Introduction The many socioeconomic and health challenges facing families in the 21st century have strengthened the need for stakeholders develop and implement family assessment approaches aimed at offering relief to the myriad of issues affecting the proper functioning of the family. Comprehensive family assessment, according to Aarons et al (2007),...
Introduction Among the various psychiatric disorders, major depression or unipolar depression, is a very common condition. The prevalence of major depression has been found to be 10% to 25% in females, while it is around 5% to 12% in males. However, this condition often goes undetected or untreated clinical condition....
Teamwork is considered to be a significant aspect of nursing care. The success of such kind of work influences considerably the level of the treatment provided, determines the outcomes of services, and defines the relations which have to be developed between health care workers, leaders, and patients. During this course,...
Introduction Economic principles are statements explaining how individuals make decisions, how economic actors interact; it generally explains how the economies work or should work as a whole ( Slembeck, 2006). According to Mankiw include; how people make decisions – trade-offs, cost choices etc.; how the economy operates as a whole...
Introduction The reduction of hospitalization in nursing homes is an important goal to be achieved by the government. The government has helped nursing homes develop treatment centre’s which treat patients and calculate the costs of medicine and consolidation rather than admitting them. In this case hospitalization is avoided. The treatments...
Introduction The set of actions put up to take care of a patient who is suffering from a certain type of disease can simply be described as the nursing process. The steps are meant to guide the nurse or whoever is managing the patient to administer the right medication as...
Introduction Healthcare is a unique service industry that depends on a large number of well- trained personnel. Healthcare managers need to maintain healthcare operations, and at the same time ensure that the organization grows in terms of delivering healthcare services. However, the increased shortage of nurses caused by registered nurses...
Introduction To begin with it is necessary to mention that the nurse patient relations is one of the most important aspects of nursing, especially in the sphere of psychiatry nursing. Depending on the relations between nurse and patient, the treatment of patient by nurse, the emotional condition of the patient...
Introduction As life spans have lengthened and medical technology has grown more advanced, physicians and nurses inevitably become involved in end-of-life issues where the absence of do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders and Advanced Directives force decisions about life-sustaining care. These extend to continuing or withdrawing feeding for seniors already far into frank...
Introduction Currently, many people choose nursing as a profession because it is one of the most vital vocations worldwide. Many graduates are inspired by the most virtuous intentions to become a nurse, while compassion remains the main driver of the field. This occurs due to the fact that caring for...
Introduction Nursing’s Social Policy Statement has been an extremely influential text in recent nursing history. It is remarkable for the nursing profession to have a social policy statement. It potentially guides the social responsibilities of the nursing discipline and profession. However, nurses should support the view of the world it...
The application of the concept of total quality management in hospitals has been found to improve the performance of healthcare providers namely nurses. From this ideology, nurses have the opportunity to exercise their stewardship and competence ability as they conduct their day-to-day duties and responsibilities. The technique of total quality...
Abstract Autism disorders are psychiatric abnormalities characterized by improper functioning of the nerves system. It mainly affects the social recognition of oneself including inability to exercise normal executive functions especially those involving learning processes associated with the brain. This paper looks into various developmental syndromes associated with the dysfunction of...
This paper is aimed at providing a summary of the available literature on clinical supervision (CS) and leadership to serve as a resource manual for nursing supervisors. Clinical supervision is the process officiated by a supervisor to provide necessary support and interventional education to supervisees to upgrade their acquaintance and...
Introduction Leadership varies with organizations; the form of leadership in any organization determines the success of that organization. This paper discusses two major leadership styles and links them to the student’s philosophy. The type of leadership chosen is thus related to the student’s values and skills. The last section compares...
Professionalism in a career is a product of the level and quality of training one has gone through. A review of Walden University’s mission and vision statements reveal an institution committed to the availing and provision of the best skills to nursing students. In stating that “Walden University envisions a...
Introduction The healthcare system is driven first and foremost by its professionals. Nurses stand at the frontline of treating patients, and their qualifications should correspond with their competences. Currently, nurse leaders and nurse educators do not possess APRN status. Yet, these roles are essential in training and managing nurses. The...
