Community Resources and Hospital Avoidance Programs Mrs Field and her transition home must be carefully planned and implemented through a restorative healthcare model to ensure her health and wellbeing, in addition, to prevent hospital re-admission. To ensure Mrs Fields health and wellbeing, different community resources may prove beneficial in her transition, coherently working towards hospital avoidance through health promotion and strategies. Home-Delivered Meals As revealed prior, Mrs Field
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Good insight on your strategies for improvements. I did not pick up that the interviewer was not wearing a name badge. In the 2008 research summary “An Evidence-Based Approach to Creating a New Nursing Dress Code”, cited eighty percent of patients would “like to identify their RN by a large print” of their title “RN” on name badges (Windel, 2008). The research was conducted in a hospital unit in which patients were surveyed in regards to their professional appearance. We don’t often think of name
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as the demands become more complex. In todays working environment nurses are required to have certain skills in order to provide a quality care. With the BSN degree a nurse acquires certain skills that a nurse associate degree wouldn’t have. The BSN degree includes critical-thinking, humanistic, communication, leadership skills, and other courses on community health that are not included in the diploma of an associate–degree. Nurses can use their leader-ship
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share is when I was an LVN in 2006 at a long term, acute care setting. The patient was a 54-year-old male recuperating from a CABG, was gaining momentum and doing well. The patients discharge plan was home with home health care. I was this patients nurse since the start of his admission and had a good rapport with patient and spouse. The patient became anemic and H&H declined, patient required a blood transfusion, patient and family refused transfusion
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Associate degree nurses, (ADN), and baccalaureate degree (BSN), nurses are prepared to be skillful and efficient in the clinical atmosphere. They both have the responsibility of being registered and licensed in their state with the Board of nursing in order to practice. (ADN) are prepared with a skill set and technical background and (BSN) are prepared for teaching and clinical leadership roles. (BSN) have learned to assess and implement practice based on evidence learned from research. The American
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nursing philosophy off the Modeling and Role Modeling Theory and I based mine on the Self-Care Theory, there are many similarities. The Self-Care Theory was developed by Dorothy Orem to teach patients how to care for themselves once they reached a nurse (Alligood, 2014). As you stated, the Modeling and Role Modeling Theory is focused on patient-centered care. Both theories focus on the patient's control of their health.
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When first starting my shift, I assisted my nurse preceptor in calling back patients that had been scheduled for a surgical procedure. When we called the patient back, we first made sure we identified the patient by asking them their name, date of birth, and last four digits of their social. We also made sure to ask the patient exactly what procedure they were there for. Thereafter, I began by taking an inventory of the patient’s belongings. Then, my nurse preceptor asked the patients a series of questions
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others. The most significant event that allowed me to learn these lessons occurred on my day on labour and delivery. I was about to mix penicillin for a patient and the charge nurse was observing me and asking about how I would do it to get the correct dose. I miscalculated how to get the correct dose and the charge nurse seemed to get angry and said, “You are in third year, you should know this!”. Then she left the med room. My immediate reaction was to cry as I felt so many emotions in that moment
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Quantitative Research Article Critical Appraisal Overview The article by Eyikara and Baykara (2018) titled Effect of Simulation on the Ability of First Year Nursing Students to Learn Vital Signs focuses on the influence simulation has on first-year nursing students' ability to learn vital signs (Eyikara & Baykara, 2018, pg. 101). I chose this article because I recently shadowed a former co-worker of mine who is now a college professor. I was able to observe students during simulation exercises,
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The nurses were faced with many problems such as a lack of supplies, clean water, limited space and the constant flow of wounded, sick or dead soldiers. While people flooded in, nurses were forced to work fast and for long periods of time. The nurses were suffering from exhaustion but would continue to clean, bandage, comfort and warm soldiers to the best of their ability with their limits. Matron Grace Wilson described conditions to be “to awful for words”. Throughout this war all nurses showed
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