Patient Confidentiality: Ethical Implications to Nursing Practice Patient Confidentiality: Ethical Implications to Nursing Practice Patient confidentiality is a fundamental practice in healthcare and it is integral part of healthcare ethical standards (Purtilo & Dougherty‚ 2010). According to the American Nurses Association (ANA) code of ethics “the nurse has a duty to maintain confidentiality of all patient information” (Nursing world‚ p.6). Also‚ when a patient confidentiality
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This paper will describe the Long Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH) which is affiliated with Carson Tahoe Hospital (CTH). Long Term Acute Care hospitals were essentially non-existent in 1979. Now‚ there are over 450 facilities nationwide that are licensed as LTACS (McDaniel‚ n.d.). The discharge plan I will be describing is for a 66-yr-old female who was admitted to (CTH) for revision of a chronic enterocutaneous fistula which was draining from her abdomen through a very large open wound. This fistula
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Patient falls are an increasing concern within the healthcare system and contribute to costly treatments and lengthy hospital stays. The purpose of this article is to examine how nursing education impacts patient falls centered on evidenced-based research. Overall‚ evidence supports that nursing education can have effectively decrease falls among patients in hospitals and nursing homes. Task 1: Evidence-Based Practice and Applied Nursing Research Research guides decisions and changes we make
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Once an idea for new policy or change in existing policy is floated‚ it becomes the responsibility of a legislator to form this idea as a bill and that is where the formal policy process begins. The trigger for the passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 came from a sustained movement and public awareness campaigns by the organizations of community health workers in Massachusetts which focused on spreading awareness in public on the expansion of access to preventive services
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The Family Centered Care model‚ according to the ANA (2008)‚ acknowledges the family as the main constant in the child’s life and as being critical in the child’s plan of care. There are eight elements of family centered care‚ and together they advocate appreciating each family’s unique strengths and challenges‚ recognizing the importance of the family in planning and providing care‚ and providing collaborative care. According to Smith‚ Swallow & Coyne (2015)‚ family centered care can be viewed as a
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Course name - Law and Management in Occupational Health and Safety Patients in the Perioperative environment are often required to be repositioned on the operating table and most of these patients have had a regional or general anaesthetic‚ making it impossible for them (the patient) to assist staff in that repositioning. The added risk in any repositioning is loss or damage to the patients’ airway‚ and maintaining the patients’ musculoskeletal alignment‚ so as to not cause any damage
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Principles of Nursing Practice and Applied Health Sciences (NPCG1017 & NCPG1016) ‘ The nursing process and essential care needs ’ Summative Assignment SA072 Student ID: 25519662 Word count: 3294 (excluding reference list and text boxes) Introduction This assignment will endeavour to look at essential care needs and explore exactly what they are and why they are important. The assignment will then discuss one particular essential care need relevant for a chosen patient‚ explore this
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Evidence based patient care becomes a life long approach to clinical decision making to improve clinical outcome‚ and includes use of best evidence clinical outcome values of patient and there families. The purpose is to help bedside nurses determine the strength of evidence on the bases of the research methods. Evidence based nursing care is informed by research finding use of research evidence in clinical practice is an expected standard of practice for nurses and healthcare organizations. It determines
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Psychiatric Clinical Nursing Assessment Jennifer Stokes Daytona State College Directions: Please assess your client and place an X in the appropriate box to represent level of severity of each symptom. Patient Initials | EM | Physician | Dr. Singh | Date | 08/07/2013 | | Not Present | Very Mild | Mild | Moderate | Moderately Severe | Severe | Extremely Severe | SOMATIC CONCERNS – preoccupation with physical health‚ fear of physical illness‚ hypochondriasis | ☐ | ☐ | ☒ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐
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Haitian Culture: Impact on Nursing Care The Republic of Haiti is in the western part of the island of Hispaniola in the West Indies. It is densely populated and has the lowest per capita income in the western hemisphere (Kemp‚ 2001). The population of more than seven million is made up of mostly descendents of African slaves brought to the West Indies by French colonists. The horrible conditions in Haiti‚ such as crushing poverty‚ unemployment and illiteracy‚ and high rates of acute and chronic
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