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Although available scholarship shows that nursing advocacy is a relatively new concept (Kibble, 2012), it is evident that the role of the nurse as an advocate in healthcare settings is not necessary new considering that nurses have historically been involved in identifying patient needs and seeking ways to have these...
Introduction Nurses, doctors, clinicians must use appropriate strategies whenever supporting the health needs of their patients. These professionals should analyze the implications of various medical standards and practices. Failure to support the health expectations of different patients will result in medical malpractices. Such malpractices occur “when a medical professional fails...
A News Story That Describes a Breach of Healthcare Ethics Overview of the Situation and Parties Involved A case of disability-based discrimination occurred in the NYU Langone Hospital. A deaf patient, Aneta Brodski, claimed that she was denied a sign language interpreter while being in labor (Saadah, 2023). She stated...
Manchester Health Access Network (MHAN) members must select a model and type of exchange for their network. The centralized model assumes a single Clinical Data Warehouse (CDW), where all information is stored for providers to access. It implies a high cost of development and maintenance and a long time for...
Introduction Since its early years, nursing has continuously been at the forefront of healthcare, with technologies heavily impacting it. Nurses are directly involved in practically adopting cutting-edge technologies and novel techniques. In the last few decades, healthcare informatics has become one of the leading development directions, relying on modern digital...
There are different types of healthcare organizations across the United States that are known to assist patients at different levels. The types of healthcare organizations selected are hospitals and Ambulatory surgical centers. Healthcare facilities offer a service to their clients via a continuum of care and appear to be more...
Introduction The film “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” is based on one of the best-selling books of the same title authored by Rebecca Skloot. The movie essentially told the story of three people. The first was Henrietta Lacks, her daughter Deborah Lacks, and the journalist (Rebecca Skloot) who researched...
Introduction The middle-range medical model provides a practical framework for dealing with complex issues. The hypothesis offers more precise facts, better empirical testing, and minimum abstract information. However, the theory provides descriptions, predictions, and interpretations of medical services. The approach provides viewpoints that instruct students on handling difficult and urgent...
Defining Acute Pain: Acute pain can be defined as rapidly developing, reaching peak intensity, and subsiding quickly. Chronic Pain as a Persistent Condition: In contrast to acute pain, chronic pain persists after the acute pain has passed and may be better seen as a sickness (Cohen et al., 2021). Breakthrough Pain in...
Healthcare professionals and organizations require standards of care since they describe the level of competence in the nursing process as a way of protecting and saving a life. Professional standards are vital in maintaining safety and proficiency evaluations for clinical units (Duffy, 2022). Standards of care can be used as...
Introduction Patient safety is a critical aspect of healthcare delivery, and the prevention of harm is the primary goal of healthcare professionals. Nurses are vital in providing safe patient care and have a professional and ethical responsibility to minimize or prevent safety concerns. Adverse events, unsafe acts, errors, and harm...
The work of any healthcare facility critically depends on the competencies of staff and managers and continuous organizational improvement. Under these conditions, time management acquires the top priority as one of the methods to increase work effectiveness, avoid time waste in non-priority activities, and guarantee better outcomes. Thus, the quality...
The medical field constantly innovates and develops new technologies to improve patient care. Societies, in general, are significantly impacted by technological innovations (Giddens et al., 2021). One such recent innovation is the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in various applications, such as medical diagnosis and treatment. AI is quicker than...
Introducing the Test The Rorschach inkblot test is a psychological questionnaire which was designed by Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach in 1921 (Choca & Rossini, 2018). This test is used to examine a person’s mental health and personality. It is also used to evaluate a person’s response to various situations. People...
Evidence-based nursing practice is the process through which nurses utilize the most current research to offer the best care to patients, which leads to improved health outcomes and lower costs (Abu-Baker et al., 2021). Evidence-Based Plan (EBP) combines the latest research in nursing literature, practitioner experiences, and the patient’s preferences...
Introduction Trauma-informed care is a human delivery service paradigm based on awareness and knowledge of how trauma impacts people’s lives, service requirements, and service usage. It recognizes and addresses the pervasiveness of trauma and supports recovery and rehabilitation environments instead of activities that may mistakenly re-traumatize. Principles of Trauma-Informed Care...
Introduction The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a federal agency that works to improve the overall health of the general population by promoting healthy behaviors, preventing disease, and being better prepared for emergencies. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) concentrates its efforts on promoting health...
The documentary History of the Black Death recounts a global pandemic during the Middle Ages that can somewhat be equated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Like COVID-19, the Bubonic Plague originated in one area, spreading globally and leading to the death of millions. The Black Plague started in China, spreading through...
