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The prevalence of hypertension among the population of the United States can also depend on the factor of ethnicity. The researchers pay attention to the fact that Hispanics suffer from high blood pressure oftener than other minorities (Staffileno et al., 2013). Therefore, Hispanics need to adapt their diets and lifestyles...
Healthy People 2020 is an initiative program created by the United States Department of Health and Human Services. It establishes guidelines and goals, which are necessary to achieving national wellness priorities and addressing critical issues in population health. States and local governments are encouraged to follow the recommendations and focus...
Introduction The concept of visual perception has been the focus of researchers interested in understanding how individuals handle composite visual processing and pattern recognition tasks and activities. In nursing and healthcare specialties, the concept of visual perception has found wide usage in areas charged with the responsibility of helping patients...
HCAHPS Earlier, it was difficult to measure the quality of service in most health centers, including Randall. However, the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) analysis has facilitated this process in these health centers. This approach is also known as the model that describes gaps between expectations...
Clinical Problem Statement According to the data provided by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2015, the combined number of the cases of various sexually transmitted diseases was the highest in history; to be more precise, the three of the most common STDs – syphilis, chlamydia, and gonorrhea...
Introduction Nowadays, black people in the United States of America face the problem of obesity. Approximately forty percent of Afro-American citizens (between sixty and ninety years old) have significant overweight issues. The following paper will describe and analyze certain points of the proposal on the topic mentioned above. Ethical Considerations...
Introduction The concept of moral status is a topic that is highly debated by scientists of various branches. Many situations that involve the evaluation of the moral status cause a dispute. One of these controversial topics pertains to abortion and fetal abnormality. While discussing the grounds and implications for abortion,...
Introduction The internet is making it possible for many organizations and businesses to communicate with their customers across the globe. In healthcare, the internet is revolutionizing how medical services are delivered to different clients (Bennett, 2013). Cultural diversity is a critical issue that must be taken seriously by many healthcare...
Introduction Professional care models in nursing are numerous, but they all have a common goal: providing the best services for the patients and keeping a positive attitude of nurse professionals by organizing a satisfactory working environment (Finkelman and Kenner, 2013). Some of the traditional models are rarely employed in current...
Introduction The location analyzed within the frame of the given assignment is Miami, Florida. There is a range of diseases that are currently affecting the community, but the given paper pays close attention to three of them: seasonal influenza, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, and Zika fever. The ZIP code of...
Background of Study The particular article that has been chosen for this assignment presents the results of qualitative research aimed at studying burnout syndrome, and the ways it is manifested in trauma nurses. The source reports the results of the study conducted by Berg, Harshbarger, Ahlers-Schmidt, and Lippoldt (2016). The...
Response to the Statement of the Patient As a matter of fact, not all the diseases are genetic. The mother and the father of the patient could have had the tendency to diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and osteoporosis; however, due to a number of factors, namely healthy...
Why the Article is Quantitative The selected research article offers quantitative research because it has been deployed to quantify the problem using data in numerical form to generate important and useable statistics. Such studies help in offering numerical interpretations of people’s actions, thoughts, judgment, and other explicit elements. Quantitative research...
Speaking about such sphere of human activity as healthcare and medicine, it is important to mention that a wide range of problems that may occur in healthcare settings are at the confluence of financial matters and the quality of patient care. Even though the measures taken by healthcare specialists to...
Introduction Today, we could observe drastic alterations that emerge under the impact of technologies. These become the distinct feature of the modern world as every sphere of human activity benefit for the use of innovative approaches to enhance efficiency and attain better outcomes. The healthcare sector is not an exclusion....
Family Composition The family consists of five members – Eric (husband, 35), Jennifer (wife, 32), Eric’s mother (Kate, 60), and Steven (8) and Josh (9) (Eric and Jennifer’s children). They live together for the last five years after Dan’s (Kate’s husband) death. They are all Caucasian. There are no certain...
The proposed policy seeks to promote the use of electronic health records (EHRs) and technologies to improve the outcomes of more patients. The use of health technologies is a powerful approach that can transform the nature of healthcare delivery (Silow-Carroll, Edwards, & Rodin, 2012). The policy should be implemented immediately...
Internal and External Motivation Factors Categories Extrinsic (external) Intrinsic(internal) Job Content Characteristics Challenging nature of work Opportunity to provide high-quality care Level of authority Level of influence on job planning and related activities The significance of the work Opportunity to apply certain skills or use creativity Perceived work effectiveness Perceived...
