Nurse-managed health center

The Evolution of Nursing: Nursing Informatics and Advanced Practice Nursing The roles of advanced practice nurses (APN’s) and specialty nursing fields, such as nursing informatics, has evolved immensely over in the last few decades. The critical need for nurses during World wars I, II and the Vietnam War topped with the massive technology expansion in recent decades left nurses open to pursuing advancement in their respective fields and led them to fulfilling some of the gaps in the healthcare…

Ambulatory care is emerging to be the fastest growing segment of the health care market. There are many types and these included; Physician services, hospital outpatient, emergency outpatient, community health centers, department of health and voluntary centers. Sultz, H., Young, K., (2009). This paper aims to provide an overview of the services offered in these facilities, compare and contrast the services as it differs from free…

Description of Nurse Leader/ Manager: A leader is an inspiring person who implements a combination of different factors that manage to deliver a clear vision to the people. As a nurse leader, the focus is to instills guidance, integrity, and patience to fellow nurses. For example, I was able to follow Jo who is a charge nurse. She has 12 years of charge nurse experiences and is considered to be the nursing leader on the IMC unit. Charge nurse Jo possessed strong leadership skills such as being…

demonstrated and created collaborative efforts in improving the health of its population by identifying and prioritizing the community needs. Although the region had faced many challenges to overcome quality care and healthy life, its efforts resulted in better health outcomes. According to the case study, the four high-performance pathways the Southern Arizona region underwent great progression were community-organizing efforts, use of advanced managed care techniques, collaboration among…

largely increased the number of insured and non-insured patients’ able to receive better health care. The rapid growth in patients’ number with access to healthcare has almost crippled an already challenged system, forcing stakeholders to evaluate and restructure the care delivery system. To get a clear picture of nursing transformations, we need to look at the emerging trends currently influencing patient care. Health care model involves the documentation of a patient’s…

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 Affordable Care Act (PPACA)…

security: Nurses make a difference.”(Brittney Wilson) In the Medical field there are numerous occupations that are available for Nurses. The medical field is a continuous learning and opportunity such occupation. One specific profession in the medical field is a Registered Nurse. A Registered Nurse is a nurse who has graduated from a nursing program and met the requirements outlined by a country or state licensing body in order to obtain a nursing license. (Wikipedia).The name Registered Nurse…

Professional Nursing Practice Nursing is a profession defined by caring. More specifically it is defined by four concepts including, patient, nurse, health and the environment in which one exists (Butts, 2015). These concepts will be expanded upon and impact they have upon the professional practice of nursing. Nursing Autobiography My desire to be a nurse was not realized until I was in college. I graduated high school in 2003 and started college at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke…

Consequently, there was a shortage of nurses in America, so a two-year associate degree in nursing (AND) was developed in desire to quickly train nurses to acquire a minimum skills level. Koernig & Hayes (2016) stated that ADN programs since then have increased at a higher rate than BSN programs (p.477). The American Nurses Association (ANA) had a great influence in the change that nurse’s education took place in institutions of higher education, so nurses were prepared in hospital-based diploma…

Hardy Angeles NURS301 Prof. Sparatella 30 Sept 2017 Identifying Patterns of Illness and Wellness It is crucial for the nurse to identify all of the patient’s illness patterns and health promotion patterns in order to provide the best quality of care for the patient. The identification of the patient’s illness and health promotions patterns will help the nurse to develop nursing diagnoses and prioritize them based on her/his nursing judgment and critical thinking. I was able to collect some…