Introduction Environmental health is defined as a public health sector responsible for researching and minimizing the impact of certain factors of the ecosystem on peoples health. Natural disasters, global and local environmental problems, and the quality of the atmosphere and hydrosphere are all subjects of research in this health sector....
Introduction The four topics approach is used in ethical decision-making in the healthcare industry. Ethical issues can be especially challenging in the medical field since a person in an ethical situation is both a subject and object of moral behavior, which can be difficult for healthcare professionals (Gray, 2021). The...
Maintaining Boundaries One of the ethical issues I encountered during the practicum is lack of boundaries between a professional and a client. On meeting some of the patients at the site, I unknowingly formed a relationship that went beyond the professional lines which proved to be a challenge when attending...
Electrolytes are substances with a natural negative and positive electrical charge when dissolved in water. The main essential electrolytes in the body include potassium, calcium, sodium, Magnesium, Chloride, and Phosphate. Individuals may get their electrolytes by eating nutritious diets, mainly whole foods. Electrolytes help keep the body hydrated, regulate muscle...
Summary Breathing is one of the main physical processes without which the body’s functioning is impossible. Without sufficient access to oxygen, the human body cannot efficiently operate since the work of many organ systems is disrupted (Rolfe, 2019). Therefore, in the presence of even minor breathing problems, a complete respiratory...
Healthy living is vital for a person’s physical and emotional wellness. Additionally, healthy living is necessary to prevent the development of chronic illnesses such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. Unhealthy living may cause psychological disorders such as depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress (Penninx & Lange, 2022). Healthy lifestyle management...
The harm of smoking to the human body lies in its ability to stimulate the development of severe systemic diseases, which can be fatal. Today, smoking is the most widespread harmful habit that claims many lives and causes concern for both smokers and non-smokers in society. In this case, it...
Information systems in my organization represent a well-balanced and convenient set of applications that is supposed to maximize performance and increase the quality of life for practitioners and their patients. This paper will explain the SI background, communication software, database, electronic health product choice, enterprise resource planning, business intelligence, and...
Anxiety has already become a part of our lives and is present in everyone. Each person experiences such a feeling differently; for some, stress is more pronounced; others less. Often, anxiety can destroy life and interfere with living in general, so it is essential to know how to properly deal...
Introduction Organizational leadership is crucial for routine decision-making and business management. The leadership is mandated to develop policies that guide the daily interactions among the employees among other stakeholders. Big corporations such as CHOP have an effective leadership structure with definitive roles at each level. CHOP is a children’s hospital...
The safety of administrating medication is influenced by nurses who have the authority to perform the job. They are expected to enhance safe care and facilitate a safe culture within a healthcare environment. When administrating medication, they must understand the order and ensure that it has all the necessary information...
Introduction The profession of a school nurse is vital to the proper functioning of an educational establishment. The nurses need to provide adequate healthcare for students, and in the case of problems with nurses’ work or perception, a child’s well-being could be in danger. In order to provide such care,...
Introduction Sepsis is a critical health condition in which the body reacts to an infection. Previous infections can sometimes pose serious risks to people because it leads to septic shock, where the body organs become overwhelmed, leading to organ failure (Lauriston et al., 2019). Sepsis is serious because it attacks...
Introduction Decision-making is the essence of nursing practice, as nurses must make choices about treatment and patient care countless times a day. Levett-Jones et al. (2010) note that nurses make 1428 decisions during a 12-hour shift in critical care. In turn, according to Razieh et al. (2018), about one hundred...
Brief description of the encounter I had with a client In general, communication, especially the first contact with a patient, is essential; it determines the patient’s different relationship with the medical staff. In the context of the treatment process, the nurse acts as a partner, an intermediary between the patient...
Introduction Telehealth is one of the most heavily discussed topics in healthcare. This term is used to describe a wide variety of services linked with digital communication between patients and healthcare professionals to facilitate long-range treatment. Nowadays, this type of service is utilized by approximately 60% of healthcare facilities in...
Introduction Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) is technological utilization in capturing and tracking medical information from patients. As a sub-category of homecare telehealth, RPM allows mobile medical devices to collect patient-generated health data (PGHD) and forward it to healthcare workers. The technique is frequently used to help clients needing post-discharge, chronic,...
The name of the country and foods and/or beverages commonly consumed I chose Japan as the country of choice for the assignment. The most commonly consumed foods among the Japanese people include sushi and sashimi, ramen, Tempura, Kare-raisu (curry rice), and okonomiyaki (Murakami et al. 108). Under MyPlate, sushi and...
