Improving Patient Care and Quality Utilizing the Electronic Health Record Melissa Fuller HCA 417 John Saindon April 29‚ 2013 Improving Patient Care and Quality Utilizing the Electronic Health Record Improving patient care is a process that always has room for improvements. It is important to make sure patients receive the best quality care available. "Studies suggest that high quality patient care relies on careful documentation of each patient ’s medical history‚ health
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This assignment will present a nursing care study of a patient on a cardiac ward. The patient will be referred to as Ann to maintain confidentiality (NMC‚ 2008). Ann’s consent was gained prior to starting this care study. The care study will be developed using the Nursing process and the Roper‚ Logan and Tierney model. These will both be outlined. The assignment will focus on the assessment process and one problem identified during the assessment and the nursing care which followed this. I was placed
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Effect of Diabetes on Healthcare and Nursing It can be argued that there is no greater health concern in the world‚ and in particular‚ the United States than the rapidly increasing number of people diagnosed with diabetes. Relatively recent changes to the diet and lifestyle of the general public have created a "perfect storm" of conditions that seem to perpetuate the onset of diabetes in an increasing number of people on a daily basis. According to the American Diabetes Association‚ the annual
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infrastructure and processes in primary care‚ specialty clinics and mental health. The focus of The Patient Experience Objectives are to improve the utilization process‚ improve the scheduling process and improve the transfer of care process. Economic‚ Environmental and Healthcare Trends In developing the organizations strategic plan it was important for leadership to focus on the economic‚ environmental and healthcare trends affecting the organization. Economically the VA struggles
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Care Plans. Care plan for a long-standing condition called myxoedema‚ which is a condition I had never come across before. Therefore‚ in order to compile an accurate and comprehensive care plan I had to look into what myxoedema was. Myxoedema is caused by hypothyroidism (under activity of the thyroid gland). Myxoedema refers to the buildup of mucoploysaccharide in the subcutaneous tissues of the skin (Kumar and Clark‚ 1998). Signs and symptoms of myxoedema include oedematous swelling of the
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In the 1800’s an effort to redefine nursing‚ by improving upon patient care‚ Florence Nightingale stands as the patron leader. She went onto grapple with the task of improving upon deplorable hospital conditions; while‚ measuring patient’s outcomes in a statistical method. Over a hundred years later‚ more recent compiled research related to a link between hospital staffing issues and adverse patient outcomes grabs the attention of internal and external healthcare populations. In the 90’s and early
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employees experience negative feelings or emotions that result from conflict‚ it may cause them to neglect their patient care responsibilities. During an argument employees blow out‚ the tension between parties affects others around including patients. The opportunities for mistakes with medications increases because the mind is focused on the conflict; the ability to deliver an appropriate care is in danger for the emotional distress that both employees are experiencing. I remember that when I used
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Nursing diagnosis for patient with AIDS (in the movie Philadelphia) Imbalanced Nutrition: Less than body requirements R/T inability to ingest nutrients (Gulanick & Myers‚ 2007) AEB vomiting three times per day after each meal‚ 35lb weight loss in past 60 days‚ height of patient is 5’8” weight of 110lbs (Demme‚ 1993). Impaired Skin Integrity – AIDS‚ R/T immune deficiency; AIDS related dermatitis (Gulanick & Myers‚ 2007) AEB Approximately 10‚ 3 x 2 cm reddened lesions to face and torso‚ lesions
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Altered physiology and emergency nursing care of patient with exacerbations of COPD within the first two hours in A&E Introduction The following essay will discuss the case of Mr Jones‚ who was admitted to the A&E department following a worsening of his symptoms of COPD. The focus of the essay is to provide a detailed plan of the management and emergency care of patients with exacerbations of COPD in A&E within the first two hours of their admission. The essay will guide us through
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Electronic Nursing Documentation as a Strategy to Improve Quality of Patient Care Nursing documentation is of utmost importance to nurses in the delivery of quality patient care. Prior to the advent of electronic nursing documentation‚ nurses used the paper based system to document patients’ information. Electronic nursing documentation brought with it some benefits ranging from easy retrieval of patients’ information using the copy-and-paste feature (which allows nurses to copy previously documented
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