Evidence-based medicine

succeed in giving them the right treatments—and spend dollars effectively—then (physicians) need the best information (they) can get about which treatments really work, and for whom. “In a word, (physicians) need the strongest foundation possible, of evidence and results in health care.” Not all applications of technology to healthcare problems save money or improve care. And, while younger care practitioners are open to and very comfortable with technology, it can easily lead to irrational…

overlooked. Countless plants are waiting to be discovered and studied that can hold a key ingredient for the antidote of a certain ailment. After analyzing the results of a study on plant medicine, it was observed in the article “Drugs That Grow on Trees” by Michele Trankina, that the statistics show…

Dana Safran presentation is an overview of quality improvement and evidence of quality measures to improve health care. She describes the seed of the quality imperative in the United States. In the year 2000 the IOM scoping the extent of medical errors and system related harm. There were one hundred thousand medical errors leading to death in the United States, making it the fifth leading cause of death in the United States. This woke up the country and made everyone realize how important…

A room recovery nurse is a nurse especially devoted to the health of patients after an operation or surgical treatment looking after his recovery, administers serums, treatments, medicines, also takes the pressure, the pulse, the temperature and looks after the hygiene of the patient. To exert this career you need an associated degree in infirmary. To study for an associated degree in infirmary, the average required depends of the institute or university that offer it. The minimum…

If you're forced to lend your services to an outsourced agency’s patients when it comes to the safe and priority to keep them healthy you shouldn’t be a healthcare professional. When treating patients inhumanely, unethically or immorality to get to a means (i.e financially, experimentally, etc) it diminishes the process and the outcome. Working during a pandemic or risk of infection among other emergencies are what a provider trains to deal with. The need to use bioethical principles of autonomy…

disease prevention, infection control and proper health maintenance. Although, the only way to effectively do so falls on the nurse 's responsibility to remain up to date with current nursing practice and most importantly evidence-based practice. Nurses advance on research and evidence-based practice which provide their patients with positive outcomes and can be achieved by reading nursing journals and scholarly articles. According to Kenneley (2014) in the article "Clostridium difficile…

clinically and economically.1 I am confident that the appropriate use criteria guidelines will help me in my clinical practice. The overuse of medical test and diagnostic studies is primarily due to the practice of defensive medicine. The adverse effects of defensive medicine have not only increased the costs of healthcare, but have posed detrimental effects on the…

highest level of education available in the field. Generally, DNP program accentuate areas that promote nursing leadership, such as systems management, quality improvement and data-driven decision making (Nursing.org, 2017). The DNP delivers practice-based training on the clinical applications of higher-level nursing knowledge (Nursing.org, 2017). The American Association of College of Nurses (AACN) recognizes the DNP as a minimum standard of education for all advanced practice specialists…

system based on quality measures. Healthcare quality is a measure of a medical establishment’s ability to provide care equal to current professional standards and expected patient outcomes (Huber,…

Throughout my nursing career, I have come across numerous changes affecting nursing practice; at one point some of them were the most suitable and acceptable methods, but years later they became an unscholarly or unacceptable way of providing patient care. For example, the Advanced Cardiac Life Support ( ACLS ) guidelines have been updated multiple times since I became certified in this skill. Conversely, just comparing the previously accepted acronym "ABC" which stands for airway, breathing,…