Dana Agovino WGU A. Explain the difference between a regulatory agency and a professional nursing organization as it pertains to your professional nursing practice. A regulatory agency would best be described using the example of the State Board of Nursing, which regulates the standards of nursing practice by providing policies or laws to ensure safe practice within a scope. The State Board of Nursing provides and enforces these policies to protect society from unsafe practice and unqualified
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problems before they happen, analyze, create a plan of action, implement risk reduction and retention plans, and operational risks through risk avoidance. Risk management process includes ongoing decision making, protect financial, human, and tangible assets of the nursing home facility. Risk management addresses issues that may causes problem within the organization by collaborating with stakeholder that builds strong leadership among all stakeholders. In nursing home facilities risk management focuses
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assignment is to explore a needs orientated approach to care planning. Establishing the needs and support required by patients, this is then to be delivered by members of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT), on a holistic level. The relationship between the nursing process in conjunction with the nursing model of Roper, Logan and Tierney (RLT) Activities of living (AL’s) will be looked at in detail, exploring what a problem solving approach and nursing models are with discussions of the strengths and limitations
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to decide patient needs, for a smooth move from one level of care to another (Hunt 1996) and is the process through which patient’s needs are identified and plans are written, facilitating continuity of health care (Jackson 1994). According to the department of health (2000) discharge planning illustrates well, the role of the nurse within the inter-professional team the balance between goals set, care delivered and evaluation of care from a nurse and team perspective. Nurse involvement is considered
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Mental Health Interview Eben Ezer Lutheran Care Center This week my clinical rotation was at Eben Ezer Lutheran Care center with my medications and psychosocial interview. In this clinical rotation, I had the opportunity to gain more knowledge on different medications and interview a patient with a psychosocial mental illness. The neighbor that I had the privilege of interviewing was M.M. She is a 79-year-old female with dipolar disorder and mild depression. M.M is an extraordinary neighbor with
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Secondary and Tertiary Prevention in Health Promotion Health promotion is the ability of all health care professionals to motivate individuals to increase control over a person’s health using various social and environmental factors (World Health Organization, 2011). The idea of health promotion is what fuels the nursing profession to be what it is today. It helps to guide how patients are taken care of, how assessments are done and the health education that it is provided to the community and patients
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Organizational Change Plan -Part 1 Kristine Vyers HCS/587 August 20, 2013 Organizational Change Plan -Part 1 Abstract Rapidly changing patient care environments result in significant ramifications for nursing team members caring for patients. These recent changes have refocused the current workflow views back onto inter-disciplinary teams, and collaborative working environments, and lead to a reexamination of nursing roles in the Long-Term Acute Care (LTAC) arena. Using action
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How Theory Affects Education: A Microscope Perspective Elizabeth Wiedman Chamberlain College of Nursing NR 501: Theoretical Basis of Advanced Nursing Practice Summer Semester 2011 How Theory Affects Education: A Microscope Perspective Nursing is a topic that covers a great deal of ground. It takes years to gain experience in nursing. The study of nursing theories helps one to take advantage of the experiences of others. The best way to examine something is under a microscope because it focuses
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Strategic Planning and the Nursing Process Paper Strategic Planning and the Nursing Process Paper HCS/482 Health Care Informatics November 25, 2014 Strategic Planning and the Nursing Process Healthcare informatics is an idiom that refers to the use of information technology in the healthcare field. Several software applications are used in healthcare informatics mostly used are computers. The wide-ranging uses of healthcare informatics include but are not limited
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Billy Mishak N491 Concepts and Theories in Nursing Module 2 9/30/2014 Nightingale’s Visit Florence Nightingale’s core belief was in hygiene and to her the central element of healthcare (Parker & Smith, 2010, p45). Florence being a staunch proponent of the healing properties environmental cleanliness provided and her belief in nursing as her calling from God, “ The first thought that I can remember, and the last, was nursing work..” (Parker & Smith, 2010, 36), so few things inhibited
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