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Asiel Case Study Introduction The patient, Mary, has presented the list of complaints that allowed me to suspect Lyme disease, discoid lupus erythematosus, and systemic lupus erythematosus in her. The last diagnosis was confirmed by physical examination. I have developed a nursing care plan to address Mary’s problems and a...
Using a shared governance approach in decision-making involves deploying an entity’s administration through stakeholders’ partnerships. In healthcare systems, service to clients forms the basis of most decisions. However, complete service delivery involves a long process that includes healthcare’s ‘outsiders’ and ‘insiders’. Shared governance in nursing settings is expected to lead...
People have always been caring about their health most of all. Since ancient time they have being trying to avoid dangerous situations which could lead to some damage or even death. That is why, the life instinct was one of the most powerful instincts. Being at the edge of death,...
Introduction Bipolar disorder is a medical condition characterized by unusual shifts in one’s mood, activity levels, energy, and the ability to undertake various tasks (Mondimore 21). The condition is also known as manic-depressive illness. Individuals suffering from this health problem are always unpredictable even to themselves. Sometimes they may be...
Introduction Type-2 diabetes has become an increasingly prevalent health issue in the United States. Population health trends demonstrate earlier onset as early as adolescence and young adulthood and continue to adversely impact health throughout the adult lifespan. Evidence suggests that early-onset type-2 diabetes has an aggressive disease phenotype and leads...
Introduction Patients diagnosed with heart failure or HF experience a significant reduction in their quality of life experience. Also, the disease takes a tremendous toll on their financial resources. Furthermore, HF patients form part of a state’s significant financial burden. For example, the researcher documenting the study revealed that nine...
For the majority of men who are not older than 50, prostatitis is the most prevalent urological verdict. At least one warning sign of prostatitis can be found at more than 30% of men, and more than 15% have symptoms hinting at chronic prostatitis. Prostatitis is an imperative contemplation in...
The research provides valuable results, and these results are discussed in the sections below. The main three questions of the research were the following: what transitional nursing strategies need to be developed to address patients with cancer, how can transitional nursing improve the life of patients with cancer and cancer...
Introduction Providing healthcare to different individuals is critical in the modern world. Despite a substantial focus on equality and tolerance, a high level of disparities exists, and not all social groups receive equal attention in healthcare (Coelho & Nguyen, 2012). In this case, Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers tends to...
Nowadays, nurses play an important role in the healthcare segment, as they assess the patient’s health and propose appropriate interventions (Sellman, 2011). This profession is challenging since the nurses have to consider theoretical knowledge, environmental support, patient’s conditions, and expectations simultaneously (Mason-Whitehead, McIntosh-Scott, Bryan, & Mason, 2008; Chambers & Ryder,...
Introduction Nurse Leaders (NLs) should use their competencies to address the unique challenges affecting the healthcare sector. Most of the issues affecting the industry can be handled by nursing leaders who are willing to deliver quality services to more patients. Reinhard and Hassmiller (2014) believe strongly that different leadership approaches...
Introduction Pressure ulcers are skin injuries that appear in patients with limited mobility as a result of continuous pressure. The introduction of changes in skin management practices in intensive care units (ICU) is a response to this persisting clinical problem (Sving, Idvall, Högberg, & Gunningberg, 2014). The pressure ulceration acquired...
Introduction Having been liberated from apartheid, the population of South Africa is now going to overcome other obstacles. The success of the country’s further development requires strong leadership from the government and commitment from people (Skolnik, 2012). The impact The impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic is hard to overestimate. The...
Introduction The spreading of HIV across the gay men community has been a worrying topic during the last several years. According to CDC (2016), gay men, or men who have sex with men, are the group that is most affected by HIV in the United States: “While CDC estimates that...
Introduction CAUTI accounts for 41% of all hospital-acquired infections in the US with implications for hospital spending and LOS (Esteban et al., 2013). A process improvement plan grounded in evidence-based practices is proposed to minimize CAUTI cases at KRMC and boost its below-average score in CAUTI prevention. Purpose of the...
Introduction Acute asthma and chronic asthma are closely related variants of asthma, which is an inflammatory disease that affects the flow of air in the lungs. The obstruction of airflow in the lungs leads to different symptoms including wheezing, coughing, tightness, and pain in the chest, and shortness of breath....
ADHD and Environmental Factors Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a childhood disruptive behavioral disorder that manifests in “inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity” and can persist into adulthood (Perese, 2012, p. 657). ADHD is supposed to originate from developmental deviations in the prefrontal lobe area, which are likely to be the...
The problem which was observable in the past working environment, and, to some extent, can still be traced today, is the inconsistency in the measurement of clinical outcomes. The initial core of the problem was the lack of general understanding of the measurement process and scarcity of theoretical basis which...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010), which has been implemented for seven years now, is an important legal step in improving nursing and patient care in the United States. According to this Act, nursing facilities have been functioning with greater transparency in recent years due to a standardized...
