Failure in Self Regulation of the Medical Profession

Introduction In most cases, the public is not very much informed when it comes to acquiring specialist services provided by professionals and as a result, they may be exposed to the risk of accessing substandard services because they cannot differentiate between a competent professional and an inept one. Professional regulation...

Medical Coding in the United States

Introduction Healthcare system cannot exist without financial channels that provide for its functioning. This necessitates the classification that would sort all healthcare services and create their money equivalent. The World Health Organization has a set of codes of diseases and procedures that are used by countries to calculate the cost...

Managed Care Accreditation in the United States

Introduction Managed care refers to the various methods used in the reduction of the costs of health care. The state of managed care in the United States has experienced a metamorphosis. As of now various companies and organizations are involved in the managed care sector. The provision of healthcare services...

Arteriovenous Malformation in Children

Introduction Congenital vascular lesions are referred to as arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), which can be diagnosed at any age. The overall risk of complications (e.g. hemorrhage) from an untreated AVM is estimated to be between 2 and 4% (El-Ghanem et al., 2016). Although AVMs are rare in kids, they are estimated...

Quality Improvement in Healthcare

Improving quality in health care is one of the essential tasks that should be pursued in any medical institution. The quality of hospital services depends on external factors, such as industrial manufacturing processes (Hall & Roussel, 2017). However, doctors themselves can also actively influence this factor by holding various kinds...

Importance of Vaccine Acceptance

Introduction Few medical technologies attract as much public attention as vaccines do. Throughout the history of medicine, physicians, nurses, and doctors have offered a wide variety of treatment formats, and it must be recognized that some of them were indeed dangerous for patients’ health. For example, the excessive use of...

Health Care Environment: Review

Health care environment are strategies put in place for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention illness in humans. It also pertains physical, mental disorders and injuries. Health care environment is basically viewed in terms of economical, public policing, social and technological aspects. Public policing involves rules geared to protecting and advancing populations...

Beneficiaries of Palliative Care

Introduction Palliative care entails satisfying the bodily, rational, and social demands of patients or caregivers. It improves patients’ livelihood and ability to recover. This care applies to persons experiencing challenges related to life-threatening conditions. The objective is to prevent or reduce suffering through prompt recognition, perfect examination and management of...

Quality Improvement Plan of the Emergency Department

Quality improvement has been described as the activities prepared via the use acquired date to facilitate the direct enhancement in specific aspects of the delivery of health services. Some of the activities included in quality improvement include nursing sensitive indicators, performance measures and compliance checks. Performance measures refer to the...

Current and Projected Status of the Medicare Program

Health care remains one of the most important human needs. Times have seen healthcare stakeholders in America increase. Times of antiquity were characterized by individual contributions in the pursuit of medical services. The introduction of Medicare in 1965 may be regarded as the genesis of subsequent Healthcare reforms (Miller 117)....

Fundamentals of Biostatics by Bernard Rosner

Probabilistic Reasoning The theme of probability and its reasons is perfectly described in two sources. One of them is the chapter in the book Fundamentals of Biostatics by Bernard Rosner where the author gives several clear and interesting examples and defines the essence of probability in different cases. And another...

The Problems of Advanced Training of Nurses

Methods used to evaluate effectiveness of the proposed solution. The proposed solution to the problem that is based on lack of identity and appropriate nursing practice and students’ inabilities to use and develop their skills in a right way has to be evaluated thoroughly as evaluation and improvement of the...

Rapid Appraisal: Nursing Practice and COPD

15 peer-reviews journal articles are used in this project to investigate how the nursing practice has to be organized regarding the patients with COPD. There are many challenges nurses with poor experience may face, and this appraisal aims at identifying the concepts which may be helpful to nurses to treat...

Nursing: Identifying a Problem

Introduction During the process of education, the students have to learn new material and identify the problems which are observed in the sphere of nursing. However, the theoretical aspect of the problems is not always similar to the practical one. The point is that many students learn about population and...

Primary Prevention: Public Health Concept

Introduction Primary prevention is a public health concept of intervention that is used to eliminate the causes of a disease or a certain condition that could be affecting an individual and even a community. The concept is historically founded on the fact that removing the proven causes of a disease...

The Unlicensed Assistive Personnel: Values and Functions

Values Related to cm Nowadays, more patients focus on the problems connected to poor medical care and inability to develop appropriate nurse-patient relations. If a nurse gets education and tries to find proper practical application to the received theoretical knowledge, it is easier for him/her to find out the most...

Evaluation of a Program in Nursing

The progress of health care system is evident, and nursing is considered to be one of the most fast-developing spheres in the chosen sphere. Doctors get access to a number of improved material and tools with the help of which appropriate and in time care is provided, and patients set...

The Healthcare Information: Security and Privacy

Teaching Hospital Employees The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is the primary legislation that regulates how personal health-related information is managed by healthcare institutions. Because of the increasing number of privacy-related issues concerning this data, it is imperative that all employees have the necessary knowledge and training to...

