Effects of Compassion Fatigue on Patient Care and Nurses Name Professor Institution Course Date Introduction Compassion fatigue has already been identified as a combination of emotional‚ physical‚ and spiritual depletion which is associated with the caring of patients in significant physical distress and emotional pain. Although the literature is awash with a lot of definitions of compassion fatigue‚ Joinson (1992)‚ gave the first definition of this concept during her
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Davis Weiss The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a federal statute that was signed into law in America by President Barack Obama on March 23‚ 2010. It is divided into 10 titles. The bill contains provisions that will go into effect on June 21‚ 2010 and September 23‚ 2010. Also‚ the additional provisions will go into effect in 2014. Title I of H.R. 3590 will ensure quality affordable health care for all Americans by eliminating discriminatory practices by health insurers such
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Patient teaching plan Cleven Isidor HSC-175 Mrs. Scott‚ MSN‚ RN-C Patient teaching plan During a clinical rotation we come into contact with many patients‚ from many different backgrounds‚ with many different disease processes which effect their systems. Each patient has their own manifestations‚ of signs and symptoms‚ along with courses of action which are taken to best meet their individual needs. One of the tools used when caring for a patient is education. CDC.gov states “A well-informed patient
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Running Header: HOLISTIC NURSING Holistic Nursing A holistic nurse is a nurse who recognizes and integrates body-mind-emotion-spirit-environment principles and modalities in daily life and clinical practice‚ creates a caring healing space within his or herself that allows the nurse to be an instrument of healing" (Dossey & Keegan‚ 2008‚ p49). A holistic nurse will assist the patient and family during the recovery from illness or transition to death. A holistic nurse will provide a peaceful
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Alicia Rodgers HSA 505 – Health Services Planning and Marketing Dr. Gwendolyn Francavillo October 23‚ 2011 Abstract There have many attempts to reconstruct our nation’s health care system. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act‚ better known as Health Care Reform‚ is a federal law that was passed on March 23‚ 2010. This statute was passed in order to guarantee medical care and insurance coverage to all Americans; reduce costs of coverage;
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elderly patients discharged from hospital will experience an adverse health event within thirty days of hospital discharge. These events may have serious outcomes‚ which may include a need for care in an emergency department‚ readmission to hospital‚ admission to a nursing
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PATIENT HEALTH ASSESSMENT Student’s Name: Antonina Polukhina Date: 4/1/2015 Clinical Facility: NCMC PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT: Patient Initials: S. E. Age: 58 y. o. Sex: Female Admitting Diagnosis: weakness/dizziness Vital Signs: Temp. 97.4‚ Pulse 106‚ Respirations 18‚ BP 118/56 Ht/Wt/BMI: Height = 167.64 cm‚ Weight = 84.878 kg‚ BMI 30.2 Skin/Wounds: (Skin turgor; presence of any skin breakdown; incisions; wounds.) Subjective: patient denies any skin breakdowns. Objective: leg skin is
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Politics‚ Legislation‚ and Implications to Patient Care Abstract There are constant changes to laws and legislation regarding patient care and safety. The purpose of this report is to inform the reader of recent and upcoming changes to legislation that may affect nursing care of patients. Research by L. Aiken‚ et al. and A. Tourangeau‚ support the need for higher education of registered nurses. Their research proves that patient outcomes are improved when registered nurses carry
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JAN JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING ORIGINAL RESEARCH Symptom clusters and experiences of patients with cancer ¨ ¨ Neziha Karabulu‚ Behice Erci‚ Nadiye Ozer & Sureyya Ozdemir ¨ Accepted for publication 11 December 2009 Correspondence to B. Erci: e-mail: behiceerci@hotmail.com Neziha Karabulu PhD Assistant Professor Surgical Nursing Department‚ School of Nursing‚ Ataturk University‚ Erzurum‚ ¨ Turkey Behice Erci PhD RN Professor Department of Public Health Nursing‚ School of
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Physical Care: - Sleep: Be sure to maintain good sleep habits. This will include going to bed no later than 10:00pm and staying in bed a minimum of eight hours. - Nutrition: Eat a healthy diet to include 3 meals per day and at least one healthy snack. - Exercise: Take daily walks outside for a minimum of 20 minutes. Psychological Care - Family time: Make time to take family out of the house at least twice per week. Have dinner at the dinner table as a family at least 4 days a week. - House
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