The American Nurses Association (ANA) defines an impaired nurse as one who “has cognitive‚ interpersonal or psychomotor skills affected by psychiatric illness and/or drug or alcohol abuse or addiction.” They go on to state that an impaired nurse “is unable to meet the requirements of the code of ethics and standards of practice of the profession.” Impaired nurses may be under the influence of alcohol‚ amphetamines‚ opioids‚ inhalants‚ sedatives‚ hypnotics‚ or tranquilizers. Some of these drugs may
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Patient Centred Care Essay This essay is based on the Case study of a patient named as Mrs Ford. It will be written as a logical account‚ adopting a problem solving approach to her care. She is elderly and has been admitted onto a medical ward in the hospital‚ following a stroke. This essay analyses the care that she will receive and focuses on the use of assessment tools in practice. Interventions will be put in place directly relating to the assessment feedback and in line with best practice.
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When beginning to implement the treatment plan it is important to consider the standards of best practises (mentioned earlier)‚ the key elements of the case‚ and a disability management model to create a foundation and starting point. The model chosen to base the treatment plan upon is the managed care model‚ this is due to the prevention strategies and foundation on disability duration and injury norms it provides (Pransky‚ Shaw‚ Franche‚ & Clarke‚ 2004). This can then aid in improved workplace
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services. Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is one of these technology that used digitals technologies to collect data and information from individual or health care facilities to transmitted to health care providers for treatment design or prevention plan. RPM devices have the capability to collect a wide range of health data‚ such as weight‚ blood pressure‚ blood sugar‚ blood oxygen levels‚ heart rate‚ and electrocardiograms. RPM are usually used for elderly people and patients with a history of
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A nurse basically checks on the patient until the doctor comes to finds out what the problem and why. Nurses play significant roles in hospitals‚ clinics and private practices. They make up the biggest health care occupation in the United States. Nursing job duties include communicating between patients and doctors‚ caring for patients‚ administering medicine and supervising nurses’ aides. This is basically what a nurse does everyday‚ but the advanced practice nurses can work independently and have
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Perioperative Nurse The career I chose is perioperative nursing. Perioperative nurses are an important part of the surgical team. Typically‚ perioperative nurses work serve as either a scrub nurse‚ circulating nurse‚ or a RN first assistant. They care for the patient having surgery by assessing and planning the nursing care the patients receive before‚ during‚ and after surgery. Much of the ambulatory surgery is increasingly being performed in a physician’s office‚ this is the fastest growing part
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Role of a nurse in infection control In order for infection and disease to occur in an individual‚ a process involving 6 related components must occur. This process has been referred to as the chain of infection. The six steps or links in the chain are etiologic agent‚ reservoir‚ portal of exit‚ mode of transmission‚ portal of entry and susceptible host. To stop the spread of disease‚ one or more of these links must be broken. 1. Etiologic agent a. Metazoan – multicellular animals many
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Brendan Wood 3/9/2012 Ethical Use of Prisoners in Human Research Introduction and Background The use of humans as research subjects has been a long debated issue within the scientific community. There are a lot of factors that go into regulating such research studies‚ like limiting coercion‚ undue inducement‚ and vulnerability of the population of the subjects in the study. To help control these issues‚ there have been many guidelines that have been implemented to ensure the safety and wellbeing
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published about Nurse Practitioners‚ I have found that Nurse Practitioners are rapidly becoming the top health partner choice for many Americans. Nurse Practitioners have been servicing patients for over forty years. The NP role had its initiation in the mid-sixties in response to a lack of physicians in the United States.They can perform very extensive and concentrated examinations; distinguish and treat common keen illnesses‚ as well as laboratory tests; and educate and instruct patients and their loved
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DIGITAL PRIVACY AND DATA PERSPECTIVES OF DIGITAL PRIVACY AND DATA COLLECTION Research Paper Perspectives Of Digital Privacy And Data Collection Amanda L Johnson ITEC 4205‚ Fall 2015 Middle Georgia State University November 23‚ 2015 Perspectives Of Digital Privacy And Data Collection Abstract When researching publications such as academic journals or speeches the variety of perspectives are immense. Everyone will deal with the topic of how digital privacy and data collection and will
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