...When considering a career in the medical field, many individuals find themselves looking towards the nursing field. However, there are many different types of nursing. How do you know which is the one best suited to your interests? The following contains some different types of nursing, plus a description of each, including a general overview of the daily tasks involved. Diabetes Nursing These nurses work primarily with patients who have diabetes. Most of their time will be spent helping patients monitor their blood sugar and giving nutritional therapy. These nurses will also be well-versed in the proper diet, exercise, and lifestyle those with diabetes should lead. Some diabetes nurses choose to become diabetes educators, or diabetes nurse...
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...Reading Research Literature #2 Guidelines and Grading Rubric – Week 6 Purpose The student will read research literature to determine the informed consent, study setting, sample size, data collection procedures, reliability and validity, demographic information, variables, data analysis, figures, and conclusions. Course Outcomes This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes: CO 2: Apply research principles to the interpretation of the content of published research studies. (PO #4 and 8) CO 4: Evaluate published nursing research for credibility and lab significance related to evidence-based practice. (PO #4 and 8) Due Date: Submit to the Reading Research Literature #2 basket in the Dropbox by 11:59 p.m. MT Sunday at the end of Week 6. Requirements 1. Download the research articles from the Chamberlain library. Retrieve the following research articles: Sanford, J., Townsend-Rocchicciolli, J., Horigan, A., & Hall, P. (2011). A process of decision making by caregivers of family members with heart failure. Research and Theory for Nursing Practice, 25(1), 55–70. http://proxy.devry.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/853503862/354CEF3F10A4D9CPQ/6?accountid=147674 Schwarz, K. A., Mion, L. C., Hudock, D., & Litman, G. (2008). Telemonitoring of heart failure patients and their caregivers: A pilot randomized controlled trial. Progress in Cardiovascular Nursing, 23, 18–26. http://proxy.devry.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost...
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...Critical Appraisal 1Faith Rodriguez BSN-RNNURS5326: Research for Advanced Nursing PracticeSeptember 21, 2015Dr. Jana Saunders | Name and describe the theory that is used in your assigned primary research article. (1 paragraph) | The theory of self-regulation is the theoretical base and method in the research study to examine the use of emotion regulation and goal-directed behavior in an attempt to improve sleep behaviors. Self-regulation is the process in which a person has perceived illness cognition, a patient’s own implicit common sense beliefs about their illness. There are five cognitive dimensions of these beliefs: identity; perceived cause of illness; time line; consequences; curability and controllability (Fowler, Kirschner, Kuiken, & Baas., 2007, p. 223). This process occurs over three stages of interpretation, coping, and appraisal (Fowler et al., 2007). In the research study, “Using Mental Imagery to Deliver Self-Regulation Techniques to Improve Sleep Behaviors,” the efficacy of behavioral interventions were geared toward improving the sleep behavior for working adults with the use of mental imagery undertakings that were designed with the theory of self-regulation principles. More specifically, the main attitude is where the patient focuses their thoughts, emotions, and behavior in order to achieve their desired outcome, a sort of homeostasis, if you will. The use of imagery and implementation intention imagery are used in order to reduce...
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...essay I will be reflecting on an incident from practice, by drawing on developing knowledge, understanding and the application of professional studies. Reflection offers an opportunity to learn through an experience. This allows us to develop or sustain effective practice (Johns, 2000). I will be using the Gibbs (1988) reflective framework to structure my reflection (see appendix A). I find this framework very easy to follow, and as Clodagn (2003), explains it allows a person to implement alternative actions to an event, if followed. The incident will be described and the influence of key issues relating to ethical theories and decision-making, illness journeys and lay and professional perspectives will be explored. Principles of nursing models will be looked at and their contribution to individual patient care. I will also look at resource management, quality assurance and the role of evidence-based practice. For the purpose of this essay, to maintain confidentiality, the patient will be referred to as Mr Charlie Wood, (NMC code of professional conduct 2002; 5.1). Incident The incident occurred when I was a student on a medical ward. Mr. Wood, age 80 had been admitted to hospital following a stroke. From this he had lost the ability to mobilise and speak effectively. He was a very dependent gentleman and counted on the nurses to undertake all aspects of his care. His wife, whose name has also been changed for confidentiality reasons (NMC 2002), was very dedicated...
