Essays on Based Practice

Post-stroke dysphagia, a potentially fatal complication, affects an estimated 23-50% of all stroke survivors. It is associated with a seven fold increase in the risk for aspiration pneumonia. Aspiration pneumonia increases the catabolic demands of the body and in the settings of impaired swallowing leads to a vicious cycle of malnutrition, dehydration, and further infections (Shaker & Geenen, 2011). Dysphagia affects a significant number of patients with hemispheric stroke which is the main subtype of ischemic stroke in the general population (Kumar et al., 2011). The functions of swallowing are subserved by a vast brain network. The inferior peri-rolandic sensorimotor ...

Summary

Essential III asserts on the importance for professional nurses to acquire a scholarship aimed at impacting knowledge and skills of engaging in Evidence Based Practice. Apparently, professional nursing requires that nurses have the skills and knowledge requisite to translate available evidence into practice. Therefore, taking a baccalaureate nurse program sets one on the path that evidence based practice education is imparted. The Baccalaureate program is designed in a manner that it ensures the graduate have the ability to point out the interrelationships existing between nursing theory, practice as well as research. Furthermore, the graduates have the skills necessary to ...

Introduction

Walshe and Rundall (2001) define evidence-based practice as the provision of medical services based on empirical evidence retrieved from thorough scientific research and the relevant characteristics of the patient. The aim of using such methods when making critical decisions about a patient is to eliminate risk and promote quality treatment (Murray & Lopez, 1996). This paper provides survey questions relating to the utilization of evidence-based health care methods in medical facilities. It also includes a cover letter that can be used to invite respondents to take part in the survey.

Survey Questions

Open-Ended What is your name? What is your age? How ...

Capstone Project Milestone 2

Asthma is the most common cause of in-patient admissions in acute care hospitals. Poor education and training of patients with respect to self-care and symptom management has led to an increase in the number of asthmatic patients reporting to the emergency department (ED) or acute care hospitals. It is empirical to understand the cause or trigger factors that relate to acute exacerbations of asthma. Some of the common triggers that causes asthma include exercise, infections, allergens, smoking, infection, gastric problems, hear burns, and indigestion. Based on current evidence, food allergens are considered as the most common form of allergens ...

The use of skin care bundle among hospitalized adult sick people can reduce the risk of skin breakdown compared to standard care of practice Pressure ulcers are a common problem in acute care hospitals, specifically among obese patients in intensive care units. Pressure ulcers or sores are common, serious but preventable health issues in the healthcare system. Pressure ulcers are associated with low quality of life, increased expenditure, increase hospital stay, and poor health outcomes (Bhattacharya & Mishra 2015). Hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (HAPU) are preventable if repositioning and turning techniques. However, the evidence on the effectiveness on these techniques is ...

O'Neill, K. E., Senapati, S., & Dokras, A. (2015). Use of gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist trigger during in vitro fertilization is associated with similar endocrine profiles and oocyte measures in women with and without polycystic ovary syndrome. Fertility and sterility, 103(1), 264-269.

Comprehension

The comprehension phase of the quantitative critique process is characterized by the identification of the main terms and concepts of a quantitative study (Grove, Burns & Gray, 2014). The steps of the research process are also identified at this phase, including the purpose, design, methodology, analysis, and results. The comprehension phase of quantitative critique process was achieved by reading ...

After Giving Birth

NR451 RN Capstone Course Term and Year After Giving Birth Even though postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is the leading cause of mortality after giving birth, most health care facilities do not have a standardized measures to assess blood volume loss and rely only on visual estimations for assessing and documenting blood loss. Consequently, blood loss below 250 mL tends to be overestimated, whereas blood loss above 2,000 mL tends to be underestimated (Bamberg et al., 2015). Inaccurate diagnosis of PPH delays treatment and increases mortality risk among intrapartum and postpartum women, so the purpose of the proposed nursing plan ...

Introduction

Evidence-based Practice integrates external scientific evidence, clinical expertise, and patient/caregiver standpoints with an aim to provide services of high standard to the clients (Melnyk et al., 2010). It is a method of solving problems in the healthcare sector and assists in the improvement of the quality of care. Through it, the caregivers update their knowledge and skills and less time is used to gather the required information (Melnyk et al., 2010). This paper describes how evidence-based practice can be used to solve problems by a massage therapist. The purpose of this report is to show how research backs up ...

