PATIENT ASSESSMENT - It provides objective information about the person which is essential in the nursing process. Methods of Examinations: (IPPA) • INSPECTION - assessing by using the sense of sight. - used to assess: color‚ rashes‚ scars and body structures. • PALPATION – assessing by the use of touch. - used to assess: texture‚ temperature‚ vibration‚ position‚ mobility of organs‚ distension‚ peripheral pulse‚ tenderness and pain.
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Today‚ community hospital becomes a fast-paced environment. The growing number of consumers‚ including the median age from 40 to 41 years old in the American health care system; the community hospital strategic management is a fender-bender with the country economy and politic. In the same vein‚ the Patient protection and Affordable Care Act expansion of health care of many New Jersey’s people have allowed some things that were limited. People with a pre-existing condition and the children who remain
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Family Assessment Assignment Cheryl Shelton Family Assessment Goldfarb School of Nursing Instructor: Jan Holbrook Family Assessment Assignment A family nursing assessment was done on the Lois G. family during three nursing visits over a period of one month. The family lives at 1234 Main St. and their home phone number is 314-987-6543. This is a lower- middle class (Friedman‚ Bowden & Jones E.G.‚ 2003)‚ African American‚ Baptist‚ single-parent‚ career‚ divorced family that is child-oriented
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Running head: NURSING INFORMATICS Nursing Informatics Jeannette Magbutay‚ RN Western Governors University Author’s Note: This paper was prepared for Nursing Informatics taught by Professor Mary Sizemore NURSING INFORMATICS 2 Nursing Informatics Before a healthcare provider sees a patient‚ they need to know the patient’s medical background. The providers need to see the patient’s laboratory results‚ medications‚ previous illnesses‚ and any prior surgical procedures. Researching
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The Future of Nursing: Leading change and Advancing health Cicely Leufroy Grand Canyon Universtiy October 19‚ 2014 Education and leadership is what drives nursing practice today. With the constant growth of the nursing profession education is becoming more important to keep up with the change. In order to make change happen as a nurse you must have leadership skills. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a report addressing the future of nursing as we know it. This paper will focus on how
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My research paper is dealing with structure and planning in the medical field. Planning is the conscious‚ systematic process of making decisions about goals and activities that an individual‚ group‚ work unit or organization will pursue in the future‚ Management(p120). Lisa Taglione‚ RN nursing manager for the Cardiac Floor at Wilmington‚ NC mission vision for the unit is to care for patient with the care that you will want. The standard of planning she has for the unit and also for the organization
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standardized terminologies for they are “central to care planning and communicating vital care information” (Tastan et al.‚ 2014‚ p. 1162). Over the past four decades‚ nursing has been developing standardized nursing terminology (SNT). Using SNT improves communication among nurses and other providers‚ increases visibility of nursing interventions and outcomes‚ improves patient care‚ and facilitates greater adherence to standards of care (Schwirian‚ 2013). The American Nurses
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Contemporary Issues in Nursing Contemporary Issues in Nursing There are many contemporary nursing issues. This paper will look into Transcultural Nursing‚ one of the more important issues‚ especially in tri-state area. According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census (2000)‚ over 30% of the total population‚ or one out of every three persons in the United States (U.S.)‚ is comprised of various ethnicities other than non-Hispanic Whites. This statistic highlights that the U.S. has a significant
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Spiritual Needs Assessment Spiritual assessment tools are essential for evaluating spiritual needs to a patient. The intention is to evaluate patient spiritual and psychological needs. Finding these tools is not an easy task because it is the best way in which patient spiritual needs can be observed. However‚ spiritual assessment tools are use to collect information that will promote the healing process of the patient. This paper will emphasize on the creation of the tools with five questions
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Risk Assessment Paper University of Phoenix 7/10/2011 Risk Assessment Paper The use of pesticides is an important decision that thousands of communities face each year. Nobody likes dealing with mosquitos and the diseases they bring so using chemicals and pesticides is an option but with other consequences. Mosquitos carry West Nile Virus that affects the city of Genericville every year with 50 cases projected this year in the city and two fatalities as well. On the other hand‚ the chemicals
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