undergone several psychosocial, social, and biological interventions to treat his condition. According to the patient’s mental history, he has previously been...
Thesis Point The modern development of medicine and human rights system appeared to be under the power of state government that is why challenges in the ethical behavior of the population, caused by right violations, can result in epidemic brunt and high spread of dangerous viruses within the society. Public...
Administrator malpractices on common law dictate that physician is held legally responsible for negligence-related action. Negligence is a form of conduct caused by carelessness that constitutes a departure from the standard of care generally imposed on a reasonable member of society. Forms of negligence include malfeasance which involves doing unlawful...
Introduction Communication is vitally important. This is one of the major tools used by human beings to establish interpersonal relationships. This is can be seen by how a person communicates his intentions and his desires. Without the ability to communicate, interpersonal conflict can easily arise but more importantly there can...
In any health institution, the most fundamental thing is the quality health care provision to patients and safe work environment to its workers. Decontamination of medical equipments is proving to be a substantial challenge to health professionals thus makes it difficult to prevention and control of nosocomial infections. This has...
Introduction Medical approach to management of patients with chronic diseases has changed over time due to changes in technology, the fact that people acknowledged new rights of all human race, scientific advancement in the health sector and the use of patient advocacy. These have also influenced decision making and care...
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...
Abstract The development of innovative technological solutions and the active promotion of digitalization in every aspect of people’s lives have also affected nursing substantially. Namely, the creation of nursing informatics as a separate field that has helped in improving the efficacy and quality of care has served an instrumental function...
Introduction Mashall, McConkey and Moore (2003) seek to assess obese and overweight individuals and the steps taken after screening the individuals positively. In addition, the authors of this article seek to know how health promotion classes contribute to weight loss among obese and overweight individuals. The authors are compelled to...
Introduction Anemia, as defined by Moz (2006), is health condition that involves “an absolute decrease in red blood cells (RBCs) in proportion to total blood volume, or an absolute decrease in hemoglobin in relation to blood volume”. Iron deficiency or depletion in the body is significantly responsible for the emergence...
The physician is a well-educated professional, so he knows which complications James has, and is aware of possible negative consequences in case of refusal to undergo a kidney transplant. It seems that the doctor has to take a firm position and urge parents to do all the needed procedures, but...
Introduction Due to the complex, critical and dynamic nature of the health sector in the world today, health practitioners are being faced with new challenges and issues that call for attention. Organization and management skills are very critical in ensuring quality health services delivery. Best practice in nursing management and...
Most United States hospitals adopted the Human Caring Theory in a move towards institutional changes and dissemination of professional nursing. This theory is termed by scholars as a Theory of Transpersonal Caring. The creative aspect, transpersonal compassionate bond, and the caring instance are basic elements in the theory propounded by...
Introduction Background of the Study The lymphatic system is part of the cardiovascular transport system which aids in fat digestion and its transport into the liver and other storage sites in the body. In addition, the lymphatic system supports other body immune functions. It is also involved in the transport...
Abstract This paper explores the issue of maternal mortality through qualitative research. The matter is vital because women globally die during or right after childbirth due to preventable reasons. Various reputable organizations and scholars have considered maternal mortality crucial for global health, while others believe that the measurements influence the...
Reaching Out a Solution In the course of a high-school athletic event, a person experienced a cardiac arrest. As time was essential, the coach of the home team rushed to the medical office to bring an automatic emergency defibrillator (AED). Nevertheless, the appliance was not at the expected location, which...
Introduction The world would not have been as safe and immune to numerous diseases if pandemics did not occur in the past. Although major historical virus outbreaks fastened the development and resulted in the advanced modern healthcare and medicine systems, many people continue to suffer from well-known illnesses. The World...
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...
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 cultural background of an individual has a significant impact on access and utilization of healthcare in the United States. There are significant disparities and inequities in health, associated with elements such as racism or structural cultural barriers within health organizations that are connected to poor health outcomes. Culture oftentimes...