Nephrostomy care is an essential part of healthcare organizations (HCO), whose goal revolves around diagnosing and treating patients with kidney or renal dysfunctions. HCOs require a unique set of management skills and approaches, which enable to optimize the workflow among these institutions. Operational leadership in HCO is a crucial concept,...
Understanding Nurse Migration Nowadays, more and more healthcare institutions tend to hire foreign nurses. The rapid growth in the popularity of this profession is one of the reasons for the global nurse migration (Li, Nie, & Li, 2014). In this case, Jessica Smith, a nurse from Florida Hospital Orlando was...
Introduction Nursing plays a crucial role in the treatment of patients. In 2005, an educational project for nurses about healthcare quality and safety was created to build a bridge between education and practice. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded the project. The Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) was...
When Was the Medication Introduced to the Public? Measles vaccine: first introduced in 1963 (Betáková, Svetlíková, & Gocník, 2013). Mumps vaccine: introduced in the late 1960s (Betáková et al., 2013). Rubella vaccine: introduced in 1969 and enhanced in 1979 (College of the Physicians of Philadelphia, 2017). Before, the incidence of...
Bill’s Details The bill H.R. 1215: Protecting Access to Care Act of 2017 was passed in the house in June 2017 (“H.R. 1215: Protecting Access to Care Act of 2017,” 2017). The sponsor is Steve King, the representative for Iowa’s fourth congressional district. He is a Republican. The bill will...
Introduction Chronic diseases need particular care to preserve the life quality of a patient. With timely diagnosis and relevant support therapy, people may lead a normal life. However, the patient’s participation is important since chronic illnesses usually have co-morbid conditions to consider. The patients from the case studies suffer from...
Introduction The number of years that people are expected to live has been rising gradually since the dawn of the 20th century. This rise may be associated with the advancements made to guarantee infant survival, thanks to the discovery of preventive measures, which include vaccines and other interventions. Such immunizations...
Introduction This case describes an anamnesis of a patient with a respiratory illness. A woman has suffered from the disease for seven years. The exacerbation of respiratory symptoms occurs several times a year. However, it does not depend on the season. She stated that her co-workers faced the same problem....
Introduction One of the problems that nurses of medical institutions often encounter is pressure ulcers that appear in patients with a long course of treatment. The need to stay for a long time in a horizontal position, insufficient quality of the surface of the bed, as well as improper skincare,...
Abstract This paper seeks to explore the complex and sometimes controversial ethical issues associated with euthanasia. Euthanasia entails the painless and intentional taking of the life of a patient, particularly the terminally ill one (Have & Welie, 2014). This study affirms that performing euthanasia has the advantage of stopping suffering...
Introduction Genomic medicine is one of the most significant ways of tailoring healthcare at a personal level. The use of genomic information aids in the diagnosis and treatment of exceptional common infections. The patient’s genomic information helps in identifying genetic factors linked to the disease. This enables healthcare personnel to...
Nowadays, technologies develop extremely fast, providing a wide range of opportunities for different spheres, including healthcare. Among one of the most commonly discussed innovations are electronic health records (EHRs). They are believed to be extremely advantageous for medical workers because they allow sharing significant patient information with no complications. Professionals...
How Pender’s Model and View of Health Influences the Practice of the Advanced Practice Nurse Nursing involves protecting, promoting, and optimizing health. Nursing professionals achieve this goal by preventing illnesses and injuries from occurring. In case they occur, nurses play a key role in the healing process. Hence, nursing services...
Assessment of Data Subjective A 10-year-old female reports ear pain that has worsened during the past three days. Fever and discharge from the ear are not observed. A good appetite is present. The patient does not provide a clear description of pain expect, stating that it is of a reproducible...
Introduction System-wide practice initiatives are common in healthcare. For permanent change to take place, organizations are using sweeping innovations across their entire networks. Typically, these practice initiatives involve the utilization of new methods, new materials, and improved strategies to achieve the desired goal. Nevertheless, such large-scale motions are not without...
Health care organizations require new concepts and ideas to maximize the experiences and medical outcomes of every patient. Leaders of such institutions should possess adequate competencies and apply them efficiently to empower their followers. The introduction of quality improvement (QI) models will transform the initiatives of nurse practitioners (NPs) undertake...
Personal and professional ethical values significantly influence the way a nurse works. Personal philosophy comprising those values can be manifested even in the smallest details and practices including communication with patients and colleagues. Moreover, it can define a nurse’s overall attitude, level of commitment to work, and orientation towards favorable...
