Nurse Literature Reviews Samples For Students

Hawkins, T. Charlotte., Flynn, L., & Clarke, P. S. (2008). Relationships between registered nurse staffing, process of nursing care, and nurse-reported patient outcomes in chronic hemodialysis units. Nephrology Nursing Journal, 35(2), 123- 145.
Cho, S. H., June, J. K., Kim, M. Y., Yoo, C. S., Yun, C. S., & Sung. H. Y. (2009). Nurse staffing, quality of nursing care and nurse job outcomes in intensive care units. Journal of clinical nursing, 18, 1729-1737. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
The main aim of this study was to scrutinize the relationship between nurse staffing and nurse-rated quality of nursing care and the ...

Treating Mental Health Illness – A Literature Review

ABSTRACT
The following literature review explores the capabilities of the nurse practitioner treating varieties of mental disorders as comorbidities of primary care patients. The NP interface with the primary care and outpatient services of different people living on the fringe of society with specific barriers to quality health care connected to mental illness proves valuable. The efficacy of the NP in treating mental illness in patients according to the literature emerges as a valuable intervention with screening, diagnosing, and therapy options for specific patients often isolated from medical care access with mental illness including homeless, geriatric, pediatric, and the ...

Research into the relationship between staff levels and outcomes in patient care is important in order to ensure that those receiving healthcare are given the most valuable service possible. The effect that staff levels have on patient care is an essential factor in the overall level of success that their treatment will see. In determining the relationship between these two factors, it is important to critically assess the general values that nurses themselves have as well as their patients when receiving care. Furthermore, the level of burnout, or physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion that nurses feel due to high ...

Literature Review: Meta- paradigms in Nursing

Description of alignment of personal theory with worldview

Analysis of personal utilization of nurses' ways of knowing

Literature Review: Meta-paradigms in nursing
Introduction
This literature review embraces the metaparadigm nursing theoretical perspective and how it relates to ways of knowing in the profession. A critical review aligning personal conceptualizations with a world view interpretation will be explored. Also, an explanation of my personal ideological premise regarding the efficacy of this theoretical perspective to contemporary nursing practice will be analyzed.
The theoretical premise of this literature review hinges on the assumption that meta-paradigm is an inclusive perspective of a ...

Introduction

In the current world, nursing workforce is comprised of staff and nursing leaders from a different generation groups. There are four nursing generation workforce with different attitudes, beliefs and work habits. As a result of differences in ideologies between the generations, nursing leaders have found it challenging to deal with the situation at hand. Nursing leaders should acknowledge the differences between generation workforces and view the weaknesses as potential strength. Disparities between the generation workforces need to be evaluated for the purpose of formulating a possible solution. Nursing leaders are expected to strengthen their skills in solving the differences between generations. It ...

Motivational Interviewing: Literature Review

Extensive research has been executed on the subject of motivational interviewing (MI) since it was originally published as a key approach to eliciting behavioral change (Shulman, 2011). In his original designation, Miller & Rollnick (2013) described motivational interviewing as an approach that is based on the fundamental principles of experimental social psychology and the application of such principles such as cognitive dissonance, attribution, and self-efficacy. Motivational Interviewing can be defined as a client centered directive counseling style critical in eliciting behavior change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence (Shulman, 2011). The approach, therefore, comes out as facilitative, focusing on ...

Cross cultural communication barriers in provision of health care are global problems have been reported in various parts of the world. In provision of personalized care, it is necessary for nurses to consider the cultural identity and needs of patients in their care. It is therefore imperative for the nurse to play an ethical role in providing culturally acceptable care to the patients. The establishment of nurse patient therapeutic connection is dependent on the ability to communicate and share a common interpretation (McCarthy, Cassidy, Graham & Tuohy, 2013). Consequently, the therapeutic communication ought to be a focused and objective association that takes ...

Introduction

Professional setting: Nursing manager
A nurse manager has the responsibility of the clinical and administrative functions of a nursing unit. In my case, I am in charge of the intensive care unit section. There are many challenges that face the sector in specific and the nursing industry in general. The most acute case in this sector is the shortage of nurses.
This paper will provide a literature review on the subject through research by use of peer review journals. It will also use bibliographic databases to prove its facts. The concepts of search include the acute and growing nursing ...