Nursing Practice in the Context of Personal Ethics

Introduction Amid the existed books about nursing, it is not always easy to find out the truth and realize that it is closely connected to many personal principles and norms. However, the source where the ideas of Florence Nightingale about the definition of nursing as art that “requires as exclusive...

Nurses About the Treatment of Pressure Ulcers

This quantitative research report will critique research done by Smith and Waugh (2009) on the assessment of registered nurses’ knowledge on treatment and prevention of pressure ulcers. The critique will major on the study’s problem statement, the purpose of the study as in whether the study is significant to nursing,...

Management Issues and Practices in Nursing

Introduction As with most other professions, all nursing profession practitioners are bound by rules and regulations that govern how they go about their duties. These rules and regulations are sometimes legally enforceable. Nurses also face numerous ethical issues in the line of duty. While some of these ethical issues are...

Prevalence Study of HIV Infection Analysis

Background In 2007, the World Health Organization estimated 33.2 million individuals as being infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Statistics also showed that approximately 2.5 million individuals are newly infected annually (Guss, 1994). The HIV epidemic in the United States involved urban heterosexual adults, specifical women in ethnic minority...

Health Care Systems of the US and China

In this paper, our task is to compare and contrast health care systems in such countries as the United States and the Republic of China. We have chosen these states because they differ significantly in terms of political and socio-economic structure, which immensely influences the functioning of medical institutions. In...

Holistic Nursing Practice: Assessment and Management of Chronic Pain

Introduction Definition of Pain Pain is a multidimensional phenomenon; therefore, it is difficult to define. Pain has been defined in many different ways by health care practitioners. (Sternbach, 1999). Chronic pain: According to NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (2006, p. ix), chronic pain is defined as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional...

Nursing Utilization Project on Educational Program on VTE for Nurses

Research Support First of all, it is necessary to mention that VTE (Venous thromboembolism) is an essential public health problem with the incidence rates similar to stroke and fatality rates greater than acute myocardial infarction (Baccarelli, Zanobetti, Martinelli, 2007 ). The incidence of VTE may be markedly reduced with appropriate...

Older Adults Patient Education Issues

Introduction The healthcare system of a given country dictates the quality of services available to its citizens. The American government offers adequate resources and support to ensure that more people receive high-quality services. This report gives a detailed summary of the responses obtained after interviewing one of my family members....

Laparoscopic Right Hemicolectomy: Aspect of Care

Examining cases from different areas of medicine is a rewarding and beneficial practice for healthcare professionals of all levels. Particularly, Operating Department Practitioners (ODP) should reflect on and review practice as required by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) Standard 11 of proficiency. It allows us as future practitioners...

Fall Prevention in Elderly Homes

Introduction Falls among the elderly population staying in nursing homes are common though preventable adverse incidents. According to the Joint Commission (2015), the number of people aged 65 and older is growing at a rapid pace, which corresponds to an increased risk of this group getting injuries from falling. For...

Interview of Nurse of the Intensive Care Unit

Introduction As the subject of the interview, the senior nurse of the intensive care unit (ICU) of a Miami hospital, Mrs. S., is engaged. Mrs. S. is a registered nurse with a BSN degree. She has been working in this hospital in her current position in the intensive care unit...

Evidence-Based Practice Change in Nursing

An evidence-based practice process emerges with a clinical question and proceeds to search and critically appraise the evidence. In the defined PICOT question, the necessary change is concerned with the need to reduce BMI measures in school-aged children. However, it may be limited by a nursing practice problem of low...

Concepts: Accountability and Advocacy

A diabetic foot ulcer is a complex condition that requires systematic treatment and attention on the part of the healthcare team. The role of the nurse is associated with the continuous oversight and the evaluation of the patient’s condition to develop an appropriate treatment strategy, which can include wound offloading,...

Leadership Style in Medical Career

The situational leadership for the three realities of healthcare organizations: A pperspective view The purpose of the article is to discuss the benefits of the situational leadership approach under the realities of healthcare organizations (HCO). First, the author describes situational leadership, especially from the view of the path-goal theory. The...

Why Parents Should Vaccinate Their Children

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...

A Smoker Patient’s Medical History Evaluation

Case Study: Mrs. J. When a person smokes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may be diagnosed. Smoking cessation is required, but smokers are not always ready to quit this habit, and serious health complications are observed. In this paper, evaluating the patient’s history and medical information will help discuss available...

Medicare and Medicaid Impact on Florida

Both Medicare and Medicaid are the primary national health insurance in the United States. Being established in the middle of the 20th century, both of them have significantly contributed to the spreading of medical coverage among the citizenry and find a ready market nowadays. Being one of the largest states...

A Family Nurse Practitioner’s Role

Introduction The modern healthcare system is constantly evolving, which leads to the need to develop new methods of providing medical care to the population. Today, it is important for patients to monitor their health, maintain it, and prevent various diseases throughout their lives. According to the American Association of Nurse...

