Nursing Article Reviews Samples For Students

In the research that was conducted in the first article entitled; the use of a hydro fiber dressing that contains silver, in the filling of the abscess cavity after the incision and the drainage in emergency department (Alimov, Lovecchio, Sinha, Foster, & Drachman, 2013), clinical study design was used. This study design took the form of prospective randomized control trial. The sample size in this case was ninety-two patients (Alimov, Lovecchio, Sinha, Foster, & Drachman, 2013). These patients were more than 18 years of age and were suffering from cutaneous abscess. The ...

Introduction

Korrane in the article “The Role of the Long-Term Acute Care Hospital” discusses the complexity that defines long-term health care where patients present themselves with a wide range of system failures, organ transplant complications, trauma brain injuries, acquired brain injuries and complex wounds. These failures do not just require a need to be treated to facilitate normal physiologic functioning but also hold a significant concern for the patient’s survival. Korrane notes that the most challenging aspect is to monitor a host of dysfunctions of the vital body organs and implement the most reliable techniques to help the patient regain a normal life.

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Pulmonary contusion (PC) is a common consequence of blunt trauma to the chest. PC occurs in 30-75% of cases of chest trauma, and in many cases this is further complicated by severe bone injuries of the chest wall. Despite much research into the subject, mortality and morbidity has not significantly improved in the past three decades. Advances in imaging have similarly failed to have any impact on outcomes.

The consequences of PC are manifold and include both local and systemic effects. Some of the local effects are: laceration of lung tissue, hemorrhage-filled alveoli, reduced compliance, increase in shunt fraction leading ...

In this scholarly journal, Deal and Grassley (2012) examined the importance of spiritual care delivery by nurses, based on the experience of nurses involved in the care of patients suffering from kidney disease.

It was argued that the spiritual well-being of a patient has a great influence on the other areas of the patient's health and general disposition towards almost all issues concerning the patient’s life. Patients often undergo "spiritual distress" when afflicted with very serious life-threatening ailments such as renal failure as observed in this article. This spiritual distress thus does not augur well for the wellness ...

The "circadian timing system" has been linked to the wellness and improvement of survival rate in cancer patients. Recent research shows how the circadian timing system is affected by chemotherapy in mice. The study tries to answer the main question: what is the relationship between the disruption of circadian rhythm and adverse events in individual cancer patients? The study also aims to quantify the treatment-induced CTS changes and to characterize the rhythm recovery dynamics of cancer patients.
The study samples include 49 patients who are candidate for saving chemotherapy regimens and medical treatment of their cancer disease. Specifically, ...

Article Analysis

Abstract
Introduction
Methods
First, all patients were admitted to the trial wards and those who met the inclusion criteria were considered. Secondly, the members were recommended by ward staff to the study nurses. Thirdly, the entry criteria included; age of 65 years and above; the pressure ulcer risk of 15 to 20 based on physiologic, demographic, and disease specific features and consent to regular examination of pressure areas. Also, the members were transferred to the trial beds after their consent was sought. In addition, the exclusion criteria were employed such as obesity greater than 155 kilograms, ...

Introduction

It is important to take the patient history. Nurses should take this history during assessment. When this is done, the patient’s problems are easily captured for the purpose of treatment. This has been made by nurses routinely. Roles of nurses are expanding with the new technology. They take information from patients, type it and make changes where necessary. Information from patients is private and confidential. Taking information from patients requires a practitioner or a specialist, nurse. In addition, taking the history is a fraction of assessment made to the patient. There is a need to use other information gathering techniques. Assessment covers ...

The Title of the Article

The title indicates that the article is about morale and role strain of undergraduate nursing students in a pediatric clinical setting. However, Chen fails to specify the aspect of morale and role strain that the article seeks to deal with in the title. For instance, the title would have been more specific if it were stated as follows: causes of morale and role strain of undergraduate nursing students in a pediatric clinical setting. In this case, a reader would be able to tell that the article deals with the causes of morale and role strain. It therefore follows that the title of ...

The paper on the different religions and their significance and implications on health and nursing has provided evidence on its claim that spiritual diversity is significant on the provision of nursing care to patients. The details on the differences of the three religions namely Sikh, Buddhism and Bahai have been clearly and succinctly emphasized by the writer. Specifically, the significance on religious beliefs and different health beliefs and practices has been clearly delineated in the paper. The paper, however, has not provided a comprehensive detail on the differences of each religion on health beliefs and practices on varying stages of ...

