Low breast milk production is one of the most common complaints among mothers with newborn babies. A general recommendation is to abstain from smoking during pregnancy and breastfeeding, as this behavior can lead to various problems in children: from breathing problems to sudden infant death syndrome1. That is why this...
Postpartum hemorrhage is a serious condition that threatens new mothers’ lives everywhere in the world. Nurses have a very important role in preventing and managing the issues of birth-related bleedings. The three reviewed articles examine the potential the educational intervention has at helping nurses prevent postpartum hemorrhage and reduce maternal...
Introduction The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected the welfare of numerous populations, resulting in multiple negative consequences. The professionals involved in the medical sphere were reported to have been most adversely impacted by the effects of the virus, manifesting both psychological and physical exhaustion due to the...
There is a clear distinction between evidence-based practice and research as far as project research in nursing is concerned. Research deals with testing hypotheses to create new knowledge, while evidence-based practices appraise research-based evidence and try to implement it (Thomas, 2017). Therefore, this leads to the conclusion that research generates...
Nursing is a critical part of healthcare systems that can be overlooked and ignored by the leadership. However, after the fatal COVID-19 affected dozens of countries, it became clear how nursing is one of the most vital aspects of healthcare institutions. When the first COVID-19 pandemic case was reported in...
A common practice on telemetry floor health assessment starts from a bedside overview. Later, tell monitor observation is done to ensure they are in rhythm. Then follows a comprehensive assessment of the patient through an evaluation of medical history, a general survey, and an examination of the patient. The comprehensive...
In her TED talk, Dr. Carol E. Gunn discusses medical errors and their impact on healthcare. Gunn shares the story of her sister Anna who for a long time complained of chest pain. However, the lack of sufficient physician’s attention to her symptoms resulted in a heart attack that Anna...
Emotional intelligence is defined as someone’s ability to use, understand, and positively manage their emotions. Hence, emotionally intelligent people can relieve stress, empathize with others, communicate effectively, diffuse conflicts, and overcome challenges (Rasooli et al., 2019). Self-awareness is a psychological state whereby the focus of attention is oneself. Moreover, it...
Introduction When addressing healthcare issues that affect multiple generations, it is vital to assess the underlying common cause. The patterns and established routines can be detrimental to the health of an entire household, which is especially harmful to African Americans due to the disparities in access to healthcare (Abbott &...
Introduction Mission and vision both define the purpose of the existence of an organization in an industry. In essence, they are written statements that outline the fundamental beliefs and values alongside the goals of the firm. The mission statement elucidates the reason as to why a company is set in...
The role of emotional intelligence or EI cannot be underestimated since nursing professionals are constantly in direct contact with individuals who require care and support. However, the importance of EI extends beyond the interaction between a nurse and patient because it can also be critical among nursing specialists themselves. Professional...
Orem’s theory of nursing includes three parts: self-care theory, self-care deficit theory, and nursing system theory. The first theory explains the actions that patients take on their own to support life, well-being, and development. The second theory has to do with prescribing care for people who are unable or limited...
In general, people’s health and vitality are critical not only for their products but for the nation’s future as well. For instance, healthy children will be healthy adults in the future, healthy students learn better, and healthy employees work more productively and help to develop and strengthen the country’s economy....
Nursing is a process of healing, which entangles both physical and mental recovery. In this regard, the nurse should remain compassionate and perceive their patient’s well-being as a main priority. However, the priority is hard to achieve. It requires advanced technical and soft skills, the latter being even more vital...
Executive Summary California registered nurse (RN) was introduced in 1999 but came into effect in 2004. The law requires hospitals to establish minimum nurse-patient ratios for different units. The law was enacted after the California nurse’s association (CNA) provided a proposal to the legislative assembly of the state. Before the...
Introduction The members of the baby boom generation are those that were born after World War II (Adams & Beehr, 2003). This is a significant number of people entering the latter stages of life. As a result many of them will begin to feel the effect of old age and...
In a clinical setting, interdisciplinary collaboration enables healthcare experts to improve the quality of data management, identification and prevention of health issues, and, therefore, health outcomes in patients. I agree that the use of interdisciplinary collaboration leads to a noticeable and quite significant drop in the number of medical errors...
Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC) is a set of methods and strategies to consistently prevent and reduce the risk of spreading infections in medical institutions. The role of IPAC is to monitor and provide certain precautions to prevent infection and improve the health and well-being of patients and employees of...
Organizational culture determines how employees can express themselves, and sometimes, it is rather prohibitive. Such issues as fatigue and job stress directly affect nurse turnover, but the situation becomes worse when one is unable to address them and is forced to continue (Lee & Jang, 2019). While organizational culture does...
As every other profession, the healthcare sector has continued to rely on technological progress and trends to improve the quality of patient care. Nursing informatics is a nursing discipline that combines information sciences, computer science, and nursing to build and manage medical systems and data in order to promote the...
The present work is necessary for the review of contemporary medication error research, as it directly addresses the nature of this phenomenon, discussing the consequences of incorrect medicine application by trained nurses. The article allows gathering needed information on the topic of nurse qualifications and their impact on incorrect medicine...
Response 1 Patient safety is one of the primary concerns in the field of healthcare. There are multiple reasons why errors and safety concerns are still affecting stakeholders on so many levels. Many of the previous issues have been eradicated or minimized with certain efforts and new implementations. One example...
The area that is most helpful for a public health nurse to use is the “hazardous response capabilities” (FEMA, 2020, para. 1). This is an important area of public health that has received little attention from practitioners and policymakers since the focus has shifted towards epidemic preparedness. Nevertheless, communities can...
The worldwide demand for nurses due to the shortage crisis is critical and of great interest. The Bureau of Labor Statistics suggest an increment rise of 12% demand of nurses in the next eight years as compared to any other professions (Rajamohan et al., 2020). Globally, nurses are complaining of...
A larger proportion of nurses and medical officers cannot tell the truth and keep asking themselves when it is appropriate to lie or tell the truth to their patients. Nursing veracity is a nursing virtue with numerous criticisms because the medical practitioners may need to lie to solve dilemmas or...
The clinical field is undoubtedly one of the most challenging ones for leaders to shine in. The Healthcare system of the United States is well-known for its structural and organizational complexity that often decreases the efficiency of the provided health services. Nonetheless, several leadership styles are prevalent across the field,...
Introduction Among other medical staff, nurses possess a unique role in promoting and protecting the community’s health. They are present throughout the entire continuum of care, from prenatal to end-of-life care (Sekse et al., 2018). Spending time with patients, community health nurses often obtain a particular connection with people they...
Nursing Education and Positive Patient Outcomes Nursing is the only healthcare discipline with numerous entrance work paths. Treatment and expertise are important to ensure the quality of service and patient protection. There is a beneficial impact on the medical outcome as it promotes quality service delivery (Weber, Yingling, Jones &...
Leadership and management roles tend to differ in many ways, although they sometimes overlap. Leadership is defined based on personal characteristics such as the passion to achieve a certain vision or the ability to inspire and motivate others because leaders are usually action-oriented. On the other hand, management is responsible...
If a patient asks about treatment, drug or surgery, then it is the responsibility of the nurse to warn the patient about the potential risks associated with their inquiry about a drug, surgery, or treatment. According to the ruling made in 1914, in a case-law between Schloendorff v. Society of...
The nurse working in the catheterization laboratory recovery section or stationed either within a telemetry unit or coronary care unit plays a critical role in monitoring and evaluating a patient’s recovery. Post-PCI care is meant for the caregivers to closely observe the sick person for any indications and signs of...
Evidence-based practices (EBP) are diligent, problem-solving clinical studies incorporating the best evidence from adequately conducted research, the patient needs and beliefs, and a clinician’s skills to make choices on the treatment of a patient. EBP focuses on analyzing past evidence developed by past clinical research and applying the propositions in...
Stakeholders are the gatherings and people who will be compelling in the accomplishment of your change plans. It is expected to impart, counsel, and affect these individuals, which will decide the achievement of your change drive. In medical care, partners include people, organizations, or whatever other element has a personal...
Interview and Interdisciplinary Issue Identification I interviewed a nurse colleague employed in the wards department at our neighboring healthcare, and he disclosed alarming results of the vast cases of tuberculosis infection among hospitalized patients. He was involved in daily chores of care of patients, record taking and keeping, administering medicines,...