Nursing Informatics and the Nurse Informaticist Today, there is a number of healthcare specialties that improve technically gifted people’s ability to contribute to the quality of care, patient safety, and positive treatment outcomes. Nursing informatics is among these relatively new and rapidly growing fields of study. In general, it can...
Introduction In this section, we will profoundly discuss sprains and strains in context, define them, and provide insight about therapeutic treatment approaches. In continuum, we will define, discuss, and conversely expound on therapeutic treatment approaches. As such, this section is a summative expose on clinical comprehensibility of sprains and strains...
Pre operative nursing care The nursing admission should obtain both objective and subjective data about the patient and should assess whether the patient is eligible for treatment. Subjective data involves patients experience about the disease or condition in question, for example pain. (WHO, 2010) reveals that hernia is non tender...
For this laboratory I would like to focus on some assessment tools that can allow us to greatly enhance our prescription of exercise. There are a multitude of assessments that can be utilized in fitness and wellness to assess function. We have discussed several throughout this course and recently you...
Introduction Individuals’ health state changes throughout life and determines their satisfaction with it. Various modifications in well-being of people are caused by specific triggers connected to the environment, nutrition, age, genetics, and psychological problems. In order to illustrate the process of change and adaptation, medical specialists developed a specific concept...
Yvonne, a 38-year-old housewife and mother of three, complains that she has a hard time closing her jaws. In fact, she says that she is unable to close her mouth completely. She says that this started 2 days ago when she opened her mouth really wide and yawned, right after...
Recognizing both health and disease is an integral part of the care process. Health pertains to the condition in which the body can normally perform its vital functions while the disease is the opposite of such a state. The knowledge obtained regarding such important healthcare concepts is vital for professionals...
Introduction Training is a process through which job-related skills are passed to the employees. It involves undertaking a set of activities aimed at preparing an individual to work in the real world. It is appropriate for new employees and experienced workers who desire to improve their skills and meet job...
While the healthcare sector has to treat every patient in the same manner, the reality is far from these statements. Factors like race, gender, sexuality, and age have a determining effect on the quality and overall process of medical care. Thus, it can be argued that every person experiences healthcare...
Introduction Addressing global health issues is a complex and multifaceted task since in order to determine the most severe problems, healthcare providers need to identify relevant trends and common threats. In the context of the availability of information exchange, the measures proposed by authoritative boards may be distributed among the...
Improving a healthcare facility can be a question of applying the right strategic management model. These models have been shown to work if implemented well, but they might need some readjustment to be applied in a healthcare context. The first model to consider is Management by Objectives, which has been...
Cellulitis is a skin infection caused by bacteria called staphylococci and streptococci, which can manifest itself in the form of skin redness and swelling. Cellulitis usually affects the skin of lower legs, yet it can emerge anywhere on the body, including individuals’ faces (Rath et al., 2017). The common risk...
Cheyne-Stokes breathing pattern received its name in honor of the Scottish military doctor John Cheyne and the Irish doctor, Professor William Stokes. They discovered it in the middle of the 19th century and described on patients with severe heart failure and stroke. The infrequent shallow breaths in and out gradually...
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 case of Brittany Maynard is one of the most prominent public health activism examples that are related to assisted death. This female had an aggressive form of brain cancer, and doctors anticipated that she would live for about six months. To preserve her control over her body and life,...
Introduction Any injury to the lower limbs can substantially impair the patient, limiting their ability to walk without assistance and lead an active life. Knee injuries are particularly widespread among athletes engaged in high contact sports such as football, soccer, lacrosse, or rugby. One of the most common traumas in...
The paradigm of nursing responsibilities has already gone far beyond providing medical assistance to the patients and dealing with documentation related to the treatment. Nowadays, the notion of nursing encompasses direct care provision, allocation of the treatment resources, communication with patients, and collaboration with public health resources in terms of...
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...