Introduction

The role of Nurse Practitioners has expanded extensively over the past few decades. This has been necessitated by a number of factors ranging from the need to cover the apparent nurse shortage, the reforms in the healthcare sector and the increasing number of Nursing Practitioners which has immensely led to massive power and influence by professional bodies that represent Nurse Practitioners. With the primary need to help overcome the apparent challenges in the healthcare sector especially with the increasing population of patients, as well as the increasing demands for quality of care and new models such as the holistic care ...

Ken Kesey was a stalwart American author whose novel, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, remains as one of the most noted literary works of the past century. The author was deeply influenced by the time he spent with the patients at the Menlo Park Veteran’s Hospital. The author strongly believed that the patients were not insane. They were actually misfits into the conventional structure of the society. These individuals were hence ostracized and left in the dungeon of the asylum from where they could pose no hindrance to the normative functions of the society. The author uses ...

Abstract

Nurses have been responsible for providing primary health care in the modern health care system as well as all through history. Advance practice registered nurses can be certified in different roles. One of the important roles is that of a Geronotological Nursing Practitioner (GNP). Geriatric nurses have become a significant part of modern medicine as they are the primary care givers to elderly patients and it is recognized as a very critical advance practice nursing specialty. GNP’s are entrusted to manage a very critical part of patient care, and they have to be vigilant at all times to ...

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Introduction to Burnout

Burnout refers to the condition of exhaustion of physical or emotional strength, or loss of motivation to work. Usually, burnout is caused by prolonged stress or frustration affecting the involvement of employees for meaningful impact on work. Burnout has also been described as extreme fatigue, inefficacy, and loss of idealism and passion for the job. Burnout syndrome can be illustrated by the “feelings of emotional exhaustion, negative attitudes and emotions towards those who are beneficiaries of the service (depersonalization), and sentiments related to professional failure and low accomplishment (lack of personal accomplishment)” (Schaufeli, & Maslach, 1993). Any person with ...

Introduction

Healthcare professionals have differed on the size of adequate nursing in hospitals. Research has clearly revealed that staffing of nurses has a direct effect on quality care. Quality care, on the other hand, influences patient satisfaction and recovery. Studies show that adequate nursing promotes quality care which in turn increases the rate of recovery in hospitals. Evidence-based practices reveal that as a result of low staffing levels, patient recovery has become poor with increased cases of shock and bleeding. The same evidence reports that patients recover at a faster rate when quality care is readily available due to proper staffing. Moreover, effective ...

Introduction to MRSA

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a bacterial strain of S. aureus that that has developed a resistance to certain types of antibiotics, including methicillin, penicillin, oxacillin, and amoxicillin (Farley 2008). The types of infections differ according to whether the MRSA infection was acquired in the hospital setting (HA-MRSA) or whether it was a community acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA) infection. The most severe MRSA infections are those acquired in health care facilities and include infections of the bloodstream or surgical wounds, and pneumonia. MRSA bacteremia is often fatal, thus timely and aggressive intervention is critical in patients at high risk of death; for example, ...

Introduction

Euthanasia is the act of providing assisted, voluntary or involuntary death to a patient, mostly terminally ill patients (ANA, 2013). Euthanasia can be administered by the physicians and nurses on request of either the patient, the relatives of a patient who is not in a position to make a request or by the physicians and the nurses depending on the condition of the patient. Euthanasia is an issue that has raised questions not only in the health care system but also in the legal system (ANA, 2013). It is surrounded by moral, social, cultural and religious challenges and finding a common ground to accommodate ...

Recent studies have established that people do not mind their eating habits. They do not know the dangers either associated with poor eating habits, or are just ignorant to the fact that healthy eating is paramount to healthy societies. However, poor eating habits should not be confused for malnutrition (Krahn and Lengyel, et al. 2011). The major problem associated with poor eating habits is obesity, which exposes people to diseases such as hypertension, coronary artery diseases and diabetes. These are very threatening diseases that have very simple origin-poor eating habits-but also have simple solutions - proper dietary measures.

After ...

The development of knowledge and skills in information and patient care technology is very significant to the daily operation of a nurse while taking care and ensuring quality service to the clients. The knowledge and skills developed in information and patient care technology are useful in providing a nurse with the right tools during data gathering and keeping of quality records concerning a patient's medication and treatment. Such data provide quality evidence in developing the right care strategies and procedures to ensure the needs of the patients are adequately met during treatment.
Secondly, most hospitals today use electronic health ...