The Problem Description Little Haiti in Miami has many health problems that are caused mostly by the lack of knowledge in people and the deficit of competent specialists in local hospitals. One of the most prominent health problems is hypertension. The most vulnerable groups that need support are elderly Hispanics...
Introduction Nurse practitioners use their philosophies to maximize their clients’ health outcomes. Such philosophies are usually informed by a wide range of nursing concepts, assumptions, and theories. Culturally competent nurses apply specific transcultural theories to achieve their career goals. Personally, the theory I identify with is Madeleine Leininger’s transcultural nursing...
Fall prevention is a critical topic in the framework of healthcare because it is a considerable challenge that exists in this sphere and often leads to nonfatal injuries among the elderly population over 65 years old (Preventing falls in hospitals, 2014). This issue becomes more critical when paying attention to...
Problem The clinical problem under discussion is the ruptures in organizational workflow and their impact on the quality of work and care given. Broadly defined, the workflow is an array of tasks, and the human resources required to fulfill them as intermediary steps to achieve the predetermined objective. In a...
Established Goals: Description Managing financial resources is crucial for providing efficient nursing services to the target population. Herein lies the significance of understanding the concepts of productivity and costing out in nursing. Thus, the goals set for the week were as follows: Understanding the concepts of productivity and costing out,...
In the contemporary health care setting, patients are cared for by different practitioners at home and in hospital. This is a reasonable division; however, it also means that the specialists treating a patient in hospital and the home health care nurses need to engage in effectual communication if high-quality care...
Examining Women’s Health The given case study presents the examination of a woman with the feeling of fullness in her groin area. Among the key symptoms, it is possible to note general atrophic changes in genitalia, cystocele, as well as rectocele. At the same time, the physical examination reveals that...
Introduction The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality has explored different issues in the health care practice, such as health care quality, disparities in health care services, quality improvement processes, and patient safety (among other factors) (AACN, 2016). This paper borrows from its analyses and explores a familiar topic...
Introduction: The Overview of the Laboratory Technology of Organs Growing The contemporary medicine provides some miraculous ways of treatment as well as the innovative types of operational interventions, which promote successful recovery in the patients. The latest medical reports overview the progress on the current tendency of organ growing, which...
Introduction All nurses must develop their knowledge and skills on a regular basis to experience and practice new professional methodologies and approaches to the treatment of their patients. This factor is essential for people who strive to become better at what they do and make all their clients benefit from...
Was there a clear statement of the question, objectives, and aims of the research? The article provided a clear statement of the question which focused on determining the effects of oral motor stimulation on infants born with complex univentricle anatomy and who required surgery immediately after birth. The aim and...
The article by Peterson (2015) presents a clinical case of facial pain after whiplash. The patient, a 41-year-old woman, was treated primarily with deep neck flexor and proprioceptive training, which was proved to be effective. The patient was symptom-free for months after ten intervention sessions for eight weeks. The case...
Introduction Surgical experience is one of the hardest to obtain in an academic or a hospital setting due to the high costs of performing practice on real human corpses and high risks of allowing an undertrained surgeon to operate on a living patient. The lack of effective and available means...
The use of technology enables healthcare professionals to provide high-quality care. Various information systems also help healthcare facilities to reduce costs. For instance, computerized order entry (CPOE) and clinical decision support systems (CDSS) have been widely used in clinical settings and highly valued by healthcare professionals and patients (Charles, Cannon,...
Today, using reliable evidence is known to be an effective method to better both theoretical and practical aspects of a particular sphere. In particular, the notion of using evidence is actively promoted in nursing today, and it is shown that it allows for significantly increasing the quality of care that...
Geriatric Syndromes The elderly are generally known to be a population that is rather vulnerable in the framework if its health. One of the reasons why such an issue is observed is the presence of geriatric syndromes. Unfortunately, professionals are not yet able to state if geriatric syndromes underlie chronic...
Introduction In healthcare, issues and problems should be addressed in the most effective manners to obtain optimal outcomes, satisfaction, and positive patient perception of the quality of care. Various techniques, especially on nurse practice, are employed to optimize performance in health care systems and facilities. For instance, King’s Theory of...
Congestive heart failure (CHF) in elderly is a complex health problem that arises due to structural or functional cardiac disorder. The condition affects ventricle’s capacity to pump blood. According to Lazzarini, Mentz, Fiuzat, Metra, and O’Connor (2013), CHF is prevalent amid the elderly due to age-related issues. The majority of...
Introduction Leadership is an important aspect of nursing practice that enables nursing professionals to complete various tasks. Nursing leaders do not simply provide high-quality care to patients as nurses train and educate patients and their caregivers, collaborate with other healthcare professionals and contribute to the development of new practices and...
One of the principal responsibilities of nurses is an ascertaining of a human life ending. In this connection, the death of the person makes the socio-psychological and ethical impacts on nurses. When considering issues of death and dying in modern medicine from the standpoint of the nurses, the concept of...