Introduction Since all people desire to be healthy, medicine is one of the most demanded services sectors. Over the past centuries, there have been many different ways of healing; some of them are common and accepted by everyone; others are rather controversial. In the 1990s, doctors started realizing that alternative...
Anyone who has ever spent enough time in the hospital has a good story about it; Perri Klass, in her article “She’s Your Basic LOL in NAD,” tells about her medical jargon experience. It seems like, for many centuries, doctors have been honing their skills of turning their both written...
In the healthcare industry, trust is an important component because health involves risks and uncertainties from the patients. Since sick people purely depend on the intentions and competence of the healthcare workers for their wellness, their confidence is critical. High trust level has been associated with several benefits, which are...
Every profession has its established rules and moral guidelines, but requirements for healthcare practitioners, including registered nurses, are particularly high. Nursing is an occupation that demands careful abiding by ANA Standards of Professional Performance. They include assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation (Maloney, 2016). These standards also demand...
Scenario Patient safety is among the top concerns for every healthcare set-up due to the associated negative consequences affecting care outcomes and other related issues, such as legal suits. One of the ways to ensure that patients are safe when being taken care of is by detailed documentation covering all...
Introduction This paper compares and contrasts the nursing education systems of Saudi Arabia and China. The countries represent very different cultural, political, and historical backgrounds, and it is crucial to analyze their educational systems and discover what barriers, if any, exist to high-quality nursing education. As the demand for nurses...
Nursing was, is, and will remain an integral and vital component of a modern healthcare system, and its importance will only rise as the complexity of medical equipment and procedures grows. However, this continuous process not only highlights the significance of nursing as a profession but also requires higher levels...
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 –...
Choosing a profession is one of the most crucial decisions every individual makes in their life. Various factors, such as personality traits, knowledge, skills, and opportunities have to be considered when pursuing a specific career path. In addition, specialization should be beneficial for the person and society and stay in...
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...
The urinary system is significant for body metabolism because it regulates the content of blood and the fluids of the body. The major organ of this system, the kidneys, filtrates body fluids and contributes to the acid-base balance. For athletes, it may provide some insights into the strategies to reach...
Effective leadership entails self-awareness, passion, and having a strong conviction in what one believes in. These convictions should be conveyed to the leader’s subjects. However, the leader needs to be tolerant and accepting of other people’s convictions (Reid, 2019). This paper discusses the organizational and personal vision for an adult...
Introduction The mission of healthcare is to provide high-quality care for all, but the analysis of Southern Regional Health System (SRHS) has demonstrated the medical staff’s failure to deliver care equitably across different ethnic and racial populations. SRHS is located in Jackson, Mississippi, which is a very diverse area that...
Part of the unique challenge of pediatrics as a branch of medicine is having to accommodate the personal needs of different age groups of children. To help them meet this challenge, pediatricians can draw upon theories of children’s development created by such scholars as Erik Erikson, Lawrence Kohlberg, and Jean...
Diagnosis and Pathophysiology The diagnosis is the common cold. Rhinovirus is the most significant virus that results in a common cold (Kuchar, Miśkiewicz, Nitsch-Osuch, & Szenborn, 2015). In individuals that do not have asthma, the symptoms of rhinovirus infection are primarily limited to the upper airway leading to the condition...
Introduction A seizure is defined as an asynchronous electrical activity in the central nervous system (Mayo Clinic, 2019). Thus, it causes changes in motor activity, emotions, and consciousness. When a person has two or more seizures, they are likely to have epilepsy. They are classified into two major groups which...
Delegation is a process of responsibilities and duties dispensation among the workers of a particular organization or a company. Nursing practice requires some extra attention to this part of the occupation. Delegation is an essential quality that leaders should obtain in order to organize a productive working process, which is...
This case demonstrates US legislation’s imperfection to protect health care workers and the need to change it. In the case of Teoka Williams, I would refuse to satisfy the patient’s request, since it does not have a compelling legal reason. As noted in the case, the staff’s non-discrimination rights are...
