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...
All employees, regardless of their positions, impact the organization’s development, but leadership has the principal contribution to the formation of corporate culture, affecting employees’ engagement and overall atmosphere in a company. Nevertheless, there are various views and approaches, each of which defines its own set of skills needed for creating...
For a nurse, professional commitment means a desire and an intention to stay in a nursing profession for the purpose of providing effective care and services to patients. As a complex phenomenon, professional commitment is associated with a nurse’s understanding and acceptance of their professional roles, duties, and responsibilities, as...
The article under analysis is called “Evidence-based skin tear protocol” and is dedicated to the evidence-based practice and unpredictable cases of skin tear. The author describes the negative experience of the patients and analyzes the problem of the nurse care more profoundly to prevent the relevant consequences. In the article,...
Introduction Preparation for surgery is often characterized by a variety of complications. Preparation of a list of things that must be done and those which must not be done is always necessary. Perioperative procedures are often aimed at improving outcome of an operation (Baeza, Fitzgerald & McGivern, 2008). Generally, they...
Nursing Theory is defined as one or more relatively concrete and specific concepts that are derived from a conceptual model. the statements that describe those concepts. and the statements that assert relatively concrete and specific relations between two or more concepts (kearney-Nunnery, 2008). All nurses have a nursing theory model...
Outline The modern nursing has evolved over time, with the care of the dying emerging as a primary concern to today’s medical fraternity. Many of the critically ill patients (80%) end up dying in hospitals, delegating such care process to nurses (Morris, 2003). Considering the fact that modern technology can...
Abstract The study is aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of palliative day care in improving the quality of life for end of life patients. This arises from the rise in cases of incurable diseases and conditions in the recent past all over the world. Despite the growth in day care,...
Introduction Health care is a vital element of modern human society. Different countries in today’s world treat the issues of health care in different ways. The U.S. health care system has always been a role model for less developed countries in the aspects of providing high-quality services to all people...
The article titled ‘No-Rinse, One-Step Bed Bath: The Effects on the Occurrence of Skin Tears in a Long-Term Care Setting’ is authored by Coggins and Birch. It begins with providing information on how the cost of care of long term residents in medical institutions increases due to skin tears occurring...
Introduction The teenage development stage is a period during which many changes take place. These changes may be physical, emotional, social, or even mental. There is a change in hormones at the onset of puberty. The milestone chosen regarding the teen developmental stage is going to speak on puberty. It...
White, D. W., & Lean, E. (2008). The impact of perceived leader integrity on subordinates in a work team environment. Journal of Business Ethics, 81, 765–778. The main idea of the article is that working in a team requires certain skills, attention, and implication of requirements provided to each separate...
Clever nurses are those that possess the knowledge and skills acquired from a wide range of fields which include; medicine, psychology, and science. They are therefore smart enough to care. Nursing knowledge can therefore be defined as acquiring technical competence, skills, and professional experience helpful to the nurse in building...
Introduction Expanding the range of technological developments and effective innovations used in nursing education is an important aspect of successful and productive learning. Digital applications, virtual simulators, and other similar tools contribute to a deep immersion in the care environment and offer unique mechanisms for accumulating valuable experience. As an...
Introduction The role of a nurse is to provide quality care to the patient so as to bring suffering to an end. This ensures that the patients recover with minimal discomfort and wellness of life is restored. However, nurses are always faced by many challenges like wrong diagnosis, lack of...
The main purpose of this essay is to discuss the peculiarities of discharging plan, in particular, after the Cesarean section. It is of crucial importance for us to identify the major steps or probably, it is better to say evaluation criteria, on which medical workers base their judgment. Our task...
History According to the National Association for Home Care (2001), about 7.6 million individuals are served by more than 20,000 home health agencies in the United States alone today. It is also estimated that home care expenditure in 2000 is $32.4 billion and predicted to grow to about $87.0 billion...
The choice of the research design and method to be used depends on the nature of research questions stated and also the development of the research theory. There exist several research designs and methods. The fact that nursing is holistic calls for a diversified research approach hence the need for...
In many cases, nurses can be viewed as lobbyists because they tend to represent the interests of patients and community members when lobbying for the improvement of services and practices. Furthermore, it is also possible to agree that nurses performing as lobbyists play an essential role in the advancement of...
Introduction Uncontrolled hypertension is emerging to be a frequent clinical issue, with 10% of the hypertensive complication found to be uncontrollable (Beckett, Peters & Fletcher, 2008). This condition may lead to severe damage to renal, cerebral and cardiovascular organs of the body (KSchirpenbach & Reincke, 2009; Perera, 2005). It is...
The first article to be considered in the present research paper is the work of Carol L. White, Nancy Mayo, James Hanley and Sharon Wood-Dauphinee (2003) titled “Evolution of the Caregiving Experience in the Initial 2 Years Following Stroke”. The purpose of the study of the present article is to...