Fay Abdella’s Twenty-One Nursing Problems Theory

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

Enablers and Barriers to Effective Pain Assessment and Management

Introduction Pain can be defined as unpleasant sensory and poignant experience related to definite or possible tissue damage (American Pain Society, 2008, P.2). Pain can be classified as nociceptive, acute or chronic pain. Nociceptive pain results from the arousal of specialized receptors or neuropathic caused by impairment of the peripheral...

Legislators in Policy Development and Dissemination

There are multiple legislators and governmental sections, directly and indirectly, involved in the policy development to regulate the usage of alternatives for decreasing opioids misuse. The U.S. Congress has established and disseminated the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act that provides the available approaches and treatment options to overcome the crisis...

Complementary Alternative Therapy for Autism

Autism Spectrum Disorder Autism is a generic term for multiple conditions, which are collaboratively called Autism Spectrum Disorder. There are three main sub-categories of autism: Autistic Disorder (classic autism), Asperger disorder, and Pervasive developmental disorder (National Institute of Health, 2010). People living with the disorder have trouble with social interactions...

Motivational Interviewing as a Smoking Cessation Method

What are the Clinical Interventions for Patients Unwilling to Quit Cigarette Smoking? Upon arriving at the clinics, all health practitioners advise patients to quit using tobacco and assess their level of willingness to give up smoking. For patients who are identified as unwilling to cooperate at the time, specialized interventions...

The Link Between Culture and Nursing Practice

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

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs) are the spectrum of conditions caused by parental alcohol use during pregnancy that affects the world population’s health (Lange et al., 2017). Meanwhile, FASDs are the number one cause of preventable developmental disabilities globally and, at the same time, they are the leading cause of...

The Role of Effective Communication in Nursing

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...

Implementation of the Health Information System (HIS)

The rapid development of advanced technologies has a tremendous impact on all fields of human activity, especially in the healthcare industry, because it enables new attainments and discoveries, facilitates workflow, and promotes reducing errors. Nevertheless, the introduction of contemporary technologies can appear to be a challenging process since it requires...

Beneficence & Autonomy: Ethical Challenges in Nursing

Nurses all over the world face ethical challenges when it comes to patient care. Today’s healthcare system is characterized by the critical staff shortage and the lack of time to meet all the patients needs. The nature of nurse care becomes increasingly exhausting and stressful through the prism of ethical...

Personal Nursing Philosophy: Bold, Centered, Upper and Lower Case

Personal Philosophy of Nursing Reflection Paper Modern nurses have many duties to their patients and society as a whole, and we need to fulfill these duties in accordance with our values and beliefs regarding health and nursing. Various nursing theories seek to support nurses by offering frameworks that could facilitate...

Overcoming Communication Barriers in Nursing

Despite the fact that lumbar puncture is a regular procedure in a clinical setting, many patients can have fears and negative preconceptions about it. For this reason, a nurse practitioner can face several communication challenges, for instance, a lack of patients’ understanding of the puncture. A pessimistic perception and a...

Conflict in Nursing: Conflict Resolution in a Healthcare Setting

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...

An Effective Communication With Adult Patients

Introduction Patient satisfaction with the quality of services provided and the degree of care taken by the medical staff towards the patient is cited as a problem that was selected for analysis. Improving patient satisfaction with medical care is the most important task of the modern healthcare system in general...

Professional Development of Nursing Professionals

Introduction Nursing, as one of the most important professions in human society, requires a large number of skills and dedication to learning. The intricacies of providing care demand a wide variety of knowledge including both physical and mental training. The report made by the Institute of Medicine outlines the ways...

IOM Future of Nursing Report and Its Importance to Nursing

Introduction The existing challenges and gaps in nursing practice are addressed by relevant documents and regulated by the introduction of suitable initiatives designed to optimize the work of nursing staff. In particular, the Institute of Medicine (IOM), as an organization that is involved in the transformation of the nursing industry...

Hypertension Prevention: Problem Identification

A patient, family, or population health problem and realistic goals that are relevant to personal practice Hypertension is an extremely common long-term condition characterized by the persistent presence of high blood pressure. This condition severely affects a person’s general well-being and can contribute to the risks of life-threatening conditions, including...

Quality and Sustainability Measures in Nursing

Introduction To evaluate the practical implications of quality outcomes and safety measures, it is essential to possess the experience of analyzing and benchmarking them. For this assignment, the author will create a health care entity and evaluate its quality and safety measures. The facility in question will be a nursing...

Nurse Turnover Quantitative & Qualitative Research

Introduction It should be noted that evidence-based care practices are fundamental to effective care. Qualitative and quantitative research is a tool for obtaining new medical data and results. In the context of this study, an analysis of nursing turnover associated with dissatisfaction with work processes due to stress is provided....

Hypovolaemic Shock in the Intra-Operative Patient

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

Enhancing Nurses’ Skills for Palliative Care in Long-Term Care

Background Research has demonstrated that palliative care is beneficial to both patients and families. However, it is not systematically utilized in many cases (Aslakson et al., 2014). Palliative care refers to a multidisciplinary medical care giving approach aimed at optimizing the quality of life and mitigating suffering among people with...

