Essays on Hospital

Geisinger Health System is a non-profit organization that focused on the delivery of high-quality, innovative health care products to 2.6 million people living in Pennsylvania. The initial goal of the project is to increase performance by improving the quality of the products and services as well as the satisfaction of the patients by redesigning the delivery of care. The main idea was redesigning care processes in a package-priced portfolio of services called ProvenCare. As a result of studies and innovative practices, which included changes in coordination, administration and management, Geisinger Health System reached significant success. The system invested huge ...

Nursing care models are distinct frameworks used in care settings to deliver care services. The type of framework adopted in an organization is determined by various factors, including economic factors, leadership, recruitment and retention of staff members, and type of decision-making models used in the organization (Fairbrother, Jones & Rivas, 2010). The type of care model used determines the quality and effectiveness with which care services are delivered. There are four main types of nursing care models, which can be broadly categorized into task-oriented or patient-centered. Team-nursing and functional care models are task-oriented, while primary-care nursing and total patient care ...

The field of health care is an extremely sensitive and critical field. Given the fact the practitioners of this field deal with the lives of people, it is of utmost importance to critically evaluate every decision and action made towards a certain case. This is because a single, small action can either make or break the condition of the patient. Which is why, I believe that the interviewee’s view that marketing food and healthcare products is the same, is actually very naïve. Health care marketing can be similar to marketing other products and services, in the sense ...

Worries about a decline in the birth rate are nothing new, at least in many developed nations. As early as 1909, Hoffman made it perfectly clear that a love for babies was not the reason that some in the U.S. fretted over the declining number of births. Rather, it was concern over the decreasing rate of births among “native white married women” while the “rate of reproduction [was] materially higher among the foreign element” (p. 676). Similar concerns are in evidence today in places such as Israel, where the comparatively high rate of births among the Arab population has ...

Preceptors play a significant role in enabling the clinical student to gain the necessary clinical skills required. In normal occasions, the preceptor act as the student's role model. It is through the preceptorship program that the clinical instructor gets to pass on his or her skill to the student and in turn, the student strives to acquire these skills (Oermann & Gaberson, 2015). As with any clinical endeavor, challenges are bound to be meet both by the clinical instructor and student as well. This paper highlights the challenges faced by the clinical instructor and the strategies set aside to mitigate ...

Bedside reporting has currently replaced the nursing shifts that used to be time-consuming and sources of medical errors. It has helped in improving health by saving time and allowing patients to participate in their treatment. The reporting has also led to the development of strong relationships among the staffs as well as between the nurses and patients. Additionally, it creates a sense of ownership and accountability among the employees. However, successful implementation of the change requires good leadership and theory application. Therefore, the paper discusses the leadership style that can be used and theories that can be applied in ...

Luis Jimenez was injured in a car accident that left him “with brain damage and he is now a paraplegic which means he is not able to walk. Luis Jimenez is an undocumented immigrant who did not have insurance when he had his accident (Ludden, 2009)”. So, when he was sent to Martin Memorial Hospital after the accident he was taken care of at the expense of the hospital. Martin Memorial Hospital was kind enough to take care of him for seven years before it became a problem. Some of the expense was taken care of by Medicaid for ...

Introduction

People all over the world live according to their own preferences and needs, but try to orienteer better in the society by reading current newspapers and analyzing the environment around them. This way, news is extremely important in our lives, as it performs a variety of functions, beginning from the one of informative pattern and ending with the educational achievements. This paper is to evaluate the level of influence, carried by news into people’s lives along with mentioning changes in awareness throughout society in the form of the role of social determinants of health (SDH), which are mentioned ...

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Strategic Plan3 Program Description.5 Leadership Challenges..6 Ethical Implications..7

Engaging communities and building constituencies.7

Budgeting, financing, and human resources.8 Performance management & Health Informatics..9

Appendix 1 SWOT Analysis10

Appendix 2 SMART Objectives..11 Appendix 3 Budget..13 References15 Introduction In the past decade, chronic lifestyle diseases such as type 2 diabetes, heart/cardiovascular disease and stroke have increased exponentially in the state of Minnesota. Sedentary lifestyle and poor diet has led to an increase in obesity which in turn has led to an increase in heart disease and stroke. Most adults in Minnesota have poor lifestyle which has increased their risk to heart disease and stroke. As per the Minnesota department of health, ...

