Pneumonia Care and the Nursing Home: A qualitative Research Study of resident and family member perspective. Jaya George Introduction to Nursing Research NRS-433 V Bazydlo, Nora June 06, 2011 Pneumonia Care and the Nursing Home: A qualitative Research Study of resident and family member perspective. Introduction. Pneumonia care and the nursing home: a qualitative descriptive study of resident and family member perspectives. Soo Chan Carusone,1 Mark Loeb,1,2 and Lynne Lohfeld1,3 1Department
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In nursing, many legal and ethical decisions must be made as part of the profession. There are many tools that nurses can use including the America Nursing Association (ANA) Code of Ethics. Nursing staff should listen to patient’s personal and societal values, and know the legal aspects and responsibilities that relate to this profession. In the first case study, a family has had a tragedy where the mother has had a hemorrhagic stroke, and her outcome looks bleak. As a nurse, first the first responsibility
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Concept of Care from a Nursing Perspective Student’s Name Institution’s Name Concept of Care from a Nursing Perspective Care is a universal concept that applies primarily to health. From time immemorial, women have been considered as the primary caregivers in family units. Women always have been responsible for the well-being of the family and the community. If a member of the family or the community fell ill, the women were the only ones tasked with the responsibility of caring
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Running Head: FAMILY HEALTH ASSESSMENT Family Health Assessment Grand Canyon University NRS 429 15 March 2009 Instructor - Catherine Tiwald RN MSN WHNP-BC Family Health Assessment Gordon’s Functional Health Pattern assessment was developed from the belief that all human beings have in common 11 functional health patterns that contribute to their health, quality of life and achievement of human potential. By examining functional patterns, nurses can more accurately determine and diagnose
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Family Nursing Diagnosis Susan Kenney, RN NUR/405 June 9, 2014 Beth Edwards, MSN, FNP-BC Family assessment, roles and structure The family I have been working with consists of three sisters who live in a house owned by the eldest of the three, C.H. C.H. is a 64 year old Caucasian female who was born with cerebral palsy and mental retardation. She has never been able to walk, and her mentation never progressed past the age of an approximately 4 year old child. She lived at home with her
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BSHS 325 In our lives individuals go through different situations, and as they get older they may experience many developmental changes. These changes can include going from working into retirement, living arrangements, health care needs, as well as relationships between family members and peers. For many individuals this is the time where they should be able to sit back and relax after years of working and living a stressful life. However they can still face some challenges. Some individuals
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that determine nursing practice. Base on your clinical experience, explain the meaning of the following: 2.1 Nursing as a practice- oriented discipline Nursing as practice oriented discipline is the ability of the nurse to articulate the significance of what they do as an essential thread of contemporary health care provision. The main essence of practice oriented discipline is the application of the theories on your activities of daily living. Nursing exist to provide nursing care for clients
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Communication in health care is difficult to say the least. Within a nursing home there are different ages ranges, socioeconomic levels, literacy and cultures. As an Administrator of a local nursing home this issue is known first hand. The organization has just received notification that the organization is being purchased by a national group. Because of the new policies, many of the residents will be displaced. Some of the residents have difficulty communicating, have no family in the local area
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company success. This topic has been researched and discussed for many years before us and is still current in health care and in general. As I was preparing for this week learning adventure, I can say that, besides our chapters in textbooks, I read so many different articles, but for this paper I have chosen the article written by Maier- Lorentz Transcultural nursing: Its importance in nursing practice. I found this article easy to understand and fallow through and I agree with many things listed and
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Nursing Theorist Grid Use grid below to complete the Week 4-Nursing Theorists assignment. Please see the “Nursing Theorists’ Grading Criteria” document, located on the Materials page of the student Web site. Name: Steve Early Theorist Selected: Sr. Callista Roy Description of Theory: Sister Callista Roy believed that “Humans are bio-psycho-social beings existing within an environment. Needs are created within interrelated adaptive modes: physiological
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