Nursing’s Metaparadigm and Personal Philosophy of Nursing

Introduction Each person has his or her own vision of things and events taking place in the world, which may coincide with the opinion of others or differ significantly. The personal philosophy of nursing is also different for each person; however, it includes a metaparadigm consisting of four fundamental concepts...

Care Standards in Healthcare Institutions: Case Study

Introduction Healthcare institutions’ primary goal is to provide high-quality medical services to sustain or ameliorate patients’ well-being. Therefore, standards of care are established for each direction of healthcare systems. Notably, these standards of practice essentially concern the nurses as they work in clinical patient care settings and are the providers...

Shared Leadership in a Surgical Setting

Introduction In the environment of an Operating Room (operating theater – OT), the threat of making a fatal error increases exponentially due to the tension, the rise in stress, and the need to coordinate an interdisciplinary team of staff. Therefore, introducing shared leadership (SL) as the means of addressing patients’...

Leading and Managing Evidence-Based Change in Nursing

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

Florence Nightingale’s Environment Theory

Major Concepts Nursing – Creation of The Best Conditions Human Beings Are Linked with Environment Environment Is the Most Critical Factor Health Is the Primary Goal of Nursing Health Promotion Is Important to Prevent Illness Florence Nightingale’s Environment Theory is a nursing theory with a key focus on environmental factors....

Patient Care Standards Application

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

Health Behavior Theories

The role of a competent nurse practitioner not only implies health care delivery, but it additionally includes specific interventions that coach, teach, inform, and mentor patients in order to achieve their health goals. It goes without saying that the in-depth examination of human behaviors related to health that are connected...

The Process of Public Policy Formulation’ Article by Freed et al.

The Process of Public Policy Formulation: The Case of Thimerosal in Vaccines is a Journal article written by Freed et al. The article discusses the emergence of Thimerosal as a concern in vaccination programs in the US. Successful immunization programs have significantly reduced cases of vaccine-preventable ailments. Thus, the article...

Team Strategies & Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety

Introduction There are many ways of how to improve clinical performance and promote patient safety. Team Strategies & Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (Team STEPPS) is one of the methods with five main principles and skills in the spheres of communication, team-building, leadership, situation monitoring, and mutual support...

Potential Threat of Coronavirus as a Social Problem in Haines City, Florida

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus is an emerging health threat in the 21st century. Although it is mainly associated with the latest outbreak in Wuhan, China, it raises concerns across the world, including Haines City, Florida. While there have been no confirmed cases, the potential threat of an epidemic...

Philosophy of Care as a Nurse

For many people, nursing is a field that represents the very essence of caring and compassion. In such a challenging profession, it is vital to have empathy, and a desire to help those who cannot take care of themselves. However, nursing philosophy is much more complicated than this; it includes...

Autistic Children as Vulnerable Population in Maryland

Introduction It is not always the case that children will develop in an expected way. There are times when their mental and physical development results in difficult behavior. Autism is one of these difficult behaviors that result from disturbing development. At first sight, it is very easy to distinguish an...

Needs of a Growing Population

The modern healthcare faces multiple problems starting from the decreased effectiveness of the existing insurance problems and ending with the gradual deterioration of the health of the nation caused by the environmental factors and diseases that have a detrimental impact on individuals. For this reason, functioning under complicated conditions, the...

Data Integrity and Standardized Nursing Languages

Information gathered by a healthcare team has a significant impact on a client’s care, and the integrity and accuracy of this data are obligatory. Software and hardware enable the workers to check, manage and store the electronic records. Standardized nursing languages prevent possible misinterpretations of data collected using different methods...

Online Learning and Students’ Mental Health

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...

Effective Approaches in Leadership and Management: Addressing Nurse Turnover

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...

Diagnosis of Chronic Pain Essay Example

Chronic pain is a widespread health problem with a global prevalence of around 37.3 percent and 41.1 percent in developed and developing countries respectively. By definition, chronic pain is that persists for more than three months since its onset. One of the major problems with the treatment and management of...

Pressure Ulcer Scale for Healing in Severe and Chronic Wounds

Pressure ulcers are prevalent among patients with mobility issues in long-term care settings. Understanding the risk factors can help nurses respond to complications and prevent the development of these wounds. Improving patient outcomes and reducing hospitalization costs can result from adopting best practices in this area. Therefore, prevention and treatment...

Preventing Infection and Transmission of COVID-19 in the Population

Introduction The coronavirus disease is a respiratory infection that is believed to spread from one person to another, especially if they are in close contact (Harvard Health Publishing, 2020). When an infected person sneezes or coughs, droplets are produced, which may land on the noses and mouths of people nearby...

The Status of a Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse

Information about Certification The status of a Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse(CHPN) serves as a guarantee of the competence of a registered nurse (RN) regarding the care of patients who are at the end of their lives. In order to obtain this certification, a registered nurse needs to meet several...

