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irresponsibility. Among the necessary qualities in acting as an accredited nurse are honesty and trustworthiness. These qualities are important because it ensures that the nurse has the interests of her patients first while performing her duties. According to standard four; self-regulation (standard of practice for nurses and midwives, SNB, 2011) nurses shall be accountable to self, clients, community, members of the healthcare team and the employers. Nurses are responsible and…

The purpose of this paper is to answer the case study questions and discuss the legal and ethical issues found in the case study Nepa vs. Commonwealth Department of Public Welfare. The case reveals elderly abuse by residents who endured abuse and neglect at the hands of the person charged with caring for them. It reviews the court’s findings of the petitioner’s appeal of the court’s judgment to revoke his license. This case study exemplifies types of patient and elderly abuse and patient…

What are the attributes of Collaboration and Mutuality? Collaboration and mutuality grew out of dissatisfaction with the medical community and has since spread to many professional arenas that are involved with helping improve human life through active medical, mental health and physical recovery and resiliency programs. Alan Bleakly (2014) posits that collaboration and mutuality are absolutely fundamental to patient-centered medical practice and care. In his book titled Patient-Centered…

Ilych by Tolstoy examines the importance of a healing environment in times of sickness, pain, and death as well as the components of a healing environment (2015). There are three concepts to a healing environment and many ways in which phenomena of illness and disease can be experienced. The Healing Environment The Seen Environment The healing environment has three concepts: the seen, unseen, and storied environments. The seen environment can be defined as…

INTRODUCTION I will discuss the importance of service quality in this project that how it will be important for practitioners and everyone who works in a health setting. It will show how service quality is managed among all the clients and how it is important to maintain every time. The management of service quality benefits everyone. Also, I will introduce SERVQUAL model in this. I will discuss the management of service quality on the basis of SERVQUAL model. In relation to SERVQUAL model…

In nursing practice, the four core ethical nursing concepts are used by the nurses in their practice. Nurses respect patient autonomy with understanding of patient rights, demonstrate beneficence in knowing their duty to actively do good for patients, have the duty not to harm patients, and the duty to treat all patients fairly, without regard to age, socioeconomic status. These core ethical concepts are the great tools nurses can use in facing ethical dilemmas in their everyday practice. There…

In this essay I contrast and compare community psychology and public health approaches to social problems. I accomplish this by introducing the concepts of community psychology and public health with regards to their historical discourses and development and I contrast and compare the approaches of these concepts in terms of different models associated with them such as; mental health and social action models from community psychology, biomedical and psycho-socio-ecological models from public…

Cicones were excited to have a hero and his crew visiting them, but were soon disappointed. When Odysseus came back to his home to figure out that suitors have been living in his house, although he was a king, he didn't act like one when taking revenge, but instead acted like a soldier saying, “... you took my house to plunder… dared bid for my wife while I was still alive… Your last hour has come. You die in blood” (Fitzgerald Part 2 The Odyssey line…

INTRODUCTION Oral health is an important aspect of life, and it directly affects the social, financial and mental health of everyone. The general public, especially in small countries like Guyana, tends to ignore the field of dentistry as an independent and important aspect of medicine despite the immense prevalence of oral diseases. Therefore, if the field of dentistry is shunned, it compromises the overall oral health of the general population and hence it increases their chances of having…

AHN’s care delivery model is described in relation to how nurses currently deliver care to patients. Huber (2014) defines a care model being separate from the practice model because it focuses on the method and management of how care is provided to accomplish quality outcomes. This is the actions that take place, rather than the several components involved. Again, this model is displayed on a six-point star shaped figure with the patient, family, and community listed in the center. Several…