Regulation plays a significant function in driving the health care system. The federal government has instituted a series of regulatory agencies tasked with the protection of the public from risks that arise from facility-based activities. This discussion looks at four regulations that affect the LOS/Excess Days program at CGH.

• HIPAA

• HITECH Act • Affordable Care Act (ACA) • CMC’s Rule 1599-F Implemented under CMS, HIPAA requires that CGH reduces costs while providing better healthcare in a patient-centered environment. This regulation works to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of any program that falls under CGH’s jurisdiction (Miaoulis, 2010). The regulation is ...

Executive Summary: Eliminating Discharge Delays

Executive Summary: Eliminating Discharge Delays Bed capacity has emerged as a critical issue in hospital quality management with evidence indicating that inefficient discharges contribute to slow care and patient flow while further increasing costs. Changes made to the prospective payment system by Medicare in recent years have increased pressure on hospitals to cut costs through, among other ways, reducing patient length of stay (LOS) (El-Eid et al., 2015).

‘Eliminating discharge delays’ is a quality management project that focuses on reducing patient length of stay and as such improving hospital throughput. The project entails implementation of several strategies that collectively ...

Critical analysis of The Influence of a Post discharge Intervention on Reducing Hospital Readmissions in a Medicare Population by Costantino, M. E., Frey, B., Hall, B. & Painter, P. October 2013 16(5), 310-316.

Interventions Reducing Readmissions

Abstract Discharging patients from a hospital is a complex and intricate process that should be handled with a lot of attention and care to avoid the unnecessary readmission of patients. The study states that some reasons cause hospital readmission in Medicare patients between 30 days of discharge and they may include failure to follow the physician’s directions, reoccurrence of the condition, lack of follow-up care ...

Assignment Executive Summary

Introduction Delivery of quality services is a priority in healthcare as excellence determines patient outcomes. Various factors affect quality service delivery in health facilities. Healthcare facilities employ the most competent healthcare professionals yet patients continue to receive poor quality services. The hospital setting is dynamic as different personnel are responsible for the patient’s well being. Proper communication structures between health professionals reduce chances of information misinterpretation or conveyance of erroneous information. Both medical and non-medical factors affect the quality of service. According to Hughes (2008), delivery of poor services occurs because of errors within the healthcare system. For ...

Abstract

Scholars across the board have been persistent on the need for the near perfection of the concept of vital signs monitoring. Prior contributions to this field of knowledge all seem to bend towards correcting the wrongs that at times overwhelm the nursing practice, while at the same time constructing updates and ingenious suggestions towards the bettering of methods of monitoring vital signs. This paper cuts across the dimensions of nursing practice as applied in a reflective situation, and the evaluative outlook into the perks of vital signs monitoring as a physiological assessment process, its outcomes, and its repercussions both ...

Medicare and Managed Care

The U.S. government started initiatives to make medical assistance to as many citizens as possible. This program is one such initiative by the government. Medicare is a health program under the federal government that covers individuals who are 65 years and above. It also includes younger people with various disabilities. Also, people with renal diseases that require dialysis and any other medication are covered by this program. Medicare was created in 1965, ("What is the History of Medicare? | National Academy of Social Insurance", 2017). At this time, many people above 65 had difficulties accessing health care. In essence, this ...

Gone are the days when software development was a mere process of a few programmers completing it in a matter of few programming lines. Nowadays, the complexity of information systems and software call for more robust measures in order to achieve the target of developing a software for specific purposes. Software development in the modern era requires a comprehensive framework. The Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is such a framework that helps in pursuing such IT projects and mange such projects. There are a number of models that exist for the Software Development Life Cycle. One such model is ...

