Improving Wound and Pressure Area Care in a Nursing Home Improving Wound and Pressure Area Care in a Nursing Home Introduction In Sprakes and Tyrer’s (2010) research article entitled “Improving Wound and Pressure Area Care in a Nursing Home”‚ the effectiveness of wound and pressure ulcer management was examined. The rate of wounds and pressure ulcers in a nursing home is often an indicator of the quality of care received as these injuries can lead to illness and a decreased quality of life
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Mental illness is defined as any of various conditions characterized by impairment of an individual’s normal cognitive‚ emotional‚ or behavioral functioning‚ and caused by social‚ psychological‚ biochemical‚ genetic‚ or other factors‚ such as infection or head trauma. Within the different mental illnesses there are four groups of emotionally disturbed people. It is believed that a majority of the people that negotiators have to deal with have mental illnesses or are emotionally disturbed. Fuselier
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goal. I graduated from Highline Community College last year with honor degree. Even though I already obtained my AA degree in Pre-Nursing‚ gaining my knowledge in the medical field is not enough for me. I want to gain more clinical patient experience and help people with all my heart. In order to strengthen my clinical experience‚ I also took the CNA class at Blossom Nursing Assistant Training School while studying at HCC and received the CNA license. Currently‚ I’m working at Stafford Suites Senior
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ANA Largely understood‚ ethics consist of principles‚ which guide the behavior of entities‚ groups or professions (Wilkins 2007). Nurses as professionals make autonomous decisions on how they will care for patients. But they are still held accountable to their profession as a whole as regards these autonomous decisions. A nurse’s deportment has been vastly scrutinized from the start. The famous Florence Nightingale pledge in 1893 included the vow to “abstain from anything deleterious and mischievous…
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The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC‚ 2008) highlight that the care of patients must be a priority and to treat them as individuals. In order to achieve this nurses must use a systematic technique known as the nursing process when planning and delivering care. It originated in the USA and was introduced the UK in the 1970’s in an attempt to move nursing away from traditional and task oriented care‚ to more evidence based and holistic approach to care (Castledine‚ 2011). It was clearly defined in
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The Balanced Scorecard: Omnicare Pharmacy Omnicare Pharmacy is a provider of pharmaceutical care to long-term nursing homes and facilities. The services are focused on the residents we serve and improving their quality of life‚ along with reducing the cost of the pharmacy bill. As a result‚ our vision as a pharmacy provider is to provide the right drug‚ right dose‚ and to the right patient (Omnicare 2010). In order to achieve the vision we have set for ourselves we need
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Nurse Educator The AACN Preferred Vision of the Professoriate in Baccalaureate and Graduate Nursing Programs (2008) states that “courses in the nursing program will be taught by faculty with graduate-level academic preparation and advanced expertise in the areas of content they teach.” There is national recognition‚ however‚ of the growing shortage of nursing educators to fill faculty and other educator roles within the healthcare delivery system. Master’s programs that prepare graduates for nurse
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situations arise and the context of practice changes. DESCRIPTION It is a Sunday morning; I was on duty as an on call manager for the day. I have been called by a junior nurse from maternity ward to set a peripheral line for her patient under her care. As a junior nurse she is not confident to set a line by looking at patient condition that is very weak. Without delaying‚ I went to visit that particular patient to help my nurse. This patient is a 40 years old Malay lady‚ who had done Total Abdominal
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Assessment Tool Analysis NUR/440 Week 3 January 1‚ 2014 Assessment is a vital aspect of nursing care. Assessment is the first phase of the nursing process. A thorough assessment involves gathering information and data about and related to the patient. The data that is collected includes physiological‚ psychological‚ environmental‚ sociocultural‚ economical‚ spiritual‚ and developmental history of the patient. Data may be objective or subjective. Objective data refers to the measurable
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Post Modernism (1965-present): 1. responses to modernism‚ especially refusals of some of its totalizing premises and effects‚ and of its implicit or explicit distinction between ’high’ culture and commonly lived life 2. responses to such things as a world lived under nuclear threat and threat to the geosphere‚ to a world of faster communication‚ mass mediated reality‚ greater diversity of cultures and mores and a consequent pluralism 3. acknowledgments of and in some senses struggles
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