• Communication
• Health Services
• Social Services
• Safeguarding
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The North Coastal Region (NCR) of San Diego County is a large diverse region within San Diego County. It spans 388 square miles. There are six cities and more than a dozen communities in this region ranging from wealthy areas to poorer areas both on the coast and inland. The US Marine Corps largest installation, Camp Pendleton, is located within this region. The NCR has two acute care hospitals (one community, one military) with emergency departments, seven home health agencies, three hospice facilities, 12 skilled nursing facilities, 15 community clinics, and four dialysis clinics.…
*Describe the level of research evidence from the text, what level it is at (page 25)?—for your selected nursing research…
Importance: “Research conducted by the ANA and other specialty groups provided the basis for nursing practice standards that currently guide professional practice. The increase in research activity in the 1940’s prompted the first publication of Nursing Research” (Burns & Grove, 2007, p. 12).…
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).…
Nurses play a vital role working on the front lines of patient care; with almost 3 million members this profession takes up one of the largest segment in healthcare. In order to manage the rapidly changing healthcare rules and regulations that might prevent a nurse from working efficiently and rapidly; in 2008 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Institute of Medicine launched a two year plan to change the nursing profession.(The Future of Nursing, 2011) The committee put together certain key roles that were capable of envisioning the future of the nursing profession. The IOM report focused mainly on many critical components of nursing.…
The Impact of the IOM report on nursing education will be and has been tremendous. The report recommends that 80 percent of the nursing workforce should be BSN nurses by the year 2020 (IOM,2010 page 4-9). This report should help nurses realize that they will have to have their BSN in order to continue working at the hospital/acute-care setting, in the near future. This also should give notice to the Licensed practical nurses that they need to go back to school to receive their Registered Nurse degree, because if ADN nurses who decide not to go back to school can no longer work in the acute-care setting, they will have to work in the extended care, home…
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…
Hinchliff, S., Norman, S., Schober, J. (2003), Nursing practice and Health care 4th ed. Arnold: London…
Established in 1989, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research’s (AHCPR) primary goal is to help in the performance of outcomes research (Burns & Grove, 2011). These health care experts from different areas of nursing shared their research findings with other health care professionals and developed the first evidence researched-based clinical guidelines for nurses in 1989 that provided directives and standards for practice (Burns & Grove,…
Harris, P., Nagy, S. & Vardaxis, N. (Eds.) (2011). Mosby’s dictionary of medicine, nursing & health professions (2nd ed.). Chatswood, NSW: Mosby Elsevier…
References: Boswell C. Cannon S. (2007) Introduction to nursing research: incorporationg evidence-based practice. Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc.…
References: Brockopp, D. Y., & Tolsma, M. T. (2003). Fundamentals of nursing research (3rd ed.). New…
Cited: Strachan, H. Research and Theory for Nursing Practice: An International Journal. 18 (2004): 7-10…
Clamp, G.L. and Gough, S. (1999). Resources for Nursing Research: An Annotated Bibliography. 3rd Edition. London: Sage.…
In the Health and Social Care sector research has many purposes. The main purposes of research are to confirm policy, confirm practice, to disprove propositions, to extend knowledge and understanding and to improve practice. All service providers need information about the needs of a community, or group of people before it can be decided what resources and services are required to meet this need. Therefore research is required. By carrying out research in health and social care practice can be improved and knowledge extended. Once research is published and is made available to health and social care practitioners the findings can be used to improve…