...Spirituality Need Assessment Introduction Numerous studies conducted showed positive correlation between spirituality and treatment outcomes (Oakley, P.T., D.H.Sc, Katz, Sauer, Dent, & Millar, 2010). Therefore spiritual needs of the patient must be meet by the healthcare professional. The spiritual needs of the patient can be analyzed and recognized in the process of spiritual assessment. The spiritual assessment consists of a survey/ questionnaire that helps the caregiver get information on the patients spiritual demands. The spiritual assessment allows the healthcare provider to meet the spiritual demands of the patient and their family. This enables the patient to receive holistic treatment which includes recognizing and responding to the physical, psychological, spiritual and emotional needs of the patient (Bruce, 2007). According to the joint commission anyone who is trained on the value of spiritual assessment and tools such as physicians, therapists, nurses, and clinical pastoral staff can assess the patient’s spirituality (Evaluating your Spiritual Assessment Process, 2005). The Joint Commission has also provided some guidelines to create a spiritual assessment that would meet the spiritual demands of the patient. Using these guidelines, a spiritual assessment is made to assess the spiritual needs of a friend who is currently a healthcare provider. Spiritual Need Assessment Tool 1) Who or what provides the patient with strength and hope? 2) Is there a role...
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...AFT Task 4: Periodic Performance Review Accreditation Audit Case Introduction The accreditation process is designed to assist healthcare establishment to identify and enhance the patient’s safety and the quality of service delivery. This paper presents a review of the readiness Nightingale Community Hospital for accreditation audit. The paper comprises of a periodic performance review of the establishment. The review has focus of several priority areas. These areas include; assessment and care; quality improvement; patient safety, and staffing effectiveness. Trend within the hospital indicates the Nightingale has made significant progress towards fulfilling the standards of the Joint Review Commission. However, the trends in staffing effectiveness are limiting the organization’s compliance. Periodic Performance Review (PPR) The PPR is based on data collected in the Joint Commission Survey. The survey utilized the priority focus methodology to evaluate the compliance of Nightingale Community Hospital. The priority focus process is a methodology that makes use of data to establish priority areas for reviewing compliance. This process has utilized of both external and internal data to evaluate the compliance of Nightingale Community Hospital. This methodology identified several priority areas. These include; assessment and care services; quality improvement activities, and patient safety. This paper evaluates Nightingale’s compliance in these three priority areas. Compliance...
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...Self-Assessment Tasks Plan MBA6004 Foundational Skills for Business Leaders Unit 1 Assignment 1 Introduction This report is a self-assessment of the written and Excel skills evaluation that is required by Capella. Based on the results from the assessment, the student is required to create an action plan for improving those skills in this course and future courses. The self-evaluation consists of three components. The first assessment consists of 20 multiple-choice questions. The second assessment instructs the student to write an essay on a given topic. The final assessment consists of 20 multiple-choice questions to determine the student proficiency and competency with Microsoft Excel. Once the self-assessment has been completed, the outcome of each assessment is made available to the student. This paper will discuss the steps that will be taken while pursuing my MBA degree. Learner Action Plan The Action Plan tab is designed to help students organize and manage key academic courses, structure professional and life tasks to support the students through the program to ensure overall academic success. The Skill Enhancement tab provides an extensive list of tutorial and self-paced courses to improve both your writing skills and Excel skills. Figure 1: Skills Enhancement Based on my assessment results, an action plan was developed that involved improving my writing and enhancing skills in Excel. My action plan does show that the dates that have been set to complete...
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...Care Britain “The importance of an ongoing education cannot be overestimated. Education is necessary, as the health care industry grows so does the specialization of the different parts of the industry. A person’s need for education does not stop at the diploma. Healthcare workers must have a career development plan for the future. To understand the effectiveness of training the organization must be able to measure the knowledge of the employee and the training process.” Lethard, A., para 2 (2000). Because the healthcare industry is constantly evolving the training and development of the healthcare workers must be ongoing. The assessment process can be done by testing, interviewing employees, and rating. Each employee must be trained, signed off on the on all policies and procedures to prevent the company and employee from law suits against them. Healthcare organizations must provide the proper training and education for their employees in order to get accurate output. Education involves learning processes using values, theories to develop training is to provide specific skills to an employee. Lethard, A., para 2 (2000) Competencies According to Lethard, A., para 3 (2000) measuring competencies in a healthcare organization have to access individual and organizational performance to assess the efficiency of their...
