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Accountability and Patient Safety in Nursing Hailey Gardner Chamberlain College of Nursing Accountability and Patient Safety in Nursing Patient safety is one of the biggest concerns in health care. While everyone is responsible for the safety of patients, nurses are often the primary caregiver. The nurse is accountable for the patient, and the patient’s safety. When the nurse takes accountability for their actions, it ensures better patient care and a safer environment for the patient. Nursing…

In today’s fast pace society no one is exempt from the demands of work, and the resulting fatigue. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the life of a nursing professional. Nurses are scheduled to work 12-hour shifts as a matter of course. Then, to make a 40-hour workweek and obtain benefits they work a fourth 12-hour shift. Already into overtime, the nurse will volunteer for even more hours to satisfy their need to care for people in their charge. Also, the particular needs of the case or…

The purpose of this posting is to discuss the nurse’s scope of practice as defined by the American Nurses Association and the Ohio nurse’s scope of practice as defined by the Ohio Board Of Nursing. The nurse standard of practice according the American Nurses “coincide with the nursing process to represent the directive nature of the standards as the professional nurse completes each component of the nursing process” (ANA, 2010 p3). In terms, the nurse should have a clear understanding of the…

Both Patrick Cox and Karlene Richardson narrowed the causes of the nursing shortage and turnover to the aging nurse population, patient demographics, insufficient staffing, nursing school, and salaries. Starting off with aging, in 2004 the average age of a nurse was 46.8 and in 2008 it increased to 47 years (Cox, 2014). By 2008, 44.7% of nurses were over 50 years old and they mainly work in nursing homes, academic programs, and other home health areas. The older nurses tend to stay with the same…

“All nurses please report to the main nurses’ station”. The nurse supervisor starts telling us that there has been a release of a bio terror agent in the air system and we need to be ready to receive a large influx of patients. What was the agent released? Are we safe here? Will the patients be contagious? There are so many questions that need to be answered. Are we prepared for this? The seminar that was presented to us on bio-terrorism did not prepare us for a large scale event. Training…

Nurses want to be appreciated, acknowledged for their work. A health system may provide a recognition program. If it is not meaningful, it can be offensive, degrading and dishonoring. As members of the Combined Shared Decision Making Council, each council is charged with conducting a nurse-led research study. The research priority for the Recognition Council established on the work plan was to evaluate the impact of nurse recognition programs on nurse retention. The questions asked: did the…

For the last five years plus, I have worked tirelessly and in good faith as an RN at The Berks Family Residential Center, performing above and beyond the expected work standards that are set in place. As a Registered Nurse, the American Nurses Association, a professional organization to advance and protect the profession of nursing, states that “nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the…

My revised philosophy of nursing combines a bit of every single theorist. I enjoyed learning how scholars viewed nursing and tailored it to apply it to my practice. First off, I have never agreed with dictionary definitions that reduce nursing to caring for the sick and ill because inadvertently they reduce my patients to their mental or physical status. Nursing is so much more than our “medical” actions. It is our care, our authenticity with people. It is the change of shift report of…

Workplace stress in nursing Introduction Nursing is a career that is very rewarding not only in helping and making difference in someone else’s life but it has a great salary. It takes a special person with a kind heart to provide compassionate care for those in needs. When ones doesn’t has that passion for their job when things start getting out of hands and they started to stress out that could have a huge impact in the quality of care given to the patients. Moreover, others might giving up…

In this article review we learn how important it is to evaluate a range of staffingmeasures and data sources for long-term use in public reporting of staffing as a qualitymeasure in nursing homes. Systematic reviews bring together all valid and relevant evidenceto determine the “effectiveness, appropriateness, and feasibility of an intervention.A couple key points in this article are that some studies have shown better quality ofcare with higher levels of licensed staff. I found this very…