Application of Bioelectromagnetics in Medicine

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

Suggestions for Improving Hand Hygiene Compliance

The practice-based nursing theory was used for this report. It has provided the necessary framework for the process of planning a nursing intervention. It was favored over more abstract theories because it had a more direct effect on nursing practice. For instance, Jean Watson, a nursing theorist, has identified hand-washing...

Presentation on Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse

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Limitations and Solutions Related to Diseases

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a spectrum of diseases related to long-term breathing problems and airflow blockage. It appears to be quite widespread: as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates (2017), 16 million Americans suffer from this spectrum of diseases. Moreover, there is a problem of undiagnosed patients,...

Prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus in Low-Income Communities

Introduction Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common diseases in the USA, which has a high prevalence and leads to serious health complications. In the USA alone, more than 30 million people have diabetes (“National diabetes statistics report, 2017,” n.d.). What makes the situation more aggravating is the fact...

Development of Nursing in Israel

Process of Creating a Nursing Practice in Israel The process of creating a nursing practice in a medical organization in Israel involves 8 systematic steps. These steps are derived from Kotler’s 8 step change model. These steps begin with the creation of urgency where discussions are held across all divisions...

Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders

Introduction Chemical abuse has been increase among the youth. Substances such as nicotine, alcohol, tobacco and marijuana have become accessible to young people in schools making it a great risk to adolescents. These chemicals are very harmful to their health, because they affect them psychologically, socially and physically. This essay...

The Importance of Exercising on Patient Education

The importance of physical training is paramount for the prevention of a whole range of harmful diseases and conditions. Low levels of physical activity, among other problems, often result in excessive weight issues, which are highly prevalent among the citizens of the U.S. A study by Dombrowski, Knittle, Avenell, Araujo-Soares,...

The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic

The year 2019 will forever be engraved in many people’s hearts and minds as the time when a deadly virus known as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) invaded almost all the sectors, thereby disrupting daily activities. It is described as a communicable respiratory illness which is triggered by a new...

The American Nurses Association (ANA): Pros & Cons

Introduction The American Nurses Association (ANA) is an organization that primarily conducts federal lobbying on important issues in nursing and healthcare. The ANA address all issues such as the development of the nursing workforce, safe staffing, and pay. However, the membership of ANA stands at 6%, which can be attributed...

A Patient’s Guide Through www.: Surfing Through the Internet

Introduction: Browsing Online One of the most recent concerns for the modern world is the trustworthiness of the online information. The issue seems especially crucial when it comes to dealing with the information concerning health. Since the health of the patient depends on the result that his/her search on the...

Healing Hospital: Components and Challenges

Introduction The human body, like those of other living things is prone to instabilities in biological functionality and structural well being. These often lead to disruptions of body functions in form of sicknesses or injuries. The restoration of such states to normal body condition is what defines healing. A healing...

Adaptive Leadership in Health Care

Adaptive leadership centers on the adaptations that enable nurses to use their experience in a way that improves progress during change management. Adaptive leaders are able to close the organizational gap and meet both the short-term and long-standing objectives of an organization. Adaptive leadership is part of the complexity leadership...

Vitamins E and C in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Men

Abstract The present description is concerned with highlighting two papers by comparing and contrasting the research and analysis. The first paper was focused on the survey program to determine the utility of complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) in Australia. The second paper was focused to determine if supplementation of vitamin...

Planning the Presentation: An Oncology Nurse

Headline 1 Certification Description: An oncology nurse is an individual who works with blood-borne and solid cancer diagnoses in populations that require treatment and remission. Details about certification: Process to obtain clinical certification: First, the nurse will be required to achieve a Bachelor of Science in nursing or an Associate’s...

Obesity Prevention Due to Education

Introduction Obesity is a serious condition that undermines the health and wellbeing of the population. In the U.S. the disease affects 17% of children younger than 20 and almost 35% of adults (Ogden, Carroll, Kit, & Flegal, 2014). In addition, it has been found to influence the risk of death...

Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety

Introduction It can be said that the scope of the professional activity of medical workers is not limited only to hospital practice. Present legislation directly affects the safety, quality, and accessibility of services provided by medical specialists. It is why healthcare workers should study the laws in force and those...

Lupus Disease: The Causes, Symptoms, and Types

Introduction Immune system illnesses are a category of diseases that cause hyperactivity or dormancy to the system. In case it becomes excessively active, the body targets its own tissues and destroys them. Lupus is defined as a lifelong inflammatory disorder with a wide variety of clinical symptoms which impact different...

Longevity and Life Expansion

Diaconu, V., Ouellette, N., Camarda, C. G., & Bourbeau, R. (2016). Insight on ‘typical’ longevity: An analysis of the modal lifespan by leading causes of death in Canada. Demographic Research, 35, 471-504. The article develops a comprehension that Canada is one of the countries experiencing the highest degrees of life...