Exam 1

- In experimental studies, the subjects receive treatment and are observed, and a control group is used to verify the effect of the intervention performed on the experimental group. On the other hand, in non -experimental studies, the subjects are not subjected to any process of treatment. In this study, the subjects have not received any treatment at all and data is collected from archived secondary sources. Additionally, experiments usually have both dependent and independent variables. Finally, experiments involve randomization of the sample population into groups which are later to be subjected to specifically defined treatment. This is a non-experimental design. ...

Subsequent to technological advancements in the field of medicine, several machines helpful in increasing the rate and effectiveness of the cure have since been discovered. The most profound discovery in the field of surgery is the one that involved the introduction of Doctor Robot. This machine undertakes the operation procedure without the presence of a physician in the operation room but essentially in the robot control room. From the Fortune article entitled Meet your next surgeon: Dr. Robot, it is apparent that the robot surgeon was developed subsequent to deep research and an insightful consultation among the experts of the ...

Problem

What is the problem the study was conducted to research?
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a global health issue. There is an increase in type 2 diabetes in African-Americans. Lack of knowledge in lifestyle and treatment interventions has led to the increase of T2DM in African-Americans. Type 2 Diabetes is a leading cause of blindness, renal diseases and lower limb amputations. African-Americans having T2DM also suffer from high blood pressure and low glycemic levels in blood.

Why is the problem an important one for nursing to research?

Diabetes has become a serious health issue among the public. Registered nurses should have latest knowledge about different interventions for diabetes. The article is ...

CDC Trends and Analysis

The health of Americans requires improvement in various areas and Healthy People 2020 focuses on improving the Health of Americans by:

- Identifying and prioritizing health improvement opportunities through research and evaluation
- Bringing together all relevant stakeholders including communities for a collaborative effort
- Empowering people for informed decision making (Healthy People 2012)

Improvement Suggestions

Cultural and linguistic competency among healthcare providers is highlighted as one key factor affecting the health of a population (Perez and Luquis, 2008). Consequently, Healthy People should list cultural and linguistic competency among healthcare providers as a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) that will help improve the nation’s health through reduction of health disparity. This should be followed by continued effort to increase ...

Method

Research Design
The key variables in the study are the method of serving nutritional supplement drinks, which is the independent variable, and its effect on compliance and consumption which are the primary dependent variables (Allen, Methven & Gosney, 2014). Nutritional status is a secondary dependent variable. The research problem was communicated well. The authors provided an introduction on the issue of the risk of or actual undernutrition among older adults and the health consequences. They detailed how oral supplementation is an evidence-based medical nutrition therapy to prevent or treat undernutrition but that poor compliance is a barrier to adequate consumption limiting ...

Rationale

It is apparent that the entire healthcare system is grappling with nursing shortages-a phenomenon that is characterized by improper nurse-patient ratios. This has adamantly hampered the quality of care provided and adversely affecting patient outcomes and satisfaction. According to the American Nurses Association, proper staffing and hence patient-nurse ratios is an integral aspect in improving the quality of healthcare provided. High nurse-patient ratios means that nurse have to deal with huge numbers of patients leading to clinical errors, clinically acquired infections or premature discharges from hospital. This leads to high readmission rates and increased hospital costs due to recurrence ...

Telemedicine is the exchange of medical information between two parties with the use of electronic media. With the progress of internet and its usage on smart phones, ipads and other wireless techno gadget telemedicine has become ore easier today than it ever was.
It is the real time communication between a patient and his doctors both staying at two different locations. Its use has spread rapidly between hospitals, government health groups and private practices. It is usually not taken as a separate medical study but is now taken as a regular set up where physicians are trained to adapt to situation ...

The nature, causes, symptoms and diagnosis of psychological disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), are not clear and highly controversial. Two different models namely the Sociocognitive model and the Posttraumatic model are put forward explain psychopathologies, diagnosis, and disease etiology associated with DID. The Sociocognitive model suggests that DID, as a psychological disorder, is a product of social and historical circumstances. In contrast, the Posttraumatic model explains that DID disorder occurs because of severe traumas.
According to Spanos (1994), the number of patients suffering from multiple personality disorder increased rapidly over the past 20 years in North America. This diagnosis offered a ...