Introduction

Nurses play an integral, challenging, and complex role in the healthcare system. Nurses are considered as the backbone of the complex and diverse system that comprises patients and a multidisciplinary team of experts. Nurses are educated and trained to cater to a large group of patients and often seek continuing education and upgrade their skills and knowledge. It is only through clinical exposure that nurses learn and implement new strategies and techniques. Nurses are known to transform the healthcare system by acting as mediators between the patient population and the medical team (physicians and other allied healthcare members). Through ...

Abstract

Owing to the dynamic nature of the healthcare environment, investment in learning in the nursing practice is an imperative. For this reason, a master’s education in nursing allows practitioners have an expanded view in regards to the diverse needs of patients. The Essentials of Master’s Education in Nursing provides a snippet view of the program’s framework, one that advances and encourages imaginative and transformative thinking in regards to addressing healthcare concerns affecting the profession. A master’s education program equips nurses with practical know-how and essential knowledge that is an advancement of the graduate level (American ...

A1 Quantitative Article: Tan, C.H.S., Ishak, R.B., Lim, T.X.G., Marimuthusamy, P., Kaurss, K., & Leong, J.J. (2016). Illness Management and Recovery Program for Mental Health

Problems: Reducing Symptoms and Increasing Social Functioning. Journal of Clinical

Nursing. DOI: 10.1111/jocn.13712 Introduction – The introduction is clear and concise. It explains how the study aims to discern the efficacy of an immensely popular evidence-based practice in the US – the Illness Management and Recovery Program (IMR) when applied to subjects in Singapore. The introduction carefully lays out the criteria for mental illness, and subjects who qualify. Review of the Literature – The Literature Review is well-written. However, much of the review overstates the obvious, and is ...

Childhood obesity is a huge problem nationally because the number of obese and overweight kids is alarming and there are signs that it is increasing instead of decreasing (CDC, 2016). First, it is paramount to define this problem. Childhood obesity, according to (CDC, 2016), denotes the condition in which children and adolescents have a weight that is higher than the normal weight that is clinically defined as healthy at their age. Consequently, the children develop overweight-associated problems that initially were thought to affect only the adults. It is important to note that childhood obesity has both immediate and long-term ...

Answer to question 1

Evidence-based practice is a technique that nurses use to make informed decision about how well to treat the patient based on the research, their expertise as well as the needs of the patient. The following are the levels of evidence present in relation to research and practice (Polit & Beck, 2013);

Level 1: Randomized controlled trials

Level 2: Non-randomized controlled trials Level 3: Observational analyses based on trials Level 4: Observational analyses that lack trials The levels of evidence are important regardless of the method used, because every clinician needs to have enough confidence on how significance the study is, so as to make informed ...

Integrating of Evidence-Based Practice into Professional Nursing Practice

The nursing care field and professionals face a series of problems that need to be addressed. The evidence-based model used to investigate the issues facing nursing care involves identifying questions, location, assessment, and evaluation (Richter & Austin, 2012). It is based on the PICO elements that include the problem, intervention, comparison, and outcome. Additionally, search methods and studies are used to obtain data.

Does the use of masks reduce acquired infections or hazards during the nursing care? P- The problem at hand is the risks that nurses experience when performing their duties. The hazards include the exposure to pathogens, germs, ...

Guided Study: DNP Scholarly Project Proposal Development

1. Setting The DNP project will be conducted at JDH Medical Group which is a health care setting with a primary level of care. The typical clients in this institution are adults and elderly adults, majority of which are Hispanics. As a health care setting, the JDH Medical group aims to promote excellence in education, research, and patient care. Additionally, JDH Medical group has the mission to extend quality, accessible, and affordable health care services to everyone especially to the people of Miami Dade (e.g. prevention programs, comprehensive care, and highly complex care) and to work hand in hand ...

Traianou and Hammersley (2008) argue that it is widely accepted that both educational policymaking and education practice should be evidence-based, or evidence-informed. According to Traianou and Hammersley (2008), this is expected to be common place amongst policymakers. Teachers are not expected to operate on ignored evidence (Traianou and Hammersley, 2008). The evidence-based practice movement’s origins lies in medicine and claims that research evidence should be given a higher priority in the decisions made by both policymakers and teachers (Traianou and Hammersley, 2008). This essay intends to compare five different articles regarding evidence-based and evidence-informed practice amongst teachers. The ...

