Can Adequate Nurse Staffing Improve Patient Outcomes? Nursing is more than caring for the sick and injured. It is a twenty-four hour inpatient monitoring system. It is well known that nurses spend significantly more time caring for and looking after patients than any other profession. They routinely monitor and report changing patient conditions around the clock that aid physicians in modifying and updating treatment plans to improve health and prevent complications. The level of
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people from region to region. In 2003, the World Health Organization became aware of a flu-like outbreak occurring in China, specifically the Guangdong Province. In March of 2003 the WHO issued a global alert and named this flu-like illness Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, aka SARS. SARS spread from China to another 37 countries around the world and is considered to be highly transmittable. The illness became publicly better known when an American businessman was traveling from China to Singapore
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The implications of the Garling Report In order to provide quality of patient care, delivering efficient care is important but also recognising the factors affecting patient care is also significantly important. By identifying the implications of the Garling Report (2008), it enables to recognise problems related with health care system and to have better understandings and abilities to effectively deal with the problems. Accordingly, there are also significant issues affecting mental
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up with challenges of a reforming health care system and meeting the nations’ growing health care needs (Institute of Medicine, 2010). A committee was formed and a 2-year initiative on the future of Nursing was established. The 2010 IOM report on the Future of Nursing was created by the above mentioned committee and outlined changes for the future of nursing including nursing practices, education and leadership. One of the recommendations of this report is that nurses should complete higher levels
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Health care providers may use placebos intentionally or unintentionally. When used intentionally, as in giving a sugar pill for pain or prescribing oral vitamins for fatigue, an element of deception is involved. The doctor does not believe the treatment is effective for the condition but believes it will be helpful for the patient because of the patient’s belief in the doctor’s prescription. This is an ethically compromised position regardless of the possible benefit to be derived and usually is
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Assignment: Evolving Practice of Nursing and Patient Care Delivery Models The Evolution of Nursing Practice To my colleagues, the health care system has begun a decade of transitions that, for the nursing profession, promise to change the practice of nurses, expand current nursing roles and create new ones, and provide many opportunities for nurses to participate in shaping the future delivery system. With the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, care delivery and financing systems are undergoing
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Public Health Preparedness Mary Anderson Strayer University Health Policy and Law Basics Professor Dorothy Moore December 15, 2013 Abstract Healthcare is one of the top social and economic problems in America today. The United States is considered by most to be the greatest country to ever grace the face of the planet. It has the largest military, the largest economy, freedom of speech and religion, and one of the first successful democracies and of course, the American
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Critical Appraisal #1 of Scott, Hofmeister, Rogness, and Rogers Article The University of Texas at Arlington College of Nursing Shirley McKenzie-Pace In partial fulfillment of the requirements for N5301 Research in Nursing Susan K. Grove, PhD, RN, ANP-BC, GNP-BC July 12, 2014 Critical Appraisal #1 Theoretical Framework The study framework is not clearly identified; however, a tentative theory is proposed since a tentative theory “has had minimal exposure to critique by the discipline
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Critical Care Nurses is an organization created to promote quality and safety in a critical care setting along with promoting the latest evidence-based practice in critical care. The association offers many articles for health care providers to utilize to ensure safe and quality care to patients. For example, the AACN provides articles that involve encouraging bedside report, implementing mock codes into effect to prepare the staff in the event of a real emergency, safe transport of an ICU patient while
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1. he impact of the IOM report on nursing education. 2. The impact of the IOM report on nursing practice, particularly in primary care, and how you would change your practice to meet the goals of the IOM report. 3. The impact of the IOM report on the nurse’s role as a leade The impact of iom report on nursing In 2011, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) collaborated with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to publish The Future of Nursing: Leading Changes, Advancing Health. With the increasing
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