Running head: NURSING SENSITIVE INDICATORS 1 RTT1 Task 1 Krista Vandiver, RN, CEN Western Governors University NURSING SENSITIVE INDICATORS Nursing-Sensitive Indicators According to the American Nurses Association, nursing-sensitive indicators “reflect the structure, process and outcomes of nursing care.” ("Nursing Sensitive Indicators," 2015) Understanding the indicators is an important piece of nursing, not only to assist the patient, but the patients loved ones as well, to ensure quality
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Baccalaureate Prepared Nurses “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” Nelson Mandela The profession of nursing has always been an evolving and demanding job. With each year the responsibilities of nurses grow and the demands for higher education increases. There are several ways to obtain a nursing license in the United States: a diploma program, associates program, and a baccalaureate degree. Even though the associate degree is a popular route to
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Family Health Nursing and a Healthy Environment Family health nursing provides the “conceptual foundations of family nursing across the life span” (Garwick, 2002, p. 284). “The Family Health Nurse (FHN) concept was developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Europe in order to provide a means to strengthen family and community-oriented health services” (West and Macduff, 2006). WHO defines family health nursing as presenting a “key contribution within a multi-disciplinary team of health
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Spirituality: The Effect on Holistic Patient Care in Nursing Emily Engel, Kristy Ensley, Danielle Freeman, Sarah Gomez, Danica Graafstra, Nataliya James Skagit Valley College The United States is diversified in many ways including freedom of religion and spiritual practices. Spirituality does not only apply to practices held sacred within the religion but also how many people survive and cope with health and illness. Holistic nursing care embraces all that encompasses a person, including
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people to function in everyday life. Resident abuse in nursing homes facility or home care facility is a problem all over the world, but has become less of a concern in America, because the Department of Health Services become very strict on rules and regulation for nursing home and home care. This is for the protection of elderly and to provide the best care for them and have a quality of living. Nursing homes provide best patient care and services for elder patients and well being of
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W5 Application: Patient Safety Risks Nursing Home Setting This paper will focus on geriatric patients group with increased fall risk at nursing homes. A nursing home is chosen by as the selected healthcare setting. Nursing homes are not only for geriatric population, but for anyone who requires 24-hours care. Nursing homes focus their services for people who cannot be cared at home. Most nursing homes have nursing aides and skilled nurses on hand 24 hours a day. Many of them are set up like a hospital
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Health systems around the world suffer from a critical shortage of qualified nurses along with alarming turnover rates, thus impacting on patient outcomes, nursing workforce and performance of healthcare services (Tourangeau & Cranley, 2006; El-Jardali, Dimassi, Dumit, Jamal & Mouro, 2009). High employee turnover is generally associated with negative consequences for health organizations that generate a significant financial cost due to the loss of qualified personnel and the cost of attracting and
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Healing Hospitals: A Daring Paradigm Anna Hernandez Grand Canyon University Spirituality in Health Care HLT-310V Richard Hudock July 27, 2014 Healing Hospitals: A Daring Paradigm Spirituality and religions, effects on health has become an increasing interest to scientist since the 1980’s. According to Smith (2006), spirituality has gained such a momentum that there are multiple articles and several textbooks on spirituality since the year of 1989. The consensus is developing that spirituality
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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
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nurses committed to a culture of care and healing. I realized that I happen to work at one of each type of hospital. To understand the concept of a healing hospital, and why it is important, I will first discuss the traditional hospital environment. One of the hospitals I work in is a county run facility, low on budget, long on patients. The nurses, physicians and staff are wonderful and care for their patients as much as any. However, the hospital is old and noisy. The nursing stations are overflowing
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