to: Mayor and Chief Medical Officer Proposal Title: Nursing Care Center By Riverview Nursing Care Center Departmental Development Steering Committee Daniela Riggio‚ Nursing Director Kimerlie Cutright‚ Physical Therapy Director Jeff Fox‚ Laboratory Services Director October 11‚ 2013 Introduction Please accept this proposal for the new Riverview Hospital Nursing Care Center. Key healthcare directors have contributed to this plan. Each director’s perspective is shared as related to his/her
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Article Summary: The article discusses the two classification of goals for home care: therapeutic goals‚ and compensatory goals and the potential of integrating the two goals to reform home care goals. The tasks and responsibility for each program varies housekeeping to nursing/medical care to care management. Therapeutic goals are “measurable improvement on parameters of physical‚ psychological‚ or social functioning.” Compensatory goals are designed to “provide services to compensate for functional
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Family Care Plan Thomas Chamness University of Phoenix Nursing 467 Karen Jones November 20‚ 2010 Family Care Plan My family consists of a single mother‚ age 27. Her child is a 3-year-old male. The characteristics of the mother are unique; she had to deal with losing both of her parents at a young age. Her father committed suicide when she was nine and her mother was murdered in the line of duty while working as a state trooper. The mother also has no siblings. At the present time
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Nursing care study In this assignment I will document and reflect on the care that I gave to one of the patients I was looking after while on clinical placement. I will be referring to the patient as ‘Mr x’ for confidentiality reasons. ‘Mr x’ was 69 years old. He initially presented with left sided unilateral weakness‚ expressive and receptive dysphasia‚ slurred speech and he suffered from nocturnal incontinence. He had been transferred from A&E to the ward. He had a provisional
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Chapter 35: Nursing Management: Heart Failure Test Bank MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. While assessing a 68-year-old with ascites‚ the nurse also notes jugular venous distention (JVD) with the head of the patient’s bed elevated 45 degrees. The nurse knows this finding indicates a. decreased fluid volume. b. jugular vein atherosclerosis. c. increased right atrial pressure. d. incompetent jugular vein valves. ANS: C The jugular veins empty into the superior vena cava and then into the right atrium‚ so JVD with
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MABEL CASE STUDY 1. Six Nursing strategies to assist diabetes patient for each identified problem Risk for Impaired Swallowing • Maintain upright position for 45–60 min after eating. • Stimulate lips to close or manually open mouth by light pressure on lips/under chin‚ if needed; • Place food of appropriate consistency in unaffected side of mouth; • Have suction equipment available at bedside‚ especially during early feeding efforts. • Promote effective swallowing‚ e.g.:Schedule activities/medications
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Strategic plan success is dependent on those who drive process change to achieve desired outcomes; hence‚ stakeholders are the drivers. The provision of education is essential to helping all stakeholders understand the ‘Why’ and need for change. Without their commitment to sharing accountability for improving the patient experience of care‚ the organization’s HCAHPS performance scores will remain status quo. Stakeholders need to understand the ramifications of remaining status quo – most importantly
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Professional Career Action Plan Leydis Diaz HCS 449 December 8‚ 2014 Renee Gorby Professional Career Action Plan The professional career action plan gives in details my careers goals. This action plan will give an insight in to the professional strength and weakness‚ the health care organization to work at‚ and the knowledge gaps that exist‚ and professional resume. This paper will focus on professional career goals‚ the healthcare career plan to have in the health care environment‚ skills
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The Benefits‚ Risks‚ Gifts‚ Sacrifices and Curious Events That Lead to Living Renal Donation Kidney organ donation is a hot topic these days due to the fact that so many End-Stage Renal Failure Patients are dying while waiting for a living or deceased transplant. The big questions‚ should healthy adults become living kidney donors to complete strangers? Should a healthy adult family member become a living kidney donor to a friend or family member? If a loved one is an organ donor upon their
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used to guide nursing leadership research by projecting positive outcomes (Dabke‚ 2016). Therefore‚ the approach of transformational theory will help the nurse leaders in creating a sense of collective structure that facilitates positive outcomes related to optimal nursing care (Dabke‚ 2016).
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