Community and Public Health Nursing Reflection Courtney Austin NUR/405 8/11/2014 Community and Public Health Nursing Reflection Maricopa community schools are the local schools for the Gila River Indian Community. Native American children attending these schools are generally obese and do not participate in extra-curricular activities. The Leading Health Indicator (LHI) that applies is Children and adolescents who are considered obese. Recognizing this LHI‚ nursing diagnoses can be generated
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Concept in Nursing Practice Communication is a process that occurs within physical and social contexts regularly. Whitehead et al (2008. pg. 63) .The aim of this essay is to discuss Communication as a concept of Professional Nursing Practice. Presently‚ communication is an area of benchmark the government is focusing on to improve the quality of nursing care. The Department of Health [DH] [2001] explained that communication comprises of a number of skills used to promote professional practice. These
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Nursing research has provided interventions and best practices that provide safe and quality services to the patient and their families. Nurses have a commitment to use research‚ evidence-based practice‚ and quality improvement as their foundation when making clinical decisions and using new programs to improve the health of the patient (LoBiondo-Wood & Haber‚ 2014). This discussion will define‚ compare‚ contrast‚ and provide examples of research and evidence-based practices affiliated in the nursing
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Effect of Change on Nursing Practice Leadership and Management in the Changing Health Care Environment NU420-02 August 11‚ 2013 The future of nursing is evolving at a rapid rate due to a changing health care environment. Nursing practice and leadership must adapt to these changes through ingenuity and advanced practice professional roles. “With an estimated 32 million newly insured Americans set to have health care coverage by 2014‚ and a predicted shortfall of 40‚000 primary-care
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Next Century Challenges: Mobile Networking for “Smart Dust” J. M. Kahn‚ R. H. Katz (ACM Fellow)‚ K. S. J. Pister Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences‚ University of California‚ Berkeley (jmk‚ randy‚ pister} @Ieecs. berkeley.edu Abstract Large-scale networks of wireless sensors are becoming an active topic of research. Advances in hardware technology and engineering design have led to dramatic reductions in size‚ power consumption and cost for digital circuitry
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factor which determines the preference and practice within a healthcare. Therefore‚ trans-cultural nursing is required within the healthcare sector. However‚ "Trans-cultural nursing will need an advanced evaluation ‚logical skills and also the capability of planning ‚designing ‚ implementing and also evaluating the care that is provided to patients ‚ families or the community which will represent different cultures"(Andrews and Boyle‚2008‚p4). To practice as a trans-cultural nurse effectively‚ first
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(data/knowledge) Nursing research is a systematic inquiry designed to develop new knowledge or validate/refine existing knowledge about issues related to nursing (e.g.‚ provision of patient care; administration of nursing and health care services) Nursing Science: Body of knowledge unique to the discipline of nursing Scientific method is an approach to gaining new knowledge from a systematic collection of empirical data What is the importance of research in nursing? Nurses are responsible
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issue to evidence-based nursing practice is the shortage of nurses. The staff lacks can make a profession exhaustion‚ tension‚ and as well as put the patient at risk (Hogan et al; 2009). In the hospital‚ the lack of nurses is a very big problem‚ but for the solution management and organization methods to the matter could support to recover the nursing situation and ignore several of the bad influences of unsuitable nurse ratios. Some time I am thinking of evidence based practice on hourly rounding doesn’t
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The subject of workplace safety continues to gain importance within the nursing practice as researchers seek new ways of enhancing safety for both patients and practitioners. As the nursing scope of practice expands due to the implementation of recent expert recommendations‚ the safety liabilities of nurses also increase; consequently‚ there is a growing need to examine safety-related issues with reference to nursing. The atmosphere of a health care facility and the attitudes of the management and
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be registered and comply with the standards and codes set by The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) which is overseen by The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. (AHPRA) The governing body for the 14 National boards for health professionals‚ which maintains the high standards that are expected in the healthcare industry. APRAH is responsible for protecting the public‚ setting national standards‚ publishing the online register‚ registering health practitioners‚ accrediting
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