lawmakers on how nurse patient ratio can affect the patient’s outcome but not much has changed over the years. Thirty years ago‚ when I was a new graduate nurse‚ I remember the exhausting 12-15 hour days I experienced working in a medical center‚ three days in a row and being responsible for fifteen patients while working with a Licensed Practical Nurse or a Certified Nurses Assistant. During that time I worked on a medical-surgical/telemetry floor where we also had patients on ventilators. Nurses
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Seisay I completely agree with you that nurses play a vital role in ensuring patient safety‚ since we all know that patient safety can improve patient outcome and subsequently reduce the cost of healthcare. The culture of safety is a continuously changing concept and focus on preventing medical errors and maintaining patient safety and that when those errors happen‚ they lead to bad consequences including‚ increase in length of hospital stay‚ litigation costs‚ healthcare-associated infections‚ lack
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Critical Care Outline Chapter 66 * Critical care nursing: specialty dealing with human responses to life-threatening problems. * Critical care units (CCUs) or ICUs: designed to meet the special needs of acutely and critically ill pt’s. * Types of critical care: system based‚ medical‚ surgical‚ trauma‚ burns‚ age specific * Rapid response team (RRTs): provide for the delivery of advanced care by specialized teams usually composed of: * A critical care nurse * A respiratory
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Worldwide doctor patient communication it holds high importance in healthcare profession due to its effect on the treatment outcome. To have the required skills as a doctor to gain information from the patient as well as to assure the understanding of the patient and to get her or his cooperation sometimes it could be difficult to master these skills. However good communication skills is a mandatory to achieve high quality care. Starting this year I had my first patient encounter‚ it was challenging
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Working with Values and Beliefs when Providing Patient Care My Personal Philosophy of Nursing By: Michele Combs NUR 391 Working with Values and Beliefs when Providing Patient Care Nursing is an art and a science. The profession is an art of compassion and caring in a creative way. Creativity allows nurses to individualize nursing care. Through science‚ nurses obtain the skills and technology they rely on to achieve each patient ’s optimal health ("Nursing"‚ n.d.). Florence Nightingale became
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affects of a brutal war. First we have Almasy the lead character and the main protagonist‚ he is Hungarian by birth‚ but has been raised and educated in England and thus his habits and mannerisms are English and so he is referred to as the English patient. Almasy works in the deserts of Africa far from the forces of civilization. There he creates for himself his own world without borders‚ a place where a person’s identity/nationality is not at all important. He forgets that at times of war the nationality
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TUH. Upon review of current institutional policies it was discovered that Curos disinfecting port protectors were being used on "All patients‚ All lines‚ All the time" (AAA) in order to prevent central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI). Further research into proper maintenance and care of IV’s and CDC guidelines in order to meet 2016 National Patient Safety Goals ( NPSG) revealed that current practices may not
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Patient Educational Plan Nur/427 Monday‚ March 29‚ 2010 Sara Gerrie‚ MSN Introduction Prolonged and chronic ethanol (ETOH) use has devastating effects on the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. ETOH is easily absorbed from the intestine and diffuses quickly throughout the body. The bulk of the ETOH is metabolized in the liver. ETOH abuse produces functional and structural changes in the GI tract‚ such as in the stomach‚ small intestine‚ liver‚ and pancreas (Geokas‚ Lieber‚ French‚ & Halsted 1981)
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Improving Patient Intake Efficiency Sherri Joiner HCR 220 March 16‚ 2013 Lydia Cavieux Improving Patient Intake Efficiency For people‚ who do not work inside the medical community‚ the steps it takes to complete the process for their intake at an appointment may not be given much thought. The intake process consists of many steps that utilize the use of the referring physician’s office‚ the receptionist‚ the insurance personnel‚ and the patient. As one can see‚ the process takes many different
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Decision Making January 20th 2011 How Ethics Affects Nursing Practice In the nursing profession we have a respect for our patients but obtaining trust and maintaining the confidentiality of the patient’s information has been established from years ago starting with the Oath of Hippocratic. The patient’s confidentiality includes protecting any information the patient divulges to medical personal‚ and not disclosing or sharing the information to others. If trust is betrayed‚ the patient’s would
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