Introduction Everybody should enjoy the freedom of working in a safe, comfortable, and friendly environment (Australian Council of Trade Unions, 2013). However, bullying incidents are inevitable when many groups of people work together (Australian Council of Trade Unions, 2013). This is true for nurses because their jobs involve complex social...
Background and significance of Mindfulness-Based Stress among Nurses Contrary to the conventional beliefs, evidence-based practice and evidence-based protocols should extend well beyond just the care of patients to include a new focus on the health and wellbeing of medical practitioners. Nursing professionals are at risk of developing mindfulness stress because...
Delegation in nursing is a process when a registered nurse guides another person to accomplish some clinical errands and activities. During my first clinical experience at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, I observed an instance where the delegation was a problem for the registered nurse who delegated some of her...
As a family Nurse Practitioner who is committed to fulfilling her roles, one requires a qualified clinical preceptor to provide him with mentorship. The receptor plays the role of maintaining the focus of the course content to the objectives of the course program (Cervero, 1988). They provide guidance to student...
Community nursing includes nursing practice and primary health care in communities. It combines preventive care, health services, intervention, and related education in the population. A nurse practitioner’s role is to focus on health within a particular community. For instance, the primary objectives are to provide health education and ensure a...
Introduction In our everyday activities, our hands pass through many places. They touch or feel almost everything that they come around. The places and the activities our hands’ touch include in the toilets, as we remove our shoes, as we play games, among many other places. While several people do...
Introduction Changes being experienced within the health care delivery systems across the globe have led to increasing demands on the part of the nursing fraternity in regard to their workloads and responsibilities. The nurses are required to deal with the emerging issues that characterize their working environment. Though nurses encounter...
Introduction The current study is based on the findings of an action plan by the DHHS. The plan was geared at establishing and recommending effective measures of preventing homelessness through the use of evidence based interventions (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), 2003). For people with mental illnesses...
Technological advancements have tremendously changed the field of medicine across all departments. As one of the professions providing health care, nursing has been forced to change its ways of handling both the patients and their information. Initially, the details of patients were manually documented and saved in the physical files.;...
The proposed algorithm for addressing the health problems of patients with CLABSI, particularly a patient checklist supplemented by an electronic medical record (EMR), is a justified approach to observing all the required principles of care. The listed advantages of this practice explain the value of utilizing digital tools to record...
Human factors play a vital role in health care provision. They ensure that patients get appropriate care as their condition demands. Incorporating human elements in health care is a valuable way to eliminate preventable medical errors. Many people succumb to medical errors that we can prevent each year. Some critical...
Nursing is one of the most challenging professions, as nurses work long hours and night shifts caring for severely ill and, sometimes, dying patients. Increasing the number of nurses taking care of patients in hospitals will greatly increase job satisfaction among nurses and make them more productive. It is, therefore,...
When confronting ethical issues, nurses should always strictly distinguish the difference between morality and ethics. Ethics and morality are two different ideas, and dilemmas related to ethics or morality should not be confused (Rainer et al., 2018). Ethical dilemmas include the decision that should be made for or against one...
Effective nursing leadership is a key strategy that can improve patient care results, contributes to the availability of high-profile staff, and enables effective preparation for patient care requirements. Productive nurse leaders certify the availability of a suitable workforce and resources to realize excellent care quality and outcomes (Bahadori et al.,...
The Advance Health Care Directive In health and nursing care, much attention is paid to understanding and learning advanced directives (ADs) that are the legal documents for medical decision-making. Regarding multiple changes in health and medicine fields and the impact of cultural and religious beliefs on care choices, the need...
The contribution of nursing is invaluable in almost every person’s life, especially those who resort to their help constantly. The main goal of nursing is to provide comfort and well-being conditions for patients and care and supervision of health. Nursing has many theories created for the most effective provision of...
The state programs implemented are addressed to different segments of society, so it is necessary to have information about other groups of the population in medical and social services. The improvement of the old and the emergence of new forms of medical and social care is possible only with new...
