profession a person’s own perceptions and life experiences shape how they perform and function at that job. Nurses find this to be true more so than other professions‚ especially when it comes to treating someone with a terminal illness. Cancer has affected many people in my life‚ I lost my grandmother and a close friend. But I have also dealt with end stage cancer first hand as a hospice nurse. In the case of my family‚ I watched my grandmother battle aggressive brain tumors called glioblastomas
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I recently admitted a 59 year old male with suicidal ideation. As I was assessing my patient‚ he told me that he was a type 2 diabetic who checks his bloodsugars with meals and uses Insulin for coverage. He was concerned that his readings at home have been elevated and has not had an appetite for the last two days. I used the glucometer to check his chemstick which was 285. I called the admitting doctor and the Hospitalist to report my findings and the result of the bloodsugar. As a nursing
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Patient safety forms the foundation of healthcare delivery. The United States health care system is an extremely complex unit ensures patient safety and requires focused efforts of people’s in health care organizations. Safety is defined as freedom from psychological and physical injury in an health care systems. Health care provided in safe culture and environment are essential for patient survival and well-being. A safe environment reduces the risk for injury and illness and helps to decrease
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Reciprocity • RA 1082 - Rural Health Units all over the Philippines • RA 4073 - Liberalizes leprosy treatment • RA 1054 - Free emergency medical treatments to employees and laborers • RA 4226 - Hospital Licensure Act • RA 5901 - 40 hours/week for nurses in with 100-bed capacity... • RA 3573 -
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Nurse Practitioner Competencies Seynor Massalee Kennedy South University Compared and contrasted the roles of the NP‚ nurse educator‚ nurse informaticist‚ and nurse administrator in advanced practice nursing pertaining to clinical practice‚ primary care‚ education‚ administration‚ and research. Advanced practice of nursing (APN) is a direct/indirect care individual who cares for patients and manages individuals and the community‚ nursing
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Gone are the days of individual practitioners providing care for individual patients. Today‚ more than ever healthcare relies on a team approach. Healthcare facilities are made up of teams of caregivers‚ including physicians‚ nurses‚ and many ancillary staff. In order to provide the highest level of care to individuals‚ there must be effective clear communication across the entire continuum of care. Now more than ever‚ patients have become an intricate part of the health care delivery system. It is therefore
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line buddle rather then the conventional buddle required by the CDC (Harnage‚ 2012). The SRMC’s‚ central line buddle is ease to use and failure proof as shown in figure 1 of the article (Harnage). This article explained how various component of the central line buddle were modified to achieve zero infection of CLABSIs by the SRMC. The most important point of this approach was elimination of infection through central lines. The success of this approach was base on the protocol implemented
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both the Doctor and the Registered Nurse are equally important in the medical industry. At some point in time they offered complimentary services to the patients. There were defined duties for the Doctor and those for the Registered Nurse. The rationale behind this was that system of learning gone through by a doctor and a Registered nurse were partially different. However‚ a doctor tends to give opinions and diagnosis while the nurse should take care of the patient by executing the duties proposed
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A Summary of Benner’s Findings Regarding Nurses’ Skill Acquisition In 1984‚ Patricia E. Benner published the finding from a study aimed at identifying what nurses do and how they develop. She went to the clinical setting and asked practicing nurses to describe specific cases or situations they had encountered which stood out in their memories. These experiences were called exemplars or paradigm cases because they changed the perceptions of the nurse. In comparing the reported exemplar’s‚ Benner
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Patients’ internet use and its effects on the healthcare professional-patient relationship The use of Internet plays an increasingly important role on receiving health information. About 50% of the people who were able to access to the Internet in the US sought health information during 1997(Eng et al‚ 1998‚ as cited in Cline and Haynes‚2001). The prevalence of searching health information from the internet by the patients has‚ without doubt‚ affected the healthcare professional-patient relationship
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