Introduction The debate surrounding whether to legalize assisted suicide, or not, rests with evaluating whether it is okay for physicians to help dying patients commit suicide, or not. There are conflicting views regarding this matter. While some people are against assisted suicide for religious reasons and because they are compassionate...
The primary goal of any healthcare system is to offer the best possible treatment for its patients. Highly qualified healthcare specialists constitute the foundation of that system, yet at the moment, skilled nurses are in the highest demand in the United States. A lack of educational opportunities and stressful working...
Introduction of the Strategy As the Affordable Care Act became effective in 2014, a rule has been established that nobody should be denied health insurance based on their health status and medical conditions (“Alaska’s individual health insurance market: Reinsurance is a path forward to achieve sustainability,” 2016). Before the implementation...
Introduction Circumcision is an operation that can be performed on both men and women. Male circumcision is part of the traditions of some ethnic groups, such as Jews and Muslims. Female circumcision is now actively performed in Africa and the Middle East. The ethics concerning circumcision is argued among different...
Healthy eating is an important component of healthy lifestyles that can help people maintain good health throughout their lives. However, many older persons have limited access to high-quality products and often have harmful dietary habits. In the 1970s, it was acknowledged that older citizens who had unhealthy diets were at...
Summary: Managing Chronic Pain Pain management is an essential responsibility if a nurse and an important element of meeting the patients’ needs. However, creating a uniform approach toward pain management is difficult because there are countless ways of classifying and, therefore, defining pain, i.e., based on the affected area, its...
In most cases, the consumption of substances that alter psychological states or behavior is considered a normal pastime. However, substance abuse – illicit, prescriptive, or licit drugs – has been linked to multiple chronic behavioral and psychotic disorders (Blow & Barry, 2014). Substance abuse or drug abuse can cause adverse...
Introduction Rising costs are a growing problem in the US healthcare systems. Looking for solutions to this issue is a crucial element for the government and health practitioners. Reducing health expenditures will have beneficial outcomes for the government, healthcare establishments, and patients. Many current studies discuss the issue of rising...
Introduction Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative malady that is one of the most common forms of dementia. Most often, this illness develops in the elderly population, although there are cases of diagnosis in earlier age periods. The reasons for the manifestation of Alzheimer’s disease have not been established yet, and...
The case under consideration describes a situation with a registered nurse at a large psychiatric unit. During one of her shifts, an incident happened and a nurse can have a problem with her license. Legal and Ethical Issues One of the legal issues that can be implied with this situation...
Abstract This proposal focuses on the research study that reveals the association between vitamin D deficiency and diabetes mellitus type 2. Even though these issues have been discussed separately for a long time already, their connection started to be discussed only recently. The proposal is developed based on the PICOT...
Introduction Health studies have often highlighted a relationship between asthma and smoking (Lee, Forey, & Coombs, 2012). Indeed, most researchers claim that most people who have asthma and smoke, at the same time are in double jeopardy because, as if tobacco smoke is not bad enough, their asthmatic condition could...
Introduction The modern health care sector faces numerous problems that come from the peculiarities of the environment and peoples mentality. Besides, the alteration of food habits, usage of numerous substitutes combined with the high paces of life resulted in the appearance and evolution of chronic diseases which became one of...
Review of the ANA Fast Facts The ANA Fast Facts is a great source of information that provides nursing professionals with an opportunity to obtain information regarding their job and its peculiarities. For instance, those facts that are discussed in this paper reveal details regarding the characteristics of the nursing...
First Patient: Tympanic Membrane Concern The first patient appeared to the hospital complaining of temporary hearing loss and pain in the ear. The patient is 33-years old male. He said that he noticed the problem around one week ago when he returned from his scuba diving weekends. Except for hearing...
Introduction In the USA, around 18.7% of the population has some sort of physical or mental disability (“Disability and health,” n.d.). That constitutes about 56.7 million people that encounter physical and mental challenges while carrying on with their everyday lives (“Disability and health,” n.d.). In many cases, the disabled people...
Strategies for Establishing Operational Budgets The first effective strategy for establishing operational budgets in health care is planning across multiple time horizons, which allows health care specialists to align models, plans, and budgets. The strategy has three basic constituents (Siegel, Young, Zysberg, & Santillan, 2014): Rolling forecasts. To provide an...
Introduction of population and health risk Nowadays, such a topic as child obesity is frequently discussed by several researchers, doctors, social workers, etc. More than 170 million children who are not even 18-years-old are classified as obese or overweight (Swinburn et al., 2011). The USA is one of the countries...
Introduction At the moment, migrant workers are one of the major concerns of the U.S. government. The fact is that people who come to the state to earn money are very often deprived of social protection and are not able to use health care services. The problem is complicated by...
