SZT Task 3C Western Governors University Air Quality and Patient Care According to the U.S Environmental Protection Agency‚ or EPA‚ states “Information from clinical‚ epidemiological‚ and animal studies summarized above indicates that exposure to ambient ozone is a risk factor for triggering acute and chronic health effects. These include chest discomfort‚ cough‚ and shortness of breath and increases in daily mortality and hospital admissions for respiratory disease in the general population
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Cultural Awareness: Nursing Care of Iraqi Patients” is an article explaining cultural differences that are broadly scattered affecting military nurses care for Iraqi patients. Shortly after this issue developed‚ a study was constructed in means to find barriers between Iraqi patients and their nurses. By utilizing topical examination strategies‚ the data was analyzed and results showed significant cultural variations in communication‚ diet‚ and reference to orientation and dependency. Furthermore
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Patient Safety/Quality Care/Improvement Case Study 1. Overview of what are medical errors and possible consequences of such errors? The Institute of Medicine (IOM) defines medical errors as “the failure of a planned action to be completed as intended or the use of a wrong plan to achieve an aim.” Medical errors do not all result in harm or injury. Medical errors that cause injury or harm are sometimes called preventable adverse events – that is the injury is thought to be due to a medical intervention
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Patient safety culture plays an important role for the whole health care team. It has been an aspect for the quality of health care delivery. The complexnature of critical care increases the opportunity formedical errors (Stockwell &Slonim 2006). Patient safety culture is based on the health care team’s commitment to caring‚ their competencies‚ attitude throughout the care and how proficient they are on caring a patient. Upon ensuring the patient’s safety culture‚ it is also considered as prevention
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Nurses have provided end of life care to dying patients for centuries. The impact of death on families has been well documented‚ but there is very little information regarding the impact of death on nurses (Gerow et. al. 2010). Gerow et. al. (2010) conducted a study to describe the lived experiences of nurses dealing with the death of patients. The research question or purpose of the study involves the concept of the nurses experiences related to the death of patients. The study followed a qualitative
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Teaching Plan: Tracheostomy Care for Patients and Family upon Home Discharge Patients who undergo a tracheostomy and their family must demonstrate understanding and performance of the following objectives: 1. The anatomical changes related to the procedure. 2. Management of a tracheostomy. 3. The importance of humidification and suctioning in maintaining airway patency. 4. Awareness of possible problems/complications in tracheostomy management. A normal breathing pattern draws air
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Running head: MODEL OF NURSING CARE AND PATIENT SAFETY Model of Nursing Care and Patient Safety October 10‚ 2009 Model of Nursing Care and Patient Safety The purpose of this paper is to identify and describe the model of nursing care used in my facility‚ and how it relates to the American Nurses Code of Ethics (ANA) and patient safety guidelines. The hospital I worked for is a catholic based nonprofit organization‚ which uses Patient Centered Nursing Care model in most of the areas
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campaign for the presidency was the health care reform of the U.S. health care system. It was not until a month later into his presidency in the year 2009 that President Obama addressed the issue of the high rising cost of health care and the millions of people in the United States being uninsured. It was not until March 23th 2010‚ after much debate that President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)‚ the U.S. health care reform legislation. The primary objective
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It is approximately seven years since the inauguration of the famous Obamacare which is widely known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Obamacare is a United States federal statute created and enacted during the reign of President Obama. This statute was mainly created to increase the quality of health insurance and its affordability in the country as well as lowering the uninsured rate through the expansion of insurance coverage and reduce the cost of healthcare. Despite
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Understanding Health Insurance Needs for Small Businesses in the U.S. to Formulate the Information Technology Strategy Executive Summary The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will significantly impact the small business sector of the United States. The case study conducted by Rahul Bhaskar‚ Steven G. Mihaylo‚ and Yi “Jenny” Zhang focuses on health insurance needs for small businesses and information technology strategy. The cases analysis discuss the problems
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