Introduction The improvement and development of healthcare and the development, implementation, and development of new technologies necessitate the progress of the professional level and qualifications of medical workers. Both the administration and the employees themselves are interested in this, as the quality of medical services requirements are steadily increasing. The...
Introduction Nurse shortage refers to the situation in the healthcare field when there is an insufficient number of nurses. Several factors contribute to the nurse shortage situation, which changes from time to time, making nurse shortage a relative term. The first scenario contributing to the shortage of nurses in healthcare...
Abstract This paper aims to identify patterns of the followership styles and their relation to the leadership styles with a particular emphasis on the healthcare sector. The analysis is based on a review of scholarly articles on the interaction between followership and leadership in healthcare. The results reveal that there...
Introduction Burnout is emotional fatigue and complication resulting in a loss of personal success at work and distress. Drained by work, the emotionally distressed healthcare professional can no longer confront the challenges of the job and may not engage successfully with others. The burned-out physician may demonstrate a cynical alienation...
Introduction Mental health is an essential aspect of every individual as it affects how they behave, control their emotions, and think. It influences productivity, academics, and interpersonal relationships among people. In this historical time, the Covid-19 pandemic has adversely affected the psychological health of many individuals globally, even the learners...
Childhood obesity is a problem that stands especially acute today, in the era of consumerism. Children now have immense access to Internet where they are enraptured by bright and colorful advertising. The problem of obesity is hot topic for research, and there are many scientific articles that review various aspects...
Introduction Social workers are regarded as highly trained individuals working closely to foster the standard of life and the well-being of other people through crisis intervention, policy changes, and educational programs. Social workers play a crucial role in ensuring that there is an improvement in general well-being and mental health...
A significant role in maintaining and forming the principles of a healthy lifestyle and motivation to preserve health is played by medical workers, particularly nurses. It is possible to form skills for maintaining health and the need to strengthen it at the preclinical stage. A nurse should give the necessary...
Introduction Effective communication is essential in all forms of human interactions, but it is particularly important in healthcare given that suboptimal doctor-nurse or practitioner-patient interaction leads to low patient outcomes. As a result, ineffective communication can cause poor quality of care. Failure in communication mostly occurs during shift change, when...
Today, obesity has become one of the key issues of public health. As reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 34.3% of adults were obese, and 32.7% were overweight in the US in 2006. These numbers increase annually, leading to deaths and comorbid diseases. Although some people consider...
Background and Significance The authors used the introduction to contextualize the problem using published research, stating the importance of palliative care and its need by the aging population. They discuss how the increase of chronic non-communicable disease and increased population aging leads to the global need for palliative care. Overall,...
The radiology department has a professional and legal responsibility of ensuring the safety of patients receiving imaging services. Radiation helps in the diagnosis and treatment of patients. However, inappropriate exposure can lead to health hazards for the patient exposed. Every profession in the radiology department has a moral responsibility of...
Evidence-based practice (EBP) and nursing research are critical to the nursing practice because they provide the knowledge necessary to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of care and develop new, more effective practices. These two concepts have specific differences that nurses should understand to implement both them effectively in their...
Advanced practice nurses (APNs) are highly qualified professionals in the healthcare field who have high demand. Many positions are available to them, including those of leadership. However, some prefer to be independent practitioners, working as contractors. It allows for flexibility and negotiations, but being formally employed also has its benefits....
Introduction Nurses undergo years of training to become certified nurses, yet ethical dilemmas are still becoming more complex than solving common issues. Ethical dilemmas occur when choices need to be made, but the options are not ideal, and the answers are not precise. These ethical dilemmas could undermine the quality...
Being sedentary for a long time can lead to issues and diseases in multiple organs and body systems. As far as the skeleton is concerned, excessive sitting causes permanent imbalances in one’s neck, makes the spine inflexible and herniated, and is responsible for the development of osteoporosis (Berkowitz & Clark,...
Background and Significance A dietary approach to stop hypertension, popularly known as the DASH diet, is often recommended by nutritionists and doctors as a good way of managing high blood pressure without the use of medication. The nutritional approach to managing hypertension has gained massive popularity not only in the...
Nurses play a critical role in the delivery of healthcare services. They are a vital component of team professionals who ensure patients’ wellbeing. Nurses spend considerable time with patients while in healthcare facilities, administering treatments and assessing their progress. Therefore, the nurse-patient ratio can significantly influence the quality of care...
