Jean Watson’s Theory of Caring In insite nursing

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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Introduction Many cities are experiencing ongoing infectious disease and overdose outbreaks among injection drug users (IDU). In particular, HIV and hepatitis C have become prevalent in many settings, where there is a heavy concentration of IDUs (Jarlais, 2010). In an effort to address this epidemic in Vancouver's east end neighborhood, Insite opens its doors in September 2003 to become the first facility in North America to open ...

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The Ignorance Of Physical Illness In Mental Health

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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Health is the level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living being. In humans, it is the general condition of a persons mind and body, usually meaning to be free from illness, injury or pain. The World Health Organization (WHO) defined health as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity". That means that we can't ...

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The Development Of A Therapeutic Nurse Patient-Relationship

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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Mental health nursing is a complex area of nursing that requires a high level of skill and knowledge. Those nursed within the mental health setting are extremely vulnerable. People who suffer from mental illness frequently feel anxiety during their time in hospitals (Rana & Upton, 2009, p. 85). The formation of a therapeutic relationship with a patient with a mental illness is critical to positive treatment outcomes. ...

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Mentoring And Assessing Student In Nursing

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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According to the NMC students on NMC approved pre-registration nursing course must be support and assessed by a mentor. The nurses / anaesthetic practitioners selected to be mentors should be in the register and should be required to be up to date with their skills, knowledge and competencies with continuity. Student nurses while doing their university are distributed within the hospital setting every six months. Students are ...

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Bipolar Disorder Role of Nursing Profession in Care

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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With the increasing incidence and prevalence of mental disabilities like bipolar disorders in Australia (Geller. B, DelBello. M, 2008). the nursing profession will have to attain the knowledge and skills required to care for individuals who have bipolar disorder via a multidisciplinary approach across all nursing settings; acute care, aged care, specialist mental health and community settings. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines disability as "The inability ...

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Associate Degree In Nursing Versus Bachelor Of Science

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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There are two major educational pathways to become a Registered Nurse (RN): an Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) and a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Nursing (BSN). Typically, an ADN degree takes 2 years to complete while a BSN degree takes 4 years to complete. Both allow the nursing graduate to take the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) consequently allowing the graduate to enter the field of ...

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Communication in the delivery of an ultrasound service

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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Communication, defined as conveying information from one place or person to another serves different purposes depending on the context in which it takes place (van Dulmen, 2002). In healthcare it is essential for patients to communicate the reason for a visit and their level of distress and discomfort as well as their concerns to healthcare professionals. Conversely, patients rely on healthcare professionals to communicate instructions, information and ...

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Theory of Culture Care: Diversity and Universality

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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Introduction The ever increasing multicultural world we live in today makes us see cultural competency as a really fundamental element in health care. A main feature of culture is its power to bring people together. Studying the concept of culture can lead to exceptional health care since it will establish a close bond between the patient and the health care professional. The cultural beliefs that a community ...

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Care Management Of Patients With Heart Failure

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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In this assignment the author will consider the chronic condition Heart Failure. The author will analyse the effectiveness of care management given to a patient with heart failure and depression. The Patient identity, in accordance with the NMC (2008) Code of professional conduct, will remain confidential. For the Purpose of this assignment the patient will be called Mr. Singh. The role of some health care professionals will ...

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Evolving Practice Of Nursing And Patient Care

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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The nursing profession has experienced numerous changes. In 1980s, there was a shift to all registered nursing staffing that led to nursing care being solely delivered by highly skilled nurses. Additionally, at the moment, health care institutions are restructuring their workforce in a bid to cut costs. Hospitals are reducing the number of registered nurses, but increasing the number of unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP). Health care institutions ...

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Misuse of power by healthcare professionals

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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In this assignment I will discuss the potential misuse of power by healthcare professionals when working with Australian elderly people and why they may be at risk. The discussion will look at summary of situations that may arise. However to begin the discussion the concept and idea of what is vulnerability will be described. Take for example the following statement made by the College of Registered Nurse ...

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Developing Evaluative Skills Through Critiquing Quantitative Research

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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Nursing is becoming a progressively evidence base profession. Arguably, Nightingale first popularised the link between nursing theory, nursing practice and research to inform an appropriate evidence base, and progress towards this goal has been ongoing ever since (Graham 2003). In nursing, a critique is often seen as a first step in learning the research process. However, conducting a critique is not a basic skill (Burns and Grove ...

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Emotional Intelligence And Leaderships

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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This essay discusses how emotional intelligence can affect leadership, through the fundamental function of decision making process, and lead to organisational effectiveness. For this purpose, Goleman's, Boyatzis et al.'s (2002) four key elements of emotional intelligence are employed, which are classified into twenty self and social focused competencies. A number of practical applications are described, explaining how emotional skills can affect leader's ability to achieve the desired ...

