Mandatory Hospital Nurse-To Patient Ratio in the Healthcare Field (Professor/Instructor) November 07‚ 2011 Mandated nurse-to-patient ratios are a controversial topic in healthcare. In this practice‚ state laws are established that require a certain level of staffing within a particular unit. Organizations such as hospitals must balance income with expenditures‚ and nurses and patients may be affected by these decisions. Mandating ratios is one attempt at ensuring nurses’ workloads do not exceed
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(Patient Testimonials) Patient Testimonials At J. Wesley Anderson‚ Jr.‚ DDS The proof of our great dental services comes from our dedicated patients. Our patients of all ages have enjoyed our comprehensive dental treatments‚ from general dentistry to more advanced restorative procedures. We take pride in giving our patients a smile that will last for years and look absolutely stunning. But don’t simply take our word for it; see what our patients are saying. Read through our testimonials to see
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Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing Marissa Meyer NUR/391 Nov. 24‚ 2014 Sharon Berry Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing Throughout a nurse’s professional career‚ many difficult ethical and legal situations will arise. Since nurses are given the unique privilege of caring for patients and their families‚ it is important to uphold certain professional standards. The American Nursing Association (ANA) Code of Nursing Ethics provides a foundation on which a nurse should conduct her professional life
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Patients can be harmed from health care‚ resulting in permanent injury‚ increased lengths of stay in hospital and even death. Over the past 15 years‚ adverse events occur not because people working in medical professions intentionally hurt patients‚ but rather due to the complexity of health-care systems‚ where treatment and care depend on many factors‚ in addition to the competence of health-care providers. When so many and varied types of health-care providers‚ such as dentists‚ dieticians‚ doctors
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Patient adherence plays a huge role in the health outcome/goal. There are many social and economical factors that affect adherence and there can be intentional or nonintentional nonadherence. I think that the information-motivation-strategy model can be successful it carried out correctly and to it’s fullest extent. Informing the patient about the benefits and uses of taking the medication is key to increase patient adherence. As a patient‚ I would not take a medication if I didn’t know the actual
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PATIENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 1. Title of the project: Patient Management System 2. Domain: Hospital 3. Project Architecture: N-Tire Architecture 4. SDLC methodologies: Waterfall model 5. Abstract of the project: In a given day‚ number of patients visits a hospital or a clinic. Many hospitals in India still manage the patient data manually. Hospitals will be able to save money and time if they have a good software program for managing patient’s data. The idea is to develop
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Education becomes a fundamental thing for a person in improving science‚ with the educated it will back up the level of maturity of a person is thinking and acting good of all affairs. according to Ki Hajar Dewantara (1989)‚ Education is an effort to promote character (character‚ inner strength)‚ mind (Intellect) and children’s body in harmony with nature and society. Tri Joko (2014) in Edgar Dalle that education is a conscious effort undertaken by family‚ community‚ and government through guidance
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Nurse Patient Relationship Nurse-patient relationship According Cutliffe and McKenna (2005)‚ research‚ theoretical and educational literature on interpersonal relations between nurses and patients has proliferated since the 1960s. This has generated a range of divergent accounts of what the nurse-patient relationship (NPR) ought to be‚ how this should be achieved‚ and how the NPR is constituted in practice. I have chosen the concept of nurse-patient relationship because this relationship
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Patients’ internet use and its effects on the healthcare professional-patient relationship The use of Internet plays an increasingly important role on receiving health information. About 50% of the people who were able to access to the Internet in the US sought health information during 1997(Eng et al‚ 1998‚ as cited in Cline and Haynes‚2001). The prevalence of searching health information from the internet by the patients has‚ without doubt‚ affected the healthcare professional-patient relationship
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1. Provide an overview of the problem and briefly describe the methodology the study. The study was aiming to find if the patients’ perception to their physicians’ attentiveness this affect the relation between the physician’s recommendations regarding the diet and the exercises and the obese patients’ general health status. The study was recruited an ethnic group (from three ethnic groups: Caucasians‚ Hispanics‚ and African Americans) from 48 contiguous United States who were surveyed by telephone
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