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...Introduction Throughout history, diabetes has been leading death by disease. Even today, with the access of insulin medication, there is still about one-half millions North American that die as a result of this disease. Diabetes is a disease in which your body does not produce or use insulin naturally. Simply put, insulin is a hormone that allows absorption of blood sugar. This paper will talk about the fundraiser chose to support by group three for the management and organizational behaviour class. The charity we chose to support is Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, which is located on 3347 Randolph Avenue Windsor, ON. As a team we chose this charity because they strongly agreed with the main goals and intentions of JDRF which is to find a cure for this killer disease. Finding a cure would rid this disease and allow the victims to live a normal, needle-free life. The report will discuss about the actual fundraiser event which was a live performance and DJ that was open to the community on Windsor. This event was hosted at Symbol Nightclub located on 285 Ouellette Ave, Windsor, ON. Our main goal as a team was to raise the awareness of this disease and the activities of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in the local community. Resulting in individuals supporting the organization by participating in volunteer work and/or make donations for research. Another team goal was to raise a minimum of $500 donation to the Charity after the primary fundraising event...
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...Tammy Powell HSM/270 April 28, 2015 Courtney Hunt The stakeholders American Diabetes Association (ADA) and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) has guidelines the program must follow to receive assistance. The Madison Children’s Hospital is seeking funding from the JDRF and ADA. The program will make changes by narrowing the target population to children with the chronic illness diabetes will help the program with opportunities for education advancements, and funding in the future to keep the programs services the community is in need; it will also help the program reach goals to help children with chronic illness. The program will not help all children with chronic illness, but help the children with the chronic illness of diabetes. Helping one kind of illness will give the program resources to achieve the needs of the community. Both stakeholders have evaluations they use on programs to evaluate the success of the program. The stakeholder’s evaluation will reduce the cost of evaluation planning. The program will review the evaluations to know what to expect from the program. Changes to the mission made to keep funding after the grants are no longer available to the program. The foundations helped similar program in the past, and the program has a chance for funding by making changes for the stakeholder. ADA and JDRF are looking to find more education advancement opportunity with research to find a cure, and help children and their families manage the illness to live...
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...Critique Nursing Journal Article Kendra Duran Excelsior College Abstract Complications from, and economic costs associated with diabetes are on the rise. The concern is that this global health epidemic is only expected to worsen in the coming decades. One quantitative research study aims to improve patient outcomes specifically related to proper control of blood glucose level, by linking patient outcomes with health literacy and patient trust. A quantitative study consisting of a convenience sample of 102 subjects from two urban health care centers was used. Patient demographics, socioeconomic status, and diabetes related knowledge, and depression were measured. The results of this study are mixed in supporting the hypothesis that lower health literacy directly impacts glycemic control. The 2010 journal article titled, “Impact of health literacy and patient trust on glycemic control in urban USA population” from Nursing Health and Sciences, hypothesizes a direct relationship between a patient’s overall health literacy and the ability to maintain glycemic control. The study’s intent is to examine questions related to health literacy and a patient’s trust in their healthcare provider to make a connection to how well the subjects managed glycemic control. Questions related to potential depression are also relevant. Author, Josephine M. Mancuso, PhD, ANP-BC from Marquette University, has published articles in the following nursing journals: Journal Of Nursing Care Quality...
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...Donna Salvato Nursing Informatics Journal 2 PubMed and MedLine After reading a fact sheet on the NIH website about the differences between MedLine and PubMed, I was able to understand what each does. MedLine is the National Library of Medicine (NLM) journal citation database. The database provides references to biomedical and life sciences journal articles. Journals that are submitted to the NIH are reviewed by the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee to ensure that MedLine contain only original and important scientific content. MedLine ensures its quality by using the NLM controlled vocabulary, the MeSH, to index citations. It is freely accessible through the PubMed database as well as through Ebsco (National Library of Medicine [NLM], 2014). PubMed is a free database that includes the MedLine database plus in-progress citations, citations to articles that are out-of-scope, ahead of print citations, etc. PubMed citations often offer links to the full-text article (NLM, 2014). The PubMed website has a page that helps you use their search engine. You can search by key concepts, author, and journal name. You can also apply filters to your research to narrow it to journals only. Another tool that PubMed offers is the Clinical Queries tool; this allows you to narrow your research to clinical searches only. Finally, in order to find high-quality citations– usually the ones that come from the MedLine database- PubMed allows you to add MeSH to your search filters (National...
