care to viable patients with acute illnesses or injuries. Patients with chronic and/or terminal illness were not expected to be admitted to these units‚ with the possible exception of acute exacerbations of reversible complications. Patients whose care needs changed from curative to palliative were intended to be transferred out of critical care to patient care environments more suited to end-of-life care. However‚ as more patients become “chronically critically ill”‚ critical care nurses are being asked
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A head nurse has the following important duties and job responsibilities: * Planning and scheduling the work activities of junior nurses in her section. * Making sure that the medical reports and instruments are kept properly and safely. * Ensuring that the patients obey the instructions and advice of the doctors and follow their prescriptions sincerely. * Ensuring that the areas where the patients are admitted are sanitized properly on a regular basis. * Directing the patients
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Healing Hospital Religious beliefs and practices are an important aspect in many of the patients’ lives who are seeking medical care and the proper treatment in medical institutions all over. This has been a challenge for many physicians and medical professionals because their training consists primarily on dealing with and treating different types of diseases and diagnoses (McCormick‚1998). Another issue that has been surrounding this topic is the privacy of the patients which medical professionals
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Services have taken on initiatives to improve quality of care for Medicare patients since the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010. In 2012 CMS implemented a program called The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRR)‚ this program is intended to improve health care for patients with Medicare to improve the quality of care that is provided versus the quantity of care. This program provides incentives to hospitals‚ which is intended to reduce costly and unnecessary readmissions (Centers for
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Spiritual Needs Among Patients With Cancer and Family Caregivers Prevalence and Associated Factors of Spiritual Needs Among Patients With Cancer and Family Caregiver Problem Statement Identify cancer patients and their caregivers spiritual needs and measure the prevalence of these spiritual needs. The patients and their caregivers can have similar spiritual needs that may require care. However‚ a nurse’s help with these spiritual needs‚ may not always be wanted. So how does the nurse identify the
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Patients’ trust during the two oncological consultations (T0 and T12) The patient sample included 128 women and 129 men. Of the 128 female patients‚ 19 were gynecology patients and 109 were oncology patients. Of the 120 male patients‚ 38 were with prostate and testicular gem-cell cancers and 82 were oncology patients. The mean age of the patient sample was 56 years (S.D. 11‚76). Cancer patients were diagnosed with a malignancy of the lung‚ breast‚ cervix‚ testis‚ liver‚ pancreas‚ or colon (Table
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Does a Nurses Workload Affect Her Ability to Care for Her Patients? Nurses are one of the most important people regarding a patient’s health in a hospital or home care setting. The nurse is the messenger that relates critical information to the doctor concerning changes in the patients’ health status. In order to report proper and accurate information to the health care provider‚ the nurse must properly do her job and complete all of the tasks assigned to her. The RN or LPN has a large amount of
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How Globalisation Influence the Hospital Industry? Prof. Sandhya Shrivastava‚ Head of the Department (MBA)‚ India Abstract In the 21st century‚ with the increasing levels of globalization in hospitality industry‚ hotel companies will need to learn different management approaches to survive and develop in environmental circumstances with high levels of uncertainty as well as understand the implication of future impacts‚ both positive and negative‚ of the changing environment in which they operate
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dedication and commitment. Nurses need to act as caregivers‚ communicators and teachers for their patients in order for them to become healthier and feel better. The nurses in the movie; American Nurse directed by Carolyn Jones portrayed all of these traits‚ even though these nurses were so different. The nurses in the film included; Naomi Cross‚ a labor and delivery nurse‚ Jason Short a nurse in Eastern Kentucky‚ Tonia Faust a hospice nurse in a prison‚ Brian McMillion a military nurse
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errors. Patient safety is the core value of the nursing profession‚ while nursing is being embraced by its caring attitude toward the patient‚ safety should be our number one priority. This research article is very important to the nursing profession‚ in part because it addresses one of the most significant issues of the profession‚ which is patient safety. According to the Nurse’s Practice environment article‚ Flynn‚ Liang‚ Dickson‚ Xie‚ & Suh (2012) RNs are well positioned to serve as patient safety
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