HIV and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

HIV is a virus that infects and destroys T-helper cells. These cells coordinate T-cell and B-cell activity in the body. HIV/AIDS patients have increased chances of developing a wide range of microbial infections. This outcome is possible since the destroyed cells are unable to fight microorganisms. The body immunity reduces...

Multiple Sclerosis: Risk Factors and Pathophysiology

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disabling neurological condition that considerably diminishes life quality and expectation. This inflammatory disease concerns the central neural system, and its signs largely depend on the extent to which the brain and spinal cord have been affected. Thus, MS’s clinical manifestations tend to vary significantly –...

Inflammatory Process and Wound Healing

Introduction The inflammatory process is a mechanism in which the body defends itself from any injury while hyperemia is the instant presence of an abnormally large blood supply from a dilated blood vessel with slow blood flow (Netpub.com, 2011). This vessel later becomes more permeable allowing macro and micro molecules...

Case on Preserving Genetic Mutations in IVF

In this case, a couple of a man and women want to be referred to an infertility specialist to have a procedure of in vitro fertilization (IVF). Both of them have short statures, and their home is accommodated to their height. The issue is that the couple wants to preserve...

Postpartum Psychological Disorders

Postpartum psychological disorders include mild conditions, known as “baby blues,” postpartum depression, and postpartum psychosis. The risks of complications increase due to the history of psychological disorders, labor complications, unintended pregnancy, unmarried status, or marital discord (Perry & Hockenberry, 2018). Postpartum psychosis requires significant attention as “infanticide and suicide are...

The Multi-Specialty Center in Southern California

Introduction The multi-specialty center located in southern California is a big hospital devoted to offering state-of-the-art medical care. The center boasts an efficient, easily accessible, effective and convenient medical staff. It is certified by AAAHC and Medicare to carry out special treatment and varied surgical operations. The hospital has superior...

Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA)

Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) is one of America’s principal membership organizations for managers and executives working in the field of healthcare financial management. In excess of 35,000 affiliates comprising of a range of leaders, from CFOs to managers to accountants, hold HFMA as a much appreciated thought leader with...

Physical Activity and Obesity in Children by Hills et al.

Obesity has become one of the most significant health issues for high-income countries. Living standards in these countries are rising; people can afford to buy more while working less. Only this can lead to serious physical and even mental issues. In addition, the lifestyle of these people has changed under...

Decision-Making. The Informed Decision Toolbox

Introduction Most organizations have embraced evidence based strategy in making informed decision. This approach to decision making has gained prominence among managers in the past two decades. This is as a result of the growing need to provide high quality health care. It is also enormously ascribable to increasing efficiency...

Dental Radiology: Critical Review of Journal

Introduction Direct (CCD or CMOS) and indirect (storage phosphor plate) digital systems for intra-oral radiography are now commonplace not only in dental research but also across diverse research fields. A recent article investigated the image quality and radiation dose of the two systems. This paper gives a critical review of...

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses

The modern healthcare sector can be characterized by the increased complexity and developed infrastructure needed to provide care to patients and meet their diverse needs. Because of the difficulty and the growing requirements to the quality, health workers should be ready to cooperate, share experiences, and constantly improve their skills....

Pros and Cons of Universal Healthcare in the US

Introduction Medicare and Medicaid are healthcare programs that were established in the 1960s in the United States of America making medical services affordable for defined categories of the population including the elderly and the poor. The financing of Medicare in the United States has come a long way and has...

Accessibility of Healthcare in the United States

Introduction Inequality in medical care services and health outcomes concerns both developed and developing countries. The core issue that hinders the development of an accessible healthcare system in the U.S. is the cost of insurance. These costs accounted for 5% of the national income in 1960 compared to 18% in...

Two Acts on Drug Law Comparison

Introduction The 2009 Health reform legislation was passed with the aim of Medicare saving for the patients in America. In 2009 the House H.R. 3962 approved the Affordable Health Care for America. This bill contains several provisions that are expected to affect Medicare program expenditures for the people of America....

Management Issues in the NHS

The National Health Service is a collective name given to the four publicly funded health care systems of the United Kingdom. The health service in England commonly uses the name “National Health Service” without further qualification while the publicly -funded health care organization in Northern Ireland does not use the...

Patient Engagement and Public Data Gathering

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

Arterial Dysfunction: The Nursing Practice

Introduction The problem of arterial dysfunction was analyzed by a great number of researchers that tried to introduce discussion of the issues relevant to the treatment, care, and importance of the nursing practice. The current paper suggests a literature review on the topic of arterial dysfunction and health care with...

Cholera: Overview of the Affected Population and Description of the Disease

Introduction In 2020, cholera is not as dangerous as it was a hundred or two hundred years ago. Much more people have access to clean water; sewage is rarely discharged into the same bodies of water from which people drink. Wastewater treatment plants and water supply are on a completely...

The Etiology of Hepatitis A, B, C, D

Hepatitis A The etiology of hepatitis A includes poor sanitation, male homosexuality, parental drug use, foreign travel, and household contact. The symptoms include nausea, vomiting, jaundice, malaise, dark urine, and anorexia (Gilroy, 2019). Treatment is mainly supportive, and there is no specific antiviral treatment. Nausea and vomiting are managed with...