Mental health approaches attempt to explain the development of human beings socially, psychologically, and behaviorally. Early and Grady (2017) explain that researchers focused on suffering and pain alleviation for an extended period. Therefore, they aimed to understand what was wrong with an individual and how to solve the situation (Early...
For years, the terms psychotherapy and counseling have been used interchangeably due to the fact that the notions share many similarities. Notably, both disciplines involve developing a safe, therapeutic, and healing relationship between a patient and a therapist. Conversely, one of the key differences between the two fields is that...
Recruitment is the procedure of persuading individuals to apply for a job in the organization. The staffing process in healthcare includes three stages. All of them are equally important to human resources management and the benefit of the organization (Cable, 2013). These three stages are acquisition, retention, and separation. The...
Introduction Shared decision making is an essential component of patient-centered healthcare. It is the process in which patients and health professionals work together to select treatments and healthcare plans and make decisions that balance the risks and expected outcomes with patients’ preferences and values (Bae, 2017). To provide effective care,...
Introduction Social support is the way through which, individuals feel that others offer to them a sense of care, support, and assistance. This offers an individual a supportive social network, which can be either emotional or tangible. Emotional support normally entails care while tangible support could be financial, material, informational,...
Healthcare Program The USA federal government has presently elaborated and introduced many programs that ensure the access of low-income families and different social classes, irrespective of their ethnic affiliation, to high-quality care services. In this regard, being at the forefront of healthcare delivery, nurses play an integral role in achieving...
Attention Getter Who among you likes needles? (Pause) To be honest, I hate needles. (Transition) But they can be a tool that makes you feel better and increases your happiness. And not by injecting any illegal substances! I am talking about blood donations. Thesis Statement (Statement of Purpose): I want...
Prevention Intervention and Selected Article The selected injury prevention intervention chosen for this paper is alcohol and drug addiction education, an innovation that can combine several steps of intervention and different programs. Various programs that focused on alcohol, tobacco, and drug addiction education has been already implemented in the United...
The human lung is a respiratory organ made up of secondary lobules and Broncho vascular bundles, alveoli and blood vessels, and an interstitial. The diseases affecting the lungs, a primary respiratory organ in human beings, are called lung diseases. Most fatal lung diseases affect the interstitium. A Prolonged affliction of...
Root Cause Analysis (RCA) identifies the root causes of events as well as problems experienced by an organization with an aim of seeking problem-solving skills (Stamatis, 2003). Thus, the root cause analysis is based on eliminating or correcting the main causes of a problem instead of addressing the problem by...
Abstract With the increasing cases of individuals suffering from obesity in the whole world, the healthcare provision sector has put in place ways that can make it possible to reduce its spread to a higher limits. The number of those infected is high among those middle age individuals and children...
Introduction Canada is a progressive country, not far behind the United States, the UK, and other developed countries in Europe. But it has a big problem with its health care system. There are discrepancies in the implementation of health care plans at the federal level down to the provincial level....
Introduction Sleep is one of the fundamental prerequisites for meeting the biological and psychological needs of a person. The quality of sleep is largely contingent on a person’s lifestyle habits. For many people, the rise of the digital era means increased use of gadgets such as smartphones in everyday life...
Introduction For many years, physicians and medical practitioners have relied on the biomedical model in the diagnosis of diseases. According to the biomedical model, health is freedom from pain, disease, or defect (De Vito 2000). This means that the normal human conditions should remain “healthy”. The biomedical model tends to...
Introduction Health Belief Model is a theory that the health care practitioners use in health education and promotion. According to Carley (2009), the theory was developed in 1950s to explain why many people did not utilize the screening programs particularly for tuberculosis. The underlying principle of Health Belief Model is...
Abstract Nurse staffing is very important to the delivery of high quality patient care and that staffing has impacts on quality and safety. Research has established that there are a number of challenges that affect quality nursing care, including the rate of turnover of the nursing staff and nurse shortage....
Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) refers to the measurement of chemical or biochemical parameters in the lab to inform drug prescribing procedures. The precise parameters that are measured in TDM include drugs and their metabolites (Baktir 2017). These measurements are usually taken at predetermined intervals following the administration of a drug...
Introduction There is a high rate of patients’ readmission to health facilities soon after being discharged which is rather expensive. Avoiding unnecessary hospital readmissions is imperative for patients, payers, families, as well as health care providers. The proposal entails the use of Rosswurm and Larrabee’s Model for change. The proposal...