The paper indicates reasons for stakeholders in supporting the proposed plan for preventing pressure ulcer occurrence in hospitalized patients at intermediate care units. Patients Stakeholder’s Support Since patients suffer from pressure ulcer symptoms, the level of support will presumably be high if patients are explained why the changes are implemented....
Literature Review Childhood obesity is a serious public health problem in the US that is associated with significant health complications, including elevated cardiovascular risk, pediatric hypertension, and diabetes (CDC, 2017). Since children spend most of their daytime at school, school food programs are touted as effective interventions for reversing this...
Introduction The aim of this paper is to present the results of the implementation of a nursing project directed by evidence-based practice (EBP). The paper will discuss an educational intervention, evaluate its impact, and identify activities necessary to sustain the change and support quality improvement. Evidence-Based Scholarly Project The project’s...
Introduction Each patient-caretaker interaction remains an individualized experience, with the personality of all parties and their attitude towards health playing a particular part within the healthcare process. People may decide not to adhere to their medical practitioner’s advice for a variety of reasons, opting out of taking the prescribed medicine...
Governance in hospital risk management entails the commitment of the healthcare providers in carrying out their professional responsibilities in caring for the patient who is exposed to risk and guarantee their safety. According to Carayon (2010), hospital systems are prone to emergencies in operating rooms and intensive care units. Emergency...
Introduction Familial dysautonomia (FD), also known as Riley-Day syndrome and autonomic neuropathy type III (HSAN type III), is a genetic pathology, which is characterized by a violation of the myelin axons in the vegetative centers of the nervous system (Gutiérrez et al., 2018). This disease develops as a result of...
Organizational Interaction with CMS The most important reason for a healthcare organization to understand Medicare and Medicaid is the regulations inherent in it. Both programs provide the incentives for the clinical organizations which demonstrate the necessary level of healthcare quality. While Medicare and Medicaid are commonly associated with financial help...
Quality healthcare delivery in hospitals can be achieved by developing a patient safety culture grounded in evidence-based practice (Magers, 2013). Effective CAUTI prevention is a quality improvement project. Reducing CAUTI rates at KRMC will involve a 3-step action plan focused on instilling best clinical practice and cultural change. Education/Communication Plan...
Introduction Today, there are many women with a significant history of sexual desire and arousal complaints. Therefore, women’s sexual health turns out to be a considerably growing area of research interest among the representatives of different countries (Youngkin, Davis, Schadewald, & Juve, 2013). In this paper, the topic of sexual...
Introduction The health care system is one of the main indicators of a country’s level of development (Thoumi, A., Drobnick, E., & McClellan, 2015). According to the statistics provided by the WHO, the USA’s health care system is not even among the twenty most developed ones in the world, whereas...
Introduction to personal philosophy The patron of modern-day nursing Florence Nightingale saw nursing as fine art that required dedication and personal input (Sitzman & Eichelberger, 2015). Subsequent philosophies have built upon the idea of nursing as a higher-order discipline. However, my philosophy of nursing takes a modern approach by incorporating...
Dr. Mark Khatchuturian makes a presentation about predictive analytics in healthcare to provide a brief but extensive overview of the topic. The presentation begins with a definition, which is a reasonable approach. The listeners learn that predictive analysis uses technologies to predict future health-related events with the help of data...
All hospitals are required to have a comprehensive disaster management plan which is aimed to minimize deplorable consequences (e.g. disruption of patient care, physical damage to the building, injured and killed people, etc.) of a disaster by specifying the course of action a facility should take to respond and recover...
Alcohol has long been a big concern for public health, especially alcohol use by children. Undoubtedly, alcohol negatively influences many aspects of life: firstly, health, education, and social relationships. Current research of Sumnall et al. attempts to assess the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a combined classroom curriculum and parental intervention...
Introduction Approval of new drugs by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is an essential step of drug development in the United States. The goal of the FDA is to ensure that the new drug is safe for patients and efficient in treating their condition. However, in some instances, the...
Introduction Assisted suicide, along with euthanasia, serves the purpose of ending the life of an individual. Distinguishing these two methods is important. During euthanasia, a lethal drug is administrated by a physician, whereas during assisted suicide, the patient is responsible for taking it. Both ways of dying are voluntary and...
Introduction It is necessary to note that the role of coaching in healthcare facilities has been increasing over the years. A trained professional should be aware of what techniques should be applied in case the performance and knowledge of one of the nurses are not satisfactory. Nurse administrators must understand...
A 2014 cross-sectional study features 2917 nurses working in NHS hospitals in England; the nurses were surveyed to determine the association between their workload and care quality (Ball, Murrells, Rafferty, Morrow, & Griffiths, 2014). The study reveals that 86% of registered nurses have missed at least one of the care...