Prevalence and Death Rates of Asthma in Australia

Asthma is a major health issue in Australia, prevalence and death rates are high by international standards even though there has been a decline. The prevalence in children remains high however the mortality rate has reduced compared to the previous years. This paper will look at asthma in the Aboriginal...

The Process of Food Poisoning in General

Food poisoning is a foodborne syndrome that results from the intake of contaminated foods. It is a common illness that often results from the consumption of food and drinks that are contaminated by bacteria toxins, parasites, and viruses and can also result from ingestion of noninfectious poisons and heavy metals....

Reflective Journal. Nursing Ethics

Reflective practices are crucial as they enable the healthcare personnel to identify their strengths and weaknesses. According to Butts and Rich (2019), healthcare practitioners need to evaluate their daily performance to deliver the best care services to patients. Watching the videos on live birth, postpartum hemorrhage, pregnancy complications, postpartum assessment,...

The Role of Nurses in Enhancing Patient Safety

Introduction Patient safety has become an everyday terminology in the healthcare sector. This is due to the growing attention that the concept has received not only from patients and their families but also from policymakers and the healthcare sector itself. In the clinical practice, the improvement of patient safety necessitates...

Health Issues That Triggered Community Health: Nursing Role

Community health nursing entails a synthesis of conventional nursing practice, public health practice, and primary health care. The practice of community health nursing often expands into critical areas of disease deterrence, health enrichment, community and social development, empowerment, advocacy, and health research. The evolution of community health nursing’s role has...

The Evolution of Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice

The impact of evidence-based practice (EBP) The impact of evidence-based practice (EBP) on the development and constant improvement of modern health care cannot be overestimated. EBP enables healthcare professionals to standardize their work by scientific evidence, which results in eliminating adverse health outcomes. In this respect, it is viable to...

Ethical Dilemma: Consenting to Chemotherapy

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

Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease: Symptoms and Treatment

The term inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, refers to a type of disorder when the digestive tract is chronically inflamed. There are two types of IBD, including Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a condition when the large intestine and rectum are inflamed. It should be noted...

Cannabis 101 for Nurses

The use of cannabis for medical purposes has gained massive attention in recent years. According to the World Health Organization, cannabis is the most widely cultivated and abused drug worldwide, with a prevalence of 2.5% of the population (as cited in Bridgeman & Abazia, 2017, p. 180). This essay will...

The Effects of Alcohol on Human Body and Mental State

Knapp’s work tells about the period when the author had an unhealthy drinking habit for about 20 years. It introduces many aspects of being an alcoholic and its consequences. What is more critical, Knapp talks about her experience and recovery path in so many details that the book is helpful...

Huntington’s Chorea Disease: Genetics, Symptoms, and Treatment

Introduction By any standards, the Huntington’s chorea disease, also known as the Huntington Disorder (HD), is one of the worst neurodegenerative genetic disorders of the 21st century. Other irreversible dementias in its league include Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, Parkinson’s disease, Frontotemporal dementia, and Creutzfeldt-Jacobson disease (Rabins, 2009). The word ‘chorea’...

Health Care Inequality: The Socio-Economic Factors

The problem of inequality in various aspects of socio-economic life and the problems of overcoming it are increasingly becoming the subject of discussions in politics, scientific research, and social policy. The United Nations and the European Union devote much attention to these problems (Costa-Font and Cowell 172). They emphasize the...

Information Technology Utilization in Nursing

Introduction The use of innovative technologies is inevitable in the modern world. At the same time, it is practically impossible to state that they are harmful if used properly. Being the Director of Nursing for an outpatient (ambulatory) Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Center, we use Macpractice software for keeping and...

Technology in Health Care

The healthcare industry has always been one of the most crucial aspects of citizens’ well-being both at the governmental and local levels. Without allocating sufficient resources to health care, countries’ leaders cannot expect positive dynamics in the quality of life. Recently, much attention has been gained by the issue of...

Infection Control Related Sentinel Events

Health is a critical issue. There are various ways through which individuals get infected with various illness and diseases. Some of them could be prevented while others could only be controlled. Being healthy is extremely important since illness is associated with a lot of negative attributes for instance un-productivity due...

Health and Medicine: Vicodin

Vicodin Vicodin is a pain control substance that is often given to patients who have undergone surgery and suffering from serious injuries. The drug is highly addictive and can cause serious problems when a large number of doses are given to the client. Mr. K is supposed to take up...

“Stents in the Cardiac Cath Lab” Case Study Analysis

Introduction The case “Stents in the cardiac cath lab” is written by Dale Buchbinder. The case study in question is an example of professional misconduct, which harmed the patient and resulted in a collective lawsuit against the hospital and the responsible cardiologist. The cardiac surgeon had ties with a cardiac...