Myths and theories about aging compile a big part of understanding the processes of aging. Throughout the history of science, there were different studies on interpreting the results of aging, its prevention, and consequences. However, most of the Earth’s population does not go as far as to research the topic,...
Neuroscience has been described by yourdictionary.com as any science dealing with the functions, abnormalities etc of the nervous system. It is, simply put, the scientific study of the nervous system. This therefore implies that neuroscience in itself is a very broad discipline. It encompasses various other disciplines such us behavioral...
Introduction Various cultural beliefs across the globe have emerged to have a significant impact on health service deliverance in the community. These cultural beliefs seem to contradict healthcare delivery from professionals, thereby posing serious harm to the health conditions of their followers. However, some beliefs also promote healthcare provision across...
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...
Introduction During the early 1900s, the world was rapidly experiencing changes. For instance: one, the US economy was growing, while in Europe, Germany was busy arming itself and the rest of Europe seemed to ignore the threat at that time; second, women especially in the US received vote rights and...
Introduction Breast cancer has emerged as the most common type of cancer amongst women in the United Kingdom, with the rate of incidence of this disease is more than double that of both cervical and colorectal cancers (The Breast 2007). Besides, the occurrence rate of breast cancer amongst women in...
Introduction Euthanasia, otherwise known as mercy killing or assisted suicide, has been a controversial subject for many centuries. Proponents of the practice believe that individual freedoms of choice that exist in life also extend to the end of life. They also argue that the sentiment of humane treatment afforded animals...
Youths love music whether gospel or secular. It is noted that American young people spend about four to five hours each day watching and listening to music. This is more time than the youths spend in the company of their friends. Music is highly valued by adolescents and older youths...
Introduction Currently, the number of people delivered to hospitals with gunshot wounds is ever-increasing. A gunshot wound can be defined as a blunt trauma “caused by a very powerful force acting on a small focal area”. Severe gunshot wounds lead to immediate death with paramedics sometimes being unable to deliver...
Abstract Lou Gehrig’s disease {familial or sporadic} is a neuromuscular disorder that targets the upper and lowers motor neurons. There are no specific causes, though viruses, neurotoxins and others are suspected. Symptoms begin with unsteady gait and speech difficulty, lead to more serious flexion and hypotonia before proceeding to paralysis...
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...
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...
Introduction Healthcare represents a unique field of economy based on theoretical concepts and principles. It is considered that economics is a values-neutral science in which no judgment or value is placed on the theory or how the system works. Thus, the case of healthcare shows that this statement is not...
Introduction The improvement of maternity care quality and the reduction of infant morbidity are the main concerns of maternity nursing. It has been broadly addressed in professional literature, research findings, and statistical data that the health of a newborn child vastly depends on breastfeeding initiation. The World Health Organization (2018)...
Introduction Australia is a very big country. The population is very high in city areas, but the population is very spread out in rural Australia. There are many villages and towns which are many hundreds of miles away from bigger cities and towns. The population of these rural towns is...
Introduction Baxter International Inc. is a healthcare company that leads in the manufacture of drugs and medical equipment. The company makes medical products with its three divisions such as drugs and vaccines, dialysis equipment, and IV supplies. The bioscience or biotechnology division of Baxter specifically manufactures protein and plasma therapies...
The current healthcare environment is complex and interconnected. Organizations have to remain innovative to improve access, cost, and quality outcomes. Large hospital systems or networks are formed as a response to mounting pressure to provide optimal patient care and share risk. This paper examines United Healthcare’s readiness to address changing...
The delivery of nursing care and service is essentially guided by principles of nursing professionalism. An essential role in the nursing profession relates to the autonomous practices that relate to self-direction in nursing care with emphasis on a system of professional functioning. Nurses need to imbibe leadership skills in view...
Research question Obesity in children and adolescents has increasingly become prevalent in the recent past and is now a major problem in most developed countries. In what ways can we determine the main causes of obesity in this age group and whom should the blame be placed on? The Problem...