Nursing Ethics applies to the activities in the nursing field. It shares its basic principles with medical ethics, such as respect for patients’ health and dignity. One of the provisions of the Nursing Code of Ethics presented by the American Nurses Association states: “The nurse owes the same duties to...
The content of advocacy in procedural pain care – patients’ and nurses’ perspectives Aim The purpose expressed by the authors of this article stand out clearly as to outline the understanding of both patients and nurses when it comes to Advocacy in Procedural Pain Care (APPC). To achieve this, otolaryngology...
Introduction Background information During the last several decades, the problem of pressure sores in the intensive care units (ICU) did not receive the attention it deserved from scholars in the medical field. This is despite the fact that ICU patients are at high risk of developing pressure sores due to...
Abstract Vitamin D is an essential vitamin for the growth and development of all human beings. The most important function of vitamin D is to accelerate calcium absorption in the body. It regulates the body immune system and prevents diseases. This life giving vital vitamin is endogenously produced by exposure...
Introduction Application of local anaesthetics has prime importance in pain control and effective management of patients while dealing with dental care. This is because its use is very safe and convenient. The key contemporary practice of dentistry is to manage pain and apprehension. Patients who really are afraid of dental...
Nursing entails providing assistance to patients from the time they are admitted into a nursing home until they are discharged. Nursing may sound simple verbally but the act itself requires a lot of commitment. This paper focuses on how a nursing manager can monitor the performance of the nurses assigned...
Introduction An emergency is a situation that is likely to cause harm or risk that is immediate to people’s life, their health and property or even the environment. Most emergencies always need immediate intervention so that the situation is not made worse. Some emergencies always qualify automatically as emergencies while...
Introduction Nursing represents an essential part of the medical care of any country because of the specific range of duties and responsibilities nurses have. Though the nursing position has traditionally been perceived as a complementary, secondary one, the growing awareness of the nursing role in patient care, medical operations and...
Introduction Today, more than ever before, the potential for nurses to improve the quality of life for patients in primary care settings is well documented and acknowledged (Ventulato et al, 2006). This has necessitated many countries, especially in the developed world, to develop mechanisms through which nurses are encouraged to...
Introduction Attention getter: Unhealthy habits of American citizens, including poor diet and lack of exercise led to the unfortunate decline in life expectancy, as currently, it is 1.5 years below the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) average (Woolf and Aron 1). Therefore, it is important to address these...
Type of Organization Medical University (MU) in Sleepy Hollow, an affluent suburb of Roanoke, VA is a private, liberal arts university offering 57 undergraduate and graduate programs to over 5000 students. MU consists of the School of Nursing offering the Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) Degree and the Family...
Introduction General description of the spinal cord The spinal cord forms one of the important organs of the central nervous system. It coordinates all the body functions including the functioning of various body parts and coordination between the brain and the respective body parts. In other words, it is through...
In the clinical setting, critical care nurses use decision-making to assemble and determine the nature, value, quality, ability, extent, or significance of information and make judgments, resulting in the provision of patient care (Benner, 1994). Nurses use clinical intelligence to appraise critically and consider in detail the patient’s data in...
Introduction As with most other professions, all nursing profession practitioners are bound by rules and regulations that govern how they go about their duties. These rules and regulations are sometimes legally enforceable. Nurses also face numerous ethical issues in the line of duty. While some of these ethical issues are...
Older adults are individuals who portray unique and complex characteristics that are mostly influenced by internal and external factors. Nurses are therefore required to be competent in order to address the unique care needs of older adults. Nurses play a major role in implementing nursing interventions and evaluating the effectiveness...
Societal health is a domain that can be located within the precincts of community health. Implicitly community health is a domain that is inclined to the study as well as betterment of the health attributes of biological societies. Whereas the jargon community can be broadly illustrated, community health appears to...
Introduction The Carper model of care (figure 1) requires nurses to use their knowing, empirical knowledge, reflection and intuition in order to create a foundation of expecting patient’s outcomes (figure 3). This paper addresses how Carper model of nursing care could be adopted in order to enhance mouth care. It...