Abstract

The topic of this paper is regarding the effects of the nursing shortage on patient safety and adverse events. Due to the nursing shortage, there is an increase inare registered more patient adverse events and there is increasedthe risk to the patient’s safety increased. If the nursing shortage problem is not correctedsolved, then there will be a continuance ofcontinue increase in the risk to patient safety risk , andas well as harm to the patient. In the paper there is provided Aan explanation of the nursing shortage, the its cause of the shortage, how the shortageit affects patient safety, and ...

- A weakness in the study design was that all of the participants sat together as they were administered the drug, and therefore could observe and tell when others were acting out of character. Their own behavior could have been affected by the behavior they saw in others around them, as a result of their expectation of how they should themselves should react.
- Twenty-two of the thirty six patients who took psilocybin described having a ‘mystical experience,’ and twenty-five stated at the end of the sessions that they had had one of the most meaningful spiritual experiences of their ...

The study aimed to offer description on the use, as well as the effect resulting from low-dose ketamine or LDK for the analgesia cases in the emergency department (ED). The study used a retrospective mode of data collection where information on patients who received LDK for analgesia were used to describe the effectiveness and safety of the drug. The study used those patients who were aged 18 years and above and were given ketamine in the ED within a period of two years when the study was conducted. Parameters such as dose, route used to administer the drug, as well as ...

Although both studies are informative, the qualitative information provided by Saint et al. (2010) appears to be more difficult to understand than the quantitative information provided by Daud-Gallotti et al. (2012), most likely because of the differences in the nature of the data. Because qualitative information contains descriptive personal opinions from the participants, I find it difficult to use it for determining clinical practices based on that information. For example, it is mentioned that successful leaders were inspirational, but that does not provide the reader with sufficient guidelines to become inspirational.
Quantitative information appears to be more objective, ...

Introductions

The child abuse has become rampant in the recent past all over the globe. This is confirmed by various surveys that have been carried out in different countries; from the under-developed countries in Asia and Africa to the most advanced countries in Europe and America. Furthermore, this epidemic does not choose race, color or tribe it cut across all the children around the globe. Although this is an old phenomenon which has been in the public knowledge for decades, little has been done to alleviate the suffering of these little angels who cannot defend themselves. Thus, the perpetrators of ...

Introduction

Research is a crucial component of the health care profession. Research brings new information to the discipline of healthcare. The information is put into practice whereby it enables the improvement of health outcomes. The success of research is dependent on a couple of factors including the nature of the participants utilized in the research, the method and design of the research study, the data collection process, the interpretation of findings among other crucial factors. The credibility of any research is assessed by performing an unbiased critique of the research The aim of this study is to perform a comprehensive critique of a quantitative ...

Synopsis

This article describes a study that was conducted with the aim of investigating the difficulties that nurses face in using playfulness to care for hospitalized children with cancer. The study is a descriptive research conducted using a qualitative approach. It was conducted in a pediatric inpatient sector at a hospital situated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Eleven subjects made up of professionals drawn from the nursing team took part in the study. The investigators conducted data collection step in April 2012 through semi-structured interview and non-participant observation.
Findings obtained from the study were grouped into three thematic units (Bastos et al., 2014): ...

The issue of Elder Abuse has become a frequent topic for many journalists and organizations. One such story ‘Lawsuits Rattle Nursing Home Chains’ by Jennifer Smith found in the Oct 3, 2014 copy of the Wall Street Journal highlighted many pressing issues. With a perception built around the need to bring larger nursing home organizations under better oversight, this article details the successful efforts of many patients to win substantial sums from perceived elder abuse on the part of the larger organizations. As the article develops, there is the question of lawyer’s profits exceeding the benefits to the client that ...

The advent of technological advancement in the field of medicine paved the way for the most sophisticated and powerful equipment that aids innovation in patient care. The article publish in diagnostic imaging by Howell (2012) describes the increasing popularity of the mobile X-Ray technology. The article emphasized that the new technology enabled the patient’s instant access to imaging. Primarily, image quality and mobility drives the continuous evolvement of medical technologies while battery life and wireless connectivity remain on the vendors’ continuous improvement. Analysis from KLAS suggests that vendors found greater significance of the mobile X-Ray in terms of ...