Introduction Despite the pharmaceutical industry successfully identifying the active molecule against a certain disease target, many drugs still fail to enter the market mainly due to toxicity challenges. As such, the manufacturers have to assess the safety profile of the lead compounds during the drug development process. This poses a...
Abstract Leukemia is an abnormality in the growth of white blood cells. Normally, cancer develops into different kinds of blood cells resulting in the classification of the disease. Types of leukemia range from acute lymphocytic leukemia to chronic myelocytic leukemia. Several methods have been applied in the diagnosis of leukemia....
Urine, one of the main waste products of the human body, can be an indicator of health and abnormal changes to the body. The first important subtopic is the composition of the discussed by-product of metabolism. Normal urine contains about 96% water, and the remaining 4% is presented by different...
Culturally competent care requires knowledge and understanding of specific cultural characteristics. Identify and discuss some organizational, professional, and personal barriers to providing culturally competent care in your nursing practice. As cultural diversity is one of the main principles of operation in different areas in contemporary society, professionals in nursing should...
Before a patient arrives, one of the factors of a successful and secure operation is to have the requisite materials and equipment in the working room for a surgeon and his or her team. Getting the correct instruments in hands of a proper surgeon often requires an excellent coordination of...
History of the Organism According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), evidence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) has been found in ancient Egyptian mummies (par. 3). Tuberculosis (TB) was also a prevalent disease in the ancient Roman and Greek civilizations. Overcrowding in 17th-century cities made TB a...
Benchmarking is a largely new concept in the healthcare industry. Benchmarking is also a tool of management that can be used to accomplish several goals. There is no standard definition for benchmarking but the concept underlines “the process of collecting and analyzing data to identify trends in performance, and when...
Description of Pathology Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a medical condition characterized by a frequent flow of stomach acid back into the esophagus. The backwash is known as acid reflux or acid indigestion irritates the lining of the esophagus and can cause a number of physiological issues as well as...
The Cairo ICPD in 1994 considerably expanded and improved the status and health protection among women. This change is characterized by certain pros and cons in regards to limited financial and logistic resources, especially in some regions of sub-Saharan Africa where HIV/AIDS problems remain to be urgent. On the one...
Introduction Nursing is one of the essential parts of cancer patients’ treatment. However, providing care might “raise moral and ethical issues regarding respect for patient integrity and autonomy” (Park, 2009, p. 68). Moreover, the specifics of oncology treatment can pose additional legal challenges for nursing staff. The paper aims at...
Summary The aim of this report is to examine the handover process of patients. The report proposes a change of the handover from the traditional office-based style to the bedside handover style. The reasons for the change of the handover style include disruptions to patient care caused by the traditional...
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...
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...
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...
Introduction Communicable diseases represent an almost inescapable phenomenon, especially in the modern setting of the global community where members of different social classes and economic background can converse. With the advent of tuberculosis and the threats that it has created, the global panic seems to have reached its peak, the...
The healthcare system can consist of three levels: primary, secondary, and tertiary. The primary level is usually administrated by general practitioners (GP), who deal with common health problems (Bodenheimer & Grumbach, 2016). There are several advantages of implementing a primary-care-based system. First of all, patients are examined by a GP...
The issue of organ donation is acute in most countries, since transplantation has undoubted benefits and can save hundreds of people, but at the same time, it raises moral questions for many people. The organ conscription policy causes many controversies because the state takes organs from all deceased people who...
In the current course, the most exciting topic for me is personal protective equipment (PPE) in the hospital. The area fascinates me in particular because PPE is of the highest importance for every healthcare facility, and it unites all hospitals regardless of their profiles. In the present paper, I provide...
Virginia Henderson was the one who proposed the supreme theories of nursing in the mid-twentieth century. Her accentuation on essential human requirements as the focal point of nursing practice has prompted further hypothesis advancement concerning the patient’s necessities and how nursing can help address those requirements. The theorist’s characterization of...
The tuition reimbursement occurs when the employer pays for employee education expenses after he/she passes the classes. This practice used to be beneficial both for medical institutions and individuals as it increases the overall level of society’s healthcare, hospital performance, and reputation. In their turn, medical professionals use this employment-based...
Introduction Nursing decisions are often debatable from the moral point of view. The patient’s wish and the medical necessity or a nurse’s morality may contradict each other and lead to negative consequences for both sides. Nurses’ decisions often have an irreversible impact on the patients’ health or lives and their...
The health and general well-being of citizens should always be a priority for local authorities. It is hard to deny that it is not enough to give people equal access to the healthcare sector. Besides making the healthcare system simple and available for patients, it is also important to control...
