A REPORT ON THE POSTION OF CASTLE NURSING HOME PLC Executive Summary: This report is commissioned to examine the current position of Castle Nursing Home PLC‚ since it is evident that the top-line and bottom-line have been adversely affected. The report draws attention to the existing status of Castle Nursing Home. The strategy to grow and re-organize has resulted in the need to streamline its operations‚ so as to retain its focus‚ quality of services and reputation among the public. Further investigation
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Abstract Nursing is one of the oldest careers in history. It has grown tremendously since the beginning of the profession and strives forward in hopes to attain more advancement in the medical field. Along the years‚ there have been several controversies regarding nursing as a profession. In this paper we will discuss what nursing professionalism is and why we as nurses need to remain a professional icon in the occupation. This paper will also summarize two nursing articles regarding nursing professionalism
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Strategic Planning and the Nursing Process Paper Strategic Planning and the Nursing Process Paper HCS/482 » Health Care Informatics November 25‚ 2014 Strategic Planning and the Nursing Process Healthcare informatics is an idiom that refers to the use of information technology in the healthcare field. Several software applications are used in healthcare informatics mostly used are computers. The wide-ranging uses of healthcare informatics include but are not limited to electronic
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Case Study One In this case study I will use Gibbs (1988) model of reflection to write a personal account of an abdominal examination carried out in general practice under the supervision of my mentor‚ utilising the skills taught during the module thus far. What happened During morning routine sick parade I was presented with a 21 year old male soldier experiencing severe acute‚ non specific‚ abdominal pain. Under the supervision of the medical officer (MO) I proceeded to carry out a full
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OREM’S THEORY AND NURSING PROCESS Nursing process presents a method to determine the self care deficits and then to define the roles of person or nurse to meet the self care demands. The steps within the approach are considered to be the technical component of the nursing process. Orem emphasizes that the technological component "must be coordinated with interpersonal and social processes within nursing situations. Nursing Process Orem’s Nursing Process Assessment Diagnosis and prescription;
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Patient/Client…………………………………………………………………………………… PBL Group/Site/Facilitator………………………………………………………………… Problem/Need Outcome Nursing Care Interventions Evaluation Write a problem statement identifying an actual or potential need How does this impact on the patient/user? Ensure this statement is personalised Patient problems should have been identified with the patient/carer/parent following holistic assessment Identify a short term and long term goal Ensure they follow SMART criteria Goals
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SPD and MPD were analyzed two times for better statistical power. Participants within this study continued the treatment for the following five years. Participants assigned to SPD were positioned supine horizontal‚ prone‚ left side down‚ and right side down. For those assigned to MPD the previous four positions were modified to supine 30° head
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After reading through all models‚ I think there are lot of models that can used to solve the problem of increased incidence of urinary tract infections (UTIs) among older women who are 65 years or older. I am leaning toward an organizational model that is Rosswurm and Larrabee model‚ which is often used in the primary care setting (Ciliska‚ DiCenso‚ Melnyk‚ & Stetler‚ 2005). The six steps involved in this model are assess‚ link‚ synthesize‚ design‚ implement and evaluate‚ and integrate and maintain
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Case studies have been great tool for me to learn evidence based nursing that will be put into nursing practice. Retrieving information‚ recognizing deviations from “normal”‚ interpreting and prioritizing data to plan patient specific interventions are all skills that I have developed from case study analyses. Different from SIM where we have to think on our feet and rely on the skills that we have learned‚ theory case studies are written‚ allowing us to track a nursing issue through all the stages
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Based on several studies it has been found that during nurse’s careers‚ that they have used their intuition as their guidance to make important decisions on their patients care. Intuition is a basic piece of nursing science that becomes possibly the most important factor when healthcare providers get to oblivious learning without restraint or speculation. One can also assume that intuition is also based on their overall experiences and knowledge acquired during their nursing practices. The purpose
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