Infections in hospital settings are a challenge in nursing because of the potential dangers that they pose to a wide number of patients. Bloodstream infections from central lines are particularly hazardous as they affect patients that are already vulnerable, meaning that they contribute to morbidity and mortality in the hospital setting (Rinke et al., 2012). Although the rates of central-line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) can be reduced by up to 67% through the introduction of checklists (Schulman et al., 2011), the issue continues to be important in a wide number of hospital settings. It is also important to understand the ...

INTO PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

Every profession entails a certain degree of competence, expertise and professionalism for a professional to cope with and attain in order for this professional to be considered “competent” and “professional” in the practice of his profession. This level of competence and professionalism may be associated or correlated to the professional’s academic preparation, years of professional experience and degree of technical competence and expertise in carrying out skills necessary in the practice of the profession. In the nursing profession, the levels of competence and professional expertise can be summarized sequentially in the following stages: novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient, and expert ( ...

Introduction

This article summarizes the report written by Susan Trossman (2013) that explored the scope and practice of correctional nurses in the USA. In the article “Ensuring standards are standard behind bars” the author premises on the argument that the primary role of nurses is “the protection, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations”, correction nursing is the provision of the same services for individuals under the jurisdiction of the criminal justice system. Nurse’ ...

Possible Causes of the Problem

Grieving among nurses is a common emotion. By grieving, nurses demonstrate empathy that each human being goes through in life whenever a friend or family member is in a dilemma. However, there has been a misconception that nurses are not meant to demonstrate any feelings towards the patients that they serve. It is important to understand that most nurses develop relationships and bonds with the patients that surpass professional ethics. By spending much time with the patients, nurses develop relationships that affect them when the patients succumb to the problems that they are facing. The main problem that will be shown in this ...

Critical Analysis

In a qualitative study, Bryon, Gastmans & de Casterle (2012) explored the experiences of nurses with nurse-physician communication that occurred during decision-making for artificial nutrition or hydration (ANH) among hospitalised dementia patients. Twenty-one nurses in nine hospitals in Belgium were selected for semi-structured interviews as they reflected a wide range of personal characteristics and practice experiences. Successful advocacy for the dying patient and his family, a nurse’s ethical responsibility, depends on the quality of interdisciplinary communication. From data analysis which used a grounded theory framework emerged three factors influencing the nurse-physician communication: the attitudes of physicians toward nurses, the attitude of nurses toward ...

Section 2: Literature Review

Implementation of Facebook in Nursing Education Programs
2.1 Introduction
The inception of various social networking sites, such as Facebook, Myspace, Orkut, Twitter, and LinkedIn, has attracted billion of users from all over the world, bridging geographical barriers by providing a seamless service of communication through which people may build and expand both their professional and personal networks. Especially, Facebook being at the peak of its success and being the most popular social networking site, various businesses have started making use of this great social platform to leverage their business operations and marketing practices. The education sector too is ...

I am currently implementing my practicum project in a correctional nurse setting. The focus is on improving staff retention, motivation, and job satisfaction, thereby reducing the staff turnover, by employing mentorship as a strategy in enhancing the work environment and promoting the development of less-experienced nurses. Project planning and implementation was done by a team with the use of participatory approaches to ensure staff buy-in and commitment.
I have already completed two quarters in NURS 8600. The activities include an organizational needs assessment; survey tool selection or development to measure baseline and post-intervention staff data on motivation, intent to stay, and ...

The impact of implementing change in my environment and factors to be considered regarding end users and stakeholders

Change is a basic component of continuous quality improvement. The necessity for safety and quality improvement initiatives inculcates health care greatly. Change in the management of any organization is of paramount importance; therefore it is coherent to measure the effectiveness of the change and its influence in the organization. Though Evidence based health care practices are available for conditions like asthma and heart failure as well as diabetes, most of the time these practices are not implemented in care delivery and variation in practice are evident. Through the implementation practices of change, health care is made safer, but safety practices ...

Introduction

The account, which is given by the huge but quiet native half-resident American prisoner. His name is Bromden. His story focuses on Randle Patrick McMurphy‘s actions of rebellion who served out a prison term, by faking mental illness for legal rape in the hospital. Mildred Ratchet the head administrative nurse, with a small medical error she sets laws with mailed fist. Her assistant doctors and her three dark orderlies offer her assistance. McMurphy continuously provokes the customs, and irritates Nurse Ratched, causing steady power struggling between the prisoner and the nurse. He is involved in running a card-table, and also heads ...