Research and Evidence based Practices in Nursing

In the recent past, healthcare delivery system has witnessed tremendous changes which requires more than just caring for the patients and promoting proper wellness to members of the public but adopting new medical practices. In light of these changes, nurses are required to go an extra mile and deliver the best possible quality of care but at the same time lower the costs of treatment. Thus, to obtain this noble objective, health care practitioners should use available research evidence and integrate them to daily routines .Consequently, this trend has led to extensive academic literature on this subject and how ...

The quest to equip more nurses with competent knowledge and skills in an effort to address the increasing complex health needs of the people led to the institution of the Masters’ degree. I will interview a clinical nurse leader; a master’s prepared nurse, with the aim of gaining a deeper understanding of the role. In addition, the exercise will add to the existing knowledge regarding opportunities and career development paths available for clinical nurse leaders. The interview will also evoke the views of the interviewee regarding the role of clinical nurse leaders, hence providing information about MSN in ...

Reflection Paper

Introduction Like a humble farmer feeling pleased at a bumper yield after a year of toiling in his field or a passionate architect proudly gazing at her inspired engineering marvel, as a nursing professional who has successfully completed her DNP Project and Practicum, I am excited at my academic and practical accomplishments. As I write this reflection paper on the DNP competencies I have acquired in keeping with the fundamental skills as described in the AACN Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice, I look back how this practicum course has guided me to apply my newly developed ...

Any clinical setting is characterized by a variety of information resources all aimed at enhancing better clinical procedures, advancing clinical protocols, and improved patient care. Consequently, the constant inflow of information resources calls for more relevant and reliable evidence-based practices within the clinical setting (Fineoout-Overholt & Melnyk, 2011). Considering a case a patient who is rapidly developing anxiety problems as a side effect of receiving treatments over and over with no signs of improvements; whilst some clinicians seek to find better medicinal treatments, you opt to integrate the use of evidence-based practices research and successfully single out music therapy to ...

Introduction

Evidenced Based Practice (EBP) is a critical appraisal spearheaded to deal with the rising cases of diseases and the unsustainable economic burden that is bestowed upon the victims based on the external evidence (Evidenced-based healthcare and public health, 2009). The sole purpose of evidence-based program is to enable the health practitioners to reach an optimal healthcare wellness with the cost-effective quality. The research presented by Hood (2014) as discussed in this study avails various practices in the paragraphs. Evidence based practice is the essential tool required by clinicians in the provision of excellent health services to the patients. The ...

Post 1

A medication wallet card is a card that indicates a patient's medication names, doses and it’s easily kept in a patient’s wallet for easy retrieval and referral. A wallet card is very beneficial to a patient particularly in regards to creating awareness of the current patient's ailments, which will help improve the patient’s quality of life considerably and also lead to revenue generation by the clinic. Depression is an infringement to the normal way of life of an individual and does disrupt it in a major way. An amount in excess of $210 Billion has been ...

The process of evidence-based practice in nursing serves as the basis for providing patient care which has been tested and proven. To this effect, therefore, there is the need for redesigning care in such a manner that it is safe, efficient and effective in regards to the needs of the patients (Stevens, 2013). Such a realization, therefore, forms the basis under which current and future nursing practices can be put into perspective. From the foregoing, therefore, nurses need to be at the forefront of trying to understand the nursing research process as a way of assisting them to develop ...

Introduction

Nursing is a proper administration that helps people to distinguish and create approaches to help in the process of medical intervention and recovery (Blais, 2015). Orem's hypothesis supports a patient-nurse relationship, with consideration being the essential center and a definitive objective is wellbeing reclamation. In other words, it is essential in helping patients recover their health in a quick manner. In this case, it should be noted that patients expect to receive medication that best suits their needs, especially in advanced care. It is imperative to note that stakeholders in this case include patients, significant others, and the medical ...