Introduction Leaders in healthcare organizations need to pay attention to analyzing problems associated with clinical practice in order to choose and implement change projects. The focus should be on achieving high results in overcoming the identified problem with the help of the implemented change. The purpose of this paper is...
Chief Complaint Mary is a 35-year-old woman who presents to a hospital with her main complaint of rashes on her face and the bridge of her nose during the last one week. History of Present Illness The patient reports that her first rash appeared after her one-week camping in the...
Abstract The purpose of this study is to examine the risk factors predicting asthma among adult African immigrants in California. The research problem is founded on the failure of many health studies to include African immigrants as a minority group in health studies that investigate the relationship between risk factors...
Every individual comes from a family. The history of each family can help to determine the cultural background. The heritage assessments provide helpful information about the historical record of Anne and Peter. African American Lady Anne is the daughter of Mr. John and Mrs. Jane. She is my cousin. John...
Health education is a crucial component of healthcare that enhances awareness about various disease courses thus helping patients to lead healthy lives. Effective patient education endeavors should strive to meet the precise needs of patients by ensuring that pertinent health information is delivered effectively and promptly. The purpose of this...
Executive Summary The Awaken Delaware Project implies providing the services of both a coach and a health practitioner. The proposed service will allow developing a unique approach toward the management of addictions, at the same time addressing their personal needs (Agres, 2015). The modified framework will focus on meeting the...
In a reviewed article, Theodosios Stabrianopoulos focuses attention on a scientific experiment on two groups of people with a key goal to establish a correlation between a nurses-led telephone intervention and the frequencies of readmissions of HF patients. During his research, the author discovers that “telephone intervention programs appear to...
In the case under consideration, the patient’s complaints included sharp chest pain that worsened with inspiration and movement and a non-productive cough. In emergency departments, acute chest pain is a frequent clinical syndrome in about six million patients annually (Foy, Liu, Davidson, Sciamanna, & Leslie, 2015). Its causes vary from...
The proposed study will explore ways to prevent chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV). Therefore, the use of the theory of unpleasant symptoms is beneficial for the research. The theory of unpleasant symptoms was developed in 1995 by research nurses (Lopes-Júnior, Bomfim, Nascimento, Pereira-da-Silva, & Lima, 2015). According to this theory,...
Improving access to care is one of the primary tasks faced by healthcare practitioners all over the world (Currie, Chiarella, & Buckley, 2015). Unfortunately, because of the specifics of certain communities, such as low family income, poor infrastructure, lack of highly qualified healthcare experts, etc., accessing care is fraught with...
Background of Study The research problem of the given study is the barriers and specifics that affect overweight African American and Hispanic women who are willing to adopt physical activity and/or dietary changes but cannot do so. Minority groups, especially communities, are rarely studied in qualitative researches dedicated to the...
Introduction Currently, multiple models of care can be implemented in hospital settings. Some of these approaches are no longer used by the majority of establishments due to a number of reasons. According to Finkelman (2017), the functional model of nursing care, for instance, is utilized considerably less today. However, the...
Abstract The Essentials of Master’s Education in Nursing suggested by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing is the collection of core principles, tenets, and domains, which educational facilities need to comply with when furnishing educational services for future nurses. The framework promotes such practices that will allow nurses to...
Signs and Symptoms Hypothyroidism is a condition of an underactive thyroid, in which the thyroid gland cannot produce the necessary amount of hormones to regulate the functioning of the endocrine system. It is important to mention that if treated in an untimely manner, the underactive thyroid can cause such issues...
Introduction Diabetes in adolescents is a major global health concern and is the subject of various healthcare-related studies. As such, numerous literature materials have been published on diabetes in adolescents to help in dealing with the matter, since it affects different healthcare systems in the world. This essay identifies some...
Introduction To establish a successful nonprofit, it is important to develop a comprehensive strategic plan which is the basic blueprint for the actualization of the plan. Reflectively, the strategic plan is inclusive of the SWOT of the business environment, stakeholder analysis, goals, values, and mission. Thus, this analytical treatise attempts...
Introduction Diabetes Mellitus is defined as “a chronic disease caused by a relative or complete decrease in production and secretion of insulin by pancreatic beta-cells, or by the diminished effectiveness of secreted insulin in consequence of the gradual loss of insulin sensitivity of target cells” (“Types of diabetes,” n.d., para....
Introduction Nurses must develop and utilize superior philosophies to transform the health outcomes of their patients. I have managed to design a powerful model that informs my practice. The philosophy is guided by unique values, assumptions, and the four metaparadigms of nursing. This paper gives a detailed analysis of my...
The present paper is devoted to a review of the role of the government in the development of healthcare legislation, and it argues that the government plays the central part in the process. Since healthcare regulations ensure the protection of health information (Brodnik, 2013), the understanding of the law and...