The role of nursing grows, as more and more people want to dedicate their life to medicine. In this context, nursing, being one of the spread disciplines at the universities, attracts my attention. As the key of the essay lies in my personal statement, it seems to be necessary to...
Case report This particular case talks about a male patient in his 40s. He was admitted to the emergency department of a hospital after a sudden onset of severe pleuritic chest pain. The patient was seen to be very nervous. His blood pressure was shown to be above normal range....
In my role as a CCU manager, I must ensure all nurses are adequately prepared to be certified in the most advanced cardiac life support areas of training. Presently there are five staff nurses which require this certification. The cost for hiring someone to instruct the training is $800 total,...
Introduction Leadership entails having the responsibility of giving directions to others mostly of lower cadres by authority and being accountable for the outcome. Leaders may be born or made. This means that an individual may grow up having the qualities of a leader or in other cases develop them through...
Introduction Dorothea Orem’s theory of Self-Care Deficit was developed and introduced in 1971 (Denyes et al., 2001). It is a grand nursing theory that defines nursing as an act of assisting others in becoming autonomous and independent in their own care, thus improving the human functioning at adequate levels of...
Innovative role The modern world suggests that a key quality in every profession is flexibility. In other words, in order to be useful for the community, workers of various professions should develop skills in different spheres. For instance, a good manager should have psychological skills; a teacher often has to...
Introduction Dr. Ann Wilcock and Dr. Elizabeth Townsend coined the term occupational justice. “Occupational justice can be described as an equitable opportunity and resources to enable people’s engagement in meaningful occupations” (Wilcock & Townsend, 2000, p. 85). Conversely, occupational injustice can be considered whenever services are not provided and needs...
Introduction Nurses from different care unit areas impart different levels of experience/knowledge and perspective. Patient care problems must be tackled from a multi-level nursing and interdisciplinary approach and perspective to truly be effective. A variety of health care professionals of differing backgrounds is essential for optimum resolution. The nurse effectively...
Introduction Westwell (2008) argues that “ventilation associated pneumonia (VAP) is the leading cause of death amongst hospitals-acquired infections, exceeding the rate of death due to central line infections, severe sepsis, and respiratory tract infections in the ventilated patients,” (p. 206). This topic is of interest to me because I have...
Significantly, there has been continued research in the field of medicine to handle the various health challenges that man has faced for a long period now. New research in genetics and genomics is now being used in the diagnosis and subsequent treatment of diseases. However, study findings reveal that the...
Dorothy was a remarkable nurse who considered nursing as a process of encouraging good behavior in ailing people (Kim & Kollak, 2006). Born in the early 90s, she significantly influenced nursing decisions in her lifetime, stressing the value of research and training in healthcare and pioneering theories in nursing. The...
Nursing as a profession sometimes brings the professionals face to face with difficult clients such as the one in question in this case study. In this scenario, the nurse handling the case becomes frustrated since despite her determination to do the best for the client, the client does little to...
Introduction Pelvic Floor Muscle training is regarded as the key measure for preventing Urinary Incontinence among women. However, the aspects of apparent hypertrophy of the muscle fibers are widely discussed in various researches. The importance of PFM training can not be underestimated and it is generally used in therapeutic measures,...
There has been continuous development in the nursing profession over the past few years attributed to the societal changes and systems of delivering healthcare. In addition, the advancement of technology has called for the need to upgrade professionalism in all sectors especially the healthcare sector (Blais and Hayes, 2010). It...
Introduction Advocacy is the main value of professional nursing and is situated within or belonging solely to the practice of nursing. Advocacy is a process that is on the process as opposed to a single isolated event. Clients with chronic illnesses and their families often need a collection of facts...
In my opinion, a life well-lived is lived in such a way that it makes a difference to someone else’s life. This is the philosophy with which I have led my life up to this point and at all times, I try to make a difference in the lives of...