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The Tidal Model: Use in nursing

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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"Tidal model' is designed by Dr. Phil Barker and Poppy Buchanan-Barker to improve mental health nursing and benefit both the healthcare workers and the ones being cared for. It is a way to the discovery of mental health, aiming on helping people to achieve control over their own lives by first grasping what actually happened, namely, their own story. (Barker and Buchanan-barker, 2005) In this article, we ...

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Individulised Perioperative Care Of The Paeditric Patient

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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"A century that began with children having virtually no rights ended with children having the most powerful legal instrument recognising and protecting their Human Rights". (Bellamy 1999). Changes in the UK's healthcare setting including the introduction of The Children's Act 1989, updated in 2004, with which the Government aims to provide support for children in a number of ways including provision of healthcare in hospital settings. Paediatric ...

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Ensuring Effectiveness Of Critical Reflection With Reflection Models

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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The NMC (2008) requires nurses to maintain competence in all areas of practice (Meretoja et al, 2004). Nurses can contribute to the ongoing maintenance and development of clinical competence and ongoing professional development through reflection (Gustafson and Fagerberg, 2004). Reflection supports clinical reasoning, critical thinking and review of clinical actions and knowledge, contributing to ongoing evaluation of practice, for self and others (Bowden, 2003). However, reflection can ...

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Ward Management And Leadership Pressure

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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Reflective practice is a key aspect of Nursing Management and is guided by specific models of reflection. These models act as a framework within which nursing professionals can work. Additionally, it can also be considered as a learning model that serves the rationale of a profession and is predominantly linked to the field of health sciences. The practices based on Reflective approaches emphasize on the importance of ...

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Reflective account of a recent legal incident

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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Nurses are faced with many legal or ethical dilemmas, the Nurse's Handbook of Law & Ethics (1992) states that nurses should "integrate knowledge of ethical and legal aspects of health care and professional values into nursing practice". It is important to know what types of dilemmas nurses may face during their careers and how they may have been dealt with in the past. In this paper I ...

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Evaluation and Personal Application of Leiningers Transcultural

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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Given the reality of our world today and considering the fact of globalization, the world looks even smaller than ever before. For instance, nowadays migration from one country to another is a common and popular phenomenon. Newcomers, immigrants and refugees bring with them different cultural values which might be in contrast with the values of the host country. These values are unique to each culture and have ...

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The Organisational Behaviour Of NHS

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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The NHS has grown and flourished to become the worlds largest publicly funded health service. Since its establishment in 1948, NHS is being funded centrally from national taxation, which explains the organisation's accountability to the Parliament. The following is a report to the Managing Director, which makes comprehensive analyses of organisational behaviour in the NHS, in order to examine the effectiveness of NHS concept- Quality improvement and ...

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Role and Responsibilities of Nursing Preceptors

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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Lake Regional Health Systems like many other hospitals across the country have designated preceptors in each unit who take on the role of helping to orientate and train both graduate nurses and new nurses to the units in which they are employed. Hospital administrators and Unit Managers rely on preceptors to provide instruction and to be positive role models who are able to share their knowledge and ...

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Strategies Learner Used Facilitate Learning In Workplace

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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The aim of this assignment is to reflect on and analyse, strategies used to facilitate learning with a newly qualified member of staff in the authors working environment. The new member of staff will be referred to as the student during this assignment. This paper will show how one particular teaching session relates to theories of learning. Reflection has been defined by Taylor ( 2000 ) as ...

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Factors Which Influence The Decision Making When Prescribing

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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Objectives: The objectives of the study are: (a) to investigate the main factors which influence the decision making when prescribing,(b) To investigate the role of differing formularies across the prescribing interface, and (c)to outline the factors that influence the continuation of a prescription. Setting: Two National Health Service (NHS) organisations: Ipswich NHS Hospital and Suffolk PCT, during March 2010. Method: A postal questionnaire which enabled qualitative and ...

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Emotional Intelligence And Healthcare Leadership

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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Development of emotional intelligence in healthcare has been slower to progress than in other industries. This paper defines emotional intelligence and describes benefits related to developing the attributes of emotional intelligence. It explores physician, clinical, ancillary, and administrative use cases documenting the benefits of implementing emotional intelligence awareness. In addition, it describes how emotional intelligence can positively impact healthcare executives in leading their organizations to retain talent, ...

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Difficulties Of Medical Decision Making

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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One of the pioneer works in exploring medical decision making by Lusted and colleagues suggested that clinical reasoning was based on logic, probability, and value theory [1]. In their work Ledley and Lusted outlined a physician explanation of medical diagnosis process as follows: First, obtain the case facts from the patient's history, physical examination, and laboratory tests. Second, evaluate the relative importance of the different signs and ...

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Implications Of Self Care Deficit

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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Ensuring a healthy life style is a central focal point for every individual, community and the government. With every individual of the society being healthy, the community as a whole will be healthy. Consequently the government will have to spend less on health sector and will have more chances of diversifying its public sector spending. When we talk about ensuring a healthy life style, self care is ...

