The Texas Board of Nursing (BON) implemented Safe Harbor for nurses to have a formal procedure to object to an unsafe situation in the workplace. The nurse’s duty is always to the patient! The BON (2013) refers to the duty of a nurse “always advocate for patient safety‚ including any nursing action necessary to comply with the standards of nursing practice and to avoid engaging in unprofessional conduct. This includes administrative decisions directly affecting a nurse’s ability to comply with
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Nursing Care in Rural Communities Holly J. Copher Angelo State University Population Focused Community Health Nursing Nursing Care in Rural CommunitiesLiving in a rural community can present challenges for residents in receiving adequate health care. Many believe that rural communities present less health risks than urban communities. In actuality‚ they each have their own unique health problems and risks. In rural areas‚ the elderly population is at risk for not obtaining sufficient healthcare
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Should the Government Provide Health Care? Health care here in America is a hot topic among the conversations around the water cooler. Between the slow economic recession we are all facing and the high cost of medical coverage‚ and more and more American’s are having to go without. Among working-age adults (those ages 18-64)‚ 19.8% did not have health insurance in 2006‚ an increase in the percent uninsured from 18.9% the year before. (CDC‚ 2007) Is there a health care crisis in America? Should
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Marketing Discussion | Marketing Planning | | Professor Marshall | | BINGXUAN WANG 0154801 | 2013/5/16 | | Marketing Discussion Marketing Planning Consider Porter’s value chain and the holistic marketing orientation model. What implications do they have for marketing planning? How would you structure a marketing plan to incorporate some of their concepts? A value chain is a chain of activities that a firm operating in a specific industry performs in order to deliver
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The nursing professional faces a lot of decision making process on a daily bases. The Effectiveness of decision making process is crucial to ensuring positive out comes in the clinical Settings. If the nursing process is misunderstood or misapplied to the decision-making process by failure to use critica thinking skills‚ the results can be damaging to the anticipated outcomes. Furthermore‚ an imaturity in critical thinking may influnce decisions because of insufficient knowledge and experience
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Anatomy and Physiology from Science to Life second edition. Hoboken‚ NJ: John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc. Lilley‚ L.‚ Rainforth-Collins‚ S.‚ Harrington‚ S.‚ & Snyder‚ J. (2011). Pharmacology and the nursing process. (6th ed.). St. Louis‚ MO: Mosby Elsevier. Potter‚ P. A.‚ & Perry‚ A. G. (2009). Fundamentals of Nursing seventh edition. St. Louis‚ MO: Mosby Elsevier. Skidmore‚ L. (2011). Mosby’s drug guide for nurses. (9th ed.). St. Louis‚ MO: Mosby Elsevier. .
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Name: John Doe Class: NRN 101 Date: 12/12/12 Pt. initial RB Age 100 Date of Admit 01/01/01 DOB 07/01/01 Code Status full Allergies NKDA Admitting Diagnosis: Pneumonia secondary to a bacterial infection Nursing Diagnosis: Risk for ineffective tissue perfusion (arterial‚ venous‚ and peripheral) STG: Patient will have adequate perfusion AEB Spo2= 95% or greater LTG: Patient will maintain adequate tissue perfusion to vital organs AEB mucous membranes‚ capillary refill time
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19-1 titled “Organizational and Cultural Change for Providing Safe Patient Care”‚ on page 382 through 383‚ is about a Department of Medicine (DoM) in an urban academic medical center where in the past 2 years there has been cases where patients had needlessly suffered serious harm. Even though the cases were far and in betweeen‚ and most of the employees were comfortable with the status quo however‚ “the chairperson’s view of patient care safety meant that there was no place for such incidents.” Incidentally
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Course No.: SMV 795 Systems Thinking Course Coordinator: Prof. Sushil Assignment No. 1 Title of Assignment: Take a sector and map the trends towards holistic thinking in management Date of submission: August 17‚ 2009 TITLE: Take a sector and map the trends towards holistic thinking in management 1 Introduction Numerous activities and processes must be managed within a company. In order to satisfy the customers and to be commercially successful in the business environment‚ these
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Student Name: Dealon Rouse | Patient Initials: JB | Admission Diagnosis: Left Total Knee Arthroplasty &Excision of Left Knee Mass Related to Gouty Arthritis | Date(s) of Care: 11/10/11- 11/12/11 | Age: 46 | | Date of Admission: 11/10/11 | Gender: Male | | Marital Status: Married | Room #: 507 | Code Status: Full Code | Occupation: Electrician | Race: Hispanic | Isolation Type: | Religion: Roman Catholic | | Allergies: No Known Allergies | History of Present Illness:
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