The intended outcomes of the project were increases in staff nurse recruitment and retention and staff nurse job satisfaction. Retention rate is the number of nurses who separated from the correctional facility divided by the total number of registered nursing staff, while job satisfaction is the score obtained from a job satisfaction survey. The effects of the mentorship program on the selected outcomes are best determined at six months or one year after implementation. Following the evaluation conducted three months after the implementation, however, the retention rate increased by 1.6% which is small but still an improvement. There were also ...

Introduction

Public health is the art and science of disease prevention, promoting health and prolonging life through informed choices and organized efforts of the society, communities, organizations, and individuals. It is primarily concerned with the threats to the health based on the health analysis of the population. Public health emergency preparedness and response focus on prevention against spread of diseases, epidemics and injuries as well as protect individuals against environmental hazards such as fire. Besides, it concentrates in accessibility of quality health care services as well as promotes healthy behaviors. In this paper, I primarily concentrate on public health preparedness ...

Introduction

Industrial/Organizational psychology is an applied science dealing with psychology of ‘people at work’. (Kalat 2002). The workplace dynamics comprise of both tangible and non-tangible elements, both of which impact on employee satisfaction. Satisfied employees tend to be more committed and enthusiastic about their work. Moreover, employee satisfaction and dedication is contingent on a number of closely related variables such as, employee engagement, empowerment, the perceived (organizational) support structures as well as the organization’s commitment to employee welfare. Employees feel empowered when they have more opportunities for interacting with colleagues, a certain level of decision making authority and are accorded a fair ...

Objectives define the purpose of the practicum and also serve as the basis for evaluation. Activities that must be accomplished need to be identified as well to ensure the objectives are attainable. Following evaluation, the project presentation serves to disseminate the project results. In addition, creating a timeline assists in time management. Discussed below are the aforementioned components of the project.

Learning Objectives

Three of my objectives are in line with the AACN Essentials, the competencies of my specialty, and focus of the course.
1. To experience organizational and systems leadership by initiating a systems-level analysis of the factors contributing to the ...

Literature Review

Technology

Introduction

Effat University located in Jeddah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is in need of a Health Clinic Web Page. The correct management application will enhance the usefulness of the health clinic for the students as well as its staff. The use of digital technology in a health clinic has particular characteristics that may not be as important in other environments. The purpose for this web development is to add a management application for one employee and a nurse and it is a management application. Therefore a web based application will be developed using Oracle. The purpose of this literature review is to ...

According to Squire (2009), the altered respiratory pattern in AMPK KO neonatal mice has attracted a lot of scientific approaches to reach out to traditional answers. Knockout mice and transgenic models have however come up with relativity pyramids, which have been efficient enough in explaining why AMPK KO neonatal exhibit altered respiratory patterns(Bertoldo, et al., 2009). This paper bases its assertions on relevant literature to depict the how AMPK, out of its function as a fuel gauge, plays a critical role in the control of respiratory patterns in neonatal mice.
AMPK protein kinase is a proposed energy regulator. ...

HPV vaccination among adolescent girls in the UK

Marlow, L., 2011. HPV vaccination among ethnic minorities in the UK: knowledge,
acceptability and attitudes. British Journal of Cancer, 105:486-492.
The research involves the study on the uptake of childhood vaccination from various ethnical minorities in the UK. The research method includes qualitative and quantitative peer-reviewed journals and articles published between January 2000 to March 2010 from scholarly resources. Purposive sampling was used in order to determine the ideal proportion of the ethnic participants in the study. Ethnicity related variables were included in the study with consideration of the geographical location, country of birth, language spoken and the years ...

Literature Review

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Masters of Arts in Psychology
2016
Introduction
With childhood obesity on the rise, there is increasing concern about the prevention and treatment of obesity. Current national data on childhood and adolescent obesity show 16.9 percent of 2-to-19-year-old children and adolescents are obese (Ogden, Carroll, Kit, & Flegal, 2014). An effective intervention to manage obesity is essential. The current weight management practices involve dietary modification, behavioral change therapies involving exercise, pharmacological therapy and surgical intervention. The purpose of this literature review is to explore the current research on Motivational Interviewing (MI) as an effective method for ...