Introduction The foundational principle of the value-based care approach is the focus on the quality of medical care provided in healthcare organizations rather than its volume. It was designed to serve the double purpose of promoting cost-efficiency and increasing the effectiveness of care. The approach was implemented as the opposition...
Mask-wearing and social distancing are currently used as the dominant methods of safeguarding populations from the spread of COVID-19. Mask-wearing has become a controversial topic because of the myths being spread about their negative impacts on the human body, which do not have any scientific support. However, such a simple...
Chest pain can be caused by a variety of physical conditions, including heart disease or nervous disorders. A 52-year-old male patient has several physiological abnormalities that are triggered by hyperlipidemia and first-degree obesity. In addition to necessary laboratory tests, the man needs additional blood and urine tests, such as creatinine...
Introduction Breast cancer is a multifactorial, complex illness that demands proper clinical understanding and a multidisciplinary way to determine diagnosis and treatment. Over 250,000 females in the US are diagnosed with invasive breast cancer every year (Watkins, 2019). The overall mortality rate for such patients has decreased; the disease remains...
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...
The strategy of Applying Drug Safety Approach Adverse effects of drugs implemented in certain treatment and care plans began to be noted a long time ago by health care specialists and scientists. There are some restrictions to applying pharmaceutical products in health care. However, there is also risk assessment and...
In hospital policies, the approaches to resolving the issue when nurses request the same holiday time are usually described. However, in cases when units discuss holiday coverage separately, it is a responsibility of a nurse manager to address this problem effectively. The focus should be on meeting the interests of...
Diabetes is a common disease that is found in all parts of the world. Its defining feature is the accumulation of excessive sugar {glucose} in the bloodstream. There are 2 kinds of diabetes: Type 1 and Type 2. At present, approximately 23 million people suffer from diabetes in the United...
Background information Veterans Affairs Healthcare is considered to be an operating system uniting about 153 medical centers, 207 Veteran Centers, and 882 community-based outpatient and ambulatory clinics. The system unites about 92 comprehensive programs of home-based care, aimed at medical services provided to eligible veterans. The principal facilities of the...
Introduction The constant debates around the health care system in the United States, recently heated by the president’s health care reforms proposal, is a direct indication that the issue of health care in the United States is a painful subject. On the one hand, there is a support for the...
Introduction Since the first tube baby was born in 1978 there has been a lively debate about the ethics of assisting Mother Nature. The current Pope, Benedict XVI has opposed any scientific procedure, including genetic engineering, in vitro fertilization and diagnostic tests to see if babies have disabilities, because these...
There are three phases in the strategic planning of any organization. These are programming, budgeting, and controlling processes, which together make “a formal management control system” (Vraciu, 1979, p. 126). This paper aims to discuss how a medical organization may use the concepts of the “time value of money” and...
The development of nursing theory has become one of the fundamental factors contributing to the emergence of useful and valuable approaches to patient care and conducting relevant research. However, according to Tobbell (2018), significant changes in the practice of nurses occurred only in the 1950s when educators and scholars were...
Introduction One can state with certainty that the occurrence of conflict situations in the workplace has a considerable negative impact on the overall working process. In the public health sector, the emergence of such situations has particularly adverse outcomes since nurses are responsible for the health and life of their...
Patients and families in hospitals can often be seen praying for health and wellness. Religion and faith have been an integral part of healthcare historically and remain a key aspect of healing for many patients. Religious beliefs can have potential health benefits by reducing mortality rates, contributing to patient coping...
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...
Occupational health nurses (OHN) form the single largest group of healthcare professionals providing primary care services in workplaces in the US. The assigned community setting selected for this assignment is a large electric power-generating plant. The roles of an OHN include providing clinical, especially emergency care to injured workers, counseling...
Disaster management is a process that involves four main actions, with all levels of government and organizations needing to plan, prepare, respond, and recover from human-made or natural emergencies. In Florida, the Department of Health is responsible for these activities. Florida’s counties are represented by local branches of this department,...
Community health nurses (CNHs) offer timely services to different people depending on their health demands. The selected community setting for this discussion is a hospice facility that provides medical support to patients with a wide range of terminal conditions. Every CNH in such a facility is expected to offer both...
Presentation The role of nursing has shifted significantly in the last decades, enabling nurses to become critical and leading professionals in the community and healthcare systems. There is an increasing need for highly trained and well-educated nurses with critical thinking skills. They must be able to manage complex health issues...