Being a nurse requires to take care of every patient and concerns about his or her well-being. When it comes to a child, a nurse should identify the signs of child abuse and neglect, as children are often afraid of sharing such information or cannot speak at all. This problem...
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is nursing care delivery based on the current scientific findings, professional expertise, and treatment options. EBP has been shown to significantly improve client outcomes by raising the quality of care provided in healthcare facilities. EBP should no longer be considered an abstract notion of an idealized proficiency...
Imogene M. King’s contribution can not be overestimated, as her works transformed nursing from a craft into a scientific field of knowledge. The goal attainment theory played a crucial role in the evolution of nursing as it expanded the basis for interactions between nurses, their patients, and the healthcare system...
Introduction The role of advanced practice nurses has been a matter of increased discussion among scholars, healthcare professionals, and policymakers. Currently, all the stakeholders have reached a consensus concerning benefits that advanced practice nurses (APNs) can bring to primary care. However, several barriers on federal, state, and organizational levels reduce...
The American healthcare system is fragmented, as its elements such as private and public practice, service providers and their patients, training, and citizen’s needs are not sufficiently connected. Such gaps, the lack of cooperation between structures, leads to the fact that the patient does not receive the necessary treatment. Moreover,...
In the scope of nursing, empowerment may be one of the essential tools for the productive work of employees and the success of a health organization. There are many ways to empower the staff, implement assessment systems, and encourage employees with bonuses. For instance, money can be a reason for...
Healthcare professionals, including nurses, have the enormous responsibility of gathering accurate patient information consistent with the principle of patient-centered care. Moreover, clinical staff have the obligation of incorporating patient information with scientific evidence and professional expertise to deliver high-quality and safe patient care. Standard operating procedures and charts are essential...
Cellulitis is a disease mainly caused by bacterial infection to the skin that poor treatment leads to the spread across the skin. Therefore, it is important to address the issue with the aim of enhancing optimal patient care. As a medical practitioner, I recall an incident of a patient suffering...
Managing nursing staff in any medical unit involves adhering to a specific leadership style. Often, when taking on a new position, one can observe how nurses reproduce the management style in they developed as specialists. However, there is no arbitrary choice of the style of communication with subordinates, because the...
Researchers have found a certain relationship between a nurse’s educational level and their particular interest and participation in policy making. There are several entry points for nurses to start their professional career, which are associated with participating in the Licensed Practical Nurse Program, Registered Nurse Program, Associate Degree Program, and...
Introduction Due to a variety and number of errors stemming from the human factor, medical personnel needs not only wised-developed policies and guidelines but also reliable support from advanced technology. In this regard, healthcare providers possess health information systems (HIS), including electronic health records (EHRs) substituting the paper-based variety of...
The nursing shortage is a highly important issue and a critical challenge for national health care because it is one of the main causes of poor quality of medical services. The ratio of nurses to patients continues to decline, and there has been a plethora of authors addressing this issue...
Introduction The client is a sixty-five-year-old male, who suffered a condition, which left him bedridden. Due to impaired mobility, he cannot leave the bed. The patient currently resides in a nursing home, where all his basic needs are attended to by the nursing staff and healthcare assistants. The lack of...
Evidence-based practice changes promote the transition of practice to enhance quality care provision. In evidence-based practice implementation, the financial, clinical, and quality aspects are taken into consideration. One financial aspect that should be taken into account is the medical bill of the patient. In terms of quality, it is salient...
Introduction Nurses work in an increasingly complex environment that requires a multidimensional approach to practice. Differentiating between religious, spiritual, and cultural needs of patients contradicts many care practitioners. Spiritual, cultural, and religious beliefs or preferences differ across different people and are extremely important in providing high-quality care. Nurses should learn...
Introduction Nursing is a critical aspect in health care delivery. When patients are admitted into a health care institution, the doctors treat the patient, and he or she is left under the care of the nurse. At least it is expected that the nurse should be able to assist the...
The nursing shortage is a significant problem in the US, especially during the time of the pandemic. According to Haddad et al. (2020), there are 3.9 million nurses in the United States, and the need for them keeps growing in all healthcare settings, including pediatrics. The primary reason for the...