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Symptoms and treatment of diseases or illnesses

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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Different people act differently to treat their symptoms of disease or any illness which is common among community. For example in Malaysia, people tend to buy antihistamines either to treat common flu or itchiness developed from allergic reactions without seeking a proper medical attention from a physician. This is a form of self care which is known as self medication. Self care is a condition when individuals ...

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Health And Illness Are Affected By Biological Factors

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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There is a large range of health and illness and there is an overlap. A person suffering from depression may be physically very healthy but they are psychologically ill with depression. Medical sociologist Aaron Antonovsky (1979, 1987) suggested we consider health and illness as ends of a continuum (E.Sarafino 2008). http://www.drugswell.com/winow/+winowHEALTH%20PSYCHOLOGY/images/20825975-Health-Psychology_img_0.jpg By looking at health on a continuum it takes into account all aspects of the person ...

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Prison Staff attitudes towards ACCT documents

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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This research project will explore the prison staff attitudes on the use of the ACCT document towards management of self-harm/suicide and its efficacy. In particular the research focuses on the impact on staff attitudes in using the ACCT document. According to the HM Inspectorate of Prisons for England & Wales (2008-2009) the suicide/self-harm rate continues on downward trend and in 2008 saw the lowest number of self-inflicted ...

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Effective Verbal Communication And Mental Health

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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Communication can open many close doors in a persons life, which can make it more fulfilling, tends the individual to make his needs, wants and ideas known.Inselroth1996. p. 86, has characterized communication as "the process by which we establish contact and exchange information with others". The underlying feelings, aspirations, requests of an individual could not be understood until that expression is verbalized. Oxford English dictionary defines verbal ...

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Stress coping mechanisms of junior nursing students

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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1.1 Introduction Everyone thinks that taking up Bachelor Science of Nursing as a course needs a lot of patience and hard work. Students must take it seriously because time, effort and money are really at stake. If you are not decisive enough or hasty, it would be better to stop and don't pursue it at all. Everyone has a dream, if you don't have something to hold ...

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Leadership: Impact On A Healthcare Organization

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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The field of health-care is labor intensive and based on powerful know-how (Kanste, 2008). In contemporary medicine both therapeutic as well as nursing tasks are performed by a team, rather than an individual, being it a doctor or a nurse, respectively. No team work can be effective without a leader; this is also true for good nursing in which the leadership is very crucial and vital. "All ...

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Self-management of patients with continuing care needs

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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In essence, patient "self-management" in relation to their health, encompasses a patient's ability to handle an illness experience, to cope with undergoing treatment or make suitable lifestyle changes (Mulligan 2009). The concept was introduced to the health field by Kate Lorig who reached conclusions patients' health and subsequently health service costs connected to them being an inpatient can be reduced by encouraging self-management (Lorig 2001). These ideas ...

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Religion And Mental Health

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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This assignment differentiates between the concepts of spirituality and religion and analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the research findings related to spirituality, religion, and mental health. The purpose is to discuss the importance of clarifying values and becoming self-aware in relation to implementing spiritual and religious interventions. The components of spiritual assessment are presented as well as spiritual coping practices and interventions the nurse might use ...

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Evidence Based Practice In Health Care

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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Evidence based practice in health care is a process of finding evidence or efficiency of different treatment options as well as determining its relevance to a particular client's situation (liamputong, 2010, P. 270). It is decision or practice based on evidence which consist of research evidence, clinical expertise, and preferences of patient, goal and appropriate circumstances to implement the action, population needs, priorities and resources (Wood & ...

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The Tidal Model of psychiatric nursing care

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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Ever since the dawn of nursing, nurses have long been regarded as intellectually inferior to the other members of the healthcare team (Barker, 1997). As highlighted by Risjord (2009, p.2), it was only during the mid twentieth centuries that nurses began to realize the importance of having sound theory-based knowledge in order to practice nursing efficaciously. It was indeed a significantly huge step forward in the history ...

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Discharging Older People From Hospital To Care Homes

23 Mar 2015 21 Apr 2017

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Discharging older people issue is the most important in today's environment. Realising this, it is necessary to extract the fact in present situation of the older people. This study explored the experiences of older people being discharged from hospital to nursing and residential homes in the North East of England. While there has been considerable research which has looked at the discharge of patients from hospital to ...

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Patient Presented To A Podiatry Clinic

23 Mar 2015 21 Apr 2017

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This case study discusses podiatric management of a patient presented to a podiatry clinic with heel pain, upon referral from a General Practitioner. A brief description of the patient's condition, the aetiology of heel pain, patient assessment leading to possible diagnosis and deferential diagnosis will be outlined. This is followed by discussion on the short, medium and long term podiatry management. Patients' education and the psychosocial factors ...

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Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory

23 Mar 2015 21 Apr 2017

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Theories and models have taken a significant place in the discipline of nursing during the past fifty years. The purpose behind formulating these theories was to provide a theoretical basis for provision of care and recognition of the nursing profession. This paper will mainly focus on the two grand nursing care models, the Dorothy Orem's self care deficit nursing theory (SCDNT) and Sister Callista Roy's adaptation model ...