Introduction

Evidence base practice is crucial in the health care of the patient. In fact, establishing the quality of care depend totality on evidence. To insure the important of evidence in practice, many studies have been done over the years. The research done in these studies gave the world a view about the importance of evidence based practice. Globally, it should be used as a standard in care given to patients. From this point, each nurse should be aware of how to link between traditionally practiced medicine and evidence based medicine.
Evidence base practice (EBP) has been established since the 1900s. ...

Introduction

The article that formed the foundation of this analysis is “Taking patient history: the role of the nurse” by Tonks Fawcett T and Sarah Rhynas. The article was published in 2012 under the Nursing Standard Journal. The article examines the importance and skill in taking the history of patients before they are examined for ailments. In the contemporary nursing care provided, history taking, coupled with the right communication skills is what makes nursing care complete. The article goes into depth about the how the care is planned, the process of assessment and the how history taking facilitates all these ...

Human body has complex physiological mechanisms that keep the vital functions in a well orchestrated manner. Depending on the needs of the body, a precise balance of essential internal communications, pathways or networks and secretions is maintained. A deviation from the normal state due to genetically, biochemical and environmental effects could negatively impact the integrated body machinery. In addition, the impact of age could also become additive in precipitating the ill effects. Age is the most important factor that determines the severity of a given condition. A precise management of such condition is possible only through appropriate investigations. The present description is ...

Introduction

Childhood obesity as a medical condition affects a lot children across the world. According to Dieticians Association of Australia (2014) childhood obesity is when a child has too much body fat and the child’s weight is well above normal for his or her age and height and this puts their health at risk. In Australia as well and in fact, across the world, the community is becoming increasingly concerned with the rising prevalence of childhood obesity (Jacqueline. 13). The health consequences for obese children at their current status as well as in the future has acted as an impetus for raised ...

A scholarship presents nurses with the opportunity to observe, analyze, and synthesize practice knowledge as well as to test theories and procedures learned. A Scholarship leads to a new understanding of nursing phenomena. One of the roles of a DNP-prepared nurse is practice-enquiry, which is an exercise that seeks to identify practice challenges experienced by practicing nurses with the intention of deriving solutions (Pape & Robert 43). In practice-enquiry, the nurse has the role of evaluating practice evidence with the intention of identifying the challenges that exist (Pape & Robert 43). For instance, an investigating a health organization's mentorship program can help in the ...

The nursing profession has been plagued by poor performance for a long time. There have been cases of patients receiving poor healthcare from nurses, which has, in some instances, resulted to death of patients. There are a number of causes for the poor performance in nursing (Marquis & Huston, 2009). They include poor and unrealistic patient and work scheduling, biased and poor enforcement of policies, lack of leadership in the profession, failure to pay attention to the grievances of employees, failure to show care to the employees and failure by the management to lead by example.
Unrealistic patient and work scheduling ...

Literature Review:

The Efficacy of Bisphosphonates in the Treatment of Osteoporosis in Post-Menopausal Women

Abstract

This paper discusses some of the literature that explores the efficacy of bisphosphonates in the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis among post-menopausal women. This is to determine the ways by which the quality of life of osteoporosis patients can be improved, as advocated by the Healthy People 2020 program. While studies have shown that bisphosphonates are effective in preventing and treating osteoporosis, caution should still be taken with regards to its prolonged use. With this, advanced practice nurses can contribute significantly to the proper administration of ...

Pre-eclampsia is a condition that affects a significant percentage of mothers, and accounts for mother death during childbirth anywhere from fifteen to twenty percent of the time—pre-eclampsia is one of the most significant and important causes of maternal death during childbirth to this day (Sibai, Dekker & Kupferminc, 2005; Ghulmiyyah & Sibai, 2012). As such, it is immensely important to develop strategies to deal with the problem of pre-eclampsia, but it is also essentially important to develop strategies for dealing with education and prevention of the condition (Villar et al., 2003). There are a number of common conditions that are ...

Literature review – VAP

Part 1

The theory of goal attainment which was developed by Imogene Kings, it focuses on the interaction between patients and the care providers taking care of them. The goals that are focused on desirable patient outcomes are developed by ensuring that there is an existing communication process which ensures that a mutual interaction between nurses and their patients exists (Current Nursing, 2012). This theory can be used as a basis the assessment and the maintenance of desirable, healthy systems that which overall result in patients achieving their wellbeing goals.