Perception about Quality of Life and Health Promotion According to the American Chronic Pain Association (2009), quality of life can be measured using the ‘Quality of Life scale’ which measures the ability to function normally for people with pain. About this scale, Mrs. Thomas falls under scale 1; she stays...
While in modern times technological advancement may be used by nurses as a supplement to the conventional health care practice, nursing informatics is an upcoming field that is very crucial in the provision of dignified care to the dying patient as well as to the family. Nursing informatics: where caring...
Introduction Over the past several decades, community or large group meetings have been integrated into the management program of individuals recruited as inpatients in mental health units and are thought to serve a therapeutic purpose. However, there have been conflicting views regarding the role of group sessions in aiding and...
Community profile Social-economic profile Saudi Arabia is thought of as the origin of all the Arabs in the world and is also regarded as the center from which the religion of Islam sprang up. Currently, Islam is the only allowed religion and individuals who are caught practicing another religion are...
Nursing is an exceptional occupation related to the field of health care that has an arrangement of unique scientific knowledge and methods of their application in practice. In addition, it has its own philosophy, which is a system of views on the relationship between a nurse, a patient, society, and...
Introduction The history of standardizing and monitoring research based on human experimentation can be traced to the Nuremberg code which was established at the Nuremberg Military Tribunal immediately after WW11. Its development was used as the basis of reviewing and bringing to book the Nazis who conducted human experimentation to...
Since conception, the idea of managed care was to reduce the burden of the costs associated with health care. However, it also had to ensure that the quality did not suffer as a result. It would seem that the system is inherently pro-patient, but some paths offer less freedom for...
Abstract Antibacterial soaps have been the focus of attention in recent studies. Various individuals have questioned the advantages of these soaps over plain soap and water. This research was carried out to determine the effectiveness of these antibacterial soaps. From past studies, washing with antibacterial soaps was not been found...
Introduction Physiotherapy also referred to as physical therapy dates back to early Greece at a period that was commonly associated with Hippocrates. From that period henceforth, physiotherapy has thus developed from just an ordinary message to a profession that is characterized by complex portfolios of treatments with several applications. Physiotherapy...
Introduction According to Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute report (2006), the World Health Organization defines chronic diseases as those diseases that have at least one of the following characteristics; Being permanent Their cause is non-reversible pathological alteration Leave behind residual disability The patient having any of these diseases need...
Diabetes mellitus is a medical condition that is a result of the body producing insufficient insulin or the body failing to react to the insulin produced. Insulin is an essential component that the body requires for the digestion of glucose; failure to which results in the accumulation of blood sugars...
Introduction The nurse has evolved from merely providing nursing care to performance of various functions since the nursing was professionalized by Florence Nightingale decades ago. Today, nurses fulfill various functions in the academe, corporate setting, research, and several others. The profession has also evolved from a female profession that continually...
Introduction Nursing has become much more aware of the organization that they are working in and how that organization affects the overall quality of care given in any institution. These values affect the retention of nurses as well as the outcomes that patients have. Nursing has also done much more...
Introduction The Calgary Family Assessment Model presents a detailed means of assessment whereby the whole range of structural, developmental and functional aspects of a family’s condition and foundation are put into consideration for the purposes of assisting in certain intervention processes. This model provides a simplified framework that assists nurses...
Evidence-base practices in healthcare have gained increased importance over recent years. The aim of the model in question is to incorporate previous findings into medical procedures to meet the patients’ needs. Evidence-based approach corresponds with the principles of patient-centered care, as its primary purpose is to ensure patients’ comfort and...
Repper, J. (2000). Adjusting the focus of mental health nursing: incorporating service users’ experiences of recovery. Journal of mental health, 9(6)575 Recovering mental health patients in the medical-surgical setting need to have a wide range of nursing approaches to choose from during their treatment; this means that they should be...
Introduction Advantages and disadvantages Pre-hospital emergency care is a fundamental component of the United States healthcare system. Pre-hospital emergency care services in the US are undertaken by Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT) and paramedics.Their core role is to attend to various medical emergencies which occur outside medical facilities. Their training enables...