Approach to Care First, it is important to discuss Mr. P’s diagnosis in brief. Cardiomyopathy is a health condition characterized by abnormal heart muscle (Mayo Clinic Staff, 2015). Congestive heart failure takes place in patients whose heart muscle is unable to pump blood efficiently. It is recommended that the approach...
Introduction The sphere of healthcare is constantly researched and improved, numerous medicines and treatments are created and tested. Professionals try to find the most efficient and effective ways to reach positive health outcomes; that is why they accept various kinds of treatment without giving preference to particular ones such as...
Introduction Anemia is known as one of the most frequent blood disorders: it is the condition characterized by the lack of circulating red blood cells (Carcio & Secor, 2014). Because of the lack of red blood cells that carry oxygen, an individual often feels fatigued and looks pale. Women, children,...
Introduction Meeting the health needs of a diverse population has become a challenging task due to the wide variety of factors that must be considered carefully for each member of the target population. The introduction of the principles of 5Vs (patient volumes, a variety of sources, the velocity of data...
Abstract Unhealthy nutrition may bring about numerous health concerns from minor to severe ones such as type 2 diabetes, even though genetic predisposition plays the most critical role in the appearance of the disease. Since this condition rates among the major causes of premature death and can provoke kidney problems,...
Summary of Article One In their article, Albougami, Pounds, and Alotaibi (2016) compared four theoretical models of transcultural nursing. The researchers claimed that globalization processes, immigration, and diversity in populations had led to changing the principles of providing patient-oriented care. They also formulated the purpose of the article as the...
Introduction The community of concern is that of the Naranja area, which is a suburban area located southwest of Miami, Florida. The population of the area is racially diverse and generally has low access to healthcare. The majority of people in the area are young Hispanic residents aged under 10...
Introduction First of all, one should accept the fact that the healthcare sector depends on human relations greatly. The fact that human factor conditions the success of the recovery process and the efficiency of various procedures is also obvious. In this regard, the mutual understanding between workers and patients becomes...
It could hardly be doubted that there is a profound connection between the mental states and the work of neural systems of the human brain. One could even argue that these processes are identical. Patricia Churchland is a scientist who is well-known for her work that connects neuroscience and traditional...
The nursing profession forms the backbone of the healthcare workforce. It aims to deliver quality nursing care to the patient, family, and the community as a whole. As a profession, it relies on philosophy to aid in critical thinking and reflection on personal values to influence professional practice. The sole...
Problem and Population It should be noted that maternal care is one of the critical areas within the healthcare industry. It strives for minimizing mortality and morbidity levels since the incidence rates are rather high in the state (Sakala, Yang, & Corry, 2013). Other crucial aspects of caring are family...
The prevention of cardiovascular diseases is directly associated with developing effective strategies to address the problem of obesity in Western countries, including the United States. Much attention should be paid to the role of nurses in this process. Even though nurses cannot control people’s daily activities and prevent them from...
Introduction All professionals should understand their roles as well as the peculiarities of the organization they work for. The nursing practitioner can work in a variety of settings, including acute and long-term care. This paper provides a description of some peculiarities of a long-term care facility and competences needed to...
Introduction There is no doubt that music can be regarded as one of the greatest inventions of humanity. The phenomenon of music is difficult to be described in words as it touches upon the sphere of human feelings that present quite a poorly studied side of our nature. Because of...
Introduction This paper provides a summary and analysis of the article by Jill Hill (2015), which is entitled “Diabetes and dementia: The implications for diabetes nursing,” and was published in Journal of Diabetes Nursing, which is a British peer-reviewed journal for professionals in diabetes nursing, in vol. 19, no. 4,...
Introduction Miami is a city found in the southeastern part of Florida. It is the capital of Miami-Dade County. The town has a high Hispanic influence. Miami is the eighth-most populous urban region in the United States, being home to about 5.5 million people. The population of the city is...
The Affordable Care Act and Medicare The most important change introduced by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the change in the new payment system. The fee-for-service model common before the establishment of the ACA has several flaws, including the possibility of needless treatment, also termed overutilization. The ACA substitutes...
Introduction While type 2 diabetes associated with middle-aged and older patients is of more frequent occurrence, type 1 diabetes is rarer and predominates among younger people. The fact that type 1 is not so common implies difficulties in collecting data. However, in recent times, researchers give attention to this problem...
Heritage Assessment A heritage assessment is very useful for healthcare professionals because it provides them with an opportunity to find out a lot of health traditions that particular cultures have and then apply them to meet the needs of their customers (Kelly & Weber, 2013). As nurses are initially taught...