Evaluation Plan and Disseminating Evidence

Introduction The process of evaluating a program is essential before initiating any given project. Most falls among the elderly occur in the nursing homes, creating a need for the development of a plan to reduce these falls rates. The number of deaths and injuries resulting from falls among the elderly is increasing at an alarming rate creating. The rates of falls are higher for patients in the nursing homes compared to the community residents. Some of the factors that have facilitated the increase in falls numbers among the elderly in nursing homes are poor conditions of the hospitals, increase ...

According to the Loc sin’s theory, individuals are seen to be greater than the sum of their parts. All the times, human beings are considered to be whole regardless of whether technology is utilized on them or even when they are sick (Locsin & Purnell, 2015). This theory expects nurses not just to try and fix the broken patients, but to care for the patients holistically. It encourages the mutual process between the nurse and the ones being nursed. I am greatly connected to this theory given the fact that I strongly believe that caring and technology can coexist ( ...

The demographic profile

As it has been indicated by Kumar et al (2014) in the scope of their study, the lion share of the statistical data on demographic profile of epilepsy from both developed and developing countries may be referred as a retrospective one. It means that there is an insignificant number of the studies, which pertain to the selected age group – children in the current realities of the 21st century (Garzon et al 237-245). As it was indicated by Garzon et al (2003), the core limiting factor in this case is the access to the professional health care services in the ...

Cultural competence in medicine is the ability of health facilities and health professionals to take into considerations the cultures and beliefs of other people apart from one’s own (Horvat, Horey, Romios, & Kis‐Rigo, 2014). Cultural competence is necessary within the health sector because it will assist in understanding the attitude and perception of patients towards certain illnesses. In addition, cultural competence will help in determining the right medication and diagnosis of patients in accordance with beliefs and values of different societies. As a leader in the health care, it is appropriate to think of the most suitable strategies ...

Issues at Kaluyu Hospital: Case Study

1. The case of Kaluyu hospital highlights a slew of anomalies in organizational culture and practices that demoralize employees. First and the foremost, there is a lack of transparency in rewards and performance system. The credit of the patient care usually goes to the doctors despite the fact that nurses do all the work. The partnership of doctor and nurses, one of the fundamentals of quality care, is in trouble. Research reveals that these types of conflicts often lead to serious long-term issues. If it continues unabated, it is likely that the organization will witness high turnover, low job ...

There are times when a nursing problem arises as a result of a number of findings, and these findings are pulled together into a summary in order to see the big picture created out of these findings. This act of pulling together is what Brown & Ochs (2018) calls a systematic research review (SRR) or systematic review, which helps researchers identify “what is known with certainty, what is tentatively known, and what the gaps in knowledge are regarding an issue” (p.175). It serves as a link between the individual studies performed and the decision making done in order to create ...

Is Hand washing more effective in Infection Reduction versus Gel Hand Sanitizers?

Is Hand washing more effective in Infection Reduction versus Gel Hand Sanitizers?

Introduction

Today, the burden of health care-associated infections (HCAIs) are drawing attention not only from governments and health care regulatory bodies but also from patients and more so from health care practitioners (HCPs) themselves. This phenomenon is not merely because of the magnitude of the problem regarding the associated incidences of mortality, cost, and complexity of treatment, and morbidity, but also due to the growing recognition and understanding that, most of these complications are preventable. The medical fraternity is thus witnessing in tandem unprecedented improvements in the spread ...

Lewin came up with a three-stage model that is quite essential in the nursing practice. The model involves three stages: unfreezing, changing and refreezing. The main goal of the unfreezing stage is to create awareness on how the prevailing level of acceptability is impeding the effectiveness of service delivery in the organization. Examination of the previous processes, behaviors, organizational structures, and ways of thinking is significant in showing everyone how necessary change is. Lewin states that after people have been enlightened on the need for change, then the organization can transition into the new state of being. This is ...

