statistic is that as many as one in four elderly patients discharged from hospital will experience an adverse health event within thirty days of hospital discharge. These events may have serious outcomes‚ which may include a need for care in an emergency department‚ readmission to hospital‚ admission to a nursing
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Case Study Method Evaluation Unfortunately‚ case studies tend to be highly subjective as they collect detailed qualitative data and it is difficult to generalize results to a large population. This therefore makes them subjective as they are harder to analyse as you need to look for general themes and interpretation within the information gathered despite them providing rich‚ in-depth data which give more detailed information than obtained through methods such as experiments. Case studies may also
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THE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION PROCESS A. SUPERVISORS SHOULD: 1. Translate organizational goals into individual job objectives and requirements. 2. Communicate their expectations regarding staff performance. 3. Provide feedback to staff. 4. Coach the staff on how to achieve job objectives and requirements. 5. Diagnose the staff’s relative strengths and weaknesses. 6. Determine a development plan for improving job performance
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Hospital Orientation: An Evaluation of the Process Lee Anne Squires‚ RN‚ BSN Abstract New graduates will most assuredly go through a great deal of stress as they transition from student to professional nurse. Because of these stressors‚ there is a large turnover in newly hired nurses. Using a convenience sample of registered nurses who had graduated in the past six months‚ this descriptive study asked nurses to evaluate the effectiveness of their hospital orientation training. Because nurse
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According to McCormick (2013)‚ the patient has the right of autonomy‚ nonmaleficence‚ beneficence‚ and justice. Patient autonomy allows the patient to “act intentionally‚ with understanding‚ and without controlling influences that would mitigate against a free and voluntary act” (McCormick‚ 2013). The patient was given autonomy through discussion with the midwife‚ neonatologist‚ and perinatologist assigned to her care and the patient was then allowed to decide the course of action to be taken. Nonmaleficence
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six (6) to ten (10) page paper (excludes cover and reference page) addressing the application of the nursing process to a patient care scenario. Use these directions and the scoring rubric as you develop the paper. Outlines and abstracts are NOT required with this paper. Do not include the scenario in the paper A minimum of three (3) current professional references must be provided excluding a nursing diagnosis book. Current references include professional publications or valid and current websites
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I. Introduction Patient 123 On 28th August 2017‚ Patient 123‚ a 45 year old Chinese uncle came to Hospital X to do a non-contrast abdomen Computed tomography (CT) scan which required a cross section view of the patient’s body anatomy to reassurance the reoccurrence of renal stones on the patient’s kidneys. Patient was ambulant‚ alert‚ conscious and cooperative as he was able to follow the instructions given by the radiographer. As he could understood and converse in Chinese‚ there was no communication
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Patient Safety—Case Study #2 Sierra Billman‚ Morgan Burkholder‚ & Crystal Montgomery Indiana University School of Nursing Protecting Our Patients Patient safety is an area in which every hospital strives to excel. Patient safety is when an error is prone‚ but staff prevents it before it happens. There are hundreds of hospitals in the United States that want to improve patient safety. One case of this would be The Veterans Health Administration implementing changes to decrease the likelihood of
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redefine nursing‚ by improving upon patient care‚ Florence Nightingale stands as the patron leader. She went onto grapple with the task of improving upon deplorable hospital conditions; while‚ measuring patient’s outcomes in a statistical method. Over a hundred years later‚ more recent compiled research related to a link between hospital staffing issues and adverse patient outcomes grabs the attention of internal and external healthcare populations. In the 90’s and early 2000’s new studies surface
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an uninsured homeless patient. The uninsured homeless patient may need medication to relieve a symptom from an STD disease in order to mitigate an undesirable symptom. The Nurse may cause discomfort. While providing care to the homeless patient‚ Nonmaleficence must be balanced by beneficence. The Nurses intent is to provide a treatment to the homeless patient which benefits the patient must outweigh the discomfort caused. The Nurses intent must be to help the homeless patient‚ not
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