This essentials discusses both the importance of patient safety and quality improvement in regards to advanced practicing nursing. Patient safety is defined by the Institute of Medicine as “the prevention of harm to patients” ("Patient safety and quality‚" 2008‚ p. 2) In the health care world patient safety and the quality of patient care is extremely important. The master’s level education for nursing program will teach the advanced practicing nurse the tools needed to deal with an unsafe situation
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essential for gas exchange (Ramkumar‚ 2011). However‚ the patient has a patent airway. Therefore‚ the nursing strategy is to conduct an airway assessment “look‚ listen and feel” continuously to detect any changes. This is to provide immediate respiratory care if the patient’s airway is compromised (Higginson‚ Jones & Davies‚ 2011). This is a low priority. B. BREATHING – Respiration is altered due to left ventricular failure. The patient is tachypnoeic due to an increased pressure in the pulmonary
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Nursing Knowledge Through the Nursing Process Team C Holly Briner Lee Castro Stephanie Collins Brandon Hazlett Tammy Moore Jennifer Smith Assessment Nur/403 Ms. Van Baren 07/14/2014 Diagnosis Plan Implementati on Evaluation Nursing Process Assessment Assessment is the first step in the Nursing Process. This helps to determine the Nursing Diagnosis and Plan of care that nurses will need for their patient. All of the information collected in each step will help determine and design the plan of
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Description of patient: The patient is a 5 year old female diagnosed with cystic fibrosis and presents with difficulty breathing and difficulty clearing secretions. She is unable to walk or run long periods of time‚ has difficulty breathing in certain positions‚ and is unable to participate in physical activities at school. PICO Question: For young children with cystic fibrosis‚ will standard
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This is the case of a patient who got admitted without proper evaluation to our psychiatric floor. She is a 18-year-old young female patient admitted with a suicide plan to our unit. Patient went to see her PCP for her routine checkup and‚ she was slightly anxious and told the PCP that she thought about suicide. Her PCP filed petition and did her first certification to admit her to psychiatric floor. Patient was explained that she will be seeing a psychiatrist for assessment and send her over to
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Study Guide for Exam 1 * What are the risk factors for uterine atony? Loss of uterine tone Overdistention of the uterus (multiple gestation‚ polyhydramnios‚ macrosomia‚ fibroid tumors‚ distention with clots)‚ bladder distention‚ grand multiparity‚ uterine trauma (forceps vacuum‚ c-section‚ cervical biopsy)‚ bottle feeding‚ length of labor (precipitous or prolonged)‚ Hx of PPH‚ medications (anesthesia‚ recent tocolysis‚ magnesium sulfate‚ induction greater than 15 hours)‚ abruptio placenta
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Leadership Strategies to overcome Nursing Shortages and its Effects Quality‚ safety‚ and timeliness are the podium of nursing care‚ where as behavioral disciplines‚ theories‚ concepts‚ theoretical knowledge‚ and evidences are the leadership qualities. Proper staffing and a competent nursing team ensure maximum productivity‚ safety‚ and satisfaction. Nursing shortage impairs the functioning and quality of patient care delivery lead nurses to work under high pressure and feel overworked and overstressed
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with the outcome. The patient presented in the scenario is a 25year old Arab American man who underwent a thoracotomy and is expressing intense pain to his family‚ but he rates his pain of less than 3 in a scale of 1to 10. He requests medication every three hours and will not get out of bed or ambulate. America is made up of different cultures and many of the patients for whom we care are from different cultures. When dealing with populations of diverse patients who have different concepts
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Nursing diagnosis for patient with AIDS (in the movie Philadelphia) Imbalanced Nutrition: Less than body requirements R/T inability to ingest nutrients (Gulanick & Myers‚ 2007) AEB vomiting three times per day after each meal‚ 35lb weight loss in past 60 days‚ height of patient is 5’8” weight of 110lbs (Demme‚ 1993). Impaired Skin Integrity – AIDS‚ R/T immune deficiency; AIDS related dermatitis (Gulanick & Myers‚ 2007) AEB Approximately 10‚ 3 x 2 cm reddened lesions to face and torso‚ lesions
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knowledge and skills to make decisions in the best interest of the patient. The level of responsibility and accountabilitydepends on professional levels. The Charge Nurse has more responsibility then the staff nurse‚ the RN has more responsibility then the LPN‚ and therefore their levels of professional judgment and practice are different. Their levels of professional accountability are not different. Professional nursing is based on altruism‚ integrity‚ accountability and social justice.
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