I. Management Summary The FM General Hospital aims to develop its growth marketing strategy, and the purpose of this plan is to present a market penetration strategy to address the health care trends projected over the course of the following five years. Specifically, it is expected that outpatient care and sub-acute care (i.e., home health) will be the most important trends in health care delivery and marketing in the future. It is also expected that targeting millennials with different sources of educational health materials, including websites and print materials, will be required to improve relationships between those groups of ...

Executive Summary: Improvement of Patient Care Quality Project

The types of data collection and display tools that will be used and deciding which one is best for the project Questionnaires concerning satisfaction are feasible and useful means of providing opportunities for patients and involving them into the health case provision process and manner (Pope, 2002). They are also a good tool for continuous quality assessment and prioritization of actions that are necessary to improve quality. Analysis of the data collected by means of questionnaires will be analyzed by means of special programs. The results of such analysis will help identify the weaknesses of the patient care quality ...

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13.1 For Betty, faith is one of the most crucial part of her life that cannot be ignored by the health care provider. Patients with strong religious beliefs are often considered as problematic, as their faith may interfere with the treatment and the work of health care providers. However, it is the obligation of the nurses to make the patients feel safe, appreciated, and respected. In this case, the nurse can help the patient to overcome the difficult period by providing moral support and understanding of the patient’s state. The nurse may have a conversation with Betty regarding ...

Health promotion is a procedure conducted so as to help a patient improve and take control of his or her health. Having a heart attack implies that a blood vessel supplying to the heart has been blocked. After a heart attack incident, it is advisable to adhere to some measures, to prevent the possibility of heart failure in the near future. This topic is important because usually after a person is discharged from the hospital they immediately hop into living their lives as though nothing had happened. It is, therefore, essential for patients to be taught on how to ...

Healthcare centers and facilities play a significant role in disaster and emergency preparedness efforts for all types of events such as natural, man-made events, terrorist attacks and pandemic outbreaks. Healthcare facilities are required to have emergency and disaster operations plan which apparently gives an outline of how the hospital is prepared to respond and recover from all types of hazards. The preparation process requires the healthcare facility to include a number of six critical components including communications, resources and assets, safety and security, staff responsibilities, utilities and clinical and support activities (Wee 241). The approach of being prepared to ...

Understanding health care utilization and the underlying processes, as well as attitudes from the point of view of patients and providers, is important in today’s complex health care environment. One of the principal objectives in the management of health care utilization is the reduction of practice variation through defined parameters that seek to ensure a cost-effective use of health care resources. However, factors related to individual determinants of utilization of health care services as well as the enabling factors must be taken into consideration in the discussion of health care utilization. Looking at the case of San Antonio, ...

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Staph Infections Definition of Staph Infections The word “Staph” is a short form of the word “Staphylococci” which is the name of the bacteria that causes various infections. Staphylococcal infections, commonly referred to as Staph infections are a group of infections caused by the said bacteria. The infections can result in a wide range of infections including skin infections, lung infections, heart infections and blood infections. Most of these infections are caused by a group of Staphylococci bacteria called Staphylococcus aureus. This group of bacteria is responsible for various infections including skin infections, pneumonia, food poisoning, blood poisoning and ...

Similar to other types of emergencies, disaster planning must also take into consideration the likelihood of a flu outbreak, which may, or may not be mitigated through the use of flu shots, which have been known to be unreliable in the past. The goals and objectives of Baltimore’s Office of Sustainability involve protecting the safety, health, and welfare of the residents and visitors of the City of Baltimore (Baltimore Office of Sustainability , 2017). This paper will analyze the case study considering the options and organizations required to deal with a flu outbreak in the community, and a high ...

Introduction

Operation performance of the organization influences significantly the satisfaction of the patients and the financial progress of the hospital. Evaluations of the metrics that determine the operation performance in the healthcare are critical in determining the quality of the healthcare given by the hospital to the patients and the influence of the quality of the healthcare to the satisfaction of the sick and to the financial performance of the clinic. The leaders of the Healing hand hospital had realized value-based quality of healthcare was the key driving aspect in the healing industry. Determination of the performance of the clinic ...

