In today’s ever changing healthcare world, effective communication among healthcare team members is essential to provide safe and quality patient care. Conventional communication methods such as the telephone and the word of mouth are no longer the most effective ways of communicating important aspect of patient care. So health organizations are adopting communication systems which improve interaction among healthcare providers (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2012). Recently my hospital adopted a new operating system called Care Logistics. Care logistics is a “…centralized care coordination model to…
Leukemia is a neoplastic disease that involves the bloodforming tissues of the bone marrow, spleen, and lymph nodes. In…
The evidence-based practice guideline that I chose is titled, “Myocardial Infarction,” written by the Finnish Medical Society Duodecim. The intended users for this guideline are health care providers and physicians. The target population is individuals with suspected or known myocardial infarction. The objective of this guideline is to “collect, summarize, and update the core clinical knowledge essential in general practice” and “describe the scientific evidence underlying the given recommendations.” (Finnish Medical Society Duodecim, 2008)…
This paper will be addressing a clinical case study from the writer's current experience that illustrates collaborative nursing practice. According to Schueller and Kimbrell (2003, p. 2), "When one refers to collaborative practice within a hospital setting, they are referring to healthcare personnel working together to care for patients and families". Collaboration is defined as "working together, especially in a joint intellectual effort to achieve a desired outcome; to cooperate" (American Heritage Dictionary, 2000).…
http://674711443289410500.weebly.com/education.html MSN SPECIALTY TRACK: INFORMATICS Chamberlain College of Nursing NR 500: Foundational Concepts and Application INTRODUCTION Clinical Informatics Registered Nurse (CI RN): “the application of informatics and information technology to deliver healthcare services” (AMIA, 2015).…
Importance: “Nursing Research covers key issues, including health promotion, human responses to illness, acute care nursing research, symptom management, cost-effectiveness, vulnerable populations, health services, and community-based nursing studies” (Henly, 2013).…
The associate degree prepared nurse is more technical, and the baccalaureate degree prepared nurse is more professional (Giger & Davidhizar, 1990, p. 1013). The baccalaureate degree prepared nurse receives education in leadership skills, community health, and in depth critical thinking using nursing theories and conceptual framework. There are many studies indicating increase positive patient outcomes with the increase of baccalaureate nurses. Therefore, by increasing nursing education, the patients receive a higher standard of…
Nursing profession is the largest division of the healthcare employees. Nurses play an important role when it comes to patient care. There are many obstacles that prevent nurses from being able to respond effectively to constantly changing healthcare system and to make changes and advance health, these obstacles need to be overcome. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation along with Institute of Medicine (IOM) proposed to assess the need to transform the nursing profession in 2010. The report included making…
The National institute of nursing research (NINR) is the pivotal point of the nation’s nursing research actions. It upholds the development and value of research in nursing and client care, delivers significant management, increases the amount of skilled nurse researchers, and serves as a point of communication with other bases of health care research. The NINR encourages and conducts scientific and basic research and research training on health and illness across the life span. The research focus includes health promotion and disease prevention, value of life, health disparities, and end of life. The NINR tries to expand nursing science by joining the biological and behavioral sciences, using new technologies to research questions, improving…
Nursing is governed by state boards of nursing, specific to the state that the nurse is practicing in. These boards seek to define the scopes of practice particular to a specific set of people, such registered nurses, practical nurses, home health aides, etc.…
This article, “Relationship between call light use and response time and inpatient falls in acute care settings”, focused on three main points of interest. The first was the use of call lights from inpatients and their families. The second was the nurses’ response time to the call light. Finally, the third was the amount of inpatient falls that occurred. The goal of the study was to determine whether the call light use rate and the average call light response time contributed to the fall and injurious fall rates in acute care settings. The study was conducted in a Michigan community hospital and used archived hospital data for analyses for the period from February 2007 to June 2008. The unit of analysis was unit-week. The results of the study were as follows: more calls for assistance were related to less fall-related harm, longer response time to call lights related to fewer total falls and less fall-related patient harm, and more call light use related to longer response times (3333). So, in conclusion, this study challenged the idea that call lights should be used less or responded to faster.…
Describe the definition of nursing as put forward by the American Nurses Association. How does it address the metaparadigm theories of nursing?…
There is this bright determined girl who is very motivated, ambitious and has the key to success. This girl is pure African, a true Muslim who was raised in a highly respectable way. She has bright eyes to determine who she truly wants to be. A vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change my life and my life changes others. I have a dream that truly discovers who I am but others cant determine who I want to be in the future. Who can this girl be ? Well her name is Hawa Kante, the one who could brighten your eyes and make her future a better dream.…
Some of the key points from this letter is that the American Nurse Association (ANA) is not in favor of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) because the act deliberately threatens health care affordability, access, and delivery for individuals across the nation (Cipriano, 2017).…
The purpose of this assignment is to critically evaluate two journal articles from a selection of six. One is a quantitative piece; the other is a qualitative piece. A framework devised by Benton and Cormack (2000) has been used to help the process of critiquing in this assignment. This particular framework had been chosen, as it is a comprehensive framework covering most points needed in the critiquing process. This framework can be applied to both qualitative and quantitative research. However the framework will not be used as a definitive checklist. In this assignment the first article that will be discussed is a qualitative piece of research by Simons J., Franck L. &Roberson E (2001). Titled : Parent involvement in children's pain care: views of parents and nurses. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 36(4), 591-599.…