Introduction Nursing like any other career involves the pursuit of knowledge that is not only valuable in the field of nursing, but also for the enhancement of one’s well-being in society. It is important to note here that, nurses serve the entire community in totality primarily because they help in...
What is Hospice? Hospice implies providing care, shelter, and comfort to those who are suffering. Today it means providing special care to those patients who have incurable diseases so that their lives are prolonged and they live in maximum possible comfort till their deaths. Hospice is a philosophy. It is...
Introduction The paper will highlight mainly Arredondo et al ’Expanding Cultural Considerations: Challenges and Promises. Some material can considerably support the idea that evidence-based practice is useful in medical practice or other health-related fields. Though most professionals cannot conclusively confirm teat the rehabilitation techniques lead to healing and depicted cultural...
Introduction According to the Kentucky Nursing Laws Chapter KRS 314, every nurse is accountable and responsible for each decision or action was taken in the course of duty. This chapter further defines the individual roles of the registered nurse (RN), Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN), and the Advanced Registered Nurses (ARN)....
Introduction The process of injecting medicine into the patient’s vein directly is called Intravenous medication administration. This can be done using a syringe to push the medicine into the vein of the patient, or use of IV secondary line through which the medication is passed into the patient after a...
Introduction The concept of patient safety has a profound impact on the care continuum. Patient safety can determine if a patient lives or dies. Medical errors that result either from commission or omission have been known to cause premature deaths or severe health conditions that could easily have been avoided....
Abstract Objectives This research was conducted to determine deficiencies of autonomy in patient management at the end of life hence; determine conflicts in autonomy and how they impact on nurse capacity to exercise patient advocacy and determine and identify mechanism through which nursing principles of practices could be exploited in...
Nursing leadership is affected by the roles of interest groups and their willingness to change governing policies. There are a number of interest groups that are concerned with environmental policy in nursing as well as add towards determining the professional impact on health policy. The major policy makers in the...
Introduction Professionalism in health and human service delivery is very vital and has developed greatly over the past few years. Nursing professionalism for instance has gained more attention in many countries due to the sensitivity of nursing. In England foe instance, it has been emphasized that nurses should be educated...
Introduction Nursing is an extremely complex and important profession, demanding a large variety of skills and expertise. Caring for people, providing assistance to those that require it more is an often overlooked part of medical practice. For me, it is a profession that I pursue with both personal dedication and...
Scope of Nursing Shortages Glazer and Alexandre review the scope of the current nurse shortages in the United States and outline the dangers poised by these shortages to public health in this article. They offer suggestions on the actions that need to be taken for the purpose of enhancing the...
Historical perspective The process of human understanding and interpretation referred to as hermeneutics has historically been a subject of interest to many philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato; notably, this branch of philosophy is most attributed to German philosophers. The word hermeneutics has its origin from Greek where it is...
Introduction Life and death are directly related. Every person living is consciously aware of the imminent death at the destiny of life. The certainty of death is brings fear and anxiety which if not conquered leads to panic attacks and confusion. Chronic pain and experiences of loss further increase the...
Introduction In today’s world, health promotion is imperative in the control and prevention of diseases. The concept of integrating health promotion in all aspects of life has resulted from the high prevalence of diseases and conditions that are preventable. Promotion of healthy lifestyle has taken momentum in the last few...
What is the purpose of the study? The purpose of this article was to discover the needs of families of patients with severe traumatic brain injury during the families’ experience in a neurosurgical ICU and this was found in the introduction part (Bond et al., 2003). The articles used for...
Introduction Based on the World Health Organization (1996) definition, palliative care is the active care of patients afflicted with a chronic disease that will ultimately lead to their death. Palliative care focuses on the management of pain, other symptoms, psychological, spiritual, and social crisis. Thus, the objective of palliative care...
Introduction Type 2 diabetes is brought by different factors that relate to the insulin supply in the body. For instance, the insulin a patient has may be atypical causing it not to work effectively in the body, or the cells that usually react to the accomplishment of insulin refuse to...
Introduction Management practices by the managers are responsible for monitoring the results of any event and thus can make any improvement or modification if there is a need for it. Nursing managers determine how the productivity of the nurses within the organization can be achieved especially by scrutinizing the efficiency...
