Nursing and Patient Care Delivery Tara Lee Grand Canyon University: Trends and Issues in Today’s Health Care July 1, 2012 Dear Nurses, Currently, health care systems are undergoing a complete transformation to help better accommodate patients by providing them with affordable high quality care. These transformations are a direct result of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA), which includes several provisions to intertwine cost effective care with quality
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has been evolving ever since. As the needs of patients have changed so has the need for educating nurses. Over the last decade multiple organizations including the Institute of Medicine and the American Organization of Nurse Executives have come to the conclusion that nurses with higher degree levels provide more thorough care. Research has shown that magnet hospitals with highly educated nurses not only have a lower mortality within the acute care setting but also thirty days post. A survey conducted
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Minimizing errors with point-of-care glucose testing Katie Guy Harper College Minimizing errors with point-of-care glucose testing Evidence based practice is an integrated approach of research and clinical trial and error for the promotion of health. Instead of basing practice on what previous health care providers have used, this method is based on scientific evidence. In the health care field, this is being used more often with the accelerating discovery of new technology for treatments and
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Conditions of Participation (CoP). With that being said, it is structured differently than the acute hospital CoP. With some of the requirements for the Critical Access Hospital certification that will include having not more than a 25 inpatient bed, while maintaining an annual average length of stay of no more than 96 hours for an acute inpatient care, while offering a 24 hour and 7 day a week emergency care. That being stated they are in a rural area, at least 35 miles away from any other hospital
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SIMMONS COLLEGE GRADUATE PROGRAM IN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE NURSING Theory and Practice: Primary Health Care Nursing I The Health History Biographical Information Full Name: | | | Address: | | | Birthdate: | | | Sex: | | | Race: | | | Marital Status: | | | Next of kin I contact person: | | | Employer I job description: | | | | Health Care Profile Usual source of health care (provider/facility): | | Medications (Prescription and OTC): | | Allergies
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2008 guidelines for early identification and management of sepsis in adults.1 The guidelines highlight the importance of screening every potentially infected patient for sepsis and providing best-practice interventions for managing sepsis, severe sepsis, and septic shock. This article provides an overview of care for the adult patient with sepsis, focusing on sepsis identification and the first 6 hours of goal-directed treatment according to current guidelines. Defining sepsis Sepsis is the
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is NHS England. It is a self-governing organization, with close contact to the government. Its main responsibility is to prioritize and set direction of the NHS to improve health care services for people of England. The NHS establishes enabling environment for health care services and staff to ensure highest quality of care through effective utilization of available resources with best outcomes for individuals within communities and society for now and future generations. NHS is structured into different
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However, this effect was only seen within the first 2 weeks after starting treatment. For patients with symptoms of less than 14 days or over 28 days, no differences in improvement were found between the manipulation and control groups for any follow up times. The meta-analysis also showed statistically significant short-term effects of spinal
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about to explode. Those born in the baby boom era following the end of World War II, between the years of 1946 and 1964 are just hitting the retirement age. We can expect to see our aging population grow and challenge our local health care facilities and the health care market in general over the next few years. Although the U.S. Census Bureau population estimates are not available for 2011 as of yet for our community, we can see on the quick facts chart below where we stood in 2010. People Quick
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The job for the RN in the preoperative setting is one of an educator, patient advocate, and a promoter of health and safety for the patient. They will collect data from the patient to get an understanding of their medical history. The RN will also perform an assessment and make sure patient is stable for surgery before being transferred to the surgical unit. She will look at all lab values for the patient and make sure that the surgical checklist has been filled out and signed. The RN
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