It is no doubt that healthcare providers, clinicians, and nurses must utilize their skills that they draw from various practice-based researches that has been carried out to improve health outcomes of their patients. However, they have underutilized some interventions that have been proven or demonstrated to be effective and efficient in improving the health outcomes of their patients (Leeman & Sandelowski 2012). Therefore, there is more need to utilize or exploit the qualitative inquiries to attain practice-based evidence that comes from practices and experiences of nurses and healthcare providers to achieve more evidence-based practice that is desired (Leeman & Sandelowski 2012). ...

This Title

Write a research paper on the evidence-based practices in agencies such as yours, and which address the social problems your agency addresses with its clients. Evidence-based practice is important in making qualified decisions regarding the care that patients receive. The use of data in order to better determine the most effective treatments moving forward can help immensely throughout the patient care process. Understanding the resources that are available to specific health care professionals and implementing methods for controlling standards in such environments present the most important means by which the care of patients can be made to be more ...

Abstract

Evidence-based practice is a major improvement component of the modern-day healthcare system. Evidence-based practice relies on patient preferences, research findings and expertise to come up with best solutions suited to deliver the care process in the most effective manner. This project seeks to implement physical exercise among patients undergoing cancer treatment as well as those who have successfully undergone cancer therapy to prevent or reduce cancer-related fatigue. A sizeable amount of evidence suggests that physical exercise helps in preventing this form of fatigue and hence enabling this class of patients enjoy a high quality of life. The successful implementation ...

Critical Thinking and Clinical Reasoning

Introduction Critical thinking is the process by which nurses define clients’ problems, examine evidence-based practice and make a rational choice in the delivery of care. The fact that health care is a systematic process that involves the assessment of the current health situation, planning interventions and evaluating the outcome calls for critical thinking and clinical reasoning. Critical thinking is necessary since it makes nurses rely on facts in their efforts to promote positive patient care outcomes.

The article examines the teaching in class and the way it addresses the need for nurses to engage in critical thinking as the ...

There is the need for taking into account the key concepts which will determine whether a particular study that has already been done is useful and can be incorporated into practice. The primary components that will make a particular study helpful for use in a certain research process determine how such information can be incorporated into the nursing process. As such, determining the validity of different forms of study is an important step towards achieving evidence-based care (Fineout-Overholt et al., 2010). The first reason for conducting a critical appraisal on a particular study is to determine whether there are ...

The main aim of this research proposal is to show that the clinical question warrants investigation. The clinical question asks whether toileting patients every hour reduce the incident of falls. Included in the paper are PICO question and evidence proposal. The paper uses Johns Hopkins Nursing EBP Model and Guidelines.

Change model overview

John Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Process is an approach used to solve problems related to decision making, and it contains tools that give guidance to users. John Hopkins Nursing Evidence-based practice model involves the PET process which includes practice question, evidence, and translation. Application of the PET process includes ...

There is a need to have in place proper structures which will see to it that any evidence-based project is rolled out according to the initial blueprint. To this effect, therefore, it is important to carry out project evaluation as it serves the purpose of specifying the answers that will be expected of a particular undertaking (Aveyard & Sharp, 2013). Thus, project evaluation acts as the basis of aligning the goals and the expected outcomes of the undertaking. The Berlin and Fresno tools are the most appropriate in regards to carrying out project evaluation in most instances (Chen, et al., ...

NR451 RN Capstone Course

Term and Year Skin-to-Skin Contact for Neonates The separation of mother and neonate for non-urgent medical reasons is a growing trend in nursing practice. However, research has indicated that the practice can have a deleterious long term effect on the healthy infant and mother with regard to breast feeding, cardio-respiratory stability, and blood glucose levels (Moore, Anderson, Bergman, & Dowswell, (2014). The solution to the problem is to initiate skin-to-skin contact at birth (Moore, et al., 2014). The nursing focused plan is to introduce the practice of skin-to-skin contact following birth, which entails placing the naked infant prone on the ...

Evidence-based practice is a systematic process that involves sufficient clinical innovation that is guided by the application of evidence as well as experiential learning. This implies that there should be systematic inquiry within the clinical setting to help identify the knowledge gaps that have otherwise diminished the expected outcomes (Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, 2011). This activity helps the practitioners to move away from the ritualistic practice and towards a desired change and an ongoing evaluation. A majority of EBP processes seek to improve quality within a particular setting or at other times improve outcomes. All these are enabled by two major ...

