Essays on Patient Centered Care

Health care today, is increasing conscious of the importance of family centered care. A health care service that leads to adverse family experiences, can inhibit the family from seeking health care for their need in the future. Ensuring patient satisfaction and family centered care, is the best way to promote the good will of health care in the community. For patients with high acuity illness, health care professionals often need to make rapid decisions that deny them sufficient time for interaction with the patient’s family. Sometimes, the needs of the family are too complex, and the nature of ...

Involving nurses in the planning, implementing and optimizing processes of HIT (health information technology) will benefit healthcare organizations greatly as Cresswell & Sheikh, (2013) opines. The steps of HIT system acquisition and implementation involves the establishment of an organization’s objectives which will influence the system selection process. A cost benefit analysis is then conducted whereby the cost of acquiring the system, implementing and maintaining it versus the expected savings is done. A vendor is then approached and an agreement is reached on the terms of service. Health care organizations (HCOs) should engage nurses in this process early on since ...

Introduction

Hildegard E. Peplau was an American nurse who developed the interpersonal relations theory of nursing. Her specialty was mental health nursing and her theory revolutionized nursing practice by emphasizing on the need for a partnership between the nurse and the patient instead of a situation where a patient receives health care services passively. Patient participation is the foundation of patient centered care which is one of the dimensions of quality in modern health care setting. Peplau’s interpersonal relations theory is a midrange nursing theory which bridges grand nursing theories to day-to-day nursing practice. This essay evaluates Peplau’s interpersonal relations theory with ...

Introduction

The healthcare sector has changed significantly due to the rise of chronic and lifestyle diseases, and better educated clients who demand quality services. To meet these challenges nurses have embraced evidence based care to improve quality by enhancing aspects such as safety and efficacy of interventions. One of the most important aspects of delivering quality nursing care is ensuring that nurses have the necessary skills, knowledge and attitude needed to improve care. Giving nurses these skills, knowledge and attitude is the key goal of the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) program. This essay evaluates the clinical management ...

The nursing field is tasked with delivering health care that is effective, efficient, timely, and accessible. These measures of quality nursing care can be achieved when nursing practice is properly coordinated. Nursing staffing levels play a critical role in nursing administration. Nurse administrators should ensure that there are adequate nurses in the health facilities to deliver quality patient centered care. The available nurses should have the right skills and knowledge to deliver the services demanded by the patients. However, too many nurses may not be economical. Therefore adequate staffing is a serious issue in nursing administration which involves ensuring there are ...

Cell Phone Restriction in the Nursing Home

I am writing regarding the continued use of cell phones in the nursing home by CNAs. The current nursing home policy does not restrict the use of cell phones. Consequently CNAs are spending more time on their phone and this is compromising the quality of care we are offering to the patients under our care. Good policies enhance the delivery of quality health care services while bad policies act as hindrances to health care service delivery. The policies should be evaluated frequently to ensure they are in line with institutional vision and enhance service delivery. A practice CNA ...