Introduction

This paper aims at critically analyzing the role played by the knowledge possessed by nurses and how it helps in the delivery of services in health cares. The research also seeks to highlight the importance of the resources used by nurses to acquire the much-needed knowledge (Barker, 2009). The staffing crisis problem occurs when knowledge in the provision of care is limited in nursing. When nurses lack inadequate knowledge in providing care, it is equal to not having enough staff. The costs of healthcare are very high, which means that patients need to get the best form of care ...

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The onset of the implementation of Electronic Health Records has had an effect on the professional and physical autonomy of highly trained professional physicians specifically in the healthcare organizations. Electronic Health Records trigger a certain take by HC professionals contributing to observable changes in Healthcare Organizations following a response from the HC professionals. Their response reflects the data collected from the physicians through interviews. The topic raises a controversy to whether the effects are more constraining due to the managers using the Electronic Health Records to exercise more control (McGimpsey, 2011). Some of the many positive effects that come with ...

The quality control process is an essential part for all spheres of lives. When it comes about the health care institutions, the quality control process is vitally important. An article “Evaluating implementation of quality management systems in a teaching hospital’s clinical departments” is about a quality improvement system implementation in the 2000-bed teaching hospital and a short evaluation of the experimental application.
The total quality control comes to the hospitals very slowly, as it requires many transformations, as the changes in behavior, habits, culture, power systems and sociological hierarchy. A hospital departments autonomy, mechanical and professional bureaucracy are the obstacles ...

Challenges in Integrated Healthcare SystemsOrganizations have to follow a good articulation of steps in order to regulate integration of healthcare systems. The primary aim of any healthcare organization is to provide a good medical facility to its patients and thereby increase its profits. The integration of healthcare organizations is a rapidly growing area. It is a viable option to provide best facilities to the patients. It makes their medical visits hassle free as the system brings all the specialties under than one roof and delivers it to the patients as a single package. Hospitals can also reduce the costs significantly by this approach. So, ...

In the near future, the healthcare problems in the U.S will worsen while new challenges arise. Even though various forms of new technology are on the verge of increasing efficiency, the overall costs for new treatments add outweigh the savings (Niles. 2011). The physicians will get better in treating problems while at the same time lengthening patients’ lives. This increases the levels of people in need of care. Similar to the automobile insurance policies, the healthcare coverage will be necessary (Matcha, 2003). Members of a family will use different plans through changing plans yearly. The uninsured citizens in the past ...

NR305 Health Assessment

Alexis M. Schoolcraft
Chamberlain College of Nursing
Dr. T. Williams

Winter B 2014

Introduction
Patient’s history is undoubtedly one of the most important sources of medical information and, if conducted properly, may be quite useful. The article “A guide to take a patient’s history” written by Hilary Lloyd (a principal lecturer in nursing practice, development and research at City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, Sunderland) and Stephen Craig (a senior lecturer in nursing at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne) was published in the official UK medical journal Nursing Standard in 2007 and is a very descriptive and vivid source of information ...

The article covers the concept of physician and patient relationship. It also explains how it is important to create on in order to go through a successful treatment. The relationship starts when the patient goes to the physician for his treatment and the physician accepts the patient. The relationship is not emotional but a contractual one in which legal duties and obligations have to be fulfilled. The article talks about how this relationship is created which is due to mutual consent of the physician and the patient. Furthermore, it says that once the relationship is created, the physician owes duties to ...

The concept that is covered in the article Right to Refuse Treatment presents its readers with the possible refusal of medical treatment as a patient's wish even if it includes the refusal of medical treatment that can lead to death. However, the refusal of the suggested treatment can be provided only if the patient is fully introduced with the potential risk from withdrawing from medical treatment. Even though the right to refuse medical treatment may sound fair and justified, it might be difficult to control emotions and watch a patient die due to some religious belief and some other conviction. This ...

CRITICAL REVIEW

CRITICAL REVIEW

Gairik Sengupta, Subhrojyoti Bhowmick, Avijit Hazra, Ananya Datta, and Musfikur Rahaman (2010), wrote on the “Adverse drug reaction monitoring in psychiatry out-patient department of an Indian teaching hospital”. The topic as stated by the authors shows only a general possibility in the medical field. In this case, the authors do not seem to be specific in which drug is been studied. At this point the reader of the article is left guessing what could be the drug under investigation. The need to have a single or a range of particular drugs give the researcher specific objectives other than the blanket ...