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Consultation Skills In Relation To Nurse Prescribing

23 Mar 2015 21 Apr 2017

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Nurse prescribing was translated into reality in the latter part of the 1990's when a cohort of about 1,200 nurses received specialist training in order to allow them to feel confident and competent in the prescription of certain drugs and medications. In the best traditions of scientific endeavour, they were subject to a barrage of audits and studies to see how they actually performed. As in any ...

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The Vicious Cycle of Insomnia and Anticipatory Anxiety

23 Mar 2015 21 Apr 2017

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Insomnia, characterized by difficulty initiating, maintaining, or obtaining qualitatively satisfying sleep is a widespread health complaint. Like the common cold, most individuals have experienced at least transient bouts of nocturnal sleep difficulty due either to an impending stressful (e.g., final exam) or exciting (e.g., a long-awaited vacation trip) event or due to acute medical or environmental factors. However, slightly over one-third of the adult population complains of ...

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Risk assessment tools for falls

23 Mar 2015 21 Apr 2017

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Due to the ageing population and the increase of falls among older adults, I choose to investigate how home care nurses use risk assessment tools to prevent falls. Approximately 9,500 deaths in older Americans are associated with falls each year. The elderly account for seventy-five percent of deaths from falls. [1] A majority of older adults spend nearly all of their time in their home, and for this reason one-half ...

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Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Palliative Care

23 Mar 2015 21 Apr 2017

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Individuals that have been deemed by their medical team to have serious diseases that are resistant, nonresponsive or have failed reasonable treatments are often referred to specialists for "comfort measures only". According to the World Health Organization, "Palliative care is the active total care of patients whose disease is not responsive to curative treatment. Control of pain, of other symptoms, and of psychological, social and spiritual problems ...

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Anxiety, Anger And Depression in Nursing

23 Mar 2015 21 Apr 2017

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I FEEL DEJECTED, The patient spoke out morosely. Nurse looked over at his miserable condition, and felt to deal with his anger, anxiety and depression. It is very interesting to conform with such cases, dealing with difficult emotions is a challenge for nurses in clinical setup. Emotion includes a widespread range of apparent behaviors and expressed feelings. According to West and turner (2009) emotion is the critical ...

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Professional, ethical and legal principles of Nursing

23 Mar 2015 21 Apr 2017

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This essay will discuss the underpinning professional, ethical and legal principles of nursing using the standards of conduct outlined by the professional regulatory body; the Nursing and Midwifery Council in the code of conduct (NMC 2009). The policies which will be explored are confidentiality, informed consent and autonomy. Each will be discussed and their impact on the nursing profession and patients highlighted. According to the NMC code ...

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Promoting Effective Learning In Nursing

23 Mar 2015 21 Apr 2017

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The NMC Code of Conduct (2008) states that 'We exist to safeguard the health and wellbeing of the public'. This is of vital consideration in all practice and also when approaching the challenge of teaching colleagues. The need to be accountable 'for keeping knowledge and skills up to date through continuing professional development,' NMC SLAIP (2008), is essential.  Those on the registrar must keep updated and those ...

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Specific Health Assessment Pain Assessment

23 Mar 2015 21 Apr 2017

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Specific health assessment refers to an assessment of a specific problem and it may be the initial assessment or an ongoing assessment (Bayoumi., 2009). A risk assessment is a type of assessment that uses an individual 's personal data, genetic and environmental information to determine the risk of developing a specific disease such as cervical cancer, breast cancer, pancreatic cancer etc. (Duke, 2010). The objective of this ...

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The Interdisciplinary Teams Play Important Role

23 Mar 2015 21 Apr 2017

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Interdisciplinary teams are regularly used to take care after surgery for older adults because of their complex healthcare needs. It is necessary to work in a team which concerns with the judgment and management of older adults with complex illness as in case of Mr. Trosack who is recovering from right total hip replacement surgery. Interdisciplinary teams play important role to give care to patients (Farrel, Schmitt ...

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Assessment Strategies: Paramedic Education

23 Mar 2015 21 Apr 2017

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Paramedics have, historically, been algorithmically led through all clinical procedures and decisions which do not directly centre on clinical decision making. It has been indicated that this system of paramedic training concentrated on life threatening conditions with protocol driven practice, based on limited underpinning knowledge (Williams, 2002). They have undergone 'front-loaded', fit-for purpose courses which has suited the operational need of the Ambulance Service. Over the last ...

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Reflective report on a personal nursing philosophy

23 Mar 2015 21 Apr 2017

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In order to develop a good nursing philosophy, one must know its definition. According to Weidenbach, nursing philosophy "is an attitude toward life and reality that evolves from each nurse's beliefs," (Edwards, 1997). In other words, philosophy attempts to answer the question of what nursing is and explains the core beliefs and values of nursing. Originally, I had thought that my nursing philosophy is to treat all ...

