Chief Nursing Officer Recorder Administrative Secretary Member Quality/Risk Manager Member Emergency Department Medical Director Member Emergency Department Unit Manager Member Nursing Shift Supervisor Member Nurse J Member LPN on duty Member Dr. T Description of Event: A patient presented to the Emergency Department with the complaints of hip and leg pain. The patient rated the pain 10/10 on the standard pain scale. His (L) leg appeared shortened with swelling‚ ecchymosis
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Nurse Practitioner A Nurse Practitioner is a registered nurse (RN) who has advanced education and clinical training in a health care specialty area. Nurse Practitioners work with people of all ages and their families‚ providing information people need to make informed decisions about their health care and lifestyle choices based on high quality care‚ cost effective care‚ and patient satisfaction. Nurse Practitioners work very close with physicians (doctors). They advocate health promotion and
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Task No. 1: The Kosher Cutlet Case (Mr. J) Nursing-Sensitive Indicators as Identifiers of Patient Care Interfering Issues The National Quality Forum (NQF) established a list of nursing-sensitive indicators (NSIs) to identify specific “structures and processes” that contributes significantly to the outcomes of patient healthcare (Heslop & Lu‚ 2014; Montalvo‚ 2007). These indicators are empirically prepared that can reliably and validly measure these structures and process at a preferred level of
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Each shift consist of many different things to do with the residents. On my shift‚ once you go in before you get on the floor and start working with the residents‚ you have to get report from the nurses or supervisors which are called the LPN nurses and the RNs to see if there has been any changes in your residents‚ if they may have
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Nursing Care Delivery Patient Centered Care and Team Nursing Brittany Saum Pima Medical Institute Jim Follbaum‚ RN‚ MSN/Edu 17th of May 2012 Care Delivery Nursing is ongoing and lifelong‚ for the nurse and the patient. It is not limited to the time spent in the hospital‚ but follows the nurse and patient for life. It is the nurse that keeps the patient going and gets to know the patient and it is the nurse that delivers the care to the patient. The importance of the way the nurse delivers
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Running Header: Nursing Shortage Nursing Shortage in the United States Kaacha N Mumba Indiana State University College of Nursing‚ Health‚ and Human Services NURSING SHORTAGE The shortage of RNs in the United States has fluctuated over the years‚ dating way back to the 1960s . The declining demand for RNs in the past few years is evidenced by a decrease in the number of applicants admitted into nursing schools in the early 1990s ( American Association of Colleges of Nursing‚ 2010b). In this paper
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Running Head: Current Employment Trends in Health Care Current Employment Trends in Health Care Paper (Lilly Annan( (University of Phoenix( Current Employment Trends in Health Care Paper Nursing is one career that has more than one definition. Scholars have yet to agree on a single definition. Some say that nursing is love. In a way this is correct. A nurse cares for people who are sick in every way and sometimes all a person needs is love and
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results would indicate to the RN that the tube feeding can begin? The PH of the contents removed from the NG tube is 3 (stomach acid contents are acidic) 2. The nurse in an outpatient clinic teaches a client with right-sided weakness to walk down stairs using a cane. What behavior would indicate by the client that teaching was successful? The client leads with the cane‚ followed by her right leg and then her left leg 3. A client is admitted with IRS. The RN would anticipate that the client’s
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When patient going to discharge the nurse’s responsibility to provide all discharge instruction for patient safety. But‚ some patient complaining about discharge instruction and family worried about how they can prevent the fall at home. The elderly people can’t manage their own health issue alone. Upon the discharge planning nurses can help their situation through case manager. The case manager talked with patient and the family members about the home health for them. Home health care agency is
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How to Determine if a procedure falls within the RN Scope of Practice Nurse’s scope of practice is defined by the Nursing Practice Act. Furthermore‚ in our state of NC‚ the scope of practice is also defined by the NC Administrative Code Rules. (NCBON 2013). Nursing roles are influenced by our healthcare system that is ever changing. This is why it is important for nurses to make valid and reliable decisions regarding their scope of practice. In the state of NC‚ there is a “decision tree” to
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