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Abstract

The controversy around domestic violence is not only legal and civil issue. It is also an issue that concern’s the victim’s health and wellness. Victims of spousal abuse are prone to experience trauma following a traumatic experience. In this regards, nurses play a special role in assisting the victims of domestic violence. This paper discusses the article Intimate Partner Violence in Rural U.S. Areas: What Every Nurse Should Know and the relevance of the points presented by the authors.
Keywords: Domestic violence, role of nurse, medical social worker
Over the years, a plethora ...

Integrating Hospitals into Community Emergency.

Article review
The contemporary terrorist attacks and natural disasters necessitate the complete scheme for response measures to be carefully examined. The hospitals and their integration to the whole response process are considered the weakest link. Therefore a special attention has to be paid to this particular section of the planning of the response process.
In the article Integrating Hospitals into Community Emergency the authors evaluate the role of the hospital personnel in the counteractions to disasters and the way the hospitals have to react according to the disaster’s type and location. The mechanism of an effective response ...

The DNA Dilemma: A Test That Could Change Your Life by Bonnie Rochman, TIME, December 24 2012

The article discusses whether it's both professional and ethical for genomics and genetics to release the DNA and fine chromosomal test results to their patients in full without considering the consequences. DNA results can truly change its life; it could mean breaking of a marriage, realization that death is killing slowly from within, acquiring funding to fight the illness, higher funding into research for a disease cure.
Some patient's results withheld while others are given in part to protect the patient interests. The practice has proven to be a dilemma for the society because both ways there are harder consequences. For ...

Executive Summary

In their article “Specialties: Missing in Our Healthcare Reform Strategies,” authors Kuramoto and Kieffer discuss the possibilities and advantages of working with specialties to create viable referral systems and networks. In the summary, they note that specialties are often in greater demand by hospitals than there are practitioners to meet that demand. Even with this distinct employment advantage, specialists often choose to remain independent from hospitals and care networks. By doing so, they create their own system which often offers higher satisfaction and better results. Despite this setup, specialists and hospitals still stand to gain significant advantages from allying ...

Patients Who Lack Decision-Making Capacity

Patients who Lack Decision-Making Capacity
This article discussed the proper assessment and management of a patient who may be lacking with decision-making capacity (DMC). The lacking of decision-making capacity is the patient’s condition in which oftentimes diagnosed as to be suffering from dementia, delirium, or other psychiatric issues. Specifically, this article provided hospital discharge against medical advises (AMA) as an example, wherein a patient who lacks decision-making capacity would demand to leave the hospital. It was described that being discharged from the hospital against medical advice would occur to a higher chance of readmission and has been linked to higher ...

Power and empowerment are important intertwining issues in nursing. Nurses need empowerment for them to be effective in discharging their duties in the workplace. This is because their work involves daily interaction with physicians, patients and other healthcare professionals. Patients also need empowerment for them to self-manage their health. There are various approaches to power and they include critical social theory, organizational, management theories, and social psychological theories.
Critical social theory suggests that the group that has control possess more power than the oppressed group. This means that for the oppressed group to have the power, they must ...

Technology has led to efficiency in the health care industry. This technology continues to expand due to high investment in research and development in health care. As the technology improves, so will there be more job opportunities for practitioners. New careers will materialize as people handle technology in affecting the health care (Fett, 2006). Technology has given a major boost in quickly gathering medical records since they can rely on the computer system. The computer system enables the review of patients’ records and scheduling of appointments as well as administration of treatment. There have been significant innovations in the field ...

Q1. What is their hypothesis?

Q2. What are the objectives and endpoints and are they clear?
Q3. What ethical permissions were obtained and are they suitable?
Ethical permissions for research involving human participants were approved by Ethics Committee of Human Experimentation of Tehran University of Medical Sciences.

Q4.Is it double blind/placebo controlled and is the protocol appropriate in this area?

It is not double blind/placebo controlled and the protocol was not appropriate, since only females from a single university were allotted. This could be a biased study.

Q5. How suitable is the randomization?

The randomization was not suitable for the sample, since it chosen via advertisement but there were a suitable randomization for choosing both groups (Gregory et al., 1993).
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Q6. Has it recruited a suitable cohort of patients?

Suitable cohorts of ...

1) Purpose of study
A statement of purpose clearly specifies what a researcher wants to learn or attain at the end of the study (Kothari, 2004).

The purpose of the study is to describe decision making by caregivers of patients with Heart failure.