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Treatment And Impact Of Multiple Sclerosis

23 Mar 2015 21 Apr 2017

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Multiple sclerosis is defined as a pharmacological disorder associated with inflammation of the myelin sheaths around axons of brain and spinal cord. The disorder is also called as disseminated sclerosis or encephalomyelitis disseminata and leads to demyelination and scarring 1.Multiple sclerosis is associated with neurological symptoms of fatigue, muscle weakness, paraesthesia, ataxia, dysphagia, diplopia, severe pain, visual impairment, cognitive impairment, Lhermitte,s sign and Uhthoff's phenomenon (Compston and ...

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Military Decision Making Process Vs Appreciation

23 Mar 2015 21 Apr 2017

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"If the band played a piece first with the piccolo then with the brass horn, then with the clarinet, and then with the trumpet, there would be a hell of a lot of noise but no music. To get harmony in the music, each instrument must support the others, to get harmony in battle; each weapon must support the others. Team play wins." -General George S. Patton ...

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Effects of Autism Disorder on Children

23 Mar 2015 21 Apr 2017

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What is Autism? Autism can be defined as a disorder of neural development which is characterized by an impaired communication and social interaction as well as by restricted and repetitive behavior. These traits are manifest in a child before he/she is three years old (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). Autism affects the processing of information in the brain through altering how the nerve cells and their synapses do ...

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Appraisal And Evidence Synthesis Of Two Reviews

23 Mar 2015 21 Apr 2017

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Select two reviews of your choice. One should be a Systematic Review and the other a Traditional Selective Review. Critically discuss the quality of your reviews with respect to a standard assessment tool suitable for reviews. The aim of a review is to give an overview of the primary studies of a particular subject and analyse them in a way, which is thorough, unbiased and reproducible, should ...

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Performance Of The National Health Services

23 Mar 2015 21 Apr 2017

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There have been many indicators such as high mortality rates Nolte and McKee, 2011 and disparity in health outcomes between social groups Ham, Dixon and Brooke, 2012 depicting the imperfect state of health and social delivery system. A report commissioned by the King's Fund (2011) in London found that at some of the practices, almost only 10 percent of the people were able to see the doctors ...

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Accountability And Autonomy: Nursing In Ireland

23 Mar 2015 21 Apr 2017

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The aim of this assignment is to discuss accountability and autonomy as being a fundamental aspect of nursing practice in Ireland. The author will define autonomy and accountability, the role of management, primary nursing, barriers to autonomy and accountability, nurse education and whether autonomy is something nurses really want. Defining Accountability and Autonomy An Bord Altranais (2000 p.7) citing Lewis and Batey (1982) define accountability as "the ...

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Communication In The Delivery Of An Ultrasound

23 Mar 2015 21 Apr 2017

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Communication is an important aspect of practice for health care professionals. The role of communication has been appreciated by health care providers worldwide. Effective communication includes the ability to receive, interpret and respond efficiently and clearly to messages (Craig 1993). Communication in health services is different from normal social disclosure because in medicine we discuss very private and sensitive issues (Levetown 2008). Communication should be effective and ...

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Role Development: Advanced Nursing

23 Mar 2015 21 Apr 2017

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Masters prepared nurse researchers identify research questions, design and conduct scientific studies, collect and analyze data, and report their findings, producing results that improve patient outcomes and quality of life. ("Reseacher," 2012). Master prepared nurses have a distinct advantage in drawing from their own very varied experiences as staff nurses. The Master's prepared nurse as collaborator implements and enhances best practices through collaboration with peers, students, administrators, ...

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The Midwife And Normality In Childbirth

23 Mar 2015 20 Apr 2017

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The aim of this essay is to discuss how the midwife is 'the expert of normal' and how she may promote normality in childbirth. The author will define 'the midwife as the expert of the normal'. However, it may be impossible to accurately define as these differ between disciplines, organisations and individuals. In addition, the author will also define the concept of normal as it is an ...

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Evaluating the facilitation of client centred Care Plan

23 Mar 2015 20 Apr 2017

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Developing care plans to be agreed by older patients and/or their carers has become common practice (Cegala et al. 2000). As outlined in The Essence of Care (Department of Health, 2001b); patients care plans should be integrated, multidisciplinary and accessible to the patient. Due to a common fault of assessments being duplicated with no coherent approach across health and social care service (Department of Health, 2001a, p24), ...

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Leadership Style Of A Band Six Nurse

23 Mar 2015 20 Apr 2017

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The essay aims at giving the reader a clear definition of leadership and the relative merits and demerits of a variety of approaches to leadership from different perspectives. In the first instance it may be prudent to provide a definition of the concept of leadership and to distinguish leadership from the concept of management. Although management and leadership are often considered in the same turn of phrase ...

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Help Reduce The Anxiety For Patient

23 Mar 2015 20 Apr 2017

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Stress is an inherent part of life. Patients may be stressed and anxious about their prognosis due to potentially terminal illnesses such as colon cancer as exampled by the case study. This stress is not limited to the patient but almost always carries over to the friends and family members of the patient who fear for the future wellbeing of their loved one as well as the ...

