Relationship Between Nursing Documentation and Patients’ Mortality Emily Bosco Nursing 134 Mrs. Simmons/ Dr. Gusiti November 2, 2013 Relationship Between Nursing Documentation and Patients’ Mortality For the first time, the way a nurse documents have been linked to a patient’s mortality. The title of this article is called the Relationship Between Nursing Documentation and Patients’ Mortality. The focus of this study is to identity the association with nurse’s optional documentation and
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health care professionals, economic downfalls on the health care system, evolving technology, etc. In an effort to support and promote the future of nursing and advancement in health care, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) took on a 2 year initiative that consisted of creating a report, “The future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health”, that would provide recommendations for undertaking changes to assist in building an affordable health care system
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4. Describe management of myocardial infarction. 5. Discuss patient teaching of myocardial infarction. Definition Myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, is an irreversible necrosis of the heart muscle secondary to prolonged ischemia. This usually results from an imbalance in oxygen supply and demand, which is most often caused by plaque rupture with thrombus formation in a coronary vessel, resulting in an acute reduction of blood supply to a portion of the myocardium. (Zafari
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needs to make annual efficiencies of around 4% per year in order to be able to continue providing the current level of healthcare services and cope with the annual increase in demand (Roberts 2012). The structures and processes for delivery of health care in England have been evolving continuously in
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way it is disbursed needs to change to fit the needs of an aging population. As the face of healthcare changes, nurses must change and become more involved in all aspects of patient care. Nurses must step out of the shadows and assume a leadership role and shape policies that affect patient care. The Institute of Medicine report” The Future of Nursing” researched nursing education, practice and leadership and made recommendations on how to elevate nurses to their full potential. Changes need to occur
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Advocating for mandated nurse-to-patient ratios is an easy choice because it saves lives. The nursing profession is founded on caring for others, providing and promoting the health, safety, and well-being of those in need and the best way to do that is with safe nurse-to-patient staffing. This mandate is a win-win for patients, staff, and facility. Patients get best care, staff has job satisfaction, and facility gets decrease costs from benefits that better health care and staff satisfaction will produce
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Health Care Coordination Models: Benefits and Challenges Traci L French Salem International University Abstract: Care coordination refers to several forms of patient care management that is patient- rather than provider-focused and has the end goal of the “Triple Aim”-improved patient experience, improved population health and decreased per capita costs. These goals are achieved by developing healthcare models which promote collaborative care between providers, increase communication between
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discussions, discoveries and cross disciplinary thinking. The IOM asks and answers the nation’s most pressing questions about health and health care (Institute of Medicine, 2010). One of the questions that commonly arises is, what is the nurses’ position and responsibility to ensure the ability to carry out the increasing demand for quality health care? Health care is ever changing. With advanced technology and new research, nurses must have the ability to adjust to frequent change and often overcome
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pneumonia or lung gangrene. Both lung abscess and necrotizing pneumonia are manifestations of a similar pathologic process. Failure to recognize and treat lung abscess is associated with poor clinical outcome. In the 1920s, approximately one third of patients with lung abscess died; Dr David Smith postulated that aspiration of oral bacteria was the mechanism of infection. He observed that the bacteria found in the walls of the lung abscesses at autopsy resembled the bacteria noted in the gingival crevice
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for the terminally ill in her own home. This gave the patient a chance and a place to die with dignity in a home setting. This opened the idea a having Care Centers or Housing facilities within a hospice organization. It is shown that there are an estimated total of 3,200 different hospice programs in the United States. With the philosophy going unchanged, the services provided now a days has definitely become more beneficial for the patient, their family and the community. Some people tend to
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