Dyanna Thompson ENG-123-X6485 Leah Tewell 08/10/2014 Research Shows How Patient Portals Impact Patient Care Patient portals‚ which are secure web based applications‚ provide patients the ease of access to their health care records at any time. Some portals include features such as‚ obtaining prescription refills and lab results‚ and communicating with their provider. With close to 80% of the population in North America using the internet to seek out health information‚ portals continue to
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Nurses versus Baccalaureate Prepared Nurses A BSN represent a Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing‚ while an ADN is an Associate’s Degree in Nursing. Both degrees will qualify a person to take the same licensing exam NCLEX. There are several differences in the competency levels of these two-degree programs. BSN program is a four-year degree‚ which is knowledge‚ theory and research based and the emphasis is on the entire picture of the field of nursing. Exposing the nurse to human diversity and global
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Patients with diabetes need to understand what diabetes is. Patients who understand what diabetes is and the complicated process associated with the disease are more likely to comply with the prescribed regimen. Diabetes Mellitus is a syndrome with disordered metabolism and inappropriate hyperglycemia due to either a deficiency of insulin secretion or to a combination of insulin resistance and inadequate insulin secretion to compensate (Davis‚ 2001). Diabetes is a chronic progressive disease that
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Nursing Competencies GCU Nursing Competencies The first school of nursing in the United States was the Bellevue Hospital School of Nursing‚ founded in 1873. The Bellevue offered a Baccalaureate degree in Nursing with principles of nursing established by Florence Nightingale. In later years‚ the Associate-degree in nursing was formed by Mildred Montag‚ to help with the nursing shortages in WWII. “In the mid 1900’s an Associate-degree level nurse was thought of as a “technical nurse”
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The beginnings of nursing can be traced back to many ancient cultures‚ such as those in Egypt‚ Greece‚ Rome‚ and Israel. In its early years‚ nursing was closely entwined with religious orders and faith communities. During the Christian crusades‚ nursing orders such as the knight of st. John‚ the Teutonic knights and the knights of st. Lazarus was established‚ persisting even today. Individual deacons‚ deaconesses‚ and roman matrons cared for sick individuals and were instrumental in the organization
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University of Phoenix Material Negotiation Outcome Matrix Negotiation Outcome Type Definition Associated Negotiation Type (distributive bargaining or integrative negotiation) Example Win–win “…win–win situations such as those that occur when parties are trying to find a mutually acceptable solution to a complex conflict” (Lewicki‚ et. al.‚ 2010‚ p. 3) The associated negotiation type of a win-win is integrative negotiation. An example of an integrative negotiation is planning a wedding
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Differentiated Competencies: ADN vs. BSN The nursing profession continues to argue whether a nurse who holds a BSN is desirable to the Associates-Degree-prepared nurse. This has been a topic of debate since 1965‚ when the American Nurses Association published an opinion paper advocating for the baccalaureate degree to be the minimal standard for entry-level nurses. While some say that the level of education isn’t relevant once you orient a nurse to a certain setting‚ others disagree and assert
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Dorothy Orem Orem’s Contribution to Nursing Theory: Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory description of category of theory is a set of broad concepts‚ definitions‚ relationships developed and assumptions or propositions created from nursing models or from other disciplines and projects of purposes that are required for care of by individual patient‚ family and community (Current Nursing‚2013). Orem ’s approach to the nursing process provides a method to determine the self-care deficits and then
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0916-484-5004 DEGREE: Bachelor of Science in Nursing Las Piñas College College of Nursing March 29‚ 2001 Passed the Integrated Comprehensive Licensure Exam June 10‚ 2001 Passed the Midwifery Board Exam November 10‚ 2009 WORK EXPERIENCE: Las Piñas City Medical Center Las Piñas City‚ Philippines Staff Nurse (OB GYNE‚ MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WARD) August 22‚ 2001 – December 21‚ 2004 Clinical Instructor supervising: Nursing Midwifery Caregiving students in OB GYNE and Pediatric
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Traditional clinical outcome measurements‚ such as mortality and complication rates‚ have been shown to insufficiently present the patient’s perspective of the level of health care provided. Moreover‚ quality of life assessment has been criticized for being a biased view of healthcare providers‚ not the patients (1)‚ and cost-effectiveness analyses of quality of life only look at the clinical outcomes through an economic lens. During the past two decades‚ the United States healthcare industry has
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