decisions in recovery, and centralizes partnership with his family. With reference to nursing diagnosis’ in the family domain, ‘interrupted family processes’ is typically chosen when “a usually supportive family is experiencing stressful events that challenge its previously effective functioning” (Austin & Boyd, 2010, p.
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Resource Links Wounded Warrior Resource Center The Wounded Warrior Resource Center Web site (WWRC) is a Department of Defense Web site which provides wounded Service Members, their families, and caregivers with information they need on military facilities, health care services, and benefits. It supports access to the Wounded Warrior Resource Call Center and trained specialists who are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by phone at 1-800-342-9647 or by e-mail at wwrc@militaryonesource.com
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This article examines Appalachian folk medicine and considers the importance of utilizing an integrative theory, the Health Belief Model, to understand the use of alternative medicine in the United States. The author examines the need for social workers and other health care providers to further assess the roles of folk medicine in an Appalachian client population. The author creates linkages among the limited writings in the literature regarding folk medical practices of Appalachians and also draws
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divided into four sub-groups: needs, interaction, outcome and caring (Meleis, 2012). Some of the issues grand theorists concentrate on include the development of the patient to nurse relationship, a patient’s ability to adapt to environmental challenges, and self care deficits (Smith & Parker, 2010). To provide more insight into the specifics of grand theory, 4 theorists were chosen to explore and compare their educational backgrounds, philosophy of nursing, definition of nursing, and the
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organizations require a stable, highly trained and fully engaged nursing staff to provide effective levels of patient care. The financial cost of losing a single nurse has been calculated to equal about twice the nurse’s annual salaryi. The average hospital is estimated to lose about $300,000 per year for each percentage increase in annual nurse turnoverii. Losing these critical employees negatively impacts the bottom line of healthcare organizations in a variety of ways including: Decreased quality
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Health Informatics and Healthcare Introduction Health informatics as defined by Shi and Singh 2015, as the application of information science to improve efficiency, accuracy, reliability of healthcare service, and inclusion of healthcare delivery. Healthcare informatics is becoming more complex than any other time in recent memory, the foundation needed to bolster device utilization and interoperability is more expanded, and there is even a more extensive scope of utilization
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Enterprise Archive St. Mary’s Hospital | Athens, GA Long-Standing Partner CUSTOMER PROFILE • St. Mary’s Hospital, located in Athens, GA, is a non-profit Catholic system whose mission is to be a compassionate healing presence in their community • St. Mary’s is a 199-bed facility that performs about 100,000 imaging procedures per year CUSTOMER CHALLENGES • Improve critical results delivery across the enterprise • Eliminate workflow challenges and decrease report turnaround
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day to day nursing functions as a secondary skill, some nurses center their practice on psychology. These nurses work as psychiatric nurses in mental institutions to care for the mentally ill patients (Ciccarelli & Meyer, 2006). Some also work in hospitals, drug treatment facilities, and home health agencies as case managers providing counseling and crisis intervention and teaching the patients strategies for managing their mental and emotional health issues. Nurses always apply psychology when providing
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to Bryson (2013), spirituality is an inherent predisposition toward the search for meaning or value in life. Spirituality may mean different things to different people. The Joint Commission, the governing body that provides accreditation to hospitals, requires a spiritual assessment to be performed as part of the overall assessment of patients. The goal is determine if a more comprehensive assessment is needed, and whether the patient’s spiritual view has the potential to affect health outcomes
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within the communities have had their independence and freedom stolen by overpowering figures of authority. Although the setting of the two institutions is contradictory in various ways; the warm, bricked and neat academy against the blinding white hospital walls; the oppression and rigidity between the two is evident. Both pieces introduce an
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