2) Research question
The implicitly stated research question for the study is, “How do caregivers of family members with HF make decisions?”3) Research designResearch design according to Kothari (2004) refers to the general strategies a researcher in cooperate several components of research in a systematic manner that the research problem is address at the end of the research.

The research design employed in the research is qualitative research design

4) What characteristics does this study possess that are qualitative in nature? Review Chapter 2.
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Emergency nursing deals with a wide range of responsibilities due to the diverse number of patients with unique illness. This profession tends to be dynamic because one is required to make every patient comfortable and well taken care of. One of the key responsibilities to many nurses is having a sense of humor, which helps in lightening the tension between the nurse and the patient. Thus, this paper will examine and analyze three articles that discuss the importance of nurses visiting new born babies, the relevance of elders seeking more health care than other ages, and the significance of burses having a ...

Introduction

The purpose of the review is not entirely clear from reading the first paragraph. The author at this stage is not clear on whether he is focusing on the increasing number of patients with ADHD and bipolar disorders or the similarities and differences between the two. The author chooses to compose the literature review to explain to readers the different researches that have been done to either support the view that ADHD and bipolar disorders are similar or to oppose the view. He then comes to a conclusion that there is no clear line between ADHD and bipolar disorders. This ...

Hospital CEO ad CIO perspectives on information technology issues in health care is a survey of 1400 US hospitals. The article is aimed at establishing the CEOs and CIOs think about Information technology I healthcare. The themes that were under survey are; implementation of electronic medical records and improving health care quality through information technology. Improved medical services include; security, accuracy and change management in hospitals. Other themes in this article include; healthcare supply chain, compliance with regulations, decision support systems, national database and consumer empowerment.
The article starts with an introduction to Healthcare Information Technology (IT) and how ...

Introduction

In both qualitative and quantitative research, the close association between research and theory can basically be explained by the research components. The first impetus for the research is search for a theory. This means that development of theory depends on research, and also research depends on the theory. A number of researchers characterize this relationship as dialectic that is, a relationship where theory defines the data to be collected and the findings from research provide challenges to the accepted theories. It is thus correct to argue that research is the vehicle for development of theory. For that reason, this paper centers ...

Emotional intelligence in Nursing

Emotional intelligence in nursing is the ability to process emotions, understanding and assimilations, and manage emotions. Extensive research outside the practice of nursing has exhibited correlations between significant workplace and measured emotional intelligence and the outcomes of workforce such as management of stress, effective leadership, and performance, retention of jobs, job satisfaction, positive conflict styles and burnout prevention . In a number of nursing research studies, pilot data have exhibited the same results that correlates measured emotional intelligence with nursing performance levels in the nursing leaders and clinical staff, stress adaptation, job satisfaction, professional achievement and some positive clinical outcomes in ...

Introduction

Emergence of image guidance technology
Today’s computer-aided healthcare technology relies on much modality medical image and multimedia information. An image-guided radiation therapy was introduced due to the ever-increasing challenges originating from fast growth of the information technology sector and the global expansion of healthcare needs. Image guided technologies aid in the effective management of patients in the areas of detection, diagnosis and intervention. The image guidance technologies is a process that uses frequent imaging during a radiation therapy in order to improve accuracy and precision in delivering of treatment (Peters & Cleary 2008). Before the introduction of image guidance technology, ...

Introduction of the research project

The purpose of this article was to assess the rate at which bacteria contaminate the surface of ventilator equipment and other equipment being used by the hospital for the patients care. The implications of this study are many, as there are many microorganisms that can grown on environmental surfaces and causes severe bacterial infections in the patient. The hypothesis is that the use of 75% alcohol will decrease the contamination rate of mechanical ventilator systems.

Methods

The study was done at Mackay Memorial Hospital in Taipei City, which has a 15- bed respiratory care center. All patients included in this study ...

Introduction

This article is authored by Hilary Lloyd and Stephen Craig. Hilary is a principal lecturer specifically in Nursing Practice, Development and Research in Sunderland, Unite Kingdom. The co-author, Stephen Craig is a senior nursing lecturer in Northumbria University, in Newcastle, United Kingdom. The title of the article is “A Guide to Taking a Patient’s History”. The article was accepted and published in the journal called “Nursing Standard”. The article was published on the twenty fourth or August in the year two thousand and seven.

Summary of the Article

The article is focused on the process of taking patient history. In authoring the article, Llyod & Craig ( ...