Nursing is not merely a profession that can be obtained as a result of long-lasting education and practices. It is a calling that makes young people consider their skills and potentials and choose health care and medicine as their future. In my opinion, to be a nurse is not just...
Introduction Diabetes is a chronic clinical condition that occurs whenever there is failure or disturbance in insulin hormone production and thus the blood sugar regulation in the body, which is also known as blood sugar homeostasis. The progressive disease clinically manifests itself when there is improper body production or utilization...
Statement of the Phenomenon of Interest The research conducted by Smith, Pope, Goodwin and Mort (2008) is titled “Interprofessional handover and patient safety in anaesthesia: Observational study of handovers in the recovery room”. The researchers begin the article by describing the handover phenomenon in hospitals. They argue that patients in...
The issues selected for analysis related to healthcare delivery in nursing homes and psychological help for the elderly. The article “Improving Psychosocial Care in Nursing Home Settings: The Next Challenge” by J. Zlotnik, B. Vourlekis and C. Galambos, C. (2006) describes the problems and challenges faced by nursing homes and...
Occupational profile – Goals Santo was very active with his church, community, and his college. When Santo was injured he was a sophomore in college working toward a degree in computer science. He was also living in his apartment. Santo has expressed a desire to return to school and independent...
Introduction The drastic change in lifestyles all across the world and the increasing incidences of dietary diseases have led to an increasing wave of interest in preventive health care over the last few decades. This has led to a rise in research on dietary diseases hence contributing to the growth...
Introduction Medical knowledge is in a state of continuous change every day. This is due to advances in technology, innovations, and the ever-ending demand to find solutions to our health problems. Many diseases which were thought to have been eradicated from the world have in the recent past re-emerged while...
Introduction This paper aims to show how new concepts and approaches to healthcare delivery are going to influence the work of registered nurses. In particular, we need to focus on such notions as population health and primary healthcare, which have changed the role of nurses and enlarged the scope of...
Introduction Nursing is one of the professions that are asymmetrically represented in terms of gender. This may be due to several factors including legal restrictions, exclusionary policies, social stereotypes, and self-induced restrictions. The history of nursing dates back as far as 250 BC when the first nursing school was established...
All workers, regardless of their positions, impact the organization’s development, but a leader has the principal contribution to the formation of corporate culture, employees’ engagement, and their overall performance. Nevertheless, there are different approaches and views, each of which determines its own set of skills and functions needed for effective...
What are the nurse’s priorities for this patient? The nurse should provide a woman with all the needed care in terms of a patient-centered approach. It presupposes assistance in physical and psychological recovery during the post-partum period (Soma-Pillay et al., 2018). Because of the symptoms that are observed in the...
Modern research in genetics and genomics is being used widely in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, but recent study findings reveal that it is also being used in an attempt to enhance human performance. The legally accepted means of using this gene modification technology to treat patients is referred...
Introduction The skin is the barrier between the human body and the environment. Its functions are to prevent microorganisms from entering the body, ultra-violet radiation from affecting the body and water loss from the body (Ravid, 2002, p 525). The continuous regeneration of the terminally differentiating keratinocytes constitutes the barrier....
Leadership Budget Nurses are leaders in general and their leadership subsists in all spheres of their practice. Apportioned leadership bestows excellence in the function of healthcare provision. Available resources should support the operations within any organization, and this does not preclude nursing. This implies that there has to be proper...
Introduction Humanity is continuously faced with many problems and diseases that complicate the life of an individual. These can be some small viruses or dangerous conditions that leave an imprint on a person’s entire life. However, diseases associated with the human psyche are far more terrible and problematic than anything...
There are many myths about the personality and the accomplishments of Florence Nightingale. These myths have been followed for many years, as these are comprehensive. However, the personality and the accomplishments of Florence Nightingale are much more complex. She was a towering figure in the Victorian age and still, there...
Recently, the world has seen an increase in the need for nurses. According to scientists, the US will need at least 260,000 more registered nurses by 2025 (Oermann et al., 2017). Despite the increased interest in the profession from people under 30, about one-third of the workforce are nurses over...
Confidence might not be the very first quality that comes to mind when describing a professional nurse. Its surplus has been systematically negatively correlated with expertise and is currently known as Dunning–Kruger effect (1). Nevertheless, numerous studies dedicated to measuring confidence among the nursing staff and the ways to enhance...
Introduction With many parts of the world under political turmoil, the waves of the impetus are causing effects on the neighboring countries. With security threats, more people are fleeing their countries to their bordering neighbors to ensure personal safety. Although their original perception is of a good life free from...
Introduction Introduction and Background of the Problem Currently in Washington, the health care debates continue. President Obama is hoping to eventually sign into law a new plan that is geared to overhaul the current health care system. As the bill passed through the Senate, several Republicans were geared to “slam...