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease for which the airway obstruction, hyper-responsiveness, bronchoconstriction, and mucus secretion are typical symptoms (Bårnes & Ulrik, 2015). Although many treatment options are available to persons who suffer from asthma, this condition still requires the detailed examination as the disease “affects about 300 million people...
It is commonly accepted that the roles of advanced nurse practitioners in the sphere of health care can greatly vary in accordance with the location of the practices. The responsibilities of a nurse practitioner can include the diagnosis and treatment of chronic disease, the performance of minor procedures and surgeries,...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) offered an opportunity to improve healthcare for people with mental illnesses. The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, introduced in 2008, were the long-awaited results of the efforts to enhance insurance coverage for mental health and addiction treatment. This federal law was amended by...
Introduction A report by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2001) focused on the status of HIV and AIDS in the United States from 1981 to 2000. The aim of the research, as defined in the research problem, was to determine the trend of HIV and AIDS infection in...
Findings Summary The issue of women’s reproductive health has many aspects. They comprise revealing reproductive health problems, defining the causes of reproductive disorders, developing treatment strategies, etc. The articles under analysis are examples of both qualitative and quantitative research dedicated to women’s reproductive health. Women’s reproductive health, for example, can...
1. Clinical nurse leader education A master’s prepared nurse and clinical leader Need broader knowledge in pharmacology Progressive skills in physical assessment Prepared to work with various groups 2. The clinical nurse leader role Evidence-based practice application Depends on the environment and population Application of advanced competences The interdisciplinary approach...
The central research question is the following: For childhood obesity (P), does the implementation of after-school obesity prevention programs (I) compared to currently deployed educational practices (C) reduce the risks of obesity and related health concerns (O) in the long run (T)? Study Design In order to address the research...
Introduction Congestive heart failure (CHF) afflicts more than 5 million people in the United States (Garcia & Bradford, 2017). Advancements in health research have availed different CHF therapies. However, the incidence and prevalence of the disorder continue to trouble the healthcare system as indicated by increased hospitalizations and healthcare spending....
Introduction Access to health care services has been a problem in the U.S. for a long time. The American health care system is stated to have been the most costly in the world in 2000, whereas occupying only the 37th position in performance and 72nd in the overall degree of...
Introduction Today, an entire branch of medicine is engaged in oncology. Specialists study tumors, treat patients, and try to find various ways to prevent the emergence of cancer. Those patients who can recognize the symptoms of oncology at an early stage have the maximum chances of survival. Cancer is manifested...
Carrying out a preoperative assessment of geriatric patients is crucial to the outcomes of the surgery and the opportunities for further recovery (Kim, Brooks, & Groban, 2015). However, it is also important to bear in mind that geriatric patients are under the influence of a variety of negative factors and...
Question 1: Describe a healthcare product and/or service that you think would be marketable in an international market of your choice. How would you go about ensuring that intellectual property and other legal issues are addressed when introducing this product into the selected market? Healthcare marketing is a developing field...
Differential Diagnoses The most probable differential diagnoses for this visit are hypertension, subendocardial ischemia, and ischemic stroke. Primary Diagnosis Myocardial infarction of unspecified site, ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code I21.3 (ICD-10-CM Codes, n.d.). Laboratory/Diagnostic Tests Necessary tests ECG (applicable for all differential diagnoses): is aimed to measure electrical activity of the heart...
Review of Literature Pressure ulcers refer to those issues that are often faced by patients with limited mobility. They affect millions of people in the USA and often entail critical healthcare outcomes, which proves that they are to be thoroughly investigated and the most effective tools for their prevention are...
The IOM report titled “Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health” was written as a set of guidelines designed to transform the nursing practice, education, and leadership into more modern incarnations of these concepts. It includes such ideas as the implementation of residency training for nurses, the increase of training...
Exploration of a Journal Article with a Health Policy The United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the whole world, with one of the strongest and most effective healthcare systems ever developed. Almost each health policy is the possibility to change something and improve the health conditions of...
Introduction The issue of patient safety plays a paramount role in contemporary health care as it defines the quality of services, prescribed medication, relationships between a nurse and a patient, nutrition, and so on. In this connection, it is important to ensure continuous improvement of patient safety, thus meeting the...
Conditions that favor the growth of pathogens Several conditions can influence the growth of pathogens. First of all, warm temperatures help bacteria to grow faster and spread to other organisms easier. Thus, the temperature of a human body, for example, is a good condition for pathogens to grow. Next, moist...
