Journal of Intensive Care Medicine http://jic.sagepub.com/ The Impact of a Simple, Low-cost Oral Care Protocol on Ventilator-associated Pneumonia Rates in a Surgical Intensive Care Unit Carrie S. Sona, Jeanne E. Zack, Marilyn E. Schallom, Maryellen McSweeney, Kathleen McMullen, James Thomas, Craig M. Coopersmith, Walter A. Boyle, Timothy G. Buchman, John E. Mazuski and Douglas J. E. Schuerer J Intensive Care Med 2009 24: 54 originally published online 17 November 2008 DOI: 10.1177/0885066608326972
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The State of Oregon’s Nursing Schools and the US Nursing Shortage Analysis by Bridget Nickerson Introduction * The United States has been aware of an impending shortage in the qualified nursing staff of US hospitals since the late 1990’s. Oregon actively began addressing the problem in the early 2000’s. The state of Oregon has Sixteen Associate degree programs for Registered Nurses, and six baccalaureate degree programs (offered at 10 universities). There are currently four universities
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all, accountants accurately prepare company’s financial statements, including balance sheet, income statement, and the statement of cash flow. They also play an important role in financial analysis such as preparing and analyzing multiple-period quality trend report as well as long-range performance report so as to better know
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university demonstrating evidence of effectiveness of teaching, research, professional activities, and community contributions. Boyer (1990) defines scholarship as “those actives that systematically advance the teaching and practice of nursing through rigorous inquiry that is significant to the profession is creative; can be documented; can be replicated or elaborated and can be peer-reviewed through various methods” (p. 129). Colleges and universities across the nation are striving
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their age and gender and healthcare professionals now more commonly use the term percentile which uses a percentage of the overall BMI. The categories are set out are overweight being over the 85th percentile and obese being over 95th percentile. Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) have set out a code of conduct on how to maintain confidentiality within a healthcare setting and state that we must treat information about patients and clients as confidential and use it only for the purpose in which
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SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH Cover sheet for Assignment 1 Student Surname__Ullman_________ Student First Name___Kiri_______________ Student Number _____16156957__________________________________________ Unit Name _____Healthcare Systems in Australia_______________________________ Assignment ____SWOT Analysis and Report__________________________________ Unit Coordinator__Caroline Yates__________________________________________ Date Due __10/04/2015____________________________________________________
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Holistic care - Long Term Conditions Assignment. Throughout this paper I will analyse the epidemiological data of my area of clinical practice; Slough. I will create a health profile with briefly analyses different areas of variation within the community including deprivation, housing and the structure of the population focussing on the different nationalities that reside within Slough. Following this I will briefly discuss the various long-term conditions that are prevalent within this area
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Introduction In our society, it is important to continuously improve the quality care patient’s receive. We must also improve our safety measures because it vital for the patient and health care professionals. As health care professionals, we should advocate for our patients and do everything to further prevent harm. The aim of this paper is to address the prevalence of catheter-related bloodstream infections in our hemodialysis clinic and to implement measures to reduce or prevent these infections
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two parts, the first part will highlight patient profile, assessment and discharge care planning with evidence based rationale using a framework based on Roper- Logan-Tierney (2000) model of nursing which involve giving nursing care holistically by using 12 activities of living (AL) and also incorporate nursing process to carry out care plan in this essay, which are maintaining a safe environment, communicating, breathing, eating and drinking, eliminating, personal cleansing and dressing, controlling
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Saint Jude Research Hospital for Children Saint Jude’s Children’s Hospital is one of the largest, fastest growing and most technologically advanced hospitals in the world. They are committed to finding cures for childhood cancers and other catastrophic diseases. They were founded in 1962 by actor Danny Thomas. It’s National Fund Raising campaign is the primary source of funds, along with federal grant money. The mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is to advance cures,
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