Health Care Contracts and Their Types

Introduction Contracts play a rather important role in the system of health care, especially in its private sector (Boyle et al., 2001, p. 12). Such contracts as managed care, suppliers (equipment), personnel, and unions present the core of the health care system as they provide the patient with everything necessary...

The Use of the Removable Partial Dentures

Introduction The use of removable partial dentures is often associated with problems of comfort, bacterial danger, and increased care. In some measure, the use of dentures is regarded to be harmful because of bacteriological and physiological factors. First, it is necessary to give the details of prosthetic procedures, to clarify...

Cooper Green Hospital: Community Care Plan Implementation

Overview statement The case study discusses the question of necessity and existing opportunities for introducing new strategies and health care reforms in order to keep the Cooper Green Hospital open. However, the clinic faced numerous problems with providing services and diligent treatment to their patients. First of all, the healthcare...

Quality Patient Care: Drug Errors and Nurses

Introduction Drug errors are the mistakes that occur in the administration of drugs to patients. It is possible to assume that only nurses are involved in this occurrence but the truth is that numerous medical professionals are involved in drug administration and therefore it is not professionally sound to blame...

Nursing Diabetes and Obesity Patients

Introduction Nursing diabetes and obesity patients is regarded as one of the most serious problems of the contemporary nursing practices. High rates of diabetes and obesity in Weslaco community stimulated the intervention of innovative nursing practices and strategies within the nursing community, therefore, the evidence based researches of these innovations...

The Evidence-Based Practice Importance in Health Care Services

Evidence-based practice (EBP) is of crucial importance for improving the quality of health care services and the patients’ outcomes. The health care practitioners should use only the most accurate information for choosing appropriate intervention measures and developing effective health care plans. The EBP is one of key elements of the...

Lung Cancer: Causes and Treatment

It should be admitted that there are many diseases related to environmental conditions, health habits, and work routines. However, lung cancer seems to be among the most severe ones in this regard. A plethora of chemical substrates provides carcinogenic effects on lung tissues – starting from a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon...

Visualization of the DsRed1 Protein Tool

Introduction and Question Visualization of the DsRed1 protein is enabled because of its relatively longer wavelength of its red-emitting fluorescent protein that presents fewer challenges during in vivo labeling because of the reduced light scattering effect (Rodrigues, Hemert, Steensema and Leao, 2001). The importance of application of the DsRed1 protein...

Simulation and Students’ Involvement in Mobile Clinics

The Curriculum Gap The identified needs gap in the curriculum was students’ lack of understanding of mental health outreach and crisis intervention. The literature confirms this gap since it was identified that students are often not prepared to provide mental health care to patients with alcohol withdrawal symptoms or suicidal...

Dentistry Job Application Form: Overview

Dental health professionals have considerably increased dental care in the UK. During the course of their work, they experience or come across many obstacles that may hinder them to carry out their functions effectively. These risks may be exposed to blood-borne viruses which are often carried in the blood of...

Practical Nursing Skills: Guided Dialogue

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...

Maintaining Confidentiality and Protecting Clinical Information in Counseling

Introduction Protecting clinical information and maintaining the client’s confidentiality is one of the most important elements of counselors’ ethical conduct. As Berton (2014) points out, violating confidentiality will not only ruin the client’s trust in the counselor but also damage the reputation of the entire counseling profession. Generally, to maintain...

A List of Blood Diseases and Their Overview

Porphyrias Porphyrias are a rare group of hereditary illnesses caused by defects in 7 different enzymes in heme synthesis pathway and in which the heme, an important part of haemoglobin, does not develop properly (Porphyria, Medline Plus). Different forms of the illness have different symptoms. Some have the abdominal pain,...

Evidence-Based Practice: Evaluation of Process

Abstract In the current essay, an evaluation plan is developed for the final evidence-based practice project. The present paper consists of several parts to provide a comprehensive and concise piece of writing. First of all, the rationale for the methods used in collecting the outcome data is described. Secondly, how...

Self-Assessment in Dental Hygiene

Dental hygiene is crucial for people’s health, and self-assessment is an essential part of hygiene. It is worth mentioning in the curriculum because hygienists must have these skills for self-improvement and personal growth in the profession. The value of that practice will help to monitor both their health and their...

Current Nursing Shortage and Foreign Staff Recruitment

Introduction The nursing shortage continues to get larger. With the lack of nursing instructors and nurses retiring as well as nurses changing professions, the numbers are more dismal every year. There is the expectation that there will be more than 400,000 vacant nursing positions in the next 10 years. This...

The Quiz of Cardiovascular System

The heart is the central organ of the cardiovascular system. It is essential for carrying out the blood circulation process vital for maintaining normal homeostasis as per the body’s requirements. In this regard, it is essential to know the various functions of the cardiovascular system. The various mechanisms that regulate...

Approach to Care. Human Cancer

Overall, cancer can be defined as a group of diseases which are caused by the uncontrolled division of cells (Brown, Issacs & Krinke, 2007, p 438). There is great variety of cancers, and they are classified according to the type of sell, which the tumor imitates. There is no universal...