Introduction The issue of obesity is now trending globally. The absence of physical activity among individuals struggling with overweight is also prevalent. Moreover, these two problems combined have a great impact on children and may increase premature mortality rates in middle age (Muthuri, Onywera, Tremblay, Broyles, & Fogelholm, 2015). The...
Nowadays, there are many problems in nursing and medical science but those affecting the effectiveness of treatment modes and preventing practical implementation of the theory are the most important. Many researchers in the field of medical science are worried about the gap that exists between theoretical insights on serious health...
Introduction The following paper will outline the outcomes of the public policy meeting, which took place on the 16th of May 2017 in Nevada City, California. The meeting was devoted to the state’s health care situation; during its course, various aspects of citizens’ health behavior and care delivery within the...
Introduction Healthy People is known as a program on a nationwide scale aimed at health promotion and preventive measures. It is run on a regular basis. Nowadays, Healthy People 2020 is a guide for health care professionals: it sets several key goals in different areas, one of which is immunization...
Introduction Obesity belongs to one of the most common health issues of the current time. It impacts all groups of people, notwithstanding their age, sex, ethnicity, or social circumstances. Overweight may be connected with the family history, sedentary lifestyle, emotional distress, unhealthy food consumption, or family nutrition preferences. The specific...
Health care–associated infections pose a considerable problem in the contemporary health care setting. Apart from causing additional suffering for the patient, making their quality of life lower, and often even posing a threat to their life, they result in major additional spending, which means that the costs that could otherwise...
The process of hospital merging has some benefits and drawbacks. While the benefits of developing such a plan may help health care providers to save money and devote their financial and material resources towards a more profitable business structure, political and social ramifications of this decision may negatively affect the...
Scenario Jack is an 80-year-old male who was admitted to the primary care physician’s office. He is a widowed person, and his family currently consists only of his two sons and their wives. Even though they are in the same state, the client lives independently and is distanced from his...
Introduction The community selected for this assignment was North Miami, a large community that is in a relatively good condition; however, it included some of the problematic areas. This review is focused on the primary characteristics of the community in terms of socio-economic dynamics, living conditions, and health-related issues. North...
Introduction The nursing profession is the largest part of the health care personnel. Today, it comprises about 3 million members. Working directly with patients, nurses play a major role in helping to understand the objectives of the 2010 Affordable Care Act and improving the health care system of the United...
Presumptive Nursing Diagnosis The accuracy of diagnosis is dependent on various factors. Subjective and objective assessments assist in acquiring the information about the patient’s condition (Rosdalh & Kwalski, 2008). In the context of the presented case, the presumptive nursing diagnosis is Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus. This autoimmune disease has a special...
Developing a Question In elderly patients (P), does receive congestive heart failure education with a post-discharge follow-up (I) compared to not receiving one (C) decrease the risk of heart failure readmissions (O) within a month’s time post-discharge (T)? Identifying a Problem Setting The problem of educational deficit in relation to...
Introduction The modern healthcare sector benefits from the wide implementation of diverse IT technologies that have already become an internal component of the functioning of numerous facilities and units. The primary aim of these innovations is the facilitation of the interaction between workers and significant improvement of their activities due...
Introduction The great paces of the evolution of the modern world pose a number of new challenges that society faces in its development. To be able to continue its growth, it should overcome these problems and find appropriate solutions and approaches. That is why the most important aspects of any...
Health promotion is one of the concepts that must be more explicitly defined for nursing due to its frequent use and the development of different health care trends that could determine its value. According to the classification system developed by McEwen and Wills (2014), health promotion can be defined as...
Introduction In the recent decades, the issue of childhood obesity in the US has been increasingly coming to the forefront in the public view and in academia as a major health problem. Currently, the obesity rate in the States is some of the highest in the world, with a significant...
Cost of Nursing Care There are various ways to assess the cost of nursing care. For example, Nursing Costs Per Patient Day are based on monthly or quarterly data, which implies that the individual cases are not examined, and the cost of nursing care is calculated based on “average” patients,...
Introduction The article “Rekindling the Flame: Using mindfulness to end nursing burnout” is devoted to the issue of professional burnout among nurses. It has presented the symptoms, constituents, and stages of the disorder. Besides, it suggests some ways how to avoid the problem. Symptoms, Constituents, and Stages of Nursing Burnout...
Introduction Electronic health record (EHR) is also known as the computer-based patient record. Generally speaking, EHR is “electronically maintained information about an individual lifetime health status and healthcare [including] medical history, current medications, laboratory tests, x-ray images, etc.” (Leavitt, 2002, p. 257). It indeed is a breakthrough in the field...
