Patient falls are an increasing concern within the healthcare system and contribute to costly treatments and lengthy hospital stays. The purpose of this article is to examine how nursing education impacts patient falls centered on evidenced-based research. Overall‚ evidence supports that nursing education can have effectively decrease falls among patients in hospitals and nursing homes. Task 1: Evidence-Based Practice and Applied Nursing Research Research guides decisions and changes we make
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What is Minority Protection? The protection afforded to minority shareholders by which to assert the rights of the company in an action for a wrong that is alleged to have been done to the company by the majority. Bit of history: Under the law as it stood until recently‚ aggrieved minority shareholders generally found it easier to kill off the company by petitioning for its winding up under the just and equitable ground. This was because of the procedural obstacles established in Foss v Harbottle
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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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I remember hearing stories when I was a child of how my mothers’ mind was possessed by demons. In this day of age some people still believe these old folk tales. I also remember a story of how my father would take my mother to a “curandera” where they would perform rituals in order to have the demons leave her mind and soul. The passing of my father when I was 5 years old triggered my mothers’ bipolar disorder to go into full effect. Thanks to medical advances she was diagnosed correctly by a true
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How to Handle Difficult People – A Tao Perspective How to deal with difficult people. “To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill.” — Gichin Funakoshi‚ father of modern Karate “The Chinese call it Chi; the Japanese‚ Ki; the Indians Prana – it is the life force‚ and it is incredibly powerful…it can’t be explained adequately except to those who have already experienced it‚ but it’s one of the very few willable miracles.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar‚ 19-time NBA All-Star‚ describing how
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There is no standard definition for the difficult airway but it is accepted to define it as the clinical situation where a well-trained anesthesiologist find difficulty with face mask ventilation‚ difficulty with tracheal intubation‚ or both.1 In order to identify patients who are expected to have difficult intubation‚ anesthesiologists use several methods before the initiation of anesthesia.2‚ 3 There are several complications associated with the difficult airway such as trauma to the face‚ teeth
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Patient Confidentiality 1 Article background: “Some 13 per cent of US medical schools have reported that their students have leaked confidential information about patients via blogs or social networking websites. The students didn ’t name names‚ but did provide enough personal information‚ such as the medical condition involved and hospital‚ for patients or their families to recognize who is being described…The information was provided by medical school administrators as part
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Patient Safety and Efforts of Infection Prevention in the Surgical Field Dana Cook Nova Southeastern University Patient Safety and Efforts of Infection Prevention in the Surgical Field It is estimated that 1 in 10 patients will experience a nosocomial infection (Biddle‚ 2009). With this staggering fact‚ patient safety and infection prevention is at the forefront of healthcare. Many changes have occurred in this area since the 1840s. This is when Semmelweis‚ a Viennese obstetrician‚ made
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Having empathy with the patient can increase the comfort and trust in the provider-patient relationship and can also psychologically be better for the patients. Participants in this study were students from different universities. They watched a DVD simulation-based empathy workshop and then self reported their sympathy through a survey. The background section of this article goes over the differences between “emphatetic medical care” and just general care. In emphatetic medical care‚ the caregiver
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Running head: MODEL OF NURSING CARE AND PATIENT SAFETY Model of Nursing Care and Patient Safety October 10‚ 2009 Model of Nursing Care and Patient Safety The purpose of this paper is to identify and describe the model of nursing care used in my facility‚ and how it relates to the American Nurses Code of Ethics (ANA) and patient safety guidelines. The hospital I worked for is a catholic based nonprofit organization‚ which uses Patient Centered Nursing Care model in most of the areas
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