The Balanced Scorecard: Omnicare Pharmacy Omnicare Pharmacy is a provider of pharmaceutical care to long-term nursing homes and facilities. The services are focused on the residents we serve and improving their quality of life‚ along with reducing the cost of the pharmacy bill. As a result‚ our vision as a pharmacy provider is to provide the right drug‚ right dose‚ and to the right patient (Omnicare 2010). In order to achieve the vision we have set for ourselves we need
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goal. I graduated from Highline Community College last year with honor degree. Even though I already obtained my AA degree in Pre-Nursing‚ gaining my knowledge in the medical field is not enough for me. I want to gain more clinical patient experience and help people with all my heart. In order to strengthen my clinical experience‚ I also took the CNA class at Blossom Nursing Assistant Training School while studying at HCC and received the CNA license. Currently‚ I’m working at Stafford Suites Senior
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ANA Largely understood‚ ethics consist of principles‚ which guide the behavior of entities‚ groups or professions (Wilkins 2007). Nurses as professionals make autonomous decisions on how they will care for patients. But they are still held accountable to their profession as a whole as regards these autonomous decisions. A nurse’s deportment has been vastly scrutinized from the start. The famous Florence Nightingale pledge in 1893 included the vow to “abstain from anything deleterious and mischievous…
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NURSING PROCESS The client is a 70 year old‚ Caucasian male who is a retired siding salesman from Riverside‚ IA‚ who has an extensive history with Paralysis agitans (Parkinson’s disease). The client was first admitted to the long term care facility in December 2012. The client explained that he came to be at this facility after “already being in two places like this”. He was removed/discharged from the last long-term care facility for being what he called “disruptive”.
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miscarriage‚ is used to signify delivery of a nonviable embryo or fetus due to fetal or maternal factors‚ as opposed to purposely induced abortion. Therapeutic abortion is an induced abortion performed to preserve the health or life of the mother. Abortion‚ when induced in the developed world in accordance with local law‚ is among the safest procedures in medicine. However‚unsafe abortions result in approximately 70‚000 maternal deaths and 5 million hospital admissions per year globally. An estimated 44 million
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Nurse Educator The AACN Preferred Vision of the Professoriate in Baccalaureate and Graduate Nursing Programs (2008) states that “courses in the nursing program will be taught by faculty with graduate-level academic preparation and advanced expertise in the areas of content they teach.” There is national recognition‚ however‚ of the growing shortage of nursing educators to fill faculty and other educator roles within the healthcare delivery system. Master’s programs that prepare graduates for nurse
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Nursing professionals are to be advocates for patients and always looking out for the patient’s best interest. Likewise‚ nurses should use the same example in their daily profession and strive to be the best professionally as he or she can be (ANA1). In doing so‚ nurses act as a leader without holding a leadership title. Leadership is defined as the use of individual traits and abilities to adapt to the environment or a particular situation and the ability to creatively solve problems identified
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What is nursing? What exactly does it mean to nurse a patient‚ and how has this definition changed over the past centuries? What does the discipline of nursing consist of? In this essay‚ I aim to attempt to answer these questions‚ along with the help of a myriad of nursing researchers whose studies have helped to broaden my perspective on what exactly it is that I now do for a living. I will be discussing the different types of nursing knowledge that assists us as nurses to care for patients and
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situations arise and the context of practice changes. DESCRIPTION It is a Sunday morning; I was on duty as an on call manager for the day. I have been called by a junior nurse from maternity ward to set a peripheral line for her patient under her care. As a junior nurse she is not confident to set a line by looking at patient condition that is very weak. Without delaying‚ I went to visit that particular patient to help my nurse. This patient is a 40 years old Malay lady‚ who had done Total Abdominal
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For my final exam question my choice was: Discuss research utilization in nursing practice versus evidenced based practice of nursing. Are the definitions interchangeable? The reference chapter used was chapter 17 in the text book titled Using Research Findings in Practice Settings. I would like to start off by defining Research Utilization and Evidence Based Practice. Research utilization refers to using research knowledge to change an existing clinical practice or profession situation
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