Max Points: 15.0 You have been asked to investigate a new procedure that physicians would like nurses to adopt in the hospital. Discuss the process you would apply to determine whether the procedure falls within the RN scope of practice and how you would go about introducing the new procedure with physicians and fellow nurses. When it comes to investigating a new procedure‚ a systematic approach should be applied. It is imperative to determine whether a given procedure is within the nursing scope
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Ethical Health Care Issues Illegal immigrants or noncitizens are sometimes portrayed as free loaders using public services without contributing financially to public funding through taxes. Some argue that illegal immigrants hold no claim to public health benefits because if they don’t have a right to be in the county legally‚ then they have no right to accept the benefits of being a citizen of that county. Other humanists argue that access to public health care is a basic right of humans and should
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legislation establishing a hospital payment classification that came to be termed the “Critical Access Hospital (CAH).” The bill’s intent was to improve Medicare reimbursement for small rural hospitals so that local residents would continue to have access to acute hospital care. There are two primary requirements for CAH status: a) a rural location; and b) 25 beds or less. Today‚ more than 60% of rural hospitals in the U.S. are designated as Critical Access Hospitals – roughly 1‚200 facilities. The states
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Health Campaigns to Use to Explain Models of Behaviour Change In this report it will investigate at least three recent health education campaigns and use them to explain two models of behaviour change. The three recent health education campaigns will be ‘Smoke Free’‚ ‘Change4Life’ and ‘FRANK’. The two models of behaviour change will be the theory of reasoned action and the stages of change model. For a health educator to carry out their role effectively‚ they should understand the complicated
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other identifying information about the patient included within this piece of work have been changed to protect confidentiality‚ as required by The Code of Professional Conduct (Nursing and Midwifery Council‚ 2008). For this reason‚ the patient included in this case study will be given the pseudonym of Sam Jones. The purpose of this assignment is to identify one client problem and provide an evidence-based plan of care for the individual. The purpose of care planning is to show
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future: Primary Health Care Primary health care is a term used to describe a system where a patient’s health care needs are attended to by the most appropriately trained individual. This method of health care delivery has been called a “team based approach” (Health Canada‚ 2006). Instead of seeing the doctor for every health concern‚ other health professionals such as nurse practitioners‚ pharmacists‚ dieticians or physiotherapists may be called upon to take care of your concerns. In this paper I will
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Every person on this planet has their own hypothesis on how all organisms are related. Some may believe that there is no correlation between any of the organisms and it has always been that way. On the other hand‚ some believe that all organisms upon this earth have changed drastically‚ and we finally reached the point that we are at today after billions of years of adaptation. Now the only way to support a hypothesis is with scientific research‚ which brings me to the point of bringing up my hypothesis
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Modern health information systems are very complex; several models address the architecture of modern health information exchanges. The centralized model and the decentralized model are just two of the several models of modern health information systems. The centralized modern health information exchange model stores patient information in one centralized location. The centralized model allows single database inquiries into the system. A centralized health information exchange model is very quick
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Professional Nurses Experience Violence In The Workplace July 11‚ 2012 Ideally‚ the workplace should be free of violent threats or actions and staff should feel safe while at work. Workplace violence has been defined by the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety (NIOSH) as an act of aggression directed towards persons at work or on duty and ranges from offensive or threatening language to homicide. Workplace violence has gained
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medicine. The recent IOM report regarding the future of nursing gives us a glimpse of the dynamic and progressive changes that the field of nursing will experience in the coming decade. The Institute of Medicine (IOM‚ 2012) report focuses on the nurses as the largest group of health care professionals and identifies nurses as key leaders in health care reform. The nursing profession is the largest group of healthcare professionals‚ consisting of over 3 million members (Battie‚ 2013). As the cornerstone
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