Introduction Nurses are trained to provide timely and personalized health services to patients depending on their needs. They should work with families, identify the challenges affecting them, and offer appropriate medical support. The purpose of the description of the hypothetical family below is to identify key barriers to forming effective...
Introduction Healthy eating and following the key guidelines may be some of the most difficult changes to make for people with diabetes. At that, they might need health workers’ guidance and mentorship to help them make a smooth transition and accept the struggles that come with having the said condition....
Nursing departments have been performing different crucial functions in their daily operations. One of the functions is taking care of those patients who have some injuries in their bodies. To carry out their activities perfectly, they have not been ignorant of the new technologies that are coming up in these...
Introduction This portfolio contains the key elements that can be used to demonstrate the improvement of my skills and knowledge, as well as the progress toward the achievement of course objectives, that occurred over the past five weeks. Specifically, a concept map and objectives list will be included to set...
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,...
Nursing theories provide conceptual frameworks for studying phenomena and developing knowledge in healthcare. Different models can be applied to different domains of nursing and used at all levels of abstraction, which allows formalizing the process of research in the field. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the theory...
As a person ages, one undergoes various stages of life. The most common are infancy, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood (aging). Each stage in life is relevant to individual health as age can impact certain factors which also vary amongst genders. Specific subset categories exist to...
Introduction Nurses play a significant role in the identification of the health issues that determine the accuracy of patient care due to their position and relation to patients. They may influence the health care processes as they are closely related to patients and understand their needs and issues. Nurses are...
Hypertension is a health condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is continuously increased. Also known as high blood pressure, this phenomenon is crucial in the modern world. According to Baker et al. (2018), approximately 874 million people worldwide had hypertension in 2015 (p. 1). At the same...
Introduction Delivery of care services to patients requires nurses to work as teams, which should be led by managers for the effective running of duties. Therefore, nurse leaders play an important role in the day-to-day execution of duties in different healthcare set-ups. In addition, such individuals are tasked with change...
Introduction Among the variety of communicable diseases, there are those that are typical for certain population groups. One of the problems of modern medicine is measles, mostly a child’s ailment. Despite the fact that the treatment of this disease meets the quality standards of modern medicine, the danger for patients...
Introduction The work of Rosemarie Parse has affected the modern perception of patient-nurse relations and expanded the role that nurses play in the healthcare system. She developed the theory of human becoming – a depiction of an ideal dynamic that nurses were to upkeep with their patients. The chosen video...
Introduction Healthcare reforms are regularly developed and improved in different countries regarding the needs and possibilities of the population and the government. In the United States, the major healthcare reform is the Affordable Care Act (ACA), signed by the president in 2010. This document covers a number of crucial aspects...
Introduction Acute illnesses are especially dangerous for human health as they occur suddenly and have a substantial effect on the body. For this reason, patients who were hospitalized with this type of disease need a quick response, an accurate examination, and constant care. Bacterial pneumonia is an illness for which...
Introduction The Person-Centered Nursing (PCN) Framework was developed by McCance and McCormack (2017b). Currently, it is one of the theories that can be used in nursing practice. This paper will offer an overview of PCN and its approach to the nursing metaparadigm, justify PCN as a nursing theoretical framework, and...
Introduction Understanding the differences between various nursing roles performs a vital function in the arrangement of successful collaboration within healthcare settings. Advanced practice nurses are some of the most skilled healthcare specialists who perform many duties to reach the best patient outcomes. However, a more recent specialty, forensic nursing, has...
The digital transformation of the healthcare sector has led to the emergence of information technologies such as computerized provider order entry (CPOE). The system development has been supported by federal funding which has focused on improving information technology in the healthcare sector. A majority of hospital networks utilize CPOE for...