The sphere of nursing care connected with the relationships between parents and children remains quite complex due to the enormous role that such type of communication plays in the life of every single person. According to the assignment, we are supposed to analyze the case of Ms. Montayer, who has...
Identification of the Conflict The current conflict transpired in one of the hospitals in Miami and involved two individuals, Jacqueline and Lisandra. The latter is a nurse manager, and the former is a nurse. The conflict transpired because of incompatible personal interests and ineffective role assignment process. The conflict developed...
The population of the elderly continues growing today. This growth makes hospitals and medical centers focus on different aspects of health promotion among the aging people because of the prevalence of chronic diseases (Song et al., 2013). There are many chronic diseases, including diabetes, strokes, arthritis, and obesity, that may...
Introduction The fight against communicable diseases and the search for a reliable way to protect the population against them are among the most crucial issues in contemporary health care. Frequent contacts with the diseased people, low immunity status, and body’s resistance to infectious diseases as a consequence of poor nutrition...
Introduction Helping young people learn about the ways of improving their health is one of the means to establish and maintain positive habits among the representatives of this population group. As a community health nurse, I have to do my best to arrange and implement an effective program that would...
The article, “Four decades of obesity trends among non-Hispanic whites and blacks in the United States: Analyzing the influences of educational inequalities in obesity and population improvements in education”, authored by Yu (2016) reports the findings of a study carried out to investigate the relationship between education, race, and obesity...
Introduction Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in African Americans while stroke is among the biggest problems affecting women from this race. Beal (2015) conducted a study titled “Stroke education needs of African American women” to investigate the perceptions about stroke and health information seeking behaviors in African...
Introduction The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is an American health care reform act expected to affect millions of citizens. The act is expected to promote universal healthcare, improve the quality of medical services and reduce medical costs. The passage of the bill brings many reforms to the...
Introduction Nursing is a profession that is dealing with life and death situations occurring every day. A nursing professional requires a high level of education regarding a variety of subjects such as anatomy, pharmacology, physiology, etc. It is often stated that nursing professionals that acquired a higher level of education...
Family Description The family was interviewed for the purpose of completing this health family assessment is a Russian-American family, whose ancestors migrated to the USA in the early 20th century. The family is comprised of three people, which include the father (43 years old), the mother (40 years old), and...
Inappropriate strategies that are associated with prescribing antibiotics often lead to bacterial resistance to certain medications. As a result, it is important to address this problem by changing approaches to prescribing and using antibiotics while treating adults and children (Peate, Wild, & Nair, 2014). To respond to this tendency, it...
Systematic Review There is a variety of jobs related to healthcare and people holding such positions often have severe health issues as their patients do. In order to understand health situation and determine the most important health risks for nursing professionals, a long-term study has been conducted. In their article,...
The door-to-balloon (DTB) time reduction depends largely on the chain of human specialists performing their roles with as little wasteful steps as possible, following the recommendations and best practices (CCN, 2013; American College of Cardiology Foundation & American Heart Association, 2013). However, the non-human factors can also play a significant...
A medical worker is to serve as an example of a healthy and responsible lifestyle to the patients. That is why it is highly important that a registered nurse knows how to apply self-care and health promotion actions at the personal level before encouraging the same activities for the patients....
Introduction: Research and Practice in Nursing Exploring new opportunities for the improvement of the quality of nursing services is a crucial step toward managing patients’ needs. Research serves as a powerful tool for determining how the identified goal can be accomplished. Evidence-based practice (EBP), in turn, provides the foundation for...
The city under discussion in Miami, Florida. It can be easily found with the help of its zip code, which is 33193. There are a lot of websites that discuss the healthcare condition of this city from various perspectives. Both epidemiological and surveillance data are included in the majority of...
Myasthenia gravis is a rare autoimmune disorder that belongs to the group of neuromuscular junction disorders. The recent studies on this disease have presented a lot of data regarding the causes of the disorder, diagnosing, treatment, and possible prognosis for further achievements in this field. The purpose of this systematic...
With the development of technology, informatics entered nursing as well as many other spheres. Nursing informatics is expected to reduce the time needed for documentation, streamline searching activities, and provide more opportunities for communication with healthcare professionals and patients. Some of its areas are also relevant to my current position....
In the case under analysis, four essential problems can be identified immediately. These include the patient’s CHF, retention of fluid, nutrition issues, and loneliness. The hospitalization due to the exacerbation of CHF, hypertension, weight loss, and the development of depression after the loss of her husband can be considered the...
The Choice of the Topic The disease process selected for this assignment is type 2 diabetes. It was chosen because, among all the cases of diabetic known to modern medicine, this type is the most common. The process of this disease revolves around insulin resistance experienced by the body of...