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Medical orders for laparoscopic appendectomy

23 Mar 2015 20 Apr 2017

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The followings are the initial and medical orders which were ordered for Jane, who is preparing to go for a laparoscopic appendectomy surgery. Fasting from food and fluids is ordered instructing Jane not to consume anything through mouth for at least 6-8 hours before surgery, especially when undergoing general anaesthetic. Due to the reduction of volume and acidity in the stomach contents during surgery, therefore minimising the ...

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Use Of Seclusion In Psychiatric Setting

23 Mar 2015 20 Apr 2017

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Dilemmas in patient care are an inevitable outcome of nursing accountability. Nurses struggle to balance their responsibility to protect patients rights with their obligation to prevent harm to patients and staff. Coercive treatments such as seclusion are one of those common practices in psychiatric settings which involve ethical dilemma and places nurses in question. The Code of Practice (2008), defines seclusion as "the supervised confinement of a ...

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Nature And Benefits Of Collaboration

23 Mar 2015 20 Apr 2017

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The exact translation of word collaboration from Latin is together in labour. In dictionary, collaboration is defined as work with another or others on a project. However, Henneman et al (1995) stated that defining collaboration in practice is complex, vague, variable and difficult phenomenon where the term can be used inappropriately. According to Baggs and Schmitt (1988), collaboration in nursing and medicine are "nurses and physicians working ...

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A Case Study of Change: Obesity

23 Mar 2015 20 Apr 2017

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Obesity in primary care has become an increasingly common problem. Like any other medical condition overweight and obese patients should have access to appropriate treatment and care using a delicate, understanding and non-judgemental approach. Weight loss in primary care is of interest for the purposes of improving a person's quality of life. During the study the author will explore the prevalence of obesity using the geographical trust ...

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Concepts of health promotion

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Before we discuss how different concepts and theories can be used to promote health, nurses need to know what the term "health promotion" means. An authoritative definition of health promotion comes from the W.H.O which defines it as "the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health". (W.H.O 1986). Health education is considered the core component of health promotion. Until the mid ...

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Case study of bipolar affective disorder

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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Humans and non humans can be distinguished based on one major difference that is the presence of intellect. It is the human brain that is valued the most and given utmost importance in the universe of mankind. But this magnitude of importance is justified, when we look at the function of the intellect, and that is the ability to make sound and rational decisions, an element which ...

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Recovery From Acute Stroke

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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This assignment will concentrate on how team of different health professionals will help Alfred (from the case study) on his journey of recovery from acute stroke. The following health professionals may be required to team up in order to help Alfred on his journey to recover: Physiotherapist( help tackle weakness or paralysis), Orthotist (help with muscle function by supporting limbs with braces), Occupation Therapist (help on day-to-day ...

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Ignorance Of Physical Health In Mental Illness

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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According to World health organization, Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being not merely the absence of disease and infirmity. From this definition it can be inferred that health includes three major aspects and consideration of all aspects of health while providing care to the patients is very important. This definition applies on both psychiatric and medicine field because without holistic care it ...

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Side Effect In Cancer Patients

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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Internationally, the Oncology Nursing Society strives to ensure that the basis of nursing practice is on the most current evidence available to ensure high quality, cost effective patient care. For OM, strategies suggested include an oral care assessment tool, an oral care protocol and patient education to help maintain patients' functional status and quality of life( Eilers and Million 2007). Likewise, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) ...

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Causes And Effects Of Moral Distress

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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Næss (2005) in his report, Omsorgens vicar og de kommunale pleie-og omssorgtjeneste use the term moral burden to describe employees' experience with management not taking them seriously when they claim they cannot take care of more dependent patients without extra staff, or when the care that they give is no longer acceptable or effective. When moral burden in caring as practice gets too heavy, the opportunity to ...

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Depression in older people

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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Depression, including major and minor is one of the most prevalent mental illness among the elderly in nursing home around the world with up to 78% being affected(Brown and Luisi, 2002; Blazer, 2003; Achterberg et al., 2006; Mcdougall et al., 2006; Davison et al., 2007; Levin et al., 2007; Lin et al, 2007; Mc Sweeney and O'Connor, 2008), which can result in higher costs, functional problem, malnutrition, ...

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Personal development plan and professional skills

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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Personal Development Plan can be defined an activity that helps a person to assess, improve and take actions regarding his/her capabilities and permanently improving these skills throughout the career. If a person is clear about his/her short term and long term goals then it is easy to prioritise all the tasks with careful considerations keeping in view the importance of each task. The most important aspect of ...

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PPDP provides skills level mapping tool

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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OUT Come 14; Demonstrate responsibility for one's own learning through the development of a portfolioof practice and recognise when further learning is required. Evidence Doc; P1S3R32(Reflection on placement 1) One of the important learning from my 1st placement is the development of personal and professional development portfolio (PPDP). PPDP provides skills level mapping tool and planning for further skills (Wenzel et al 1998).PPDP is developed by nurses ...

