Care‚ Staffing‚ and Patient Falls Grand Canyon University Nursing Research Nursing:433-V Angie Lawson‚ RN March 9‚ 2014 Introduction Patient safety is a concern in the hospital setting. Missed nursing care due to high nurse patient ratios‚ or staffing issues leads to patient falls. Patient falls tend to be a big issue and expensive matter for hospitals nationwide. This paper will focus on a qualitative research article regarding missed nursing care‚ staffing‚ and patient falls. Included will
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Patients that have Medicaid have poorer access to care and poorer health results than patients with private insurance. In this case‚ privately health insured patients are able to discover more opportunistic treatment options‚ swifter medical care and are able to access more primary or preventative care. Medicaid patients have a difficult time accessing health care from medical facilities due to the poor reimbursement
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A number of professionals are involved in providing health care to patients. Inter-professional practice happens when professions from more than one health care professions work together interactively to improve inter-professional collaboration for the expert purpose of improving patient care and well being (Farrell‚ Payne‚ & Heye‚ 2015). Likewise‚ Milton (as cited in Farrell‚ Payne‚ & Heye‚ 2015) defines inter-professional team-work as healthcare professionals who co-operate‚ collaborate‚ communicate
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Topic: Hospitals rejected patients Intro Attention Getter: A news from Bangkok Post (2013)- 31 years old mother was found in a terrified state at her home with a dead baby besides her. She went to a private hospital in Phaya Thai district. Staff said her insurance did not cover the birth of her baby and the service fee was at minimum of 15‚000baht. She could not afford the fees and decided to go back home. She later gave birth by herself‚ resulting in her baby’s death (Fendrickson‚ 2013). This is
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daughter brought this man to clinic in hopes that the doctors would be capable of removing her father’s tumor. After examining the patient and reviewing the CAT scans‚ Dr. Chen realized that the tumor was inoperable and she had to tell the family the tragic news. “I had these kinds of conversations in the past and could only imagine how difficult it would be for this patient and his daughter. I wanted to be compassionate with them‚ to take the time to listen and to acknowledge their fears and concerns
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Nursing Leadership and Patient Outcomes Wong‚ Cummins and Ducharme (2013) conducted a systematic review of studies in 2013 to examine the relationship between “nursing leadership practices and patient outcomes” (p.710). With an intent to improve patient outcomes‚ the authors had conducted a similar review in the past; however‚ limited results of studies warranted additional research on this topic. Their study involved extracting and analyzing a variety of leadership skills and patient outcomes; through
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Heavy Patient to Nurse Ratios Decreasing Job Satisfaction and Increasing Turnover The effects of inadequate bedside nurse staffing levels on job satisfaction and turnover rates is of major concern in healthcare facilities nationwide. In this paper‚ I will summarize evidenced-based nursing research which shows that heavy patient assignments and high patient to nurse ratios are contributing to staff burnout and dissatisfaction in the workplace and results in increased turnover rates of the registered
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A hospital is a faced paced dynamic environment involving private and personal life changing events to the patients it serves. Patients depend on the doctors‚ nurses‚ and laboratory technicians‚ all persons that will be involved in their care‚ to have the training and experience to provide the highest quality of care and safe‚ effective treatment. Publication of the report “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System” in 2000 has brought to public attention to the numerous errors that can
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Plan Profile I am currently on a Mental Health placement at a local hospital. Mr Burns is a 75 year old man to protect the client the name has been changed under the data Protection Act 1998 that has been on the all-male dementia ward since 2007. Mr Burns has Alzheimer’s disease‚ stomach ulcers‚ prone to seizures and Dysphasia. Using Rober‚ Logan and Tierney’s model the 13 activities of daily living the priorities for Mr Burns are personal cleaning and dressing‚ mobilizing and eating and drinking
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Checkpoint: Patient Self-Determination Act The law is intended to encourage possible life-sustaining treatment in the event that they become seriously ill or injured and are not able to specify their desires at that time. According to this law; all hospitals‚ nursing homes‚ home health agencies‚ and hospice programs receiving federal Medicare and Medicaid are now required to create formal procedures that provide written information at admission to patients about decision making a treatment refusal
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