History of Chikungunya Chikungunya is one of the public health issues which are currently causing concern in the United States. Even though the spread of the virus is common in Africa and parts of Asia, a study by Foster and Vitale (2013) shows that the virus is spreading very fast...
Transitional nursing or transitional care is a model that was developed to address the set of practices that are needed when patients have to transit from one place (e.g. hospital) to another (home). This model of nursing care is especially relevant to patients with chronic illnesses that have to change...
Introduction The growing diversification of nurse responsibilities can lead to the emergence of conflicts, some of which cannot be resolved with immediate intervention. Nevertheless, by analyzing the conflict it is possible to identify the strengths of the involved parties and devise strategies for further prevention of similar occurrences. Description of...
The times when nurses received payment for providing care independent of its quality has long gone. Now hospitals’ management teams try to evaluate the quality of care that their patients receive. Measurements that define outcomes can be both physiological and social (Polit & Beck, 2004, p. 232). While both doctors...
Introduction The article examines the multifactorial nature of the growing health issue of childhood obesity. The authors investigate the correlation between childhood BMI and parental obesity. The authors cite empirical evidence to support their central point, which is that there exists a link between elevated parental obesity rates overweight in...
Introduction The Professional Capstone and Practicum course has equipped me with adequate competencies that will support my future practice as a healthcare worker. The course has outlined most of the attributes associated with nursing practice. The skills and knowledge gained from the course can be applied in different healthcare settings...
Background Maintaining patients’ data safety has become increasingly topical and important in the context of the 21st century and the application of digital tools as the means of managing information. Seeing that hospitals keep a detailed record of not only their patients’ health issues but also their private data, it...
Health care management can be seen as the optimization of internal and external processes within the institution. The effective manager affects the levels of income and expenses, administers the work of the personnel, and ensures the implementation of organizational objectives (DeWit & Kumagai, 2014). Moreover, successful managers know the ways...
Introduction Sharp HealthCare, a well-being maintenance provider located in San Diego, is a medical organization that includes several hospitals, medical groups, and centers. Sharp HealthCare traces its roots from the establishment of Donald N. Sharp Memorial Community Hospital, named after the young pilot from San Diego who sacrificed his life...
Topic Identification and Rationale There is hardly a person who has never heard of someone complaining about high blood pressure. A periodic or continuous high blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is detected in 29 percent of the US adult population, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Introduction Modern health policy functions in such a way that vital importance is given to patient education. It contributes to increasing the life expectancy of various medical institutions’ wards, improves the quality of care, and also reduces the cost of treatment. By teaching a patient, nurses help him or her...
In the past, it was widely believed that Total Quality Management (TQM) was linked to business and manufacturing activities. However, nowadays, this practice is actively employed by different service providers including medical facilities (Ramseook-Munhurrun, Munhurrun, & Panchoo, 2011). It could be said that this strategy has a vital impact on...
Introduction Evidence-based practice (EBP) is gaining in popularity in the health-care environment as it allows more opportunities to achieve a threefold purpose: It provides the most effective evidence, suggests clinical expertise, and makes it possible to take the best care of patient values. EBP allows for reducing costs, and at...
Problem Statement Since there are plenty of health care issues, policies, regulations, and laws that are discussed regularly by health care legislators, it is important to select the one that seems to be most controversial. As far as Florida is concerned, the issue that is addressed most frequently is the...
In the United States, different nurse-training programs vary in duration, curriculum, and competencies that specialists have upon the completion of the studies. It should be noted that a gradual increase in awareness of patient care has led to the increased need for qualified and trained health care specialists with advanced...
The relief of pain in the joint after an unpleasant fall or another similar injury is usually accompanied by the use of appropriate analgesics that should be taken as prescribed by the doctor. However, there are cases when NSAIDs cannot be used for certain reasons. Since the 26-year-old patient denies...
Biophysical, Psychological, Sociocultural, Behavioral and Health System Factors Women who identify themselves as lesbian are likely to experience depression as well as anxiety. Betty is depressed, and there are certain reasons for that as well as factors that contribute to the development of depression. Biophysical, psychological, sociocultural, behavioral, and health...
Nurses have always affected the way resources are allocated through their reports and commentaries concerning things they need to complete tasks assigned. At present, budgeting has become an indispensable part of nursing professional activity. In many cases, nurses provide reports including their potential budgets for a certain period. Nursing professionals...
Introduction To develop a successful plan featuring the best dissemination strategies, it is necessary to identify the goal of the project, its target audience and stakeholders, and the required resources (Barksdale, Newhouse, & Miller, 2014). The activities are to be organized to expand the dissemination plan in two major directions:...
