Patient advocacy requires nurses to support and protect their patients. Nurses often find themselves in ethically questionable situations that conflict with their personal and professional morals. Sometimes‚ speaking out for the patient requires them to demonstrate moral courage—for instance‚ in the face of conflicting loyalties‚ in highly charged conflict situations‚ or when the patient’s rights are being violated. This article provides an overview of moral courage‚ defines important terms‚ examines
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to lessen the number paper works in having a transaction with the patient that could fasten the process of admission‚ discharging and billing of a patient. This greatly affects the profitability of the institution that makes the admission and billing of patients a long process. Another concern is how to extend the accuracy in computing the patient bills‚ which is very essential in Local Community Hospitals. Because some patients are so smart that they can find a way that they do not have to pay
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errors. Patient safety is the core value of the nursing profession‚ while nursing is being embraced by its caring attitude toward the patient‚ safety should be our number one priority. This research article is very important to the nursing profession‚ in part because it addresses one of the most significant issues of the profession‚ which is patient safety. According to the Nurse’s Practice environment article‚ Flynn‚ Liang‚ Dickson‚ Xie‚ & Suh (2012) RNs are well positioned to serve as patient safety
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Electronic Nursing Documentation as a Strategy to Improve Quality of Patient Care Nursing documentation is of utmost importance to nurses in the delivery of quality patient care. Prior to the advent of electronic nursing documentation‚ nurses used the paper based system to document patients’ information. Electronic nursing documentation brought with it some benefits ranging from easy retrieval of patients’ information using the copy-and-paste feature (which allows nurses to copy previously documented
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her emotions take hold which then often escalate‚ leading to self-harm behaviour. [Source: Out-Patient Record‚ Peninsula Community Health Service (2010)] Introduction Patient teaching plans are tools developed by nurses in facilitating a systematic and evaluative way used in communicating to their patients regarding a particular treatment or practice. According to Bastable (2008‚ p.407)‚ a teaching plan is a “blueprint for action to achieve the goal and the objectives that have been agreed upon
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After reviewing the case study of Nursing Malpractice in a Mental Health Setting. There are many different factors that had led to the unfortunate death of this child. I would begin with inaccurate documentation of this child severe airway disease‚ as being listed as mild reactive airway disease. Later‚ after developing symptoms of an increased cough and wheezing without the presents of a fever‚ the nursing staff dismissed it as his attempt to avoid group therapy. The next situation that is concerning
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ASSESSMENT OF PATIENT AND FAMILY | | | PATIENTS PARTICULARS | | | FAMILY MEDICAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC HISTORY | | | PATIENT`S DEVELOPMENTAL HISTORY | | | PATIENT`S LIFE STYLE AND HOBBIES | | | PATIENT`S PAST MEDICAL HISTORY | | | PRESENT`S MEDICAL HISTORY | | | ADMISSION OF PATIENT | | | PATIENT`S CONCEPT OF ILLNESS | | | LITERATURE REVIEW | | | VALIDATION OF DATA | | TWO | ANALYSIS OF DATA | | | COMPARISON DATA WITH STANDARD | | | PATIENT AND FAMILY STRENGTH |
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Psychosocial Factors and Patient Education 09 Oct 11 Zahava Ohana Homework Week Two (1) Give examples of psychosocial factors that affect the health care professional and the effect those factors could have on the patient education; Patient’s background. For example‚ that patient came from a background that does not believe on any medicines. They go to a “voodoo doctor” for some spiritual interventions and they are content on that. Because they are not too well educated or maybe it is
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A SAMPLE RESEARCH PAPER/THESIS/DISSERTATION ON ASPECTS OF ELEMENTARY LINEARY ALGEBRA by James Smith B.S.‚ Southern Illinois University‚ 2010 A Research Paper/Thesis/Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master of Science Degree Department of Mathematics in the Graduate School Southern Illinois University Carbondale July‚ 2006 (Please replace Name and Year with your information and delete all instructions) Copyright by NAME‚ YEAR All Rights Reserved
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parts‚ related literature and studies. Related Literature Foreign (Mary Ann Ecalnea‚ Minalyn Esguerra‚ Cridtia Mae Feleciano‚ Jamee Aubrey Fernando‚ Jezrell Fiesta‚ Ma. Madona Flores‚ Gracel Kay Gacisano‚ Liezel Garcia and Davie Gonzales (Thesis Book: Library Management System of Isabela State university – Roxas Campus) p.8-9) An Integrated Library System (ILS) usually comprises a relational database‚ software to interact with that database‚ and two graphical user interfaces (one for
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