Nightingale’s Legacy The legacy left behind by Florence Nightingale was so strong that it is still relevant in the twenty-first century. My main thought related to the Millennium Goals is associated with the idea that each person on any place in the world has his or her own role. Florence...
The formation of the major body of nursing theory occurred in the 1980s; the changes that happened in the theoretical field at that time are known as the transition to the paradigm approach from pre-paradigm perspectives. In particular, the theories by Nightingale and Fawcett served as some of the most...
Introduction Study Background The U.S. healthcare system is going through a larger-than-life change that has the prospect of transforming healthcare organizations and delivery systems. As of not long ago, repayment models had presented the insignificant motivation for healthcare specialists to enhance quality and lessen the cost, which had brought about...
Introduction In the current discussion, a case of a 58-year-old man with a history of a high cholesterol level and hypertension is discussed and analyzed. Erectile dysfunction is the diagnosis of the patient. Erectile dysfunction, unspecified (N52.9), also known as impotence, is an inability to keep erection enough for sexual...
This paper aims to discuss my personal experience in nursing practice, including the reflection on the goals which were established for the week. Further, the integration of staffing and scheduling concepts from Week 8 into the training will be observed. Additionally, the area of greatest learning will be considered. Identifying...
Apart from some serious medical side effects of perioperative anxiety, several nursing implications can be avoided if a nurse is cautious and professional enough. First of all, nurses need to provide relevant education to their patients. Research indicates that preoperative instruction offered by nurses decreases anxiety (Kalogianni et al., 2015)....
Introduction In healthcare, a major consideration in research justification is the applicability of findings to the actual practice of healthcare provision. Any study should be conducted with the purpose to utilize its results for better care. In order to ensure the positive effect of applying findings, it is necessary to...
The present paper is devoted to the study of a case of schizophrenia, which manifested in a 39-year-old woman Angela during her first year at college in the form of prodromal symptoms, which caused her to drop out. She married and gave birth to a son. However, six months before...
National Health Interview Survey The National Center for Health Statistics has different data collection systems, such as the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), which has been monitoring the health of the nation annually since 1957 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2018). NHIS offers data on different parameters such as...
Introduction to the Project Obesity is a serious public health concern in the United States that puts millions of children and adolescents at risk of having poor health. Despite the intentions to control and prevent this condition among the chosen population, its prevalence remains high, and certain improvements are expected...
Problem Statement Customer service prioritization is the pillar of growth in any organization (Wetzel, Hammerschmidt & Zablah, 2014). Statistics indicate that thirty percent of all businesses fail to succeed because they do not focus on customer service satisfaction (Beckers, Risselda & Verhoef, 2014). Consequently, there is a need for businesses...
The healthcare sector can benefit significantly from different professionals and spokespersons focusing on the best ways to improve medical services delivery. Although such individuals might not be medical doctors or practitioners, the can present evidence-based ideas to transform this industry. This paper analyzes the blog How Blockchain Could Revolutionize the...
Introduction The problem of congestive heart failure is increasingly found not only in elderly patients but also among young people. Moreover, one of the central problems regularly encountered by cardiologists is high readmission rates. In order to change the situation and achieve positive results in the fight against this disease,...
The present paper is devoted to a case study, which considers providing a compliance roadmap for a healthcare organization that was accused of fraudulent billing and unnecessary service provision in the past. The paper will take into account crucial federal laws and mention the key institutions that are responsible for...
Introduction Interdisciplinary collaboration is an important part of nursing care in hospitals and primary care settings. Nurses communicate with a variety of health professionals, including physicians, surgeons, lab workers, and other staff. Therefore, it is important for nurse leaders to understand the possible consequences of interdisciplinary collaboration and to seek...
Introduction Numerous ways to disseminate knowledge have been developed. The choice of the most appropriate strategy often depends on the characteristics of the stakeholders and healthcare facilities, as well as available resources (Cates, Diehl, Crandell, & Coyne-Beasley, 2015). This project involves such major stakeholders as nursing professionals, physicians, and hospital...
Nowadays, many factors drive healthcare improvements at different levels. It is not enough to promote change in nursing education. Nurses, as well as other medical staff, should be aware of how to solve current problems, accept and support innovations, and deal with sustainable and unsustainable costs and disparities (Salmond &...
Summary The article “Predictive validity of pressure ulcer risk assessment tools for elderly” is focused on risk assessment tools for pressure ulcer prevention for elderly populations. It provides a meta-analysis of 29 studies that utilized three pressure ulcer risk assessment tools such as Braden, Norton, and Waterlow scales. The article...
Describe the difference between culture and ethnicity Even though the concepts of culture and ethnicity are commonly used together, it does not mean that they have a similar meaning. To be more precise, the research conducted by Desmet, Ortuno-Ortin, and Wacziarg (2016) showed that the ethnic fractionalization was not in...
