Emerging Standards of Care Paper Amanda Warbington University of Phoenix NUR 531 June 30‚ 2014 Instructor Hilda Brito Emerging Standards of Care Paper Over fifty years ago‚ Madeline Leininger was on a mission to advance the practice of transcultural nursing. Times have definitely changed in the last fifty years‚ and transcultural nursing has become a major focus for the government as well as many nursing organizations. Emerging standards of care regarding culturally competent care‚ is an important
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Care of the Child in the Emergency Department This essay will seek to critically reflect on the presentation of a fourteen year old female patient with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) to the Paediatric Emergency Department (PED) of an inner city acute trust hospital‚ particularly within the context of family centred care (FCC) and its delivery within the PED. Reflection will be through use of the Gibb’s reflective model (Gibbs‚ 1988). This model enables the user to look at what happened; their
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Chapter 66: Nursing Management: Critical Care Test Bank MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. A 68-year-old patient has been in the intensive care unit for 4 days and has a nursing diagnosis of disturbed sensory perception related to sleep deprivation. Which action should the nurse include in the plan of care? a. Administer prescribed sedatives or opioids at bedtime to promote sleep. b. Cluster nursing activities so that the patient has uninterrupted rest periods. c. Silence the alarms on the cardiac monitors to allow
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Critical Care Nursing: Sickle Cell Anemia Critical Care Nursing 10/15/2009 Sickle cell anemia affects millions of people worldwide. Sickle cell anemia is a disease in which your body produces abnormally shaped red blood cells. They don’t last as long as normal‚ round red blood cells‚ which leads to anemia. Sickle cells contain abnormal hemoglobin that causes the cells to have a sickle shape. Sickle-shaped cells don’t move easily through your blood vessels. They’re
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Staffing Levels on Nursing Quality and Care In recent years‚ the healthcare industry has seen a significant decline in the quality of patient care it provides. This has been the result of reduced staffing levels‚ overworked nurses‚ and an extremely high nurse to patient ratio. The importance of nurse staffing in hospital settings is an issue of great controversy. Too much staff results in costs that are too great for the facility to bear‚ but too little staffing results in patient care that is greatly
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Nursing Diagnosis(ND): Ineffective breathing pattern Related to (R/T): The patient has decreased lung compliance. As Evidenced By (AEB): The patient having dyspnea and abnormal ABGs Desired Patient Outcomes(Goals) Nursing Interventions Rationales Evaluation STG: Patient will: Patient will exhibit signs of effective breathing pattern before end of Nursing shift. 1. Nurse will monitor patient’s prescribed oxygen therapy. 2. Nurse will titrate oxygen to keep oxygen greater than ninety
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outcomes of many of my patients. In particular‚ my final position before retiring was caring for several infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome‚ both in the home and as support of the family during hospitalizations. However‚ the skilled-nursing home care was to help keep hospitalizations at a minimum. Hypoplastic left heart syndrome is a congenital defect‚ by which the left side of the heart is grossly underdeveloped‚ and prior to 1990‚ infants died shortly after birth due to circulatory collapse
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Considered Health Care Essay: The Brit Plan “We the People of the United States‚ in Order to form a more perfect Union… promote the general Welfare‚ and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity‚ do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” Are you familiar with quote? I would hope so; after all you are a part of Congress. This is the first line of our constitution‚ the foundation of our whole country. I have come before you today because "A
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CARE OF THE MOTHER/ FETUS during the PERINATAL period Prenatal care • A. ASSESSMENT • HISTORY • P.E. • S/S of pregnancy • Diagnostic procedures and lab exams • Vital signs • Common discomforts • Danger signs • Local and systemic changes of pregnancy • B. Nursing diagnosis • C. Planning/ intervention • Health promotion./management Nutrition metabolic • Elimination
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Independent study | Bill Clinton’s Health Care Plan | [Ide írhatja a dokumentum alcímét] | | | | [Ide írhatja be a dokumentum kivonatát‚ amely rendszerint a dokumentum rövid összefoglalása. Ide írhatja be a dokumentum kivonatát‚ amely rendszerint a dokumentum rövid összefoglalása.] | Content 1. Why did he try to change? Why was it necessary? 2.1. The way towrds the reform………………………………………………….3 2.2. Theodore Roosevelt………………………………………………………….3 2.3. Franklin
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