Purposeful Rounding as a Tool to Reduce Patient Falls Cheryl Grohn‚ RN-BC‚ MPH May‚ 2013 Background: Patient falls are one of the eight patient outcomes included in the nursing care performance measures adopted by the National Quality Forum. Hospitalization increases the risk for falls; reviews of observational studies in acute care hospitals show that fall rates range from 1.3 to 8.9 falls/1‚000 patient days. Fall rates were reduced by as much as 50%‚ in 7 of 9 studies of purposeful rounding where
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aim of this assignment is to demonstrate how Peplau’s concept of the nurse-patient relationship can be used to influence an incident in practise. I have chosen to focus on the nurse-patient relationship‚ as I am in the early stages of my adult nurse training and I feel it would be beneficial to understand this relationship more accurately. The first part of this assignment defines a concept and briefly outlines the nurse-patient relationship as a concept. The second part focusses and outlines Peplau’s
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Coffman‚ J. M.‚ Seago‚ J. A.‚ & Spetz‚ J. (2002). Minimum nurse-to-patient ratios in acute care hospitals in California. Health Affairs‚ 21(5)‚ 53-64. Retrieved from http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/21/5/53.full.html In the article‚ Coffman‚ Seago‚ and Spetz (2002) questioned that mandating minimum nurse-to-patient ratios could eventually help to improve outcomes and conditions of both nurses and patients in acute care hospitals in California. They found that mandatory ratios could
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Bedside Rounding: Improving Patient Care and Safety Purpose: * PATIENT SAFETY * Reducing preventable errors resulting in facility acquired illness/injury * Reducing increased healthcare costs related to errors due to inadequate shift change reports * Involving patients in their own care by allowing them to be involved in their own report during shift change * Reducing barriers to communication between patient‚ family‚ and staff Benefits: * PATIENT SAFETY * Allows
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head: Nurse-Patient Relationship 1 Nurse-Patient Relationship as a caring relationship Abra Nayo Central Connecticut State University Nursing 110-01: Introduction to Nursing Theories Dr. Linda Wagner November 28‚ 2011 Nurse-patient relationship as a caring relationship 2 The nurse-patient relationship is central to patient satisfaction
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assess fellow surgical nurses’ performance. Since there are some hindrances and factors affecting the delivery of quality nursing care to the post-operative patients starting from the time they were transferred from the post-anesthesia care unit after operation to the ward until discharged. And within that period of care‚ problems arise in care plan and implementation especially on the aspect of patient-handling or what we call hands-on care. As a result‚ the study is conducted to investigate the
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Improvement to Patient Care by Hourly Rounding A change that a nurse manager could implement that would help improve patient care is hourly rounding. In order to implement this change successfully‚ the nurse manager needs to clearly communicate the expectations‚ and then follow up with good monitoring. When the nurse manager sees the staff meeting the expectations the staff should be acknowledged rewarded/recognized and celebrated. On the other side‚ if the staff is not meeting the expectations
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over the Nurse-to-Patient Ratios Emily Contreras Fresno Pacific University Advanced Academic Research and Composition Com 342 Linda Pryce-Sheehan March 22‚ 2013 The Effects of Working over the Nurse-to-Patient Ratios Hospital administrators need to work collaboratively with recruiters‚ nursing directors‚ and managers‚ to improve and support the work environment for nurses. This can be accomplished by involving the bedside nurse‚ hiring high-quality nurses‚ maintain nurse-two-patient ratios
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Nurse Patient Relationship Nurse-patient relationship According Cutliffe and McKenna (2005)‚ research‚ theoretical and educational literature on interpersonal relations between nurses and patients has proliferated since the 1960s. This has generated a range of divergent accounts of what the nurse-patient relationship (NPR) ought to be‚ how this should be achieved‚ and how the NPR is constituted in practice. I have chosen the concept of nurse-patient relationship because this relationship
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Patient Safety Initiatives in the Hospital Setting Introduction Patient safety is described by the US Institute of Medicine as “the freedom from accidental injury due to medical care or from medical error” (Mansour‚ 2012). With that being said‚ patient safety has long been a major issue for hospitals. In the past many patients have been injured during hospital stays‚ some being injured severely with death being the result. With the growing trend of lawsuits‚ hospitals were becoming
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