hospital is an example of a complex-adaptive system because patients admitted into the hospital interact with a variety of health care providers, who are agents and members of the complex-adaptive system. Sacred Heart Medical Center is a hospital that is defined as a complex-adaptive system. The medical center is constantly adapting and evolving to providing safe…
importance of health literacy and correct communication and how the nurse demonstrated this while caring for Kate. It will then go on to look at the importance of the nurses, personal philosophy of practice and the ways in which she demonstrated this relating back to the three principles of the Treaty of Waitangi. Lastly it will discuss important reasons to provide culturally appropriate care for people relating this back to the nurse. This paper is relevant because its important health…
child protection is underpinned by child's rights and practices that are based on what is 'in the best interest of the child' (Australian Human Rights Commission, 2017). This is a human rights principle that was adopted from the United National Convention on the Rights of the Child and considered the primary consideration of all decisions and actions around their development and protection (O'connor, Wilson, Setterlund, & Hughes, 2008). However, within the complexity of the child protection…
To gather baseline data about the client’s health To detect physiological changes within the specific body system involved To confirm nursing/medical diagnosis To provide quality nursing care in relation to the knowledge acquired during physical assessment To determine client’s eligibility for health insurance or employment 11.4 Assessing the skin Definition of the Intergumentary system Intergumentary means covering, it covers the outside of the body, Is the organ system that protects…
During that time the mental health programs were facing challenges with reducing turn around rates regarding mental health patient care. “Managed care programs had spread throughout the state, placing pressure on mental health programs to reduce length of stay, rehospitalization rates, and to provide lower cost outpatient alternatives” (Black & Blum, 2015, pg 172). The need…
knowledge as the science of nursing where knowledge describes, explains, and predicts “phenomena of special concern to the discipline of nursing” (p. 14). There are several ways in which the nursing care I provided demonstrated the use of empirical knowledge. Initially, when Mr. Brown arrived, I was the primary nurse. Knowing he was presenting with chest pain, I started a thought process in my head that included possible causes of chest pain and interventions I would need to complete. Simply by…
One method of primary prevention identified in this outbreak was when the droplet precautions and contact precautions were initiated. The public was taught about the virus modes of transmission through radio and television and health official utilized droplet and contact precautions. These in preventative measures were effective in preventing Jory the stepdaughter of Emhoff…
helping individuals, families, and groups of people to cope with problems they’re facing to improve their patients’ lives. Social workers are also trained caseworkers in social service agencies who perform several functions which they use different components of the practice framework, the theoretical underpinnings to in order to build helping relationships. After interviewing a caseworker in a specific social agency there were advantages and disadvantages of methods along with challenges…
The article describes one of a number of issues that affects not only the relationship between a physician, a patient and the managed care network, but also offers an observation/or opinion in regards to the impact of the Patient Protection & Affordability Act. Depending on which side of the argument one may wish to champion, advocate or proponent, there are and will always be too sides to the story of any legislative act. Legislative action originates from a myriad of influences that may wish…
guide drug treatment of hypertension” in adults with hypertension in a primary care office setting (Petiprin, 2016; Whelton et al., 2018 p. e40). Lewin’s Theory of Change Lewin’s Theory of Change is comprised of two major parts. Firstly, Lewin defines the environment as driving forces and restraining forces balancing against another to create an equilibrium (Petiprin, 2016). The driving forces are anything that…