American Nurses Association

(2013, p.17), “teaching is the process of imparting cognitive knowledge, skills, and values.” So, nurses have a special role in caring for the ill and preventing diseases due to their knowledge of many skills. More so, a community health nurse has special opportunities to foster human development and capabilities through client education. Furthermore, a primary responsibility of community health nurses is teaching to promote health. Evidently, diabetes has been one of the chronic diseases that…

Discussion Vascular access, along with airway management is a standard of emergency care, and is an essential part of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in many groups of patients. Peripheral vascular access is the most efficient means of gaining vascular access as it’s induces minimal trauma, is the safest method of gaining access to venous circulation. It may however be difficult in stressful situations and require several attempts despite its widespread usage failure may result in prehospital…

Reimbursement for group medical care continues to be problematic in private sector (Dickman, 2012). As of current, Medicare and many insurers do not reimburse SMAs (Dickman, 2012). Policy makers play a key role in realigning financial incentives so that group visits are reimbursed for public and private insurance as routine part of primary care so that all people have access to SMA services. The SMA approach addresses how to implement chronic care management when faced with a shortage of…

symptoms of severe substance use disorder and potentially childhood trauma. According to the criteria from the DSM-5 on Substance Use Disorder, the “substance is often taken in larger amounts or over a longer period than was intended” (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Gwen shared that she and her boyfriend recently woke up late prior to their attendance at their friend’s wedding, unable to remember the details leading up to the end of the night. This, and other shared accounts from the…

of the profession of nursing. She strived for better education, better standards for nurses, and better health for the public. Thanks to the work of Lystra Gretter, nursing became more of a profession. Before she was a nursing pioneer, Lystra Elizabeth Eggert, was born in September 1858 in Bayfield, Ontario. Her father had some influence on her with wanting to be in the medical field because during the American Civil War, Lystra’s father was a surgeon in the Union Army. I can relate to Lystra…

Nursing Shortage Alyssa Fulgencio University of Hawaii Manoa October 31, 2015 Abstract Numerous factors are influencing both the supply of registered nurses as well as the demand for nursing services. The issue in today’s society is within the nursing workforce planning with the present health system environment that addresses the ethical issues related to shortage. In this issue analysis essay, the causes that are compounding the nursing shortage are examined as well as the…

Initial post Use of standardized nursing language for documentation of nursing care is vital both to the nursing profession and to the bedside/direct care nurse (Rutherford, 2008). One way of ensuring a unique communicating system in a clinical setting is the adoption of standardization of nursing language (SNL). According to the American Nurses Association (2015), the Standardization of nursing language (SNL) has become a valuable tool to promote interoperability between multiple concepts,…

“The ANA reports that 52% of nurses report chronic back pain, likely because many nursing tasks require bending and twisting at the torso, activities that can cause injury when the nurse does not use correct body mechanics” (Treas & Wilkinson, 2014, p. 659). While reading the required sections of American Nurses Association Safe Patient Handling and Mobility: Interprofessional National Standards, I was shocked by the ranking of MSDs (Musculoskeletal Disorders) that RNs and Nursing Assistance…

with the message that thee American Nurses Association (ANA) is professional organization that promotes and advances the nursing profession by setting high standards of nursing while promoting the rights of nurses around the world. In addition, their secondary purpose is to represent nursing industry by lobbying the Congress concerning any healthcare issues that impact the nursing industry. The nursing website that will be evaluated is the American Nursing Association(ANA) (2015, which is a…

Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) has been encouraging hospital chief executive officers and/or administrators to set a baseline minimum staffing standard or create policy to protect patient safety (Minnesota Nurses Association, 2017). In 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) implemented a new model of healthcare delivery and payment that was designed to improve quality and reduce costs, but as a result, cost control pressures have been put on nurse staffing levels in order to reduce nurse labor…