Introduction Caring for patients is a core element of practice in nursing. Not only can the lack of caring behaviors in a hospital lead to individuals’ dissatisfaction with rendered services and ways of treatment, but it also may threaten the healthcare quality in general. The Theory of Human Caring developed...
Nurses are consistently faced with mandatory overtime, which leads to high levels of distress and exhaustion. The realities of the healthcare sector require nurses to work long hours and dedicate extensive time to the profession. Mandatory overtime should be eliminated, as it affects nursing performance, creates dangers for patients and...
The course has provided a vast variety of knowledge and skills of which to become aware. Throughout the ten weeks, there were many discoveries that have certainly improved my nursing competencies and allowed me to become a better self. In this reflective journal, perceptions of the course in connection to...
Introduction Patient safety is the core concept of healthcare, and the rising use of technology can be explained by healthcare establishments’ need to provide patients with a more comfortable and safe environment (Carayon et al., 2014). Such innovations as the Electronic Health Record (EHR) already make some hospitals’ information systems...
Introduction Various theories of nursing care center on the person as the primary target for nursing practice. For example, the theorists Roy and Neuman have similar representations of patients in their theoretical frameworks. However, other aspects of their teachings, connected to the assessment, diagnosis, and intervention, are different. This paper...
Introduction A competent healthcare specialist cannot succeed in therapeutic care unless he or she is capable of collecting a sufficient amount of reliable information about the health history of a patient. Since the obtaining of the data about prior health issues of an individual is essential, it is vital to...
Pamela Reed’s Self-Transcendence Theory views people as individuals who develop throughout their life with the help of interactions with others, and within changing environments that either positively or negatively influence people’s overall well-being (including both mental and physical health). The story of Mrs. Richards, a patient who presented to the...
To understand a nursing theory better, it can be helpful to explore the background of the theorist. This is particularly relevant for the founder of modern nursing as a separate discipline—Florence Nightingale. She was the first theorist to create a conceptual framework of nursing and to define key terms. Moreover,...
The scope of practice refers to all the activities, procedures, ethics, and conducts that underpin the delivery of services within a profession. The scope of nursing entails the promotion of health, ease of recovery, and alleviation of suffering among individuals, families, communities, and population (American Nurses Association, 2015). Nurses need...
In nursing, theories play an important role, showing what has already been achieved, and what kind of work must be done. Dorothy Johnson is one of the prominent nursing theorists, whose behavioral system model is frequently implemented in various clinical and healthcare settings. In this paper, Johnson’s theory will be...
Maintaining a normal weight is one of the keys to keeping the organism healthy and fit. Weight gain does not only affect the person’s appearance, but it also causes severe changes in the way the body functions. Such changes lead to an inevitable worsening of overall well-being and can cause...
Bioethics: Its Impact and Controversy Bioethics: studies controversial issues related to recent advances in medicine and biology from the ethical perspective; helps revisiting and revising ethical standards; affects ways of treatment and the research practice; increases our awareness of ethics in medicine; brings about new questions, dilemmas, and controversies that...
Introduction All professionals have a certain philosophy that shapes their actions and the way they make decisions. In the nursing practice, having a philosophy is very important as it helps nurses to remain committed to the profession and motivated to try hard to achieve their professional goals (Masters, 2014). This...
Conceptual Differences While both theorists (Roy and Neuman) define the metaparadigm concepts of person, environment, health, and nursing and use the reciprocal interaction worldview, their key assumptions are fundamentally different. They differ concerning their perspectives on the goal of nursing, health, and definition of the environment. Goal of Nursing In...
Introduction The use of medical terms and abbreviations is an integral part of the process of healthcare. On the one hand, the application of terminology is inevitable, and abbreviations can save time, which is essential for healthcare facilities. On the other hand, misspelling of terms and the lack of unification...
Assessment Subjective The subjective assessment of the patient does not provide much food for thought since the customer denies being under the impact of any harmful factors outside of occasional smoking. Objective The assessment of the factors that may have affected the patient’s health and triggered the development of the...
The core concepts of metaparadigms of nursing are the person (patient), health, nursing, and environment (Zerwekh & Zerwekh Garneau, 2014). There are various nursing theories and philosophies, but the four metaparadigms are present in each of them. Every theorist outlines particular concepts and propositions in his/her own way. However, any...
Natalie’s Case The case of Natalie Kazakova is familiar to many nurses that come from diverse backgrounds and want to pursue a career in healthcare. She is regularly challenged by her co-workers to prove her self-worth as well as show her professional skills. This occurs because the immense pressure in...