The usage of Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) is an essential element in the healthcare delivery. It is first necessary to explain that evidence-based practice is a decision-making process concerning the healthcare delivery to patients on the basis of modern, recognized and proved research evidence, priorities of consumers, professional judgments and public expectations (Yip, Mordiffi, Kim, Zhang & Majid, 2013). In any case, EBP has great chances for promoting healthcare industry to a higher level of producing the intended healthcare delivery. Nursing as an occupation has always acknowledged the significance of the investigation, studying, and experimentation as an important framework for its ...

Project Plan

The Ace Star Model of Knowledge Transformation will be used to help guide the planned change process. The ACE Star Model will describe the project and help recognize the process of knowledge discovery and transformation (Stevens, 2012). This model focuses on knowledge transformation for organizational or individual use, but this DNP project will base on organizational change. The ACE Star Model addresses factors that influence adoption of innovation and composed of five major stages. The first step in the ACE Star Model is discovery – search for knowledge. The second step is evidence summary - conduction a rigorous systematic review ...

Introduction

Technology is constantly changing with a rapid pace that has greatly influenced the healthcare setting. The practices within the healthcare settings have adopted different innovative and information technology system and devices that have change the nursing practice (Westra & Delaney, 2009). In this document, the problems related to the adoption of technology’s impacting nursing practices are discussed. It critically analyzes the role of the nursing leadership as counteracting to the resolve the issues and concerned related to the technology use in nursing practices. It focuses on the application of leadership strategies to overcome the problem. Moreover, it concludes with ...

A1 Quantitative Article

Article #A1: Wu, H., Li, Z., Li, H, & Wu, S. (2016). Quantitative phase imaging of breast cancer cell based on SLIM. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 679(1), 1-5. doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/679/1/012003

Background

In this article, Wu et al. (2016) used quantitative process in analyzing data created from observing the cell dynamics, in which they used spatial light interference microscopy or SLIM to come up with the data. In this process, they combined the Zernike’s phase contrast microscopy, as well as, Gabor’s holography. Zernicke discovered it back in 1935 when he was able to observe phase objects that did ...

Explain how you would prioritize care of these clients in order of importance, and why

I will triage these patients with regard to their needs. The one with the immediate and most pressing needs is Mr. Richard. He takes first priority since he is in severe pain and nursing care dictates that the nurse should ensure that the patient is comfortable and one way to achieve is this is through pain relief. I would administer moderate analgesia such as morphine or pethidine. The fact that Mr. Richards was experiencing difficulty in breathing affirms me making him my first priority. Dyspnea translates to the fact that there is inadequate tissue perfusion. This in itself is ...

Advanced nursing practice is recognized as an advanced level of nursing care that uses in-depth nursing knowledge and nursing expertise to meet health care needs. Unlike traditional nursing practice, advanced nursing practice involves numerous streams of activities like: analysis, knowledge synthesis, critical thinking, decision making, interpreting, evidence based practice and managerial/administrative roles. The evolution of advanced nursing practitioners happened when nurses were expected to take extra responsibility in addition to their traditional role. Due to lack of a sufficient number of doctors to attend to people in remote areas and in families, nurses were given the added responsibility to ...

Ventilator-associated pneumonia

Abstract The intensive care unit in most hospitals plays the role of providing care to patients dealing with life-threatening conditions. The technological and other set ups in these hospital units are vital in ensuring that these patients continue to receive the best regarding care while with the intentions of having them emerge with desirable outcomes. There are however challenges relating to the care that these patients receive since, in most cases, they are usually under mechanical ventilation. A patient under this condition faces the risk of developing ventilator-associated pneumonia if the ventilators are not handled with the required care. ...

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Abstract Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a method of combining traditional and well-established practices with research-based evidence for better healthcare related outcomes. It has become a priority in many parts of the world. International organizations such as World Health Organization (WHO) as well as the European Commission are emphasizing on the adoption of EBP. It is important in nursing profession as it helps in fulfilling the gap between what nurses know and what is good for patients, and removal of this gap can help in reducing undesired outcomes. It is also helpful in decreasing the healthcare costs, ...

