Outline the process for developing nursing standards of practice‚ and identify the different entities that might be involved in developing a standard of practice The American Nurses Association (ANA) advances the nursing profession by “facilitating development of the standards of nursing practice‚ promoting the rights of nurses in the workplace‚ projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing‚ and lobbying the Congress and regulatory agencies on healthcare issues affecting nurses and the public”
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Level Diploma in Diabetes Education and Clinical Care Fatima College of Health Sciences 2014–08–18/BS/AMW C2 – HS604 DIABETES CLINICAL NURSING II – Diabetes Group Education C2 - Assignment 3 Diabetes - submit: 23 September‚ 2014 Name: Name: Submission date: (Revision date:) C2 – Assignment 3 Group education plan/BS/AMW/18 August‚ 2014 Page 1 INTRODUCTION Together with an identified fellow student a written patient education report regarding a planned diabetes group education
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conditions that women find themselves faced with during pregnancy such as gestational diabetes. Gestational diabetes is a conditions which develops during pregnancy. It occurs when the body is incapable of producing enough insulin to for the mother and fetus. If not properly managed it can cause adverse complications to the mother and the baby. Bassaw et al (2012) states “the main purpose of diagnosing gestational diabetes is to identify women at high risk of adverse perinatal outcomes including macrosomia
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Family/Cultural/Ethnic Considerations: patient prefers to live alone though has family support from siblings Summary of Admission History and Progress Notes: 67-year-old male has a history of non-ischemic cardiomyopathy with ejection factor of 24%‚ chronic left ventricle thrombus on anticoagulant‚ hypertension‚ metastasis of prostate cancer‚ chronic kidney disease stage 3. Patient was admitted to UCSD emergency department on 08/20 after falling down stairs. Patient presented confused but conscious
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Diabetes Scenario Failing to double check the name of a nursing home resident‚ a student nurse accidentally gives 13 units of 70/30 insulin to a patient who also received glipizide this morning. * What should the student nurse do when she realizes the error? * Report the error to her preceptor Nurse‚ along with the Nursing Supervisor. * At what point would the insulin peak and when should blood sugars be checked? * 70/30 insulin has a peak of 2-12 hours.
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Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: an Overview Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is defined as any degree of glucose intolerance with the onset or first recognition during pregnancy. Ninety percent of those diagnosed with diabetes during pregnancy will resolve after delivery (Scollan-Koliopoulos‚ Guadagno‚ & Walker‚ 2006). Pregnancy causes estrogen‚ progesterone and human placental lactogen to become elevated which provokes malfunctioning insulin‚ which can lead to insulin resistance and decreased
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NRS 339L: Hyperglycemia Cindy Clair & Sara Scaggs Northern Kentucky University 1. Type 1 Diabetes: Formerly known as juvenile onset diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is an immune-mediated disease. The body’s own T cells attack and destroy pancreatic beta (B) cells‚ which are the source of insulin. In addition‚ autoantibodies to the islet cells cause a reduction of 80-90% of normal B cell function before hyperglycemia and other manifestations occur. (Mosby‚ 2011)
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Theoretical Framework for Nursing Practice – Module 4 A. As you read Henderson ’s definition of nursing‚ what nursing functions and actions are applicable today? Explain. Almost all basic independent nursing interventions have its basis on the fourteen nursing needs by Henderson. She described the role of the nurse as one of the following: substitutive‚ which is doing something for the patient; supplementary‚ which is helping the patient do something; or complimentary which is working
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swell (lymphoedema) and this will affect her interaction with her baby. Therefore as the nurse responsible for Irene’s care‚ a care plan of actual and potential postoperative complications of this surgery has been devised‚ this will include possible nursing interventions that would be implemented for Irene. However this assignment will concentrate on two postoperative problems that are of priority. These are pain and discomfort‚ which are associated with this type of surgery (Tschudin‚ 1996) and lymphoedema
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because of various advancement including medical and technological. Nurses must readily adapt and be able to continue to safely‚ effectively and compassionately take care of their patients. Change may be defined as an “alteration to make something different.”(Huber‚ 2010‚ p. 56) A planned change may be defined as a “process of intentional intervention to create something new.”(Huber‚ 2010‚ p. 56)This includes implementing new concepts or programs that are constructed and established‚ expanded through
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