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...UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND NURSE PRESCRIBING V150 CASE STUDY COURSE: NURS09125 BANNER NUMBER: B00113677 DATE OF SUBMISSION 13/12/10 COURSE LEADER FRANCES DOWNER WORD COUNT: 3745 CONTENTS PAGE 1. INTRODUCTION & GENERAL OVERVIEW, Pgs3-4. 2. ASSESSMENT PROCESS, Pgs 5-8 3. TREATMENT OPTIONS, Pgs 9-12. 4. EVALUATION, Pgs 13-16 5. CONCLUSION. Pg 17 6. COPY OF PRESCRIPTION, Pg 18 7. REFERENCE SECTION, Pgs 19-23 8. BIBLIOGRAPHY, Pg 24. INTRODUCTION In the following case study, the author will discuss the issues surrounding a seventy-year-old female with a chronic neuropathic ulcer on the sole of her right foot and the rationale and implications of prescribing in the community setting. The author a (trainee nurse prescriber) will display the need for a robust assessment, exploring all areas of health and well-being in order to achieve a safe outcome. The author will further follow current guidelines and be mentored by a senior nurse prescriber throughout the process. The aim of the case study is to display the implications involved in issuing a nurse prescription if deemed appropriate. With regard to writing a prescription as a qualified practioner, the author will adhere to the guidance within the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC 2006a) standards for safe prescribing. To protect this patient’s identity and maintain confidentiality, she will be referred to as Mrs X throughout the...
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...Spirituality Need Assessment Elsamma Philip Grand Canyon University HLT- 310 V Verree Laughlin June 10, 2012 Spirituality Need Assessment Introduction Numerous studies conducted showed positive correlation between spirituality and treatment outcomes (Oakley, P.T., D.H.Sc, Katz, Sauer, Dent, & Millar, 2010). Therefore spiritual needs of the patient must be meet by the healthcare professional. The spiritual needs of the patient can be analyzed and recognized in the process of spiritual assessment. The spiritual assessment consists of a survey/ questionnaire that helps the caregiver get information on the patients spiritual demands. The spiritual assessment allows the healthcare provider to meet the spiritual demands of the patient and their family. This enables the patient to receive holistic treatment which includes recognizing and responding to the physical, psychological, spiritual and emotional needs of the patient (Bruce, 2007). According to the joint commission anyone who is trained on the value of spiritual assessment and tools such as physicians, therapists, nurses, and clinical pastoral staff can assess the patient’s spirituality (Evaluating your Spiritual Assessment Process, 2005). The Joint Commission has also provided some guidelines to create a spiritual assessment that would meet the spiritual demands of the patient. Using these guidelines, a spiritual assessment is made to assess the spiritual needs of a friend who is currently a healthcare provider...
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...Fall 08 Fall Journal Article Review Kim Watson Chamberlain College of Nursing NR 305 Health Assessment Professor J. Deibel Spring B 2014 Journal Article Review Introduction ‘A guide to taking a patient’s history’ is an article published in the nursing standard Journal, volume 22, issue 13, dated December 5, 2007, written by Hillary Lloyd and Steven Craig. In this article, Lloyd and Craig describe the practice of obtaining a patient history in a systematic way, importance of communication skills, preparing the environment, and explaining why a thorough assessment is indispensible. Summary of Article Obtaining a patient’s history is of utmost importance, for the nurse or healthcare provider, when conducting a patient assessment. It is during this time the patient presents valuable and pertinent information. Also, it is at this time a relationship is evolved between the nurse and patient. Prior to taking the history it is important to prepare the environment. The nurse may come across many varied environments. Such as, patient’s homes, emergency room, clinics, community settings, and different areas of the hospital. Having all needed equipment accessible and area to avoid interruption is important. The environment should support safety for both the patient and nurse. Making sure enough time is allotted to conduct the assessment is stressed. “Not allowing enough time can result in incomplete information, which may adversely affect...