` Literature Review
Will the implementation of strict count process and other means lower the retention of surgical items (foreign bodies) in patients and during surgery and how does it help to increase patient safety?
Ali, A., Omar, B., Okacha, N., Abderrahmane, A., & Mohamed, B. (2012). Paraspinal Textiloma. After Posterior Lumbar Surgery: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. World Neurosurgery, 77(2)375-380. doi:10.1016/j.wneu.2011.07.017
Paraspinal Textiloma is a complication that is common after posterior lumbar surgery. This study aims to inform spinal surgeons and radiologists on the experience of Paraspinal Textiloma so as to minimize unnecessary death that is ...

Abstract

This is a summary of the three religions Buddhism, Wiccan, and Jehovah Witnesses. This paper gives an insight into the healing perspective adopted by three religions: Buddhism, Wiccan and Jehovah’s Witness. It is a summary and what their faith is based on and how each faith approaches their healthcare. The paper gives an overview of how the three religions approach the subject of healing, and how this fundamental shift can be assimilated by healthcare practitioners for the purposes of improving health outcomes. Also comparing this to Christianity and what this will mean to you and how you will treat patients ...

Discussion on Ethical Issue

The situation at the healthcare institute on moral grounds is not sound at all. The aggravated situation is caused by the added financial stress that is faced due to the Affordable Care Act and changing reimbursement strategies. Human Resource in the institution is lacking due to the reason that we have not opted to recruit any further new graduate nurses in order to tackle the financial stress that the institution is facing. Morally the situation is worsened, as the institution will have to deal with the situation with the remaining registered nurses. Human Resource is not that much which ...

Article Review Report

Kornmann O, Dahl R, Centanni S, Dogra A, Owen R, Lassen C, Kramer B. Once-daily indacaterol versus twice-daily salmeterol for COPD: a placebo-controlled comparison. European Respiratory Journal 2011; 37(2):273-279.

Why are you looking at this journal?

The European Respiratory Journal is a credible source of information because it is peer-reviewed. It is an official publication of the European Respiratory Society. My interest in the journal lies in the focus of the articles it publishes. The journal publishes experimental and clinical work on all aspects of respiratory medicine including the biology of lung cells, pathophysiology, epidemiology, immunology, thoracic imaging, thoracic surgery, occupational medicine, pediatric pneumology, intensive care, ...

Facilitator:

Nursing research critique
Many nurses believe that they offer holistic care to the patients at the hospitals yet the level of holistic care that they offer remains unknown to most of the nurses. No known variable can attach to the relation between the family, friends, nurses and the patients during the medical attention and the holistic care (Geri &Haber, 2003). Nancy baumhover and Linda Hughes undertake a research into the spirituality and support for family presence during invasive procedures and resuscitations in adults with the view of bringing a solution to the existing dilemma in the relationship circus and the ...

Article Summary

Mayer, C. & Cronin, D. (2008). Organizational accountability in a just culture. Urologic Nursing, 28(6), p. 427-430.

- Contribution of system factors to the occurrence of adverse events in medical environments.
- Importance of reporting and analysis of sentinel events.
- Health care system factors
- Components of a culture of safety: learning culture, reporting culture, and a just culture.
- Barriers to a just culture.
- Description of a just culture
- Tools for determining culpability for adverse events
- Types of behaviours involved in error
- System analysis

- A just culture encourages reporting ...

Article Critique

The article “The Importance of Supporting Mothers Who Breastfeed” by Rachel B. Barrientos and Paula Bylaska-Davies addresses the benefits of breastfeeding for child and maternal health as well as discusses the role that healthcare professionals play in encouraging breastfeeding and in educating parents about the benefits of breastfeeding. The authors reference several researches that have revealed that breast milk is very effective for preventing diseases, including those that develop later in life, it is an ideal natural source of nutrients and can even become a way to save money. The only frequently reported disadvantage of breastfeeding is nursing in public ...

An examination into reviews on use of no pharmacologic approaches in management of labor pain and child birth has cast aspiration on the safety and efficiency of these methods. It is hard to ascertain how safe and adequate these approaches are. The examination goes ahead to categorize these approaches into three based on efficiency.
In the category of those that have been found to work are the use of epidural injections, combined spinal epidurals and inhaled analgesic (Gail, 2012). Even with evidence from the reviews that these approaches adequately manage pain during labor and child birth, they’ve ...