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...Application ORIGINAL XXX 1541-5147 ARTICLES International of Orem’s Self-Care Deficit Theory and Standardized Nursing Languages in a Case Study of a Woman With Diabetes IJNT Malden, USAJournal Inc Blackwell Publishing of Nursing Terminologies and Classifications Application of Orem’s Self-Care Deficit Theory and Standardized Nursing Languages in a Case Study of a Woman with Diabetes This paper aims to illustrate the process Coleen P. Kumar, RN, MSN, CNS, is Assistant Professor of Nursing, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, New York. Introduction As the average lifespan is extended, more individuals are coping with chronic illnesses such as diabetes, which has reached epidemic proportions with more than 20 million people in the United States having this diagnosis (Gordois, Scuffham, Shearer, Oglesby, & Tobian, 2003). The American Diabetes Association (ADA) estimates that a million people will be diagnosed of diabetes every year (2004). Long-term complications of diabetes are costly to both the individual and the healthcare system. Over the past decade, diabetes research has focused on pharmacological approaches and lifestyle interventions to the illness (Odegard, Setter, & Iltz, 2006). Recent evidence in the forum of diabetes care revealed a need for healthcare professionals to assess and empower individuals in the self-management of this illness. For the purposes of this case study, health assessment by nurses was defined by Fuller and Schaller-Ayers (2000) as a process...
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...is time for nursing to step up and mandate that the bachelor’s degree is the minimum requirement. It is essential in today’s challenging times that nurses understand the why and not accept the notion that this is how it has been done before, so this must be the acceptable. Only through furthering our education and the understanding of evidenced based nursing will today’s nurses be able to meet the ever changing needs in this complex society. Quality nursing care relies on education. The Associate Degree Nurse (ADN ) completes one to two years of general education with two years of clinical practice. Nurses are taking on more patients with less resources, are facing more complex illnesses, and using more technical equipment. Research has shown “lower mortality rates, fewer medication errors and positive outcomes are all linked to nurses prepared at the baccalaureate and graduate degree levels.” (Rosseter, 2011, Rosenberg & Pfeifer, p18). According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2011) “Studies have shown that graduates from an entry level nursing program may pass the NCLEX exam but that does not mean they are prepared for practice. The NCLEX does not test the difference between graduates of different programs, measure for performance, or test for the knowledge of a bachelor’s prepared nurse.” The works of Florence Nightingale is taught in the two year program, however there are others that have contributed as much as she did in nursing practice, that...
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...Research Database Assignment Form Describe briefly your topic of interest (15 possible points): According to the American Diabetes Association (2013), "There are 25.8 million people in the United States, or 8.3% of the population, who have diabetes". The amount of cases of adolescents with Type 1 diabetes, previously known as juvenile diabetes is multiplying. Lack of compliance in diabetes can lead to serious complications, such as blindness, kidney damage, cardiovascular disease, neuropathy and foot ulcers, but people with diabetes can lower the occurrence of these and other diabetes complications by controlling blood glucose, blood pressure, and blood lipids by eating properly, exercising, and following the treatment regimen. My topic is on compliance issues with the adolescent with Type 1 Diabetes; parental support and involvement and influences from peers. #1 Database (or collection) (30 possible points): Title of source: Academic Search Complete Location of source (URL): http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/academic-search-complete Owner or publisher: EBSCO Host Describe (in your own words) the research database or collection of research including the purpose and the subject matter it covers: This database is the world's most comprehensive, scholarly full-text academic journals for multidisciplinary research that is offered by most institutions, which grants free access. Membership required for full text. The amplitude of content enclosed in this resource completely...