Introduction “Every nurse in the U.S. is responsible for knowing the state’s NPA and regulatory requirements for nursing for every jurisdiction in which they hold a license” (NCSBN, 2018, p. 5). Numerous laws and regulations govern the nursing practice, and state boards of nursing carefully oversee nurses’ compliance with these...
Nurses play a major role in delivering healthcare services to patients and providing them with necessary assistance. “The Future of Nursing” is a report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Committee Initiative, which was created to address the existing challenges of the American healthcare system and particularly of the nursing...
The main principle of system-based practice is to show awareness and responsiveness to a broad context of the healthcare system and use resources effectively to provide high-quality care for the patients. In healthcare, leaders frequently use system-based practice to empower other nurses. This essay will explain how I will use...
Introduction People use social media to connect with their peers, family, and professionals and receive new knowledge. Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have become the most popular platforms to share information and stay updated regarding the latest news. While social media websites have many benefits, careless usage can affect a person’s...
Antwi, Y. A., & Bowblis, J. R. (2018). The impact of nurse turnover on quality of care and mortality in nursing homes: Evidence from the great recession. American Journal of Health Economics, 4(2), 131−163. This article focuses on the effects of turnover of nurses on the quality of nursing home...
The acid-base balance is an important parameter that is maintained in the human blood within certain limits. This is necessary for the normal functioning of various body systems, biochemical reactions, and the optimal functioning of enzymes. The body’s acid-base state includes three main mechanisms: the functioning of extracellular and intracellular...
In this proposal, an outline of goals and activities that pertain to shadowing a nurse leader within an ICU setting is presented. The goals and topics of interest are managed in three parts, which are overarching ICU nurse leadership roles, collaboration, conflict resolution in a hospital setting, and professionalism and...
Nursing leaders play an essential role in the process of care quality improvement by leading others. In their turn, managers bridge the gap between administrative and bedside care roles by dealing with a set of challenging daily tasks. Both roles require a high level of expertise, knowledge, and particular technical...
Introduction One aspect that differentiates excellent leaders from terrible, efficient leaders from unproductive, and preferred leaders from hated ones is the aptitude to assemble organizational source of wealth to make things happen. These qualities of a good leader are clearly seen in Sister Carol Keehan’s influential power in the accomplishment...
With an aging population and shifts in the way people die, all nurses should prepare to care for a dying person at some point in their careers or personal lives. Integrating a palliative approach early in the disease phase for people with life-limiting illnesses across all care settings will improve...
Introduction Cultural competency, defined as health professionals’ ability to effectively provide care that meets patients’ linguistic, social, and cultural demands, is among the emerging nursing trends. Incorporating cultural proficiency into nursing practice is essential in overcoming the wide variety of health literacy, cultural, and linguistic barriers. Cultural competency integration goes...
The selected policy is the addition of the requirement that a bachelor’s degree in nursing serves as the entry level into the profession. There are numerous reasons why such a policy should be put in place. One such explanation is that it directly influences the quality of service that is...
A medication error occurs as a result of the failure of a planned action to be completed as intended or the use of the wrong plan to achieve a specific aim. The rate of medication errors that occur as well as the consequences of those situations are frightening. In the...
The difference between qualitative and quantitative research lies in their statistical analysis approach, type of data used, and purpose. While quantitative research deals with numerical data through its exploration, inductive logic, and information discovery to understand a phenomenon, quantitative research is inherently different as it deepens new knowledge. Quantitative research...
For aspiring nurses with a Master’s Degree, the next evident step in the career is to get either a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree or apply for the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.) level. The primary difference between them is the approach to nursing. As seen from the name,...
Pressure ulcers represent a severe condition that immobilizes people and exposes them to additional health issues that are caused by the worsening of blood flow. Soft tissues deteriorate under pressure, which is also rather typical of individuals that are confined to wheelchairs. One of the ideas that are mentioned in...
Introduction Providing proper healthcare is important for the full recovery of patients. As such, hospitals assign patients to nurses who will ensure proper medical care and quick recovery. Nurse practitioners (NPs) help in preventing diseases, promoting health, diagnosis and health education. NPs play an essential role in patient recovery, although...