Abstract A concept is a general common idea created in the mind and expresses a complex mental envision of an experience. Hope is an essential element in holistic nursing theories, being a common human experience, hope is defined by many disciplines and in different perspectives. The aim of this essay...
Outline Patients are given care in the hospital by nurses who are experienced so that their health can be taken care of effectively. The number of nurses available should be large enough to take care of the increasing demand of patients who need their care all the time. When a...
Healthcare Policy Issue/ Concern Nurses have historically been at the forefront of revolutionizing healthcare. However, in today’s United States, their potential might not be used to the fullest due to too many challenges faced by the nursing workforce. Buerhaus et al. (2017) state that the dire situation can be broken...
Today, changes related to natural disasters or pandemics turn out to be critical issues for discussions around the globe. Many healthcare facilities try to get themselves prepared for changes and protect the staff, as well as patients. Safety in hospitals may gain a variety of forms, and one of them...
The article under analysis is dedicated to the topic of cardiac surgery in elderly patients and the role of nurses in organizing and developing care programs needed by elderly patients after cardiac surgeries. In more detail, Rosborough (2006) argues that the proportion of people aged 80 and older is growing...
Leadership Strong leadership is critical in the provision of safe and quality patient care in the healthcare system. The primary role of nurse leaders is to foster collaboration in the interprofessional team, oversee the integration of EBP in clinical care, and support frontline workers in achieving positive healthcare outcomes. The...
Introduction The Primary dentition in children needs to be as close as possible to the ideal in order that during future adulthood, children may exhibit normal dental features like normal mastication and appearance, dental space and occlusion for proper and healthy functioning of permanent dentition. It is well known that...
Introduction The regulation of medical devices is considered to consist of some of the most important legislation written by governments. This is clearly due to the number of disciplines involved in the production of a single medical device. Medical device regulations affect both the safety of their users and the...
Introduction The use of wheelchairs has several effects on its users. Researchers have conducted several studies and found that users using wheelchairs could experience some of the following effects: Change Position Effect Seating Function Effect Habits Effect Mechanisms Effect Psychological Effects Effect of Reaction (Tropp, Nylander, Gerdle & Samuelsson, 2004;...
The article being summarized is titled “The Making of a Butterfly: Reflective Practice in Nursing Education,” written by Jessalyn F. Barbour and published in the International Journal of Human Caring in 2013. The article elaborates on the necessity of reflective practices in nursing and sustains for them to be included...
The paper titled A practice development initiative supporting care home staff delivers high-quality end-of-life care reflects upon the nurses’ role in older adult care. There is of great importance to meet the needs of the elderly population living in nursing homes. However, end-of-life practices still require improvements and concrete nursing...
Maintaining the consistent quality of care and meeting the established clinical guidelines is vital for effective care delivered in a timely fashion. Therefore, a proper understanding of IOM competencies and strategies for quality improvement is a crucial requirement for any nurse. By focusing on teamwork and interdisciplinary collaboration, as well...
The nurse is the main person in charge of patient care in the US model of care. Needless to say, there were great women who contributed to reaching this level and pioneered the nursing care that the world knows today. This paper aims at considering Linda Richard’s contribution to modern...
Errors in the administration of medications remain a pervasive practice problem. Modern quantitative studies that explore the role of training programs for nurses in reducing medication mistakes can help to answer the previously identified PICOT question. This essay aims to critique two peer-reviewed quantitative studies, thus concluding on their uses...
Introduction Scope and Specificity Among the neurodegenerative diseases that occur in mammals, the prion diseases are unique for being transmissible, for manifesting in diverse phenotypes from just one etiologic factor, and for the pathological phenomenon of “spongiform” damage to the affected tissue. In humans, the transmission also occurs genetically and...
Abstract Alzheimer’s disease is a multifactor neurodegenerative disorder characterised by dementia, cognitive and behavioural changes and has no treatment. The turn from neuropathological and psychological description of the disease to studying the molecular, genetics, and biochemical causes of neurone degeneration enhanced the scientific knowledge on possible new treatments. Stem cells...
The World Health Organization (WHO) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have been instrumental in helping many countries to fight different kinds of diseases through resource mobilization and capacity building initiatives. However, the globalization of economies, coupled with the extensive international commerce and travels between countries, has forced both the developed and...
Introduction Over the past several years, the prevalence of vaping among young people has increased considerably. According to a study by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, more than 37% of 12th graders reported vaping in 2018 (Shmerling, 2019). These numbers are quite alarming, as scientists do not know much...
History, Physical Examinations and Investigations In simulation 1, the history and physical examination suggests that the patient could be having diabetic coma as a result of hypoglycemia. Features that would favor hypoglycemia include syringe found next to patient, cold skin, rapid pulse, blood sugar of 21mg/dl and unresponsiveness. The findings...