Ms. Lee is a 96 year old female who lives alone. Lately she has become a hazard to herself. She leaves pots on the stove and they could possibly burn her apartment down. She needs assistance with a cane but refuses to use it. Ms. Lee is a potential hazard to herself and possible to others who live in her building. Ms. Lee could possibly overdose from several pills being laid out and scattered everyone.…
Do you plan to take prerequisite university courses at LSN prior to entering one of the nursing tracks? Please see the LSN Bulletin or website for required university courses. If yes, date you wish to start university courses at LSN Spring Fall Year:…
An advance practice registered nurse (APRN) is a Registered Nurse (RN) that has currently hold a licensed in Massachusetts. In addition a APRN is nurse that has “current authorization by the Board to engage in advanced practice nursing activities. APRN practice activities include, but are not limited to: advanced assessment; diagnosis; treatment, referrals, consultations, and other modalities for individuals, groups or communities across the life span for health promotion or health maintenance and for those who are experiencing acute or chronic disease, illness, trauma or other life-altering event in which rehabilitative, and/or palliative interventions are necessary. APRN practice is defined to include only those activities within the APRN’s…
As advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), it is vital that one must know how to properly document in electronic records. Concise documentation is deemed necessary for two reasons: 1) to provide adequate quality of care for patients, and 2) to receive prompt payments on furnished services (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid [CMS], 2014). If information is not documented, then you typically will not get paid for it. Furthermore, recording the patient’s story, objective findings, assessment, and treatment plan for the patient all serve as a legal record for the future (Phillips, 2013). This paper will discuss the purpose of evaluation and management (E/M) codes, while summarizing three components of E/M documentation…
I am submitting my resume for consideration towards the Registered Nurse position in LTC at Essentia Health St. Mary’s-Oak Crossing. After visiting with you, I enjoyed feeling your passion for promoting nurse professionalism and teamwork in LTC. I feel that would be an ideal candidate for this position.…
Armstrong, J., & Mitchell, Elizabeth, MSc Adv Nursing,B.Sc(Hons), R.G. (2008). Comprehensive nursing assessment in the care of older people. Nursing Older People, 20(1), 36-40. Retrieved from…
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Nurse Practitioners are required to do many duties in the field of health care in which they work in. Those duties include take and record patients’ medical history and symptoms, perform physical exams and observe patients, create plans for a patient care or contribute to making plans, and to perform and order diagnostic test. Also, they are required to operate and monitor medical equipment, diagnose medical health problems, give patients medicines and treatments, and evaluate a patients’ response to medicines and treatments. Analyzing test, consulting with doctors, counseling, and conducting research are also important things that they do or should be done in their work field. APRN’s can work alone or alongside with a physician. Most states…
Like working with people? Interested in working with doctors or surgeons at hospitals, schools, or in the military? Then consider registered nursing being an ideal job. The career cluster for registered nursing is called health science.…
Nursing is a profession within the healthcare field that focuses on caring for the sick and unable. Nurses differentiate themselves from other healthcare professionals by having alternate methods of care, educational requirements, and different scopes of practice. The word nursing is very broad because there are various titles one can go by when providing nursing care. Although there are many different roles in nursing, they all correlate to one another to provide the best care possible for an individual patient and their families.…
Registered nursing is the largest healthcare occupation (Career, 1). Today RN's are very respected and valued in the healthcare industry (Registered Nurse, 1). Registered nurses work with and supervise licensed practical nurses and also certified nurse assistants (Bisk, 1).…
People have always wondered who are the people that take care of family or friends while they are sick? Many people think that the doctors take care of the patients their whole stay but that is not true, behind the scenes the nurse practitioners take care of the patients. Nurse practitioners have a very difficult job and many hard duties to complete while they are taking care of many sick patients in the hospital.…
Becoming a Registered Nurse has been something that I want to become in the future, since I was twelve years old. At that time I experienced having my niece hospitalized when being a month old from pneumonia. Those moments are hard experiences that no one would like to experience but it is part of life. Therefore since that time I want to make a difference on the people who have to be hospitalized, helping them to recover. Although I would like to specialize with infants and children because they have a lower immune system and those are the most fundamental years of their lives.…
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