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...Quantitative Study Critique February 21, 2013 Quantitative Study Critique Nursing practice has advanced to more than just the clinical part of caring for patients. Nursing has evolved into a profession that demands accountability through continued research and implementation of evidence based practice in efforts to consistently provide the best care for growing populations. Nurses must be able to utilize research provided and critique this information with a degree of understanding that allows the nurse to interpret the knowledge gained in regards to the studied populations. Furthermore, the credibility and relevance of the study is equally important in the decision to trust its application in current best practice issues. This study states trust and depression are issues that cause difficulties with glycemic control. The purpose of this paper is to critique the quantitative study and offer a critical synopsis of the research presented. PICO (Patient, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcomes) is a type of model used to aid in framing questions for the research study. It helps to define questions that will support the specific population being studied and aids the reviewers in finding relevant information and evidence within the literature (Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois [UIC], 2012). The population studied was uninsured patients with diabetes. In considering the intervention and comparison, the goal of the study was to link health...
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...Quantitative Research article Critique Grand Canyon University Introduction to research NRS 433 Citation Mancuso, J. (2010) Impact of health literacy and patient trust on glycemic control in an urban USA population. Nursing &health sciences 12(1), 94-104.doi:10,1111/j,1442-2018,2009.00506.x. Introduction This critique examines the research reported by Mancuso (2010) that examined the health literacy and patient trust as predictors of glycemic control. This study also examined others factors like demographics, socioeconomic status, diabetes knowledge, self care activities and depression as related to glycemic control. Th epurpose of this critique is to determine the quality of the research on the basis of the information provided in the report, as well as the potential usefulness for nursing practice or improvement in nursing knowledge (Mancuso, 2010). The author recommended implementing evidence–based interventions to improve diabetes outcome, avoid public health crisis from diabetes mortality and morbidity, and economic cost with the population growth, obesity on rise and aging. Problem Statement The problem statement was as stated in the article.Mancuson provided statistical information from Centers for Disease control showing in 2006,diabetes was the seventh leading cause of death in USA.Diabetes has no cure and can lead to serious complications which include heart, kidney, nervous system, and dental diseases, stroke, blindness, hypertension, amputation, sexual...
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...Running head: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIABETES AND PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE 1 Relationship between Diabetes and Peripheral Arterial Disease Angela Polk Troy University RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIABETES AND PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE 2 Purpose The purpose of this proposal is to determine the relationship between uncontrolled diabetes mellitus (DM) and the development of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in patients who are >60 years old in Macon, Georgia. Problem Statement With the ongoing rise of the diagnosis of diabetes in the American population, the prevalence of PAD is also rising in these same patients. As noted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2012, the prevalence of adults with diagnosed diabetes in Bibb County, Georgia has risen to 11.6% (this percentage is the same in all of the surrounding counties of Bibb). PAD is defined as a gradual reduction or complete occlusion of blood flow, from the arteries, to the legs (Amer, Alsadany, Tolba, and Omar, 2013). Diabetes is a significant risk factor for the development of PAD, in addition to cardiovascular disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, tobacco use, obesity, and age greater than 60 years. The development of PAD in patients with diabetes is reported to be as much as 30% of the population. Unfortunately, the majority of patients with poorly controlled diabetes also suffer from diabetic neuropathy, which limits their...
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...summary of the data that has been collected over the years through experimentation, literature reviews, qualitative research, and the results that have been construed from that data will be presented. It discusses the concept of the effects of bariatric surgery and answers the question - do people who have the surgery have better health outcomes, specifically with hypertension and type II diabetes mellitus, than those who do not? A summary of research reveals that there is a significant reduction and/or total remission of both of these co-morbidities that were often life long. Other benefits, such as quality of life, social standings, and healthcare cost reduction are examined and positively reported. Review of current data to include strengths and weaknesses, conceptual frameworks, and the current state of knowledge reveal that bariatric procedures have shown the efficacy and safety in the treatment of morbid obesity and have gained wider acceptance in the medical world. Synthesis of Bariatric Surgery and the Effects on Comorbidities For years people have turned to diets in an effort to lose weight and get healthier. At no time has that been more the case than in America today. People spend billions of dollars a year trying to lose weight and the numbers are not encouraging. The prevalence in obesity with related Type II Diabetes and Hypertension is growing at an alarming rate, calling for other alternatives such as crash diets and extreme exercise...
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