abide by to practice nursing. First there is the Board of Registered nursing(BRN). This agency is responsible for communicating what is appropriate and legal for a nurse to do in the state of California. The BRN also enforces an education requirement‚ which forced graduates to pass the NCLEX prior to practicing (What is the board of registered nursing‚2016). By doing this‚ the agency is protecting the public and community from unsafe nurses. For example‚ after I graduated the nursing program‚ I studied
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RUNNING HEAD: CRITIQUE OF EVIDENCE BASED ARTICLES Critique of Evidence Based Nursing Latoya Dotson Western Govenors University EBT 1 May 26‚ 2011 Critique of Articles Introduction The article by Schindler‚ (2011) was chosen because of the clinical relevance to direct patient care and patients acquiring pressure ulcer. The articile was retrieved and summarized in the graphic below. Further research was collected to evaluate other aspects of the same interventions and a annotated bibiliography
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Running Head: KOT 1 KOT 1 Task 2 734.3- Organizational Systems & Quality Leadership 734.3.4: Healthcare Utilization and Finance A1. MEDICARE PART A The discussion with Mrs. Zwicks’s daughter about coverage requirements needs to be informative and easy to understand so she can help explain it to her mother. Medicare part A is hospital coverage for inpatient stays. This particular part of Medicare covers critical access hospitals‚ inpatient rehabilitation facilities‚ and long
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The Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements is a guide for nurses that was developed to assist nurses in performing their responsibilities and ethical duties that come along with the nursing profession. Ethical guidelines are important to have in the healthcare profession because they help health care dilemmas be recognized‚ differentiate between right and wrong conduct‚ and tell the healthcare worker what their responsibilities or duties to their patients are. Nurses are held accountable
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A1. Additional Information to Shadow chart: Shadow chart is the form of protected health information which is difficult to manage. HIPAA’s privacy and security standards help in increasing the safety of this information. Shadow charts are formed because of various reasons and used for various reasons. When primary records are not accessible‚ physicians tend to make copies of them for easy access and reference. Physicians use these for billing. The shadow charts are not as complete and accurate
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Patient Confidentiality: Ethical Implications to Nursing Practice Patient Confidentiality: Ethical Implications to Nursing Practice Patient confidentiality is a fundamental practice in healthcare and it is integral part of healthcare ethical standards (Purtilo & Dougherty‚ 2010). According to the American Nurses Association (ANA) code of ethics “the nurse has a duty to maintain confidentiality of all patient information” (Nursing world‚ p.6). Also‚ when a patient confidentiality
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EGT1: Task 1 A) 1. When determining how much of a profit a company will make‚ one has to look at a few deciding factors. Two of those are total revenue and total cost. Total revenue is the sum of a company’s sales of a particular product. Total cost is how much a company pays for production which includes fixed and variable costs. After total cost is deducted from the total revenue‚ the money left over is a profit. The goal of most is to maximize profits the best way possible. Total revenue
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Christina Ford IWT 1 Task 1 Art is often divided into periods‚ these periods are in relation to the time in which it was created. When looking for what inspired the characteristics of an artistic period‚ it is often important to look at other periods and the relationship0 between the two. In this essay I will be comparing the Baroque Period and the Romantic Period. 1. Baroque Period Originating in Italy in the 17th and 18th century‚ Baroque art quickly spread to Europe‚ North America and South
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EST Task 1 Company Q‚ a local grocery store chain‚ has recently closed a couple of stores in higher crime rate areas due to losing money‚ added the much requested organic foods at a very high margin‚ and has declined donating day old food products to a local food bank out of worries about losing money due to stealing and fraud. At this point‚ Company Q seems more concerned about making a profit than building relationships with the community they are serving. In turn‚ could very well be losing
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AFT Task 1 AFT2 Accreditation Audit July 5‚ 2015 Western Governor’s University Table of Contents Compliance Status……...…………………………………………………………………..…….3 Plan for Compliance………………………..………………………………………………….....3 Justification…………………………………………………………………………..…………...4 Source………………………………………………………………………………………..……5 Compliance Status PC .01.01.07 Pain is assessed in all patients (The Joint Commission‚ 2013) Finding: In outpatient rehabilitation‚ the initial assessment of pain does not indicate
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