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Learning Teaching And Assessing

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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The author will discuss issues relating to assessment in the clinical area including areas for development and improvement. The assessment under consideration is 'A Safeguarding Children Induction Handbook' (Nottinghamshire Community Health 2009). This is a competency based induction framework and is designed to be undertaken by all new staff who will have regular contact with children and families (appendix 3). It is the responsibility of managers to ...

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Five essays on introduction to leadership essays

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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Introduction to Leadership Essays This assignment is comprised of five essays based on the completion of self-assessments on (1) Self-Confidence, (2) Leader-Member Exchange, (3) Trust in Leadership, (4) Job Affect, and (5) Motivation to Lead. Self Confidence The purpose of this assessment is to assess a leader's generalized self-efficacy. A leader's job is a very complicated one and leaders need to have self-confidence to overcome this. To ...

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Patient Autonomy In Accepting Treatment After Diagnosis

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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My topic is regarding a nurse should respect the ethical principle of autonomy whereby allowing patient to make decision free willingly and should not lie, but carry out the ethical principle of truth-telling(veracity) to patient by informing the full and true information about the proposed treatment. The main problems identified in this case study of Jill and Marie is the followings. Firstly, autonomy was not present whereby ...

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Trends In Health Care

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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Staffing shortages in health care have been a mystifying subject to experts because of measurements in survey, new health care businesses arriving every day, people reevaluating job choices, and increases and decreases in health care applications. The subject of staffing shortages has a great deal of negativity, health care organizations need to have more team involvement. Without greater involvement by health care institutions, staffing shortages will provide ...

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Leininger’s Culture Care Theory of Nursing

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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Around the world Madeline Leininger is considered the founder of the theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality and also for the discovery of the research method known as "enthonursing" or "transcultural nursing". She was the first nurse to theorize about human care from a worldview rather than the usual medical view. She is a creative, innovative, and visionary editor and author of 22 books, 265 articles, ...

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Compliance Between The Patient And Medication

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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Introduction Medication compliance is a significant issue in the care of people with mental health conditions, particularly if the mental health condition is of an enduring and severe nature. The reason for this is that there is an increased likelihood of symptoms returning without the individual maintaining adherence to a prescribed medication regime. Conditions such as schizophrenia, psychosis and bi polar disorder fall under the remit of ...

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Critical Analysis Of Self Efficacy Theory

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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Evidence-based practice involves the rigorous use of evidence from quality studies, clinicians proficiency, and patients preferences to resolve clinical problems (Fineout-Overholt, Melnyk, Schultz, 2005). Several studies have identified noncompliance as a major problem in health care, especially in the management of chronic diseases (Hailey and Moss, 2000; Hansen, 2001; Polaschek, 2003). About 20% of dialysis patients fail to comply with prescribed regimen because they doubt their ability ...

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Nurses Attitudes: Family Presence During Resuscitation

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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Family presence during resuscitation has remained a controversial subject for more than two decades. FPDR was first introduced in emergency department of Foote hospital in Michigan, United States in 1987 following a nine years perspective study (Hanson & Strawser, 1992). The aim of the study was to educate healthcare personnel to deal with the emerging issues of witnessed family resuscitation of their loved ones. This was the ...

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Group Formation And Group Roles

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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Which work is better, a group work or an individual work. There is no answer to this question as it has many facets. Our main focus during the group assignment was to analyze the organizational structure; culture and management and leadership style. In this essay, I have analyzed and evaluated the one aspect during the group work, its approaches and its relevant theories. I have highlighted my ...

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Pressure Ulcers: Reliability of Risk Assessment Tools

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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The purpose of this assignment, is to identify a patient, under the care of the district nursing team, with a Grade 1 pressure ulcer, to their sacral area. To begin with, it will give a brief overview of the patient and their clinical history. Throughout the assignment the patient will be referred to as Mrs A, in order to protect the patients identity and maintain confidentiality, in ...

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Examining Effective Leadership Styles

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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Throughout history of health care policy makers they were challenged to develop powerful leadership skills for future nurses leaders. Therefore there was a need to develop different contemporary leadership styles and behaviors, other than those theories known before. Contemporary leadership styles is not just a group of skills or missions, it is rather an attitude that value on the collaboration and effective teamwork. Contemporary leadership is dynamic ...

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Activist Reflector Theorist And Pragmatist

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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Activists engage oneself totally without unfairness in fresh ideals. It makes them passionate concerning everything new. Whiles Theorists adjust and incorporate observe into difficult however reasonably theories. They choose to be perfectionists who will not take it easy until stuff are organised moreover Pragmatists are eager on experimenting ideas, skills and theories to see if that work in practice. They completely look out for new ideas and ...