Article Review Empirical and non-experimental studies play critical roles in the nursing practice and healthcare provision in general. As such, almost every element of evidence-based nursing practice is based on research. Most studies are published and are available in peer-reviewed journals as articles. This paper reviews an article by Hairr,...
Extraneous Variables Extraneous variables can affect the relationships between the independent (education) and dependent variables of the study (the BMI and body fat percentage) (Schmidt & Brown, 2014). To increase the internal validity of the study, it is necessary to effectively control the following variables: intelligence, pre-education, and socio-economic status....
Types of Health Care Providers Primary Care Providers Nursing Care Providers Specialty Care Providers Pharmacotherapy Professionals A primary care provider is a professional who specializes in minor health problems and checkups. Nursing Care Provider is a person who assists a doctor and takes care of the patients in hospitals or...
Introduction In this article, the authors investigate one of the current health-related issues – the implementation of the newest technologies in the health care industry and their impact on providing medical care. They focus attention on such devices as smartphones used for self-monitoring the condition of an individual’s health, electronic...
Background Patient Information Carolyn Cross is a 41-year-old Hispanic-American woman who has come to a medical facility for her wellness visit and regular examination. The woman has two children, and she was pregnant two times overall. She does not have any particular health complaints or worrying symptoms: she came for...
Introduction It should be noted that somnambulism is a condition in which a person can perform complex and purposeful actions during sleep; however, after awakening, he or she, as a rule, does not remember committing any actions or movements. This condition can occur in both adult patients and children. Nevertheless,...
Today’s marketplace and industrial sectors are constantly changing with the regular forces in the market (Abbott and Coenen 2008, 10). The health sector is among these sectors that are changing enormously with time considering that regularly there are new emergencies, inventions, new market demands, regulations and sector improvements. A country’s...
Introduction The selected periodical journal is Advances in Nursing Science (ANS), one of the most recognized journals for practitioners and graduates of educational programs in nursing. ANS provides most recent data on a great variety of topics such as nurse-patient relationships, health behavior, patient education, culturally sensitive intervention, and others....
Research title and authors The article under analysis is called “Efficacy of a nurse-led email reminder program for cardiovascular prevention risk reduction in hypertensive patients: A randomized controlled trial.” It was written by Cicolini et al. and published in 2013. Research problem and purpose The article targets the issue of...
Introduction Nowadays, there are a great number of people who suffer from various chronic illnesses, and it is extremely important for healthcare specialists to develop specific recommendations or plans of care that would take into consideration the particular needs of patient groups. The document which is called Healthy People 2020...
Introduction Lesiuk (2015) is a healthcare professional and scientist focused on the use of music therapy. She conducted research to discuss the advantages of this intervention for nursing practice. Her article reveals that attention and mood can be improved with this therapy in women with breast cancer. Purpose The article...
Introduction This paper reports the results of a family health assessment done on an African American family of five living in a nucleus setup. The family is headed by a 49-year-old woman since the man, who is in his early fifties, is currently unemployed. Although their three children are over...
Healthy People 2020 was launched in 2010 by the Department of Health and Human Services with the aim of promoting equality in health, minimizing disparities in care delivery, and ensuring that more people attain longer. Different communities in Florida such as Miami (Zip Code: 33146) have implemented adequate initiatives to...
The concept of empowerment is prominent in many contemporary nursing theories. Nevertheless, without proper understanding, it is sometimes misinterpreted and misused, which undermines its credibility. The aim of the paper is thus to analyze the concept as presented in Peplau’s interpersonal theory. The concept is outlined and evaluated by reviewing...
This article is a qualitative research (descriptive study) because it addresses the perception of a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model of providers and staff instead of testing hypotheses and identifying cause-and-effect relationships. The purpose of the research was to find out how the PCMH model was introduced in nurse-led primary...
Purpose of the Project Since cardiovascular diseases are statistically the main causes of mortality among American patients, it is crucial to target available resources towards eliminating the issue and ensuring better patient outcomes. Thus, the purpose of the project is the improvement of quality through the implementation of a strategy...
There is no doubt that people working for any organization should pay an increased attention to a successful communication with customers as the latter can be called the primary source of income of the company. Therefore, effective collaboration with customers should be regarded as the most important factor contributing into...
Introduction One of the vulnerable population categories with respect to healthy habits and behaviors is low-income youth. Young adults from 18 to 25 continue their studies at colleges and universities or have to work part-time or full-time to earn their living and pay for studies. However, they frequently lack time-management...