The article “Palliative Care and the Importance of Communication Between Nurse and Patient, Family and Caregiver” by Andrade et al. (2019) is based on the research of 14 articles about the communication’s importance in nursing. The study aims to both assess and understand the existing research on palliative care (PC)...
Introduction Healthcare systems around the world are constantly changing and these changes have a crucial impact on the roles and functions of nurses. Roles of nurses are now complex necessitating them to be extremely alert and caring with their patients. The practice of nursing transcends professional barriers and requires them...
Introduction The background of the management problem Health care management has been the preserve of qualified and trained managers since time immemorial. The advent of specialisation in health care has opened doors for the incorporation of professional health workers in management. Although little achievement has happened in this direction, debate...
Organizations have over the years received numerous criticisms due to their impractical theories and policies that prove insignificant to our current economy. While many important theories are crucial to efficient ethical systems, authors mentioned in this essay provide background information that helps us understand how certain predisposition such as laundering...
Nursing specialists must always demonstrate the highest level of professionalism in all areas of their activity, including on social media platforms. They have a moral obligation to behave appropriately online and ensure that they do not violate the existing rules of conduct. Improper behavior can result in the termination of...
The nursing practice is premised in ten framework of professional responsibilities , conventions, personal conscience and a framework that also includes legal, religious and philosophical perspective that govern and influence what must be done and how it must as well it must be done in any professional practice. Such a...
Introduction Clinical teaching has a different share of a challenge to its educators compared to normal classroom teaching. The main difference is that in clinical teaching, there is a lot to be put into practice at every stage of development. Moreover, there are completely varying approaches in clinical teaching. They...
Discussion Culture is everywhere around us. Cultural competence is one of the concepts invoked to explain aspects of human behavior and human misunderstanding. It is a concept that suggests ways for managing situations that involve people from different cultural backgrounds. Even though we are surrounded by cultural competence concepts, they...
Thousands of infections and injuries are taking place in our daily life due to our carelessness. Several infections/ blisters first appear and gradually convert into a big and painful disease. It’s always recommended to visit a doctor at least once a month or urgently if a person found something unusual...
Outline Introduction – background of the problem of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, extent of prevalence of the disease, what is HIV/AIDS, the impact of the disease on the health system of the company and structure of the dissertation Literature review – epidemiology of HIV and AIDS in SA; demographic features;...
The article of Carey, Courtenay, James, Hills, and Roland discusses the influence of a diabetes specialist nurse (DSN) prescriber on the duration of a patient’s stay and their general state. The study’s importance is proved by its background, which suggests that “drug errors in diabetes care are a common cause...
The description of the healthcare setting This paper aims to show how the role of nurses has evolved over the last years. In particular, it is necessary to focus on the leadership styles, used by these medical workers. In addition to that, I would like to discuss those internal and...
Abstract Reporting patient abuse remains the prerogative of the abused patient or caregivers who witness the abuse within a healthcare facility. Usually, caregivers watch each other’s back, and hence the probability that they would report to their superiors on each other is almost nonexistent. Patients on the other hand fail...
Abstract The research paper will provide an overview of technology about the role of a nurse. As the days of manual charting become a thing of the past, new technology is paving the way into the 21st century. The research paper will explore the impact that technology has had not...
Nursing practice entails the real provision of nursing care to patients. In offering the nursing care, nurses implement the set nursing care plan for the patient which is based on the initial patient assessment. Nursing practice is enhanced by several concepts that help both the nurse and the patient to...
Introduction The article of Frank and Karioth concerns the issue of compassion fatigue risk in nurses. In the introduction of their study, the authors present the purpose of the research. Specifically, the research is aimed at studying the compassion fatigue level in nurses who worked with the victims of the...
Introduction Understanding the meaning of the concept of professionalism is of crucial importance for becoming a qualified specialist in any sphere. The issues of professionalism are especially significant for the spheres in which the clients’ personal information needs to be disclosed for the purpose of providing the services. Nursing is...