Question 1

This theory is made up of a series of ...

Durkal et al. (2011) in their study sought to determine the impact of universal social and emotional learning (SEL) programs for students. The students in the intervention groups (SEL), there were significant cases of reduced stress and high ability to manage anxiety, coping and relaxation even within the demanding academic schedule. The researchers are of the view that undergraduate students have to balance their curriculum roles, their social life as well as their human development from a holistic perspective.
Williams (2014) sought to determine the impact of stress-reducing interventions when adopted by nursing students in a bid to increase ...

The practicum success rate will be due to well calculated prior planning in order to tackle the nurse shortage and promote health care. Mentoring, which is a perfect strategy in bettering the process of retention and recruitment of nurses will ensure transition and socialization from the normal clinical setting (McDermid, 2012, p. 37). Subsequently, the good effects will create and establish job satisfaction or enhanced commitment.
Articulating the mentorship program into practice will entail data collection by observation of the mentor-mentee and vice versa to foster learning conditions (Crookes, 2003, p. 50). In addition, surveys and document reviews will ...

Background information

Critical thinking is one of most highly valued educational outcomes in the professional education of healthcare professionals. Educationalists tend to emphasize the importance of teaching future healthcare professionals how to think, rather than the need to improve the contents of curricula. This view stems from the fact that the nursing process is highly concerned with problem-solving and decision-making-related activity that requires acquisition and continuous improvement of related skills (Yilldrim, Ozkahraman &Karabudak, 2011, p.174) As nursing education is directly related to critical thinking theory, tparticularly the development of these skills is essential for curricula in nursing educational instituions (Yilldrim&Ozkahraman, 2011, ...

Several evidence-based change processes or interventions were employed as guide during the field experience. The first is creating an EBP project implementation committee or team. The literature points to key elements needed in a team, namely a facilitator, members to function as project champions, goals and objectives, an EBP focus, and established meeting times (Houser & Oman, 2011). I functioned as leader or facilitator while senior nurses and the nurse educator functioned as project champions. The diversity of opinions, consensus-building process, and shared accountability also ensures that informed decisions are made throughout the different phases of the project (Roussel, 2011). Moreover, a committee ...

The six learning objectives and related activities that will guide my practicum hours are as follows:

1. Develop skills in searching and applying research evidence into practice – activities will include familiarization with using search terms to locate relevant literature, assessing the literature for appropriateness, synthesizing evidence, and presenting them to stakeholders for consideration and informed decision-making. The organizational needs analysis and the collection of HRD data also fall under this objective.
2. Develop skills in collaborating with the nurse researcher, nurse educator, and senior nurses in project implementation - reading on the meaning of collaboration and the principles that guide effective collaboration will give me a background on the concept (Nancarrow et al., 2013) ensuring ...

Literature review of CVL

Introduction
The management of the sick with serious disease like cancer requires a stable central venous access to be used for a variety of treatment that includes antibiotic and blood samples or product. It also allows the resuscitation of fluid, hemodialysis and parenteral nutrition and cytotoxic chemotherapy to access blood-stream so that medical professionals can observe and microbial culturing of the patient. In addition, it is used to monitor the pressure of central venous. The importance of educating the patient was emphasized too so as to avoid keeping the patients in darkness and not knowing what is happening to them ...

Individual Right versus Collective Good and the US Policy of Mandatory Overtime Regulation in Nursing Profession

Individual Right versus Collective Good and the US Policy of Mandatory Overtime Regulation in Nursing Profession

Individual rights are those rights that one holds even if he/she belongs to a certain group of people. On the other hand, collective good is what the group majority regards as right or desirable regardless of how its members are differentiated (Griffiths, 2012). Historically, these concepts have remained controversial as they are being witnessed in the policy of mandatory overtime regulation in nursing profession (Griffiths, 2012; Feutz-Harter, 2012). According to Bae, Brewer and Kovner (2011), before 2010, nurse overtime was essential to control chronic ...

Nursing Staff Skill Mix-Literature Review

James Buchan and Mario R. Dal Po (2002) contend after researching nursing staff skill mix that solid evidence suggests that utilizing less qualified staff is not applicable to every health care setting because it can ultimately compromise care quality (Buchan & Dal Po, 2002). However, there is substantial evidence where by increasing the use of care assistants helped organizations to function more efficiently. Importantly, doctor–nurse overlap assessment revealed where it extends the potential for organizations to explore manipulating nursing staff skill mix to its fullest. Essentially, nursing staff skill mix is still in its virgin stages. As such, organizations ...