Introduction Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder that may occur at any age. It is usually characterized by several positive and negative symptoms, including auditory or visual hallucinations, reduced emotional expressiveness, also known as flat affect, and cognitive changes (Mattila et al., 2014; Peltier, Cosgrove, Ohayagha, Crapanzano, & Jones, 2017)....
Case A 69-year-old white male client was outpatiently admitted to a movement disorder clinic. He worked as a carpenter and reported a tremor in the right hand that later transferred to the contralateral extremity. The resting tremor lasted for one year. The client underwent neurological and oculomotor examination. The cognition...
Introduction Older adults constitute a part of the American population that is rapidly growing. The provision of well-being for older adults is a challenge for nurses due to may chronic and age-related diseases accompanied with other co-morbid conditions. Thus, there is a need for a wellness model that will focus...
Introduction When a psychotherapeutic group reaches the transition stage, many clients can drop out and become reluctant or unable to change. This stage is characterized by such features as group members’ reluctance, resistance, anxiety, passiveness, conflicts, and even aggression in some cases (Corey, 2016). Since the group members will be...
Evidence-based practice plays a vital role in the provision of quality nursing care. Advances in technology have increased healthcare providers’ contact with vast information from up-to-date research studies. In addition, the research arena has made astonishing breakthroughs in the last few years, which have brought novel understandings of medical data....
Change management involves the possibility of conflict situations; however, it can be both dangerous and beneficial to the organization. In many settings, a conflict might help to identify the diversity of points of view, give additional information about the proposed changes, and identify a greater number of alternatives (Johansen, 2012)....
Introduction Nursing professionals should be able to gather and critically assess the available evidence that can be helpful in their practice. The aim of this paper is to analyze the process of critical appraisal of the literature review and its organization. The paper will also discuss the hierarchy of evidence...
Nursing scholars who carry out studies on particular subjects wish to achieve a goal that is meant to enhance their service delivery. However, such a goal may not be attained if researchers fail to disseminate their study findings. This study regards research dissemination as a crucial step towards alleviating most...
Introduction The use of theory within nursing practice organizes nursing knowledge and provides a methodical way of gathering information to exemplify, clarify, and envisage nursing practice by translating knowledge into practice (Smith & Parker, 2015). Theories also promote levelheaded and well-ordered practice by inspiring and validating presentiments (Smith & Parker,...
Bronchial asthma is a disease characterized by attacks of breathlessness caused by failures in the bronchial patency. Asthma may be of an acute or a chronic character, and the major distinction between these two types of disease is the severity and longitude of an aggravated condition. It is commonly considered...
Ethical Issues Because the research on diet management in adolescents will involve real people as study participants, several ethical issues need to be addressed. These include informed consent, beneficence (do not harm), preservation of confidentiality and anonymity, respect for privacy, and attention to vulnerable groups (Fouka & Mantzorou, 2011). Informed...
Challenges during the evidence-based capstone project To acquire the degree of Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and Master of Science in Nursing (MSN), one must be comfortable and experienced in researching topics. Indeed, evidence-based research is hard to overestimate, as it is the primary source of reducing unnecessary risks...
Sue Barton, Student Nurse by Helen Dore Boylston Sue Barton, the Student Nurse by Helen Dore Boylston, is the very first book in the seven-part series. It was published in 1936. Therefore, the story plot refers to such a period of nursing development when the interconnection between a graduate nurse...
Introduction to Selected Topic One of the Healthy People 2020 leading health indicators (LHIs) is access to health services. The nature of medical services available to a given individual will dictate his or her quality of life. Although the government spends a lot of money to support the health needs...
Introduction This paper will discuss the various ways of reducing the Door-to-Balloon (D2B) period for ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients. The paper is backed by different studies that have established a strong link between D2B time and mortality incidence for STEMI patients. D2B refers to the interval between the arrival...
In medicine, just like in any other craft, there are plenty of intermediaries or stakeholders, which are involved in the process of healing and decision-making regarding what kind of treatment has to be administered to a patient. My practicum is in the area of Prevention of Complications and PICC line...
Dr. Philip Smith provides a discussion that is devoted to the introduction to Clinical Business Intelligence (CBI). The discussion does not appear to clearly and explicitly define CBI. However, from the speech, it can be concluded that CBI involves all the processes that are employed by healthcare organizations to turn...
This paper aims to review the issue of pressure ulcers in elderly patients in long-term care facilities. Research suggests considering modern-day evidence-based methods of preventing pressure ulcers, methods of management of PUs, and its causes, and the prevention methods and comparison of the effectiveness of existing management practices. The study...