Introduction

At first thought, it seems to strain credulity that nurses would want money for nursing research. The great majority, after all, are engaged with nursing tasks, which leaves very little time for anything else. But then the idea occurs that nurses know how to do their jobs, and do them well. And that knowledge came from somewhere, from nursing schools of education, certainly, but going further back, nurse educators know how to do their jobs, too, and they had to learn that somewhere. Enter nursing research. The people who do nursing research are few enough, on the grand scale ...

NR451 RN Capstone Course

Term and Year Eliminating CLABSIs Through Specialized IV Care Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) are a major area of concern for inpatient care, resulting in thousands of deaths, and billions of dollars in preventable medical cost per year (CDC, 2016). As such, it is important, both with regard to medical responsibility, and with regard to controlling the cost and effectiveness of healthcare to implement policies and procedures that fully prevent, or meaningfully reduce the incidence of CLABSIs in the clinical setting. One means of doing so is to establish specialized IV teams to manage and control central lines, in ...

The aim of basic research is to determine the functional relationship between research variables. Though basic research may not have immediate application, it is necessary for the advanced of applied research. Applied research on the other hand, aims to solve problems and help the clients. The logical basis of applied research is based on the foundation laid by basic research. Many politicians and policy makers, often mistake basic research as a waste of money, as they fail to provide any immediate application. Basic research is the precursor for all applied research. Applied research is concerned with the application of ...

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 ...

The goal of every nurse practitioner is to work with the patients in achieving healing and good health. In this process, the nurse makes a number of decisions. For these decisions to be successful in providing the expected outcome, nurses are expected to base their decisions on well validated scientific evidences. This is called evidence based practice. It is important to know where one is getting with once decisions and this is the fundamental for evidence based practice. This will ensure that the clinical practice is based on the foundation of strong scientific knowledge. Likewise, diabetes specific evidence based ...

Part A

Hospital Acquired Infections Health care system is a very dynamic field that changes periodically; the practices that were deemed to be the most effective a decade ago may be rendered less useful or obsolete in the present day care. The changes are basically due to changes in patient needs, the emergence of new technologies, improved science research findings that develop new care methods as well as changes in healthcare policies and regulations. For example in the United States, the increase in the size of an aging population means an increase in number of patients that will suffer from chronic ...

Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) can be termed as the integration and option of best research evidence with clinical expertise, skill and patient values. It seeks to improve the care process and the care outcomes based on the evidence collected over time and tailoring that to the needs of the patients within a particular setting. The EBP process is aimed at improving judgment and decision making but this is also based on the experience of the nurse in understanding the research evidence and relating the same to specific scenarios within the clinical setting. It is a process that is facilitated by ...

Our organization defines its vision as the need to work towards developing new measures and interventions that are responsive of the population we serve, the organizations’ mission is extrapolated from the vision and it seeks to make the organization a centre of medical innovation, new inventions and the point of reference for all health needs of the immediate community (Gale & Schaffer, 2009). The organization considers evidence-based practice as a key component of the processes and procedures and forms a part of the culture. The redesign of the organization in the last five years has been based on the need ...

WGU

A. Table of Contents Professional Resume – presents my clinical knowledge, skills, experience, and philosophy to potential employers Executive Summary – provides an overview of the contents of the portfolio Professional Reference Questionnaire – presents the objective and subjective evaluation of my key behaviors and clinical performance by one of my professional references Importance of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) – discusses the need to develop knowledge and skills in quality leadership in order to improve the quality and safety of patient care and promote holistic, patient-centered care

Copy of IHI certificate of completion – serves to validate my completion of the IHI Organizational Systems and Quality Leadership course

Evidence-based Practice – summarizes an evidence-based research project on hand hygiene Applied Leadership – summarizes my ...

Iron supplementation on the hemoglobin levels of pregant women in Kenya

Over the years, prenatal iron supplementation has been the customary recommendation in addressing maternal anemia especially in developing countries for over thirty years (1). Currently, documented evidence indicates that iron deficiency is a risk factor for anemia during pregnancy and can lead to either preterm delivery, low birth weight or an inferior neonatal health outcome (2, 3). According to Pena-Rosas (4), raising iron levels by supplementation results in an increased level of hemoglobin. Hemoglobin level in this regard is dependent on the dosage of iron taken. However, it is still unclear the ideal level in which iron supplements can ...

