Nursing care

what she wants and is capable of making her own decisions. The patient has rights, and it is a job as a nurse to advocate for your patient and try to implement things into the care plan that will help work with that particular patient situation. Another ethical consideration is beneficence and ensuring while providing care, do not put the patient in a situation that can cause the patient or yourself harm. “The code…

Comparative Analysis There are many similarities and differences in the beliefs, values, and practices of my interviewee, S.M., and those listed for Muslim Americans in the “Cultural Factors that Affect Nursing Care” box. (Taylor, et al., 2015). Both the Puerto Rican culture and Muslim culture put a high value and importance for family. The man is also considered the head of the house in both cultures. Another similarity is that they both similar health preventive strategies including personal…

The health care setting for this research project is long term care / nursing homes. The health care team in the long term care setting provides a range of services and support that one may need to meet their personal care needs, such as Activities of Daily Living (ADL) and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL). ADLs are bathing, dressing, using the toilet, transferring (to and from bed or chair), caring for incontinence, and eating. While IADLs are housework, managing money, taking…

insight that healthcare professionals can use to make informed decisions related to relevant patient care. Nursing research and evidence-based care research is crucial to the nursing practice. Nursing research provides the scientific basis of knowledge impacting the health of society. The goal for nursing research is to promote wellness, safety, and health to all of the population. In my long term care and rehab facility, we are involved in applications of evidence-based practices. We recently…

in nursing home settings where prices are set by Medicare and Medicaid (Grabowski, Towns, Grabowski, & Town, 2011). However, if prices could be administratively set and greater than marginal cost, greater competition would increase the quality of healthcare (Grabowski, Towns, Grabowski, & Town, 2011). Medicare and Medicaid set the market prices for skilled and long-term care services for semi-private and private beds, price is set at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars a day for skilled care…

concerns and are willing to address these concerns raise healthcare performance across the board (Snow, 2012). Ott and Ross find that nurses most frequently raise concerns over patient care and safety. Shared governance councils improve nurses’ ownership of patient care which in turn increases the reporting care issues and safety concerns to unit-based groups. This allows these concerns to receive attention resulting in process improvement. Communication must be encouraged to allow staff nurses…

definition of “family health care nursing?” What is your own vision of family nursing? What from your readings “resonates” with your own personal thoughts on family nursing? Kaakinen, et al (2015) identified family health care nursing as providing healthcare needs to families that are within the nurses scope of practice and is intended to address all four approaches of viewing a family to treat the family as a whole (p.8). My personal view of what family nursing is, and what the expected…

advantages that appear as a result of having access to meal preparation and feeding services. It is important to understand that the best care of older people can only taken when they are cared for in an environment in which they are familiar. Elder people often have a weak memory and therefore it is difficult for them to prosper in an uncertain environment such as a nursing home. Meal preparation also allows older people to work closely with a dietitian to prepare a meal schedule that provides…

then I would consider placing them into a nursing home, where they can have the full care that they would need. If they do have dementia or alzheimer’s disease I would then look into placing them into the dementia unit…

Native Americans The Native American culture is unique in their aspects of death, dying and the afterlife. As professional nurses we need to be aware of our individual beliefs about culture to provide culturally and spiritually sensitive care to our patients. Currently in Minnesota there are 60,916 individuals who are Native American, which makes up 1.1 percent of the total population of Minnesota (Stratis Health, 2017). Beltrami County has approximately 45,000 residents, and 21 percent of the…