There are multiple steps that one must take in order to successfully become a registered nurse. A registered nurse is someone who “promotes and restores patients’ health by completing the nursing process; collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members; providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families; and supervising team members” (“Registered Nurse Job Description”). Becoming a nurse is beneficial for our society because it helps the doctor’s run…
Cognitive capabilities are an important theory concept (Alligood, 2014). Mishel defines cognitive capabilities as the actual processing of information with the ability to reflect on capabilities, limitations, and restrictions (Alligood, 2014). A study of the Mishel uncertainty in illness scale found ambiguity and inconsistency influenced the quality of life (Giammanco et al., 2014). Inference, Illusions, Adaptation, New View of Life, and Probabilistic thinking The last five major concepts in…
executives, and the way how they are using the system in order to maximize their profits. In this extensive and pointed exposé of healthcare cost in the US, Steven Brill has documented several case studies of patients who received disproportionate hospital bills that had little relationship to the care provided in the hospitals. He pointed out some of major factors that contributes to this unjustifiable medical bills in US, e.g., the hospitals’ gratuitous Chargemaster rates, unnecessary…
Health literacy is defined as an individual’s ability to use cognitive, social and navigational skills to obtain, process and understand health information and services in order to make appropriate and beneficial health decisions (Lambert & Keogh, 2014; WHO, 2015). The concept of health literacy is a major determinant of a population’s health, meaning it is an important concept to grasp from an early age. Therefore, strategies on how to improve health literacy of the population will be discussed…
Increasingly mental health issues are being raised in the workplace. Job stresses are being recognised as affecting the overall wellbeing of the registered nurse as well as the quality of care given to patients. This paper is going to critically discuss the impact of work environments on mental health, and the elements of workplaces that affect staff. This paper will also examine the early warning signs of poor mental health and risk factors that can lead to poor mental health. Specifically this…
expenditure on health within long and short term care (Bloom, Canning, & Lubet, 2015). No matter of the country or cultural difference one may come from, the wishful thinking for longer life span is their parents, grandparents, and their loved ones, which is inevitable. Different countries in the world have their perspective on ways of caring for the elderly or seniors, whether it is through health care policies, practices, mandates, or cultural beliefs and practices.…
more aware of the test results used to monitor diabetes (2010). By educating an individual about their diabetes, and the disease process, it is hoped, that they will become a proactive participant in their own health promotion. Diabetes education is recognized as significant in the care of people with diabetes mellitus and it is clear that appropriate treatment of people with diabetes has the potential to reduce hospitalizations and delay or prevent the onset of complications of diabetes (Hill…
Tiny Tim and The Man: Ethical issues in reimbursement I will be focusing on the reimbursement challenges that we will be facing when we enter the profession. I will also be addressing the ethical issues that will most likely go hand in hand with them. An ethical practice is a sound business. Although an ethics choice made the wrong way can produced short term positive effects and gains, it can change very quickly into a long time loss, both monetarily and professionally. Ethical practices…
(2015), the Science of Unitary Human Beings based basic research to develop new theoretical information about unitary human energy fields in mutual response with the environmental energy fields. A diversity of qualitive and quantitative research studies are appropriate for Science of Unitary Human Beings based research (Fawcett, 2015). Quantitative and qualitative methods have been used in the Science of Unitary Human Beings research, though not all researchers approve that both are appropriate…
students report being bullied during the school year” (2016, para 1). The role of the public health /community nurse is not only the protection of children from bullies but also determining a solution to the nationwide epidemic of bullying. Public health nurses need to be on the forefront in the development, implementation and evaluation of programs designed to eliminate the negative effects of bullying and other health related issues in the community. Bullying Bullying is a worldwide epidemic…