I selected the issue regarding the shortage of nurses in hospitals and how it is affecting the quality of care. I chose to obtain my data and information about this issue from nursingsociety.org. This site contains facts about nursing shortage in North America and is run by the Honor Society of Nursing. I chose to use this site because it contains properly researched information in reports and articles about nursing.
A study by a Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) board member, Mr. Peter Buerhaus published a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2000. The report stated ...

Health Care Environmental Management

In any institution where people conglomerate, a number of health hazards may exist naturally. Such problems have to be identified by a health care professional such as a nurse manager and appropriate action be taken in order to minimize the effects of these hazards to individuals. As such, health care personnel have the sole responsibility of conducting a health care environmental checklist then come up with strategies of appropriately managing the risks. This therefore forms the basis of this piece of work.
Availability of clean drinking water: The common healthcare environmental hazard in my institution includes the common drinking water pollutants. The ...

Healthcare professionals have got an obligation of ensuring that future care providers can provide high quality, safe and patient centered care to patients by taking into account the need for incorporating effective communication and collaboration in their practice. Baccalaureate education ensures that care providers can enter the profession ready to provide their services in a proper manner by employing proper communication skills and confidence (AACN, 2008). As such, there is the need for developing interprofessional education in nursing institutions as it encourages the development of trust and respect for all individuals involved in the process of care provision. This ...

Essential V of The Essentials of baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice addresses the issue of health Policy, Finance, and Regulatory Environments. The Essential states that health care policies influence nursing practice either directly or indirectly and also the functioning and nature of the healthcare system. The essential further explains that healthcare policies such as regulatory and financial policies affects healthcare issues including affordability, access, quality, safety and social justice at organizational, local, national and global levels (Davis & Kimble, 2011).Therefore, a baccalaureate-nursing graduate should have a clear understanding of the larger context of healthcare which includes how healthcare ...

Where I plan on practicing as an APN in my specific concentration

I plan on practicing as an FNP with geriatric care concentration in the United States. The decision is based on my passion for family care, and U.S. offers fair wages and a healthy working environment for APN’s. Additionally, there is a growing demand for FNPs due to the aging population.

My designated role

My designated role in this practice will be an employee. I plan to offer care for the aged in a nursing home. As an FNP, I will mainly provide primary care for the old. APNs also perform physical examinations to promote the well-being of the target group (Hamric, ...

According to the American Nurse Association (ANA), a healthy work environment should be safe, empowering and satisfactory to all the workers without necessarily posing any threat that could harm the physical being, mental and social being of the workers. A happy healthy and comfortable working environment determines the levels of output and the profits that an organization enjoys, meaning that it is mandatory for all the employers to provide a safe and comfortable working environment for their employees. Healthy workplace also increases productivity as well as the morale of workers to a great extent, and they work with determination ...

Abstract

The high prevalence of substance use in the society has made more users to depend on opioid drugs to relieve pains and discomfort because of addiction. The problem contributes to high number of hospital visits and increasing admission rates in hospital’s acute care departments. The following paper aims at reviewing the literature on the acute pain management in chronic pain patients and opioid dependent patients. The outcome of the review plays a critical role in the field nursing practice by assisting professionals to develop strategies that help prevent adverse effects for the patient suffering from acute pain. The ...

Wit was written by Margaret Edson. This one-act play has won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. It is a story which deals with the medical profession as well as with the culture of education at universities. Both sides are brilliant in this story. Vivian Bearing is represents brilliant academic staff whereas, Doctor Kelekian and Dr Jason Posner represent the brilliant side of medical research. None of them have emotions when it comes to work. The only character which feels empathy for Vivian is the nurse, Susie. She is the only character who is acting humane.
Whereas Vivian is strict ...

Nurses face unique stresses and circumstances at the workplaces which lead to high nurses’ turnover. As at 2008, the nursing turnover stood at 55% to 60%, a feature attributed to poor nursing leadership that did not offer support to the nurses, outrageous working demands and poor relations amongst the nurses. To cater for these deficiencies, human capital strategies and leadership training need to be promoted so as to create a positive working environment that reflects the demands of the nursing practicum. The leadership training strategies should encourage the development of a positive working environment by equipping them with knowledge and skills on ...