Pro-Care Clinic is a general outpatient clinic facility that caters for basic health needs and mostly deals with outpatient issues (The Green Book). However, once in a while, the facility is required to handle serious issues that may require minor surgeries, child deliveries, or serious accidents. In such cases, the clinic admits the patients in its ward that accommodates 5 patients. Most of these cases are managed first before referring the patients to other equipped hospitals. The clinic has been known to handle these cases since there are no close hospitals in the neighborhood. The clinic has an administrator, ...

One of the challenges depicted by the video is the shortages of staff and heavy workload. As such, the preceptors have many patients on their hand. This limit the time preceptors can have with the students to teach and guide the learners on different clinical procedures or how to offer adequate care to patients. Additionally, as shown in the video, the nursing faculty has not designed a proper work schedule whereby a nurse instructor has a definite time to report for the shift and offer guidance to the students. In this video, the preceptor has just been called in ...

There is the need for healthcare facilities and the professionals working in such facilities to be aware of the safety and quality issues which affect the wellbeing of patients. The core objective of such a move is to ensure that patients are able to emerge with desirable outcomes and that possible readmission cases, high morbidity and high mortality cases are reduced. In this regard, therefore, it is essential that hospitals take into account the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) measures which will oversee an improvement in the safety and quality of services which patients receive ...

Introduction

Leadership is a necessity in any social setup and is more specialized when it comes to the medical setup. This is because it involves various parties, ranging from doctors, nurses, patients, staff and other people within the system. However, nursing leadership stands out as specialized because of the need to have a sense of direction. Leadership in nursing involves the issue of influencing and making people follow instruction as well as adhere to authority and set up social control systems. In this paper, there will be a detailed discussion about nursing leadership, personal perceptions on the values and beliefs ...

The Federal Torts Claims Act (FTCA) is the statute that allows for the recovery of damages against the United States (Cann 487). This Act allows prisoners of the federal government and pretrial detainees in federal correction facilities to file lawsuits against the United States if a federal officer injures them. The Federal Torts Claims Act enables a litigant to sue the federal government over torts committed by its employees (Cann 487). The United States has no qualified immunity under this Act. It is important to note that the Act does not limit a noncitizen from suing the federal government. ...

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 ...

Latha K. (2016). Assessment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms Among Postnatal Mothers Who Under Went Emergency Lower Segmental Caesarean Section, Government Hospital, Tambaram. International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research 2016; 8(3): 172-175. Gross, C., L. (2016). Maternal age and postpartum depression during the transition to parenthood. Kent State University. Pdf. Using Survey from mothers and analysis of data from National U.S. Survey of Women’s Childbearing Experiments, the authors analyzed the relationship between age of first birth and postpartum depression. The results showed that there was no significant association between the age of first birth and ...

One of the fundamental methods of determining liability in Tort Law is the “but-for” test. According to the test, liability is analyzed by asking the question: but-for the defendant’s negligence, would the plaintiff have been injured or harmed? If the answer is no, then the defendant, and only the defendant, is liable for the plaintiff’s harm. While the “but-for” is a Tort Law fundamental, it sometimes proves inadequate in determining a defendant’s liability. Consequently, Tort Law has developed other means of determining the cause of a plaintiff’s injury in fact. One of the alternatives to ...

Introduction

Innovation is an important part of continuous improvement. The current case outlines the effect of innovation in the healthcare system in India. More precisely, it highlights the application of the low cost high volume at the Aravind hospital to increase access to care for the millions of people who cannot afford ophthalmic care. Some of the concepts discussed in the case include the focus on the rural communities and the effect on performance, the business model adopted by Aravind, whether it is optimal for acquiring capital investments, and whether it maximizes social impact. The case also discusses the social ...

Last summer my dream was about to come true: I was extremely eager to go to one European country – to Spain. I have never been there before, so I had a huge desire to travel to this sunny country since the time of my childhood. There is no exact explanation why I liked this country – I just adored it and that is it. Maybe the reason was its sparkling beaches or warmth of Mediterranean See, maybe it was ancient cities, like Barcelona or Madrid, full of professional matadors. Perhaps it also could be colorful carnivals with a great deal ...