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...ever fluctuating economy makes a good atmosphere for organizations to reap the benefits of a program evaluation. Competitive success in the everchanging marketplace will only occur when an organization puts into place continuing program feedback and program adjustments or adaptations (McNamara, 2006). There are several program evaluation models and methods available to any organization, making the stakeholders the key decision makers of the identity of scope and type of evaluation that will lend itself toward the futures goals and vision of the organization. McDavid and Hawthorn (2006) explain that there is a need for any organization conducting a programs evaluation to generate specific material for planning, design, implementation, and assessment to obtain desired results and to solve any problems or issues. To develop an evaluation focusing on relevance, utility, and design that specifically matches the organization’s needs, the stakeholders must not only address the issues at hand. They also must select an individual or team, which is internal, external, or combination of both to makeup the goal-oriented a program evaluation team. What is a Program Evaluation Boulmetis and Dutwin (2005, p. 4) define a program evaluation as the systematic and structural process of data collection. With these an organization can discerne if and to what degree organizational goals are achieved. Evaluations efficiency, effectiveness, and influence allow this analysis to occur. A program evaluation...
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...SID NO : 0711950 WORDS : 2,000 SUBMISSION DATE: 10TH OF MAY 2013 The purpose of this essay is to provide a reflective account of mentoring a pre-registration nursing student in practice. A reflective model (Gibbs 1988, appendix 1) I will analyse the experience between myself as a mentor and the student under the supervision of a qualified mentor. The learning styles, The name of individuals involved shall not be mentioned in order to protect confidentiality in accordance to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC, 2008) Emphasis will be put on how an environment may be created to foster a long life learning and teaching and the learning strategies that were utilised, coupled with principles of assessment and the assessment tools that were used. The role of a mentor in facilitating learning will also be appraised. What is reflection? According to, Taylor (2000), “reflection means the throwing back of thoughts and memories in cognitive act such as thinking, contemplation, meditation and any other form of attentive consideration in order to make sense of them, and to make contextually appropriate changes if they are required”. The purpose of reflection as stated by John (1999) is to promote desirable practice through the practitioner's understanding and learning about their lived experiences. John (1999) mentorship reflection. This mentorship encourages practitioners to work through a series of reflective cues, the last of which is concerned with...
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...Needs Assessment Process Dear Sir or Madam, Thank you for looking into the possible needs that can be used at your facility based on my experience as a public health nurse. The steps I would take in order to assess this population are by using the nursing process. “In practice, the assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, and planning steps may take several months are an essential precursor to the action phase of the process” (Smith & Bazini-Barakat, 2003, p. 47). This essential tool used in nurse’s daily lives can be used to determine the needs of the geriatric community at the Centerville Area Agency. I will assess, diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate. In order to assess the population in question I must evaluate data collected during a quantitative and qualitative study. A survey will be done by each individual member about services they wish should be included to better their healthy lifestyle. A survey also will be done to obtain information about how they remain hydrated and tools used. This quantitative study will provide information about how to tackle the goal at hand which is decreasing the incidence of dehydration in the elderly greater than 65 years of age. Also, a qualitative study would be done to interview patients and obtain firsthand information about how they remain hydrated and what can they do to improve on hydrating themselves. “..qualitative research will find a route to the goal of influencing practice” (Morse & Clark, 2010...
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...changed—or a combination? That’s the question that started us down this road. A record called a hybrid version of several other falls risk assessments. During the next several months, the committee has the following four goals: • Decrease falls at North Adams by 10% 12 months after plan implementation • Review and revise falls policy and procedures based on evidence-based data • Recommend necessary education for staff members • Develop ongoing performance improvement monitoring Once the falls problem was identified and brought to the attention of the hospital’s patient safety committee, a falls subcommittee was formed and staff nurses recruited. The committee has representation from inpatient and outpatient areas of the hospital and meets weekly to discuss current practice and published research on the subject. The committee discussed various journal articles and literature found online and evaluated models used by other healthcare organizations. The committee examined the assessment, Morse and Hendrick models, used by a handful of neighboring organizations. The committee started by analyzing its current falls assessment process, including interventions. A revised model for assessing a patient’s risk and preventing falls based on the research and analysis done by the committee. The model includes: • Addition of IV criteria to the assessment tool • Institution of primary interventions for every patient who comes to the hospital for care and additional interventions for...