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Motivation interviewing: Smoking cessation

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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Despite the smoking ban making it illegal to smoke in enclosed public places, introduced in England in 2007, smoking remains one of the single greatest causes of preventable illness and premature death in the UK. (1) There has been a reduction in rates of smoking, but a challenge remains in targeting high risk, hard to reach groups such as pregnant women. Smoking during pregnancy, or even passive ...

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Student Giving Intramuscular Injections

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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This paper particularly focuses on my experience of learning from reflection on giving intramuscular (IM) injections, using Gibbss (1988) reflective model. I demonstrate how practice anxiety, as a student nurse, can be dealt with through effective mentoring. I chose the seminal theory of Gibbs reflection on practice, as it illustrates six significant stages; description, feelings, evaluation, analysis of the incident, conclusion and an action plan Ghaye and ...

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The Greatest Wealth Is Health

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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"The greatest wealth is Health." The public nowadays are more concern about their health because health can be consider as an asset for a person. A good health is foundation of better future for a person or a family. In present modern era of technology, public are more educated and knowledgeable. With the easily accessibility of information from the internet, it also helps the public to gain ...

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Exploration Of Nursing Theory Model

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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Nursing profession used to be considered following a physicians order but after arrival of nursing theories that are based on model of patient care were essentially biomedical and focus on treating diseases than the patient. The move towards theory based practice has made nursing career more valuable. A nursing theory is a collection of assumptions, concepts, definitions that derives from nursing model and plan useful phenomena by ...

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Procedure And Incidents During Placement

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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This reflective piece will be about a procedure that took place whilst on placement and will look at infection control whilst doing an aseptic non-touch technique (ANTT). Using Atkins and Murphys 1993 model of reflection (Rolfe, G et al 2001). I have used this model as it helped me become aware of my actual thoughts and feelings regarding the situation, and more focused when analyzing it. Description ...

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Assessing And Improving A Learning Environment

23 Mar 2015 18 Apr 2017

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I graduated with Diploma of Nursing seven years ago. After graduated, I work in general surgical ward for five years. Later I went to Middle East to work for a year. Back in Middle East I worked in an oncology ward. Currently I work as a clinical instructor with one of the nursing private college in Kuching. The practical placements for the students are one of the ...

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Critical incidents and our behaviours.

23 Mar 2015 14 Apr 2017

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What is critical incident? Critical incident has been defined in different ways depending on the nature of the incident and the environment or setting where it took place. Tripp (1993) defines critical incidents as a "commonplace events that occur in routine professional practice" Incidents may relate to range of issues amongst which issues of communication, relationships, moral beliefs and ethical values, knowledge, culture or emotions. The definition ...

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Patients Transitions In The Intensive Care Unit

23 Mar 2015 14 Apr 2017

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Adequate preparation of critically ill patients throughout their transition experience within, and following discharge from the Intensive Care Unit is an important element of the nursing care process during critical illness. However, little is known about nurses' perspectives of, and engagement in, caring for critically ill patients during their transition experiences. Aim: This paper aims to review the literature about the concept of transition within the context ...

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Acute Care Of Diverticulitis

23 Mar 2015 14 Apr 2017

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On Thursday night February 25, 2010, DC, a 64 year old female Caucasian came to the emergency room complaining of chills, abdominal pain, vomiting x 2days and diarrhea x3days. DC is 5'6" and weighs 239 pounds. She stated that after eating dinner on Tuesday night she began to feel abdominal pain that worsened and then developed vomiting and diarrhea. DC's pain ranged from 5/10-10/10 and complained of ...

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Philosophy Of Nursing Education In Terms Of The Role Of Educator

23 Mar 2015 13 Apr 2017

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The purpose of this paper is to describe my philosophy of nursing education in terms of the role of educator and learner, evidence-based practice in nursing education and useful teaching strategies. Three key issues in nursing education are examined: raising the educational level of nurses, increasing interdisciplinary learning opportunities, and preparing nurses to lead initiatives to improve care and enhance patient outcomes. These challenges are related to ...

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Case study and history of hypertension

23 Mar 2015 13 Apr 2017

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History of Present Illness: Mr. AS is an 85 year old Caucasian male with a past history of hypertension and chest pain who currently presents to us with dementia and complaints of not knowing how he got here. Our patient was diagnosed with hypertension at the age of 40 and developed chest pain at the age of 45 when he was told he needed a pace maker. ...

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What Do Ethics Have To Do With Research?

23 Mar 2015 13 Apr 2017

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Ethical behavior is defined as a set if moral principles, rules or standards governing a person or profession. Most importantly, principles of ethical conduct includes that the researcher should do no harm, that privacy of and anonymity of participants must be protected, that confidentiality of information must be maintained, that informed consent of participants needs to be obtained including assurance that participation is voluntary, with the chance ...

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Challenges Facing The Health Care Industry

23 Mar 2015 13 Apr 2017

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This paper shall be focused on identifying the challenges that the health care industry is currently facing, as well as measuring the impact that such challenges have on the quality and quantity of health care delivery that is made available to people with different needs and requirements for their health. The main aim of this paper is to determine and discuss how the 21st century is now ...

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