Facilities Management in Healthcare

My Role as a Facilities Manager in a New Construction Project Facilities management plays a major role in clinical operations management. It is an essential component in ensuring that all operations run smoothly. Facilities management improves facility efficiency, service quality, safety and patient satisfaction. It also ensures a clean and healthy environment. Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford is planning to construct an improved medical center. The center will increase hospital bed and space. The project is expected to solve several issues facing the hospital such as undersized facilities and safety laws mandated by the state. The project’s ...

Debate whether John Q’s action of taking 11 people as hostages in return for the hospital accommodating his demand was moral and ethical – vigilante or caring father. John Q’s action of taking 11 people as hostages in return for the hospital accommodating his demand was immoral and unethical, exhibiting actions of a vigilante, yet caring father. From the incidents shown in the movie, it was apparent that the spouses were actually running out of time and immediate surgery of a compatible heart needs to be found . Yet, as revealed the health insurance coverage of John Q from ...

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This case study presents J.W., a patient who went to the emergency room of the Community Hospital due to a persistent and severe headache over the last couple of days. Patient displayed signs and symptoms that her condition required blood testing and a head CT scan. However, Nurse Jackie, the nurse assigned to handle the patient’s case, only charted the symptoms but did not act on it or report it. The triage nurse, together with Nurse Jackie, also interviewed J.W. about previous neurological problems, headaches, or incidences of cerebral hematoma. But due to J.W.’s disorientation caused by ...

Health care settings function in a well collaborative manner where multidisciplinary work environment exists. In a complex care situation, such as transition care of patients, the role of nurse care professionals was believed to be vital in coordinating the care. For instance, in geriatric settings, it is these professionals who can take up the complex tasks to enable the elderly individuals in transition from the care center to their residence seek suitable care and therapy (Cortes, Wexler & Fitzpatrick, 2004). So, there is a growing research interest on how these nurses utilize their potential in administering the care quality for ...

Introduction

The focus of the research is on determining how the changing role of the field of Transitional Nursing can affect the quality of healthcare that is provided to the elderly population. Initial research has revealed that people above the ages of 50 are considered to be more at-risk for contracting chronic diseases, and also for relapses because of various demographic and lifestyle factors. The focus of this paper is on developing a study design and sampling methodology for the research, as well as formulating flow charts and maps in order to better understand the dependent and independent variables involved ...

Heart failure’s context exemplifies the important role played by nurses in addressing social and health care challenges that confront aging populations. Heart failure (HF) is a common phenomenon throughout the world. Over two million patients in Japan, five million individuals in the US, and six million patients in Europe suffer from HF (Boisvert et al., 2015). Moreover, nearly one million people are diagnosed with the disease every year globally. The illness is further associated with an increase in the prevalence of various comorbidities and chronic conditions. Accordingly, cases of HF are complex and include an elevated risk of ...

Managed care is an essential system of delivering health care across the country that works towards the provision of a generalized structure necessary to focus on the use, access, effectiveness, quality, and cost of services offered. The management aspect creates a link to the patient, which deliberates on the provider services noted across the industry. Two main modes of managed care provisions include provider reimbursement as well as hospital reimbursement aspects. Working on these aspects requires a premium understanding of issues within the community. Provider networks attempt to reduce costs that emanate from providing better fees for the services ...

The centers for Medicare and Medicaid define an accountable care organization as a group of medical professionals and hospitals, whose aim is to share medical and financial responsibilities for coordinated care to patients (McCarthy, 2013). The team members unite to provide harmonized and high eminence care to the Medicare patients, who visit the medical institutions. The coordinated care that is provided assists in ensuring that patients, particularly the chronically ill patients, have access to timely and quality care. Additionally, it helps in preventing medical errors from occurring as well as reducing pointless replication of services. If the ACO programs ...

