Significance Of Nursing In The Implementation Of Health Care Reform Abstract The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provides for new professional roles and educational opportunities in nursing. As the number of insured Americans increases, so will patient numbers. Increased insureds will increase demands for nursing care as this legislation is fully enacted. The ways
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appropriate time the patient was taken to surgery and care transitioned into the care of the OR nurse, surgeon and the OR staff. Upon completion of the surgery the patient was transferred from the care of the surgeon and OR nurse to post-operative nursing care. She was then transferred to the care of the recovery nurse. At the point that the patient arrived in recovery the patient’s mother could not be located. Standard procedures are such that the recovery nurse, “pages” or calls for the recovering
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08 Fall 08 Fall Journal Article Review Kim Watson Chamberlain College of Nursing NR 305 Health Assessment Professor J. Deibel Spring B 2014 Journal Article Review Introduction ‘A guide to taking a patient’s history’ is an article published in the nursing standard Journal, volume 22, issue 13, dated December 5, 2007, written by Hillary Lloyd and Steven Craig. In this article, Lloyd and Craig describe the practice of obtaining a patient history in a systematic way
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supply and demand is a powerful tool in predicting future behavior. Supply and demand is two key concepts for health care. Problem Baby Boomers make up about 78 million Americans. According to Sanderson (2010) “they account for 90% of nursing homes, 38% of emergency medical responses, 34% of prescription, 35% of hospital stays, and 26% of physician office visits” (p. 2). The Baby Boomers will need health care so the demand for employees will continue to increase over the next decade and beyond (Gigane
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vision and mission focus on all stakeholders in the health care community and their role in either delivering or receiving excellence in care. The services offered at Nightingale are comprehensive and include: General Medicine; Critical Care; Emergency; Oncology; Cardiology; Telemetry; Vascular; Neuroscience; Orthopedics; Imaging; Obstetrics; Nursery; Endoscopy and Surgical Services. The administration pledge to the community the core values of Community and Teamwork, as well as Accountability
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Professional Nursing Organization and Certification: Guidelines Purpose The purpose of this assignment is to investigate a professional nursing organization that offers certification in an area of clinical or nonclinical expertise. You are to select a professional nursing organization and determine if it offers a certification that will be of benefit to you in your current position or a future position to which you aspire. The organization and certification may be in either a clinical or nonclinical
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will prevent similar incidents from happening again. RCA is best done as soon as an adverse event has happened (Jacob, 2010). The first step in the RCA is to identify what had happened (Jacob, 2010). In the scenario, Mr. B was admitted to the Emergency Room (ER) after a fall. During the treatment, Mr. B was given diazepam intravenous push (IVP) to relax his muscles for examination and hydromorphone IVP to decrease pain during the assessment. The first dose of both medications did not seem to
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Pay Attention or Pay a Lawyer All jobs require alertness and to be constantly on watch while working. One job that requires these qualities more than most jobs would be nursing. Neonatal nursing, specifically, has had more and more cases rise daily revolving around nurses not being alert or focused while working. In general, no matter what the job is there will always be expectations that should be reached and exceeded while working, therefore not being alert can result in serious altercations
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I feel I would make an excellent addition to the Emergency room staff because I thrive on activity when working. I work well under pressure and I am in my element helping people however I am able as well as trying to keep things organized. The ER offers a wide variety of teaching, learning, hands on and
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IOM Competencies Case Study Tiffany Jill September, 28 2013 NUR 310 Nursing Leadership and Management IOM Competencies Case Study Nurses who work night shift at hospitals are often faced with the dilemma of whether or not to call a physician for advice during the night. Fear of having to deal with an unpleasant doctor can be intimidating, as the physician is frequently asleep when being called. Failure to communicate has been linked to poor quality and patient errors, therefore nurses
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