The nursing practice problem under discussion is that nurses usually suffer from burnout that affects the quality of their work, and it is important to determine strategies that contribute to decreasing work stress and exhaustion. This problem is directly linked to the examined qualitative and quantitative articles, and it guides...
Nursing Theory Utilized In order to address the problem of nursing staff shortage, one will need to consider the use of the transitions theory (TT) since it allows embracing change in the selected setting and encourage its active promotion for the sake of patients’ well-being. Designed by Meleis, the specified...
Case Overview The case with the 21-year old Yolanda Pinellas refers to an instance of malpractice that resulted in significant damage to the patient. During the intravenous (IV) therapy, infiltration occurred and, although the RN discontinued the infusion, Ms. Pinellas developed necrosis that required surgical intervention and ultimately led to...
Solving ethical issues is critical in medical practice, especially in Clinical Oncology. Cancer is the hardest psycho-emotional test, both for the patient and their relatives. In our society, the cancer patient is often perceived as a person marked with special signs. It is good if the patient is adjusted to...
Scenario In the case under analysis, a nurse must address the needs of a woman who has recently lost her husband to a heart attack. After a sudden heart failure, the man was brought to the hospital but died almost instantly. It was expected that his wife would say goodbye...
Role Description and Education Level Informatics is significant in any clinical setting because it provides an opportunity to code data so that it can be processed in different ways. As a result, healthcare professionals obtain a possibility to receive meaningful and understandable information. If a person is willing to be...
A Clinical Question Related to the Area of Practice One of the most crucial clinical issues in the question of pressure ulcers since this type of injury is a prevalent burden in the healthcare system. Whereas major achievements have been gained in various spheres of care, no effective solution to...
Increased job stress is a characteristic feature of many care facilities, which is largely experienced by nurses in their daily practices. A lack of proper management of triggering factors as well as an imbalance between necessary care quality and staff training create an additional threat of burnout (Gulavani & Shinde,...
Introduction The issue of accountability remains critical in the field of nursing since it supports the provision of exemplary patient services. Practitioners who own their decisions and actions find it easier to empower more individuals and join care delivery teams. This paper gives a detailed summary and analysis of the...
Introduction Medical facilities should implement powerful models to empower nurses, physicians, and clinicians to meet the needs of all patients. The University of Miami Hospital supports numerous research studies that can present life-changing discoveries and ensuring that all beneficiaries receive compassionate and high-quality care. This paper presents a proposal for...
Introduction Population-based health interventions are an essential part of the national health system, as they target not only individuals or small social groups but communities as a whole. It means that interventions cover groups at risk and promote healthy behaviors on a large scale. While there are multiple health intervention...
Cases of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) in the clinical environment are an acute public health problem because they not only complicate the treatment process but also create a negative reputation for medical institutions. To minimize this threat, a special plan needs to be thought out based on the available information regarding...
Discovery: Topic and Practice Issue The topic and the nursing practice issue related to this topic The chosen health-related topic relates to childhood obesity. The nursing practice issue refers to educating children’s mothers on the significance of preventing childhood obesity because it is detrimental for the child’s health and can...
The HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration) Data Warehouse is a website that “provides maps, data, reports, and dashboards to the public about HRSA’s health care programs” (“About data.HRSA.gov,” para. 2) in the public domain. The programs are designed for people who are vulnerable in terms of geographical location, economic,...
Introduction Health is a complex phenomenon, and many factors influence its state when it comes to different individuals. Many people tend to believe that clinical services are the only factor that can either improve or worsen a health status. However, since people are social beings, it is impossible to neglect...
Nursing research requires a profound understanding of current problems in the public health sector as well as specific analytic skills (Burns & Grove, 2011). As it was identified, the problem of understaffing is one of the current prevalent issues in the health care system. The problem is formulated in the...
Introduction Customer service, otherwise known as the patient satisfaction, has become a critical benchmark of modern healthcare. It is helpful from a business and reputation perspective while strongly contributing to positive patient outcomes. Management in the industry has shifted its focus towards patient satisfaction as a key measure of the...
