Following Safety and Medicare Requirements in Home Care Jennifer Wilson Chamberlain School of Nursing Professor Amanda Denno NR 447 Collaborative Health Care Following Safety and Medicare Requirements in Home Care Introduction The first SMART goal is regarding the elevated re-hospitalization rates‚ and how as a team we can reduce these numbers by 10% within the next six months. I chose this goal because the Medicare requirements are changing for reimbursement rates and we are a non-for profit organization
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Collaborative Nursing Practice Collaborative Care In order to improve the quality of patient care and ensure that the goals of care are being achieved‚ many settings are using the collaborative care delivery model. The collaborative “approach involves teams of health professionals working together to provide more coordinated and comprehensive care to clients‚” (Kearney 2008). An interprofessional team can consist of nurses‚ physicians‚ care technologists nutritionists‚ counselors
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Goodman and Clemow (2010) explain that collaborative practice is actually based around two ideas. The first is that nurses need to be able to work with other professionals‚ and the second is that they need to be able to work with ‘people’. They go on to explain that the concept of collaborative practice is based on the idea that excellent patient care relies on the expertise of a number of care providers. Day (2006) points out that actually defining what collaborative working is‚ is very complex‚ and that
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Evolution of Nursing Michael Asher Grand Canyon University: NRS-430V 1/23/2015 The Evolution of Nursing of nursing will continue to change for the improvement of society. At points in the past and in the future‚ there will be arguments that there is no difference between a nurse having an ADN and a BSN. With this argument there is supporting documentation that nurses having a BSN will be better for the population as a whole. There may be room for both degrees as both have advantages
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Brittany Henson Grand Canyon University July 12‚ 2015 NRS-451V Leadership is the process of influencing‚ communicating‚ and motivating groups of people in order to accomplish goals (Huber‚ 2014). This role is underpinned with trust and requires an emotional intelligence from the leaders themselves. Other needed skills involve a cognitive ability to understand the situation at hand‚ a behavioral competency in order to adapt to the situation‚ and a process competency that allows
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SPECIALTY TRACK: INFORMATICS Chamberlain College of Nursing NR 500: Foundational Concepts and Application INTRODUCTION Clinical Informatics Registered Nurse (CI RN): “the application of informatics and information technology to deliver healthcare services” (AMIA‚ 2015). An Informatics Nurse is an advanced practice nurse who: Must be an RN Understands clinical workflows ROLES Support Evidence Based Practice (EBP) Introduce new knowledge into nursing practice Support patient safety Demonstrate interprofessional
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nurse is expected to assess‚observe and analyze patient data.The observations should correlate with patient experienced symptoms and the RN is responsible for reported these findings to physician.The expectation of the LPN and nursing assistant in the scientist role would be that of data collection.As a detective the RN would analyze all pertinent data. The RN should investigate the lab values‚observable signs and experienced symptoms to determine the association and report findings to the physician
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LPN or RN ? The medical health care field is one of the fasting growing job sectors in the world. The nursing field is expected to grow more than 25% over the next ten years. The nursing field consist of two main sectors in which one can choose the career path in witch they wish to enter. Licensed practical nurses (LPNs) care for the sick‚ injured‚ convalescent‚ and disabled under the direction of physicians and registered nurses. Most LPNs provide basic bedside care. They take vital signs
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Thank you for bringing this case to our attention. I had an opportunity to review this case with our Triage RN. Patient was referred to ED due to patient’s age (85 y/o)‚ history (long snapshot of chronic medical conditions) and symptoms (unresolved cough x 1 month‚ weakness‚ low blood pressure). Our RN thought this patient would be admitted and her intention was to expedite admission/transfer process. As far as having various conversations of ER transfers‚ we have had challenges in this area
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Saint Joseph’s College Professor Nursing 300: Professional Transitions Unit 1 part 1 December 12‚ 2011 EDUCATIONAL JOURNEY My Educational Journey at Saint Joseph’s College Professional Transitions is the first of many classes that I will experience during my journey of obtaining my Bachelors degree in Nursing at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine. Personally I have many reasons for wanting to further my nursing education. One of the main reasons for wanting
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