Introduction of Topic

Burden of Deep Vein Thrombosis Deep vein thrombosis is a severe preventable cause of morbidity-mortality around the globe. This disease is so silent hence difficult in diagnosing it and so it is seen as a significant challenge regarding diagnosis. The Little level of clinical suspicion and higher incidence and fatality makes deep vein thrombosis a grave concern to the world (Jaff, et al, 2011). In the United States, 1 to 2 in every 1,000 people is likely to be affect by deep vein thrombosis annually. There is also an estimation that up to 100,000 Americans scampers to ...

During an afternoon shift in a post-surgical ward, I came across several patients who had undergone surgery in the noon. John had just returned to the ward when I took charge and the nature of his surgery demanded that he be monitored very closely. From the patient information chart made available to me I understood that he had undergone a surgical procedure for an optic nerve injury. I also observed that all the observations concerning his post-operative examination were normal and suggested absolutely no cause for any anxiety. I started my usual round of the post-surgical ward by going ...

Robbinsdale Hospital is one of two hospitals among the six facilities in the city to have an intensive care (Level III) nursery. This facility is tailored to treat infants suffering from severe medical complications upon delivery. The program director is deciding whether to use an emotional or rational appeal in advertising copy. (a) What are the considerations in this decision? The advertisement that the director wants to create will automatically target parents who are expectant because the facility is for newborn babies. The concerns in this situation are the kind of services offered at the facility as well as ...

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 ...

This paper focuses on the practicum exercises that the writer experienced while taking a course in Nursing at the [---------------name of your school-------------]. It centers on AACN Essentials 1 and 2 that particularly highlights communication and leadership skills and concepts, as applied in the everyday setting inside a hospital within the State of [your State]. During the practicum, we observed the manner of communicating, specifically the clinical mentor or the nursing manager. It was obvious she preferred using verbal and nonverbal in communicating with the nurses. She also used technology, as I saw her sending email messages to the ...

The Most Appropriate Way to Evaluate the Five Year Strategic Plan that has been in place for the Last One Year Implementing a five-year strategic plan to ensure that it is executed in the stipulated period of time requires an elaborate evaluation method. The most appropriate method of evaluating the plan is an outcome based and a process based method. The proposed methods are effective for firms, which intend to show the effectiveness of their program (Pantoja et al. 2014). The outcome measurement method will help the hospital measure the quantitative and qualitative differences between the programs (Lamont et ...

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Introduction Nursing practice recognizes altruism through various interventions such as understanding different beliefs and cultures, advocating for vulnerable patients, taking risks on behalf of other workers and patients and mentoring other professionals. In altruism, interpersonal factors such as respect and compassion are considered virtues that cultivate a caring attitude towards others. As such, some people feel that altruism usually places heavy demands on the nurses’ self-sacrifice, thus overlooking the challenges that these nurses face while in practice especially with acute-care settings and psychiatric situations. In this regard, it means that master’s prepared nurses have a role to play ...

Public health is concerned with preventing injury or disease and prolonging life through research. Data collected from different communities is used to determine disease prevalence and possible risk factors. This information is utilized to develop policies to prevent or reduce disease incidence.

Overview of Database

In 2012, the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) carried out the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey whereby youth fitness data was collected among children aged between 3 and 15 years. Demographic data such as socioeconomic status, country of birth, nutrition, health history and level of education was also collected (CDC, 2012). Demographic information was ...

In patients with cancer (P), is noise reduction (I) more effective than the sleep medication therapy (C) at improving the quality and quantity of sleep (O) during the period of admission and years after discharge (T)?

Background of the Question

Hospital noise is the major contributor to sleep disturbance, which is a fundamental component of cancer experience in young and adult cancer patients, survivors, as well as caregivers (Redeker, Pigeon, & Boudreau, 2015). Noise in hospitals also slow healing during hospitalization, cause sleep disturbance, increases the perception of pain (Mazer, 2012), and has implications for the responses to cancer treatment (Redeker, Pigeon, & Boudreau, ...