The primary care units, as well as any health care institution, face multiple challenges in the modern competitive professional world. A significant number of stakeholders involved in primary care services provision encourage the organizations to enhance the quality of their performance. Moreover, a lot of fatal accidents in hospitals could...
Overview Community Description History Miami Gardens has been selected to complete this assessment. The first formal settlements in the region occurred in the late 1960s (Staub, 2016). The original dwellers were middle-income West Indians and African Americans. Miami Gardens would be incorporated in the year 2003. Low-income houses were abolished...
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a rod-shaped bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB), a highly contagious infection that is disseminated following contact with an infected person. Many cases of infection are reported in health facilities where clinicians contract the disorder from patients. The purpose of this paper is to explain the elements that...
Healthcare practitioners should be aware of different procedures, tools, and guidelines that amount to evidence-based practice. Caregivers and clinicians who use them will provide exemplary and high-quality medical services to their patients. This paper gives a detailed analysis of the differences between these tools: clinical guidelines, practice standards, and algorithms....
Introduction A person chosen for the administration of the questionnaire is JF, who is a distant family member. JF has a stage 3B chronic kidney disease, which is categorized by the severely reduced kidney function and an increased risk of renal failure in the future. The following paper contains a...
Introduction While the roles of nurses of all types are similar in a way that they all deal with treating patients, some differences may be outlined. A family nurse practitioner (FNP) is an advanced practice nurse practitioner, whose duties include caring for patients of all age groups and promoting well-being...
The present paper considers the case of JD, who is a 62-year-old woman with a history of psychiatric diagnoses, which indicate her predisposition to delusions. Her major complaint is auditory hallucinations. Despite the detection of QTc prolongation (QTcP), she takes an antipsychotic drug (AD), and an increase in the dosage...
HPI (History of Present Illness): the patient experiences the complications within last two weeks while he experienced the above symptoms during last two years. The patient received no treatment in the past. He had serious difficulties in starting his urine flow yesterday. Moreover, he has to pass urine four to...
The Information on Health Insurance in Florida The website in question reveals that in Florida, individuals may purchase health insurance plans utilizing several ways, which include health insurance provided by private companies, as well as those which can be obtained via federal market exchange (“Florida Health Insurance,” n.d.). In addition...
Quality medical care should be the aim of every medical facility. The health services offered by the facilities should be in tandem with the desired health outcomes. However, recent reports show that there are widespread deficiencies in the services several hospitals offer. This has led to the need for tracking...
Board of Nursing Practice Acts from North Carolina and Iowa: A Comparison Developing the guidelines that will provide the foundation for further improvements in nursing services’ quality is crucial for improving patient outcomes in a community (Hunt, 2014). Practice acts help outline the essential values, strategies, and philosophies that will...
The globalized world is characterized by various opportunities as well as challenges. Thus, nurses are equipped with various technological advances that enable them to provide high-quality healthcare services and reach larger populations. Lifelong learning is now accessible to everyone. At the same time, the globalized world also means the interaction...
Introduction Vodopivec-Jamsek, de Jongh, Gurol-Urganci, Atun, and Car (2012) conducted a study to assess the use of mobile phone messaging as an intervention method aimed at delivering preventive health care and to estimate the outcomes of such interventions for the recipients’ health status and health behaviors. The research problem encompasses...
The Description of a Potential Crisis The provision of high-quality nursing services involves many situations that are heavily affected by the human factor. Professionals in nursing sometimes make mistakes due to their knowledge deficiencies, and it can significantly contribute to the emergence of crises. Such situations require nurse leaders to...
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...
Introduction The article by Sousa, Gaspar, Vaz, Gonzaga, and Dixe (2015) describes a psychometrical test of the European version of the Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile-II, also known as the Portuguese Version. The purpose was to measure health-promoting behaviors based on the recognition that individual lifestyles are shaped to a certain extent...
Introduction This article attempts to evaluate the prevalence of and risk factors associated with the overuse of psychotropic medications among children living under foster care services. These authors examine pediatric psychopharmacology practices that contribute to increased prescription of psychotropic medication among children. Research problem The authors are concerned with the...
The key leadership capability of advanced nursing practice dynamics is the provision of patient-centered care. The advanced practice nurses (APRNs) are expected to have sophisticated knowledge regarding their field and strong decision-making skills. The practice shows that many leaders encounter ethical dilemmas while advocating for their patients’ needs, which can...
Procedure and Process for Patient Referrals The process of patient referral in Vitas Innovative Hospice Care can be made by any healthcare professional that identifies the apparent need for the procedure. Importantly, the patient’s general practitioner must be notified of the fact of the referral. The patient who is being...
Abstract The paper provides the discussion of the financial statements’ analysis related to operations of Universal Health Services. This company is one of the leading providers of healthcare services in the United States. The analysis of the data indicates that the financial health of Universal Health Services can be regarded...
