All organisations must ensure they have in place safe recruitment policies and practices‚ including enhanced Disclosure & barring service (DBS) checks for all staff‚ including agency staff‚ students and volunteers‚ working with children. To fulfil their commitment to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people all organisations that provide services for children‚ parents or families‚ or work with children‚ should have in place: Clear priorities for safeguarding and promoting the
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E1. Five main legislations which influence healthy‚ safe and secure environments for early years settings are: 1. Health and Safety at Work 1974 2. Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSSH) Regulations 2002 3. Reporting of Injuries‚ Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) 1995 4. Childcare Act 2006 5. Food Safety Act 1990 E2. Bump on the head The procedure that the practitioner should follow when child bumps his/ her head is: Check if the child
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Over recent years‚ there have been many debates over whether holistic or conventional medicine is the more reliable type of treatment for a patient. Holistic medicine‚ also called Naturopathy‚ is the art and science of treating the whole person: body‚ mind‚ and soul. Some different holistic practices are acupuncture‚ chiropractic care‚ herbal and vitamin therapy‚ and massage therapy. Conventional medicine‚ also called Allopathic medicine‚ is the practice of using drugs‚ radiation‚ or surgery to treat
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Metaparadigm In order to provide the right dimension of care to meet the individual needs of each patient‚ each component of the metaparadigm of nursing must be considered. This metaparadigm was first developed by Florence Nightingale and is still a valid and important tool nurses use every day. Its four components are person‚ environment‚ health and nursing each works to help the other for a better understanding and application of proper care (Fawcett‚ 1994). The first paradigm refers not only
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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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Pocholo N. Isidro R.N. Philippine Women’s University‚ Master of Arts in Nursing Theoretical Framework for Nursing Practice – Module 3 A. What are the 5 types of concepts and its characteristics? Give an example of each type. 1. Primitive Concepts are those that have a culturally shared meaning (Walker and Avant‚ 2005 as cited by Peterson and Bredow‚ 2009) or are those that are introduced as new in the theory (Meleis‚ 1997 as cited by Peterson and Bredow‚ 2009). For instance‚ in culturally
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Abstract Leadership in nursing is an important role that facilitates the delivery of successful nursing care and patient satisfaction in the medical field. In every work atmosphere‚ there are always leaders and followers. Both contribute to building a safe and effective workplace. The leaders motivate staff members and inspire them to work up to a particular goal‚ while the followers are guided by the nursing leaders. There are a few different leadership styles‚ some good and some bad‚ which
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Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals‚ families‚ and communities so they may attain‚ maintain‚ or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to patient care‚ training‚ and scope of practice. Nurses practice in a wide diversity of practice areas with a different scope of practice and level of prescriber authority in each. Many nurses provide care within the ordering scope
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any change in a patient‚ it can vary the patient’s recovery path which alters the result of the medication. The poor recording of important signals‚ not reporting worsening conditions‚ failure to check on the patient’s conditions results in below par care of patients in the ward (Odell Victor & Oliver 2009). Thus‚ a nurse who is keen in observing and spotting arising early complications helps in reducing patients’ negative results. It is important to note that if the conditions’ of a patient worsens
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make important decisions on their patients care. Intuition is a basic piece of nursing science that becomes possibly the most important factor when healthcare providers get to oblivious learning without restraint or speculation. One can also assume that intuition is also based on their overall experiences and knowledge acquired during their nursing practices. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the article based upon the concept analysis on nursing intuition towards the description of method
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