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...The learning, teaching and assessment experience This assignment is a written account of a learning, teaching and assessment experience within a clinical setting. It considers how the mentorship of a student can be influenced by the learning experience. It also discusses the learning, teaching and mentorship theories and considers the principles of an assessment. It will look at the reliability, validity and different factors that may influence the learner’s needs. It will reflect on the responsibilities and boundaries of the mentor and discuss the legal, ethical and professional accountability. The clinical setting as a learning environment will be analysed and the effectiveness of the roles and responsibilities of a mentor will be discussed. Finally, the importance of effective teamwork within a clinical setting environment will be examined. To comply with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC 2008) all confidential information will be withheld and names changed. According to the NMC (2006) students on an NMC approved pre-registration nursing course must be supported and assessed by a mentor. The mentor must be registered on a local register and must demonstrate their knowledge, skills and competences on an ongoing basis. As a qualified nurse the NMC (2008) also states “you must facilitate students and others to develop their competences”. Student nurses in their final year of study are allocated placements within the community setting every six months. Most students...
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...come from feedback of the nurses and doctors who work at the hospitals. In choosing which systems to use, healthcare committees require feedback from all staff in what’s needed in the facilities to better care for patients. According to the Handbook of Informatics, the purpose for needs assessment is to see where the organization is presently at and what the organization needs to do for them to grow. Before an organization can setup an EHR they have to make evaluations of strengths and weaknesses within the organization. They evaluate the needs of the patients, how easy or difficult a patient can access their information, or what the organization can do to make it more convenient for the patients, in regards to treatments or facility visits. Needs assessment is the first phase of developing a more efficient way of making the organization stronger. It starts with the development of the steering committee, needs assessment are then developed, they identify systems requirements, and then the systems are weighed out to see which ones are in need and demand. “In the process of conducting a needs assessment, the nurse planner collects and analyzes data to determine where learner are now in relation to the desired outcome, where they need to be, and what educational approaches would be effective in bridging that gap”(Dickerson, 2013, p.104). When a needs assessment is determined it means being able to look into all areas of operation in the organization to analyze deficiencies...
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...Educator (PPEd) and health care professional it will enable myself learn from the experience (Bolton, 2014). This reflective essay will analyse and evaluate the feedback provided and how it was received by a student. Additionally, it will analyse and evaluate different types of feedback including different models used in the healthcare setting. Finally, I will further seek ways to improve this process for the future when giving feedback. Description: So as to comply with the Health and Care Professions council, PPEds must undertake appropriate practice placement educator training (HCPC, 2014). Hence, as part of the PPEd course it essential carry out the teaching of a skill, assess the student and give the student relevant feedback. This was all observed and assessed by a qualified PPEd. The skill I selected to teach was the preparation and insertion of a nasopharyngeal airway (NP) to a first year student. I prepared for this by finding out where the student was in their BSc paramedic degree course and to what level they knew about the skill. Additionally, I ensured that I had the correct equipment needed for the teaching sessions, as well as preparing an assessment sheet. At the beginning if the session I explained to the student what we would be doing and what they would be assessed on at the end of the session. I expected the student to be able to size and insert the NP appropriately as well as knowing some underpinning knowledge and listing the contraindications of the intervention...
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...Customer Satisfaction As healthcare becomes more competitive it is important for department heads to identify all their customers in order to effectively market the department’s services. Respiratory Care performs both inpatient and outpatient services which encompasses a variety of customers. Once these customers have been established it is important to have a successful plan in place to assess and mange the satisfaction of all the department customers to ensure continuing growth. Customer Customers can vary greatly depending on the service being provided. For inpatient procedures the customer can include the patient that is receiving a therapy, family members that are concerned or taking care of their loved one, physicians that are prescribing care or consulting on the patient, nurses, case workers, or any other ancillary service that assist in the patient’s care. The list is very similar for patients receiving outpatient services as well. Customers are truly anyone that we come in contact with and provide a service. There are times as a respiratory department we will also seek out our customers in the community, for example, asthma education in the public school system. Customer in this setting would be the student, parents, teachers, aides, and the school nurse. There is also the internal customers that the respiratory departments work with everyday to include other ancillary department and our own coworkers. There is a long list of customers that respiratory therapists...
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