How would you describe your role in your clinical setting? The role of the Perianesthesia nurse manager is to oversee the personnel within the Perianesthesia department‚ work collaboratively with physicians and/and or other allied health practitioners as well as administration to ensure that departmental goals as well as institutional goals are attained. The manager needs to have a good working knowledge of the care standards for the department and ensure that these standards are being met. Do you
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CLINICAL AUDIT LITERATURE AND EVIDENCES [ARTICLE] Audit is currently defined as a cyclical activity incorporating both systematic evaluation of the quality of clinical practice and action .The aim of audit is to establish the extent to which actual clinical practice compares with best clinical practice. Bowie etal(2012 It incorporates the systematic and critical analysis by nurses‚ midwives and health visitors‚ in conjunction with other staff‚ of the planning‚ delivery and evaluation
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Healthcare outcomes in term of Cost‚ Access and Quality Health outcomes Health Outcomes include a number of aspects that help in assessing the health care system of any country. Parameters like cost of care‚ quality of care‚ access to care‚ morbidity‚ mortality and use of specified services are indicative of how well the health care system is performing. Healthcare outcomes motivate practitioners to compare their performances and improve from each other. It highlights value enhancing outcomes which
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Medicine management can be defined as ‘the clinical‚ cost-effective and safe use of medicines to ensure patients get the maximum benefit they need‚ while at the at the same time minimising potential harm.’ (Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) 2004). This essay will analyse the role and responsibility of the nurse in medicine management. It will then examine the complexities which arise when applying this clinical skill in the context of learning disability nursing in
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In every hospital setting‚ nurses play a vital role in patient safety by monitoring patients for signs and symptoms of deterioration. The rapid response teams (RRT) main purpose is to reduce cardiac arrest‚ prevent failure to rescue and decrease mortality rates of the hospital. To react to a sudden deterioration‚ a nurse must use their critical thinking and clinical decision making skills in order to provide the best outcome for the patient. Clinical decision making involves coming up with a nursing
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Hospitals are vital segment in health care and are under constant pressure to deliver high quality care and be cost effective. Strategic planning involves participation of many stakeholders with the goal of trying to meet or exceed expectations of the stated objective. The planning process involves three elements: preparing and a strategy‚ carry out the strategy‚ and the control and assessment phase. The purpose of the evaluation stage is to calculate the difference between anticipated expectations
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Clinical practice guidelines and evidence based medicine have become an integral part of respiratory care. With these policies in place‚ respiratory therapists are given clear‚ defined boundaries put in place by physicians‚ medical staff and hospitals to allow for flexibility in the assessment and treatment of their patients. Not only has this allowed for more freedom within their profession‚ it has also granted therapists the authority to collect clinical information regarding the respiratory status
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electronic file or record designed to help patients manage their health information and be more involved in their health care‚ while a medical record is patient health record manage by healthcare providers. Over the years‚ as technology is progressing and the amount of healthcare providers are increasing‚ we found that more and more patients are participating in their health care via personal health record (Smith‚ 2009)‚ which is a long way from what PHR use to be studied for. The Agency for Healthcare
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will define the role of the nurse in healthcare and outline the different qualities required for this profession. Berridge and Liddle (2010) demonstrate that the definition of nursing according to the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is “the use of clinical judgement in the provision of care to enable people to improve‚ maintain‚ or recover health‚ to cope with health problems and to achieve the best possible quality of life‚whatever their disease or disability‚ until death.” A nurse is an individual
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In the early 1900’s the man was seen as the intellectual individual who takes care of their wife and family‚ who arrives home with the money and who was the supplier. However during the 1930’s this typical idea of the man’s role was extremely hard to keep ahold of due to The Great Depression. While the average woman worked on household dynamics and keeping the family afloat‚ the man was out looking for a job‚ or struggling to keep his current job. As a result‚ the average male came home at the end
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