A chief nursing officer, or a CNO, is a practitioner that has a multitude of roles within the workplace. Apart from the guaranteed nursing duties, a CNO will also perform administrative roles, leadership duties, advisory functions, and links between physicians and the hospital’s nursing staff (Batcheller et al., 2017). A...
A substantial percentage of healthcare infections are attributable to the healthcare stakeholders’ actions. Hand hygiene is a crucial way in which healthcare facilities can prevent diseases, and improve the quality of care. The article evaluating hand hygiene compliance among healthcare staff in the intensive care unit discusses the role of...
One of the major demands in terms of current research studies on the matter of nursing concerns their relevance in both social and professional contexts. Hence, the vast majority of today’s studies focus on the nursing implications under the pressure of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, the research article chosen...
Introduction Leadership qualities play a fundamental role in managing healthcare processes effectively by providing safe and comfortable conditions for both nursing professionals and their patients. More specifically, servant leadership is a distinctive approach to nurturing the inner leader for each nurse practitioner in their medical practice. Servant leadership represents a...
The article written by Min et al., in 2016, researches the technical effectiveness of nursing care. The study also analyses the features of efficient and qualified facilities during the second part of the article (Min et al., 2016). Overall, the research questions focus on estimating the appropriate technical proficiency of...
I witnessed a situation at the hospital entailing poor communication between the nurses and the patient. The patient failed to understand the challenging situation that encompassed an obese individual’s surgical operation and carried on with the practice smoothly that later resulted in complications. This situation contributed to the patient’s ability...
Introduction Cultural competence is defined as organizations’ and providers’ ability to efficiently deliver health care services that meet social and cultural needs. Cultural factors can influence health and health care, such as language, communication, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors. It is an essential component of quality nursing care that lays a...
Hands touch unclear surfaces where they get germs which cause infections. Unwashed hands transfer germs to other parts of the body, such as the mouth, ears, eyes, and nose, where they become harmful. Hand washing removes germs from the hands and reduces the chances of being infected (Damilare, 2020). This...
Wound care in nursing practice is not only concerned with treatment but also prevention, particularly on patients characterized with a variety of health conditions. Some of the crucial services expected of medics with this responsibility include assessing foot wounds among diabetic persons, managing present infections, attending to pressure injuries, and...
Introduction Instructors can use several methods to teach their nursing students and ensure that they grasp the basic concepts. The methods chosen should incorporate the key concerns of the instructor or educator. In addition, nurse educators should use different methods to engage their students in the learning process. The diversity...
In the present post, the author addresses the problem of high rates of nurse turnover. The critical reasons for this are the unbalanced patient ratio and small salaries. In other words, nurses are overloaded and underpaid, face emotional burnout, and lack communication with most hospitals administration. The investigation conducted by...
Nurse advocacy is an essential element of nurses’ work because it allows these professionals to address current healthcare issues, which they face in their daily work. Addiction Treatment Access Improvement Act of 2017 was introduced to help nurses assess the patients when prescribing and administering opioids (Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation...
The correct identification and evaluation of a person’s learning needs are one of the integral objectives of professional nursing. However, these needs are often affected by such an important factors as social determinants of health. The range of social determinants comprises a patient’s socioeconomic status, education, and living environment (Tallon...
The Issue The issue for consideration in this change proposal is the-end-of life care for COVID patients. COVID-19 is a new disease which is caused by SARS-CoV-2 (Zhang et al., 2020). It affects the lungs and airways. Its symptoms include shortness of breath, cough, and high temperature. Healthcare providers around...
Indeed, charge nurses play a huge role in the effective performance and management of emergency departments. Each Registered Nurse must be a competent specialist in his or her field and have a set of well-developed skills to acquire a charge nurse’s position. One of these skills, as noted by the...
Course Competencies Many key competencies related to medications were studied during the course. One of the most important is the skill of preparing and administering medicines, as mishandling them leads to critical consequences. The competence of patient teaching utilizing various resources also increases the level of satisfaction with treatment and...
The completion of the training and the passing of the exams are exciting events, but the search for a workplace to apply the acquired knowledge and skills lies ahead. Even after finding a workplace, nurse practitioners (NPs) cannot immediately start work – they need to go through the credentialing process....