Rosa Nursing Models Nursing care can be achieved through several organizational methods. The types of nursing care models applied to a particular health situation can vary from one facility to another or amongst patients. Several factors including leadership beliefs, economic issues, and the ability to recruit and retain staff determine...
Introduction Prior to technology adoption, nurses would pass down information to each other verbally. Most documentation was defensive; it focused on protected the nurse or care institution from litigation, slow and difficult to access. However, with the use of computerized systems to record nursing information, it is now possible for...
Virginia Henderson, the architect of nursing, made a huge contribution to the theory, practice, education, and research in the field of nursing. This theorist provided one of the most accurate definitions of nursing profession and, most importantly, a scientifically grounded theory of nursing that is based on a holistic approach...
Introduction Falls are considerably frequent causes of injuries and hospitalization among older adults. Inappropriately equipped hospital rooms and halls often result in fall injuries of the patients. The falls might have extremely unfortunate outcomes for a patient and may lead to legal procedures for a health care institution. Therefore, there...
Introduction The nursing theory From Novice to Expert by Patricia Benner is among the easiest to comprehend. The author presents five levels of nursing experience. They are the novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient, and expert. These levels demonstrate the progress in gaining the experience. Benner suggests the idea that a...
Introduction The modern environment of economic growth, technological advances, and the quick pace of urbanization have led to a significant increase in patient expectations, and, subsequently, the decrease in satisfaction rates (Kravitz, 1998, p. 280). Therefore, there is an expanding gap that arose between what general practitioners consider important and...
Background on robotic surgery Robotics is a branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, and manufacture of robots and computer systems for their control, sensory feedback, and information processing. This is a rapidly growing field. New inventions have come up and new robots are being built to serve...
Introduction A nurse should determine the presumptive nursing diagnosis that furnishes details of the concrete symptoms of the illness and defines the patient’s problems. It is defined after collecting the essential information about the health condition and the personal data of the patient. The suppositional nursing diagnosis is required to...
Introduction Nursing is a complex process that is influenced by a variety of factors related to a patient, a nurse, and an environment. To understand the impact of these factors on a nursing process and to provide high-quality care, nurses need to act upon their knowledge of nursing theory. In...
Introduction Nursing is the profession that changes many lives, improves the quality of a human life, and promotes the development of personal and professional skills. Nursing is also a discipline that should be organized in accordance with some principles and rules. Therefore, it is important to identify and understand nursing...
Introduction: the perception of the UN’s Millennium Goals Florence Nightingale was one of the most influential nurses in history. Among her contemporaries in the 19th century, she “created a wider understanding of the importance of health and the many determinants of health — for individuals and communities and nations” (Beck,...
The PICOT question In patients in an acute care unit, does hourly rounding compared to not rounding decrease patients’ falls in 90 days? P-patients in an acute care unit I-hourly rounding C-not rounding O-decrease in patient falls T-90 days The practice issue, its scope, the need for change The practice...
One of the biggest challenges faced by nurses in the public and private health care sectors is the development of work-life balance. The main challenge in this process is that the nursing profession is a caregiving field that operates under ethical guidelines that compel the nurses to embrace the needs...
Meditech is an electronic health record structure that offers clinical recording for health care specialists at midsized and public hospitals. This EHR has continuously been praised for its reliability and user-friendliness (Cruz et al., 2014). The clinical boards feature permits doctors and other medical workers to follow current patient actions...
Nursing Theory: Name of Theorist and Background Nurse Practitioners (NPs) can borrow numerous concepts and elements from nursing theories to improve the health outcomes of their clients. It is appropriate for healthcare workers to be aware of some of the grand and mid-range nursing theories. I believe that I can...
Advanced Nursing Practice Role Although nurses do not treat patients, but only follow the doctor’s prescriptions, their role in advanced practice is important. Nurses are expected to notice any changes in the patient’s condition. Besides, nurses can calm the patient down as well as make his/her sufferings less severe. The...
Theory/Author Name and Background Known as one of the people that broke new grounds in the realm of nursing, Dorothea Orem reinvented how patients’ needs were addressed in healthcare (Wong, Choi, & Lam, 2015). Her Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory (SCDNT) allowed viewing patients and their participation in the process of...
Introduction Medication is an essential practice in every healthcare setting. Nurses and healthcare providers should administer the right drugs to their patients. However, this clinical practice is usually associated with numerous errors. Forni, Chu, and Fanikos (2010) argue that “medical errors are either systemic or individual” (p. 14). Healthcare institutions...