Introduction The meeting was conducted with a Risk Management Officer at Miami Dade Hospital. The responsibilities of a Risk Manager include the identification of hospital risks, the making of recommendations regarding the identified issues, the introduction of a management program, as well as other responsibilities such as employee training or...
Introduction Throughout times, various nursing theories have emerged within the healthcare industry, and each of them defined nursing and its major elements in its way. Smith and Parker (2015) define nursing theories as “patterns that guide the thinking about nursing” (p. 2). Different healthcare professionals imply the concepts into their...
Introduction In hospital settings, interdisciplinary teams (IPTs) are an alternative to single profession physician practices. Even though IPTs are associated with improved patient outcomes, satisfaction, and team collaborations, the present paper focuses on hospital settings are not introduced. The clinic can benefit from the introduction of an IPT concentrate on...
Introduction Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) are a prevalent cause of infection, disability, or death in hospitalized patients due to the presence of pathogens in healthcare settings. This results in decreased quality of care and negative outcomes. The PICOT statement for this project is: In ICU/post-op patients (P), what is the effect...
Introduction Pressure injuries are a hospital-acquired condition that frequently emerges in environments where patients stay immobile for extended periods, such as intensive care units. These wounds are generally preventable and associated with significant harm, extending the patient’s length of stay, worsening outcomes, and causing financial damage. Their prevalence mostly stems...
Introduction Topic Work-life balance is a critical factor that has an impact on employees’ motivation, job satisfaction, and performance. However, for nurses working in hospitals, achieving work-life balance can be challenging. This problem causes nurses to experience other job-related issues, such as burnout, stress, deterioration of personal relationships, and exhaustion,...
Introduction In order to provide comprehensive care, junior medical personnel uses various nursing models aimed at meeting specific patient needs and differing in the nature of interventions. For personnel working in intensive conditions, it is essential to have appropriate approaches that allow responding to any changes in the behavior of...
Research Problem/Purpose The article “The Role of Job Satisfaction, Work Engagement, Self-Efficacy and Agentic Capacities on Nurses’ Turnover Intention and Patient Satisfaction” by De Simone, Planta, and Cicotto (2018) examines the impact of various elements such as work fulfillment, employees’ commitment, and self-efficacy on healthcare officials’ turnover plans and patients’...
Formal Paper A cultural approach to health care providers is one of the most important elements that ensure improved patient outcomes. There are various nursing theories that define culturally-competent qualities and strategies to assist patients with their needs. This paper focuses on the use of the model developed by Giger...
Introduction This paper reviews the article by Atallah, Hamdan‐Mansour, Al‐Sayed, and Aboshaiqah (2013) that studies the reasons behind patients’ satisfaction with the nursing care quality and reveals the areas for quality improvement of medical assistance. This critique paper provides an evaluation of the mentioned research, including its purposes, methods, and...
Introduction It could be hardly doubted that the healthcare system should be in compliance with numerous factors of a different kind to provide proper adherence to treatment and medication for every individual who is seeking help (Junttila, Koivu, Fagerström, Haatainen, & Nykänen, 2016). As it is stated by Glette, Aase,...
Identification of the Problem Patient education is one of the concerns of health care with the potential to improve patient outcomes through educating them about peculiarities of their conditions and the necessary care. Some time ago, patient education was the responsibility of physicians. Nevertheless, with the increasing role of a...
Introduction Various nursing philosophies are presented in the literature, each of which suggests unique goals and principles. However, it is essential for every nurse to design his or her personal nursing philosophy to specify the essence of practice, aims to be achieved, and principles to be implemented, as stated by...
Introduction Nursing philosophy is an ultimate expression of the nurse’s values, beliefs, and experience that can be applied to their work with patients. Many notable nurses conceptualized and promoted their own philosophies of nursing. However, developing a personal philosophy of nursing can help nurses to explore their understanding of the...
