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Quality assessment and improvement

Many activities within the nursing profession require that care is a priority in order to provide a quality and correct medication. In such scenarios, the health professionals need to adhere to set out procedures as they are in the provision of the medication to patients. Process maps are essential in guiding the health professionals to treat patients accordingly without necessarily seeking any other outside assistance of an outside expert. Process maps are well-designed charts or rather directions that assist in outlining the right procedure in executing any given plan. Therefore, this ability of the process maps to direct the ...

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 ...

Interventions and Outcomes Measurement for the Elderly with Diabetes

In my practice as an advanced practice nurse, the elderly populations who in addition to their advanced age have diabetes as a chronic condition were determined to be a high-risk population. The determination of this status was on the basis of several attributes, one of them being the competing needs. The fact that some of the members of this population are economically dependent on their family members requires them to prioritize their needs. The presence of the chronic disease condition also classifies them as a high-risk population. In addition to this, other factors such as poor health seeking behaviors, ...