Nurse Practitioners (NP) are becoming an important part of today’s health care system and their role has grounded in the disciple of nursing. Many studies proved the effectiveness of NP as a primary care provider compared to physician. These studies also indicated that care provided by NP in primary care settings brought improved patient satisfaction. This improved satisfaction is related to certain approaches NPs used in patient interaction such as‚ openness‚ connection‚ concern‚ respect‚ reciprocity
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Abstract Nurse staffing has always been an issue in the hospital setting. Different units with different patient acuities are staffed accordingly usually based on the patient census. While nurses who are in direct contact care with patients feel that a decreased patient load will lead to greater benefit for the patient‚ others who are usually in managerial positions are not persuaded that such a correlation exists. As of this time‚ no such research has been done with an intentional change in staffing
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assess fellow surgical nurses’ performance. Since there are some hindrances and factors affecting the delivery of quality nursing care to the post-operative patients starting from the time they were transferred from the post-anesthesia care unit after operation to the ward until discharged. And within that period of care‚ problems arise in care plan and implementation especially on the aspect of patient-handling or what we call hands-on care. As a result‚ the study is conducted to investigate the
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The authors‚ nurse‚ psychiatrist and dual diagnosis program manager researched from the centre of addiction and mental health‚ Toronto‚ Ontario‚ Canada. The author’s intent is to describe the role of forensic nurses in assessing and managing risk of violent decline in offenders who have mental illness in forensic psychiatric mental health settings. The target audience is offenders who have mental illness‚ and nurses. This article presents risk assessment of forensic patient nurses’ role. It describes
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Communication and Nursing My ultimate goal is to become a pediatric nurse. In this field as in many others communication is very important. Everyone needs to be in the loop of what is going on to get a clear understanding of whatever the situation may be. This is where all 9 elements come into play‚ although I will only speak of a few. As a speaker the speech pattern is imperative. The nurses/patient(s) voice should be clear‚ strong‚ fluent‚ and articulate with a clear expression of thought. Abnormalities
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During the case study the patient I have chosen will be referred to as Jean. This is to maintain her anonymity in line with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (2008) guidelines of confidentiality. I feel it is important for the purpose of my scenario to acknowledge the new skills which I have acquired whilst undertaking the V150 and explain the background to Nurse Prescribing. The Cumberledge Report (DHSS‚ 1986) made the initial recommendations for nurses to prescribe. The report identified
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Preventing Patient Falls in Inpatient Hospital Settings Introduction For the most part‚ hospitals are places where one comes for healing and it is place where our clients should feel safe and away from harm. Nurses have an important role as a patient advocate and are to provide all clients with safe‚ compassionate‚ and quality care at all times. Nonetheless‚ the hospital can also be a dangerous place for inpatients. It is a foreign environment to clients and there may be alterations in their
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Measuring and Assessing Patient Safety Neribel Claudio HCA 375 John Gomillion July 25‚ 2010 Measuring and Assessing Patient Safety Patient safety is such an essential part of our health care system and it helps describe quality health care. Keeping the patients safe is a challenging issue because errors and mistakes can and do happen every day. Error occurs “when a process does not proceed the way that it was intended by its designers and managers” (McLaughlin & Kaluzny 2006)
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provided to hospitalized patients. Patients who are unable to bathe themselves are dependent on nursing staff for their hygienic needs. This population includes patients who are unable to care for themselves due to physical limitations such as age‚ bowel or bladder incontinence‚ injury and illness. The traditional bathing technique of soap and water provides good hygiene but dries out the skin. The use of wash clothes produces friction‚ is abrasive and leaves the patient at risk for skin breakdown
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Peplau’s interpersonal relations model examines the communal interconnection of the nurse and the patient and distinguishes the patent’s emotions and impressions as a prognosticator of positive aftereffects related to health and wellness. The concrete examples are stress and anxiety during hospitalization facing acute illness such as patients of any age encountered stress and anxiety in many ways‚ whether during critical disease or flare up of chronic diseases that ended to hospitalization. In addition
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