Patient advocacy requires nurses to support and protect their patients. Nurses often find themselves in ethically questionable situations that conflict with their personal and professional morals. Sometimes‚ speaking out for the patient requires them to demonstrate moral courage—for instance‚ in the face of conflicting loyalties‚ in highly charged conflict situations‚ or when the patient’s rights are being violated. This article provides an overview of moral courage‚ defines important terms‚ examines
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Title: What makes for good quality care in residential settings? What actually is residential care and who we care for? Residential care is for people who can not continue living in their own home‚ even with support from home care services. You can stay in residential care for a short time known as respite care‚ over a longer period or permanently. There is a wide range of reasons for needing this type of support‚ for example‚ if a person has significant physical disabilities‚ learning disabilities
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CT 301 1.1 List legislation relating to general health and safety in a sociel care setting. Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 (also referred to as HSWA‚ the HSW Act‚ the 1974 Act or HASAWA) is the primary piece of legislation covering occupational health and safety in Great Britain. The Health and Safety Executive‚ with local authorities (and other enforcing authorities) is responsible for enforcing the Act and a number of other Acts and Statutory Instruments relevant to the working environment
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Observation of Patients Florence Nightingale is said to be one of the major influences in nursing throughout history and today. In 1898‚ she wrote Notes on Nursing What it is‚ and What it is Not. Her ‘notes’ on nursing outline many of the nursing practices used and implemented in today’s practices. Observation in patient’s is a key element in being able to give proper care and gathering the proper data‚ as well as being able to properly assess and monitor the patient to enable them to make
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Health and Safety. Introduction The quality of health and safety of the environment is greatly affected by the environment itself‚ never more so than in the health care setting‚ where patients and clients may be more vulnerable than in there own homes. Florence Nightangale suggested that patients in health care settings may be harmed just by being there. Health and Safety commission (1992) places a general duty on employers to ensure the health and safety of employees. Infection Control
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Should providers be paid for the quality of care they provide? How might this be accomplished? How might opinions vary between patients‚ payers‚ and providers on this issue - do you think their opinions will be different from each other? Explain your conclusions. There has been an equally longstanding interest in how the cost of health services to consumers affects the services they seek out and use‚ along with the implications of this for overall costs at various levels of aggregation. But there
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a nurse’s perspective‚ it is effortless to say that the Patient Portability and Accountability Act is a topic that is very controversial. Although the Affordable Care Act is supported by the American Nurses Association‚ not all nurses are individually supporting it. There are a number of reasons for this divide. Many nurses are concerned about the strain that the Affordable Care Act is putting on their workplace. Through the Affordable Care Act‚ many people who did not have access to health insurance
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Performance HCS/451 Health Care Quality Management and Outcomes Analysis This paper will propose how TriCity Medical Center will monitor performance‚ achieve regulatory and accreditation compliance‚ and improve overall organizational performance. It will describe ways TCMC will communicate with leadership to ensure alignment of organizational goals and gain buy-in from staff to achieve compliance with the standards and requirements issued by regulatory and accreditation bodies. Also it will
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relating to health and safety in a health or social care work setting; • Health and Safety at Work Act (HASWA) 1974 - ensures the health and safety of everyone who may be affected by work activities. • Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations (MHSWR) 1999 - requires employers and managers to carry out risk assessments to eliminate or minimise risks to health and safety. • Workplace‚ (Health‚ Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 - minimises the risks to health and safety associated with working
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The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA). Regarding for the first records manager‚ there are a programmed plan that consisted of records management project and a freedom of information (FOI) project need to develop. The programmed should include the survey process‚ policy by the NPSA and also updating the policy and approach. Keywords: NPSA‚ appraisal and retention scheduling‚ pilot survey‚ policy and approach 1.0) Introduction of the article In July 2001‚ The National Patient safety (NPSA) was
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