American Nurses Credentialing Center

As nurses, we play an important role in client case management because we perceive patient’s holistically. We also there for the entire patient experience as they journey throughout the healthcare delivery system. Nurses assist with providing clients with smooth transitions across the continuum of care. Based on the readings and my clinical experience, a suggestion for improving the process is strengthening relationships between different levels…

practice (EBP) in nursing is the application and understanding of nursing practice that has been through rigorous research in order to apply the outcome for future professional nursing care. The accumulation of evidence is conducted and collected by nurses and other health care practitioners, the nurse’s actions are updated in response to current evidence (Grove, Gray, & Burns, 2015). A strict criterion is the cornerstone to EBP, which starts with the assessment of a patient’s problem related…

Home Health Care is form of health care administration that help people who needs day to day nurse care while at home. Some people who are on home health care are not able to do things on their own such as the following: make sure they complete their proper hygiene {bath, brush their teeth, and put their clothes on}, make sure their house is clean; make sure they take their proper medicine at the right time, and more. Home health care workers can play an important role in a person life. They are…

different types of advanced practice nursing roles are the nurse practitioner, the nurse educator, nurse administrator and the nurse informaticist. These roles can be further defined by clinical versus non-clinical practice. While all of these roles require a graduate level education or greater, such as a Doctorate, the setting for practice and role in the health care industry do differ. According to the website Healthleadersmedia.com, the nurse practitioners role is to “focus on health…

Registered Nurse’s have opportunities to become specialized in many different areas throughout their careers. A nurse case manager is a specialty that is available to registered nurses with correct licensure and certification. Nurse case manager’s are directly involved with patient care as well as holding a leadership position in their work environment. Nurse case manager’s are the glue for the overall patient care and are responsible for updating all patient files/cases to ensure that all…

gastrointestinal, genitourinary, renal, and integumentary systems. A knowledge of laboratory and diagnostic values is an additional key element in the assessment process, along with an understanding of how these tests may be affected by advanced age. Every nurse will not aspire to achieve such certification; however, these skills may be taught during the nurse’s initial education, or provided through continuing education for the working healthcare professional. Career ladder programs, may…

Plan for Implementation According to the review of literature, one of the biggest problems to prevent CLABSI in the critical care areas is the lack of compliance to the existing protocols by nurses and other healthcare professionals. As we have learned, the insertion of central vascular catheters is an ubiquitous practice in the healthcare setting. Although, the benefits of central vascular catheters are many, the complications associated with this, necessary treatment are dangerous and could…

One of the roles nurses may take on as they advance their education is that of the public health nurse (PHN) whom works at the county or state level striving towards infection management and prevention. The American Public Health Association, Public Health Nursing Section (APHA/PHNS) defines public health nursing as “the practice of promoting and protecting the health of populations using knowledge from nursing, social, and public health sciences” (2013). This role widens the scope of nursing…

is based on a caring model, combining the beliefs of nursing theorists, and engrained in the three A’s – authority, accountability, and autonomy. Our nurses have the authority to use nursing knowledge, skills, assessments, and standard of care to support a safe healing environment. Accountability to accept responsibility for their actions. The nurses also have the autonomy to…

primary care physicians require surgeons especially those who treat disease more common to older people such as cancer. Also, the country needs specialties to treat an aging population that will live with chronic disease growingly. As we know many Americans have insufficient access to primary care, so the federal agency is responsible for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured or medically vulnerable. Besides, the full implement of the Patient Protection of…