Evidence-based practices are intervention methods in which it has scientific evidence that could show positive outcomes. One of the major benefits of evidence-based practice on human-services intervention is that it could provide or identify effective intervention methods based on reviewing large amounts of studies rather than based on the subjective interpretations of the clinician. In addition, the evidence-based practices also receive support from multiple studies from various fields such as biology, sociology and psychology (Aarons et al., 2009). This would help in providing more preventive and effective intervention methods for patients. The evidence-based practices are also funded by several ...

Developing the question

The choice of the question “For hospitalized elderly patients how does hourly rounding compared to two hour monitoring help in reducing the occurrence of falls and their subsequent injuries?” was based on the need to explore the importance of regular and frequent monitoring for these patients to manage the cases of falls. There is enough evidence that supports that monitoring of these patients is the key to management of their healthy issues. It is important to know that patients in the geriatric care have unmet needs and they rely on the nurse to help meet these needs. These would ...

Human factors are commonly referred to as a field of learning which consists of several disciplines such as psychology, industrial design, engineering, operations research, anthropology, and even statistics. Additionally the main focus of this field of learning is on the elements of engineering, empiricism, perception, and also cognition. It mostly involves the determination and identification of the different capabilities and limitations of humans including various elements of engineering such as design application, development, distribution along with the categorization of the different systems and services. These elements and information are usually incorporated into programs used in the nursing practice. The ...

Introduction

Leadership is a process whereby one person directs members of a group towards the attainment of a common goal. Like all phenomenon, leadership is susceptible to changes over time as variables in society changes. The evolution of leadership has changed from autocratic models to democratic systems whereby the concern for people is a very important aspect of attaining group goals and objectives. Health Science Education is now complicated and designed to cover a wide array of issues and matters in the 21st Century. This includes amongst other things, cross-specialization, interaction of people from different professional backgrounds, a high rate ...

Translational medicine is considered as a relatively new branch of science which is a combination of other branches of the biomedical field. It is supported by three main pillars namely (1) benchside; (2) bedside; and (3) community. The main purpose of translational medicine is to incorporate and improve the different disciplines, resources, expertise, and even techniques within the three main pillars. These improvements can help improve the different interventions and strategies focused on prevention, diagnosis, and therapies in the healthcare sector (Cohrs, et al., 2015; Titler, 2004). Nurses are considered as stakeholders when it comes to translational medicine because ...

Business Analytics

Executive Summary This study sought to assess whether customers who bought the African adventure will be willing to provide feedback. The study revealed that there more customers who are unwilling to provide feedback compared to those who are willing to provide feedback. A regression analysis was used to determine the factors that influence WOM intentions. WOM intentions were modelled as a function of age, income, trust and attitude. The analysis revealed that the demographic characteristics (age and income) do not influence WOM intentions. However, trust and attitude influence WOM intention. The paper recommends that smart marketing and advertising should ...

Over the years, the nursing profession has undergone various changes that have expanded as well as reshaped the concept of nursing. The evolution of the nurses’ roles have subsequently led to changes in the scope of practice. For instance, most of the current nursing functions were initially within the domain of medicine and other related disciplines (Barker, 2015). As such, this metamorphosis is part of the gradual maturity as well as evolution of the profession over time. In the light of this, Advanced Practice Nursing (APN) is one the key nursing specialties that has significantly evolved to become one ...

The Strengths Perspective in Social Work

The strengths perspective model of social work is based on exploiting the strengths of the individual, Gina in this case scenario, involved to help them resolve their issues, build them up and assist them in alleviating out of their predicament. These strengths create a resilient individual who can prevent a relapse into old habits that got the social workers involved in the first place. Resilience is crucial as it allows one to cope with new situations and make them withstand the mental pressure with which people are often afflicted. It also gives them the ability to come up with ...

Introduction

In the recent years, healthcare professionals especially nurses have been faced with numerous health challenges especially due to various changes in the healthcare demands and advancements in science and technology. As such, these challenges impede the delivery of quality as well as safe care to patients thereby resulting to poor outcomes among the users of healthcare services. For instance, the increase in incidences of chronic illness that include diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and hypertension coupled with technological advancements like the use of EHR (electronic Health Systems) provide a huge challenge to nurses. This can be attributed to lack of the ...