Introduction Although a number of widely accepted nursing theories and philosophies exist, it is common for each nurse to develop an individual one based on the knowledge, experience, and contexts acquired throughout their education. A personal philosophy is a statement of beliefs, values, and ethics in terms of nursing practice...
Nursing Autobiography Medicine has been my profession since my early age. I graduated from Medical Science University of Cuba, as in General Medicine 24 years ago, but my specialty has always been Internal Medicine. In 2008 I came to this country looking for new opportunities to continue contributing my knowledge...
Article Summary The article by Sherman and Cohn (2019) is dedicated to one of the most significant aspects of healthcare professionals’ work: strategic thinking skills. As the authors note, these skills nowadays serve as “a critical differentiator” among those applying for leadership positions (Sherman & Cohn, 2019, p. 14). Promoting...
Conflicts are an indispensable part of any working environment. In the nursing profession, researchers outline several types of conflicts: intrapersonal – occurring within one individual, intragroup within one group, and intergroup between two or more groups (Higazee, 2015). Aside from that, conflicts can be competitive when groups or individuals compete...
As multiculturalism becomes a global trend, it is abundantly easy to imagine how a nurse and a patient experience certain misunderstandings due to their use of different cultural codes. For this reason, modern nursing education makes it a point to emphasize the importance of cultural competence in clinical settings. In...
Background Patient safety is typically viewed as the number one priority in nursing, aside from the focus on patients’ recovery. Therefore, addressing the factors that define the degree of threat to which patients are exposed in the clinical setting is especially important to discuss. Among the essential factors upon which...
Introduction With the healthcare system and governments facing many challenges such as the shortage of professionals, rising costs, and difficult access to care, it has never been more essential to have the right staff that is educated and competent to deliver quality care. Nurses in advanced practice are adequately positioned...
PICOT Question The emotional wellbeing of mothers is linked to the positive upbringing of children in the first several months of their lives. However, the physical, hormonal, and psychological changes that occur after labor can significantly undermine women’s well-being, with adverse symptoms preventing them from having a positive outlook on...
Introduction The topic discussed in this paper is promoting professional accountability and ownership. The purpose of this report is to summarize and apply the findings of the assigned journal article. The information and findings of the article will be discussed in the context of future practice as a nurse. Professional...
The role of nurses continues to evolve to meet the arising patient needs and deliver quality and timely care. Consequently, nursing research is required for nurses to acquire best care practices, improve patient outcomes, and respond to changes in practice. Additionally, nurses should understand the basic principles of research because...
Introduction Patient advocacy is a significant component of nursing practice, as nurses are the part of the medical workforce that spends the most time in direct contact with people undergoing treatment. As such, it is their responsibility to ensure that the patients are treated in a manner that maximizes their...
Introduction The quality of communication between nurses and patients in a clinical environment defines patient outcomes to a significant degree. Due to the problems in data management, some interventions or treatment strategies may result in the aggravation of a patient’s condition, an increased length of hospital stay, or the development...
Abstract The Essentials of Master’s Education in Nursing are an integral part of master’s education in nursing. They provide an understanding of the qualities and capacities graduates of master’s programs should have. There are nine Essentials that refer to various aspects of nursing practice, including the utilization of evidence, applying...
The advantages of telenursing have been documented in recent research. The present project is dedicated to testing the effectiveness of telenursing in reducing readmission, depression, and anxiety, as well as improving general health outcomes. Specifically, the use of telephone calls for follow-ups is investigated. Here, the results of the study...
Introduction Nursing theories create frameworks for patient care, which can have a positive impact on individuals’ health outcomes and the quality of care. This paper presents grand and middle-range nursing theories and discusses how they are applied within two research studies. The report reflects on the utility of selected approaches,...
Nursing practice, as well as the practice of medicine in general, has been evolving throughout the course of the history of humankind. The individuals dedicated solely to the practice of care for the sick, injured, and the afflicted were the first nurses, even if a dedicated word for the profession...
