Nursing care

respiratory rate, heart rate, blood pressure and urinary output ( Frost & Wise, 2007). Critical care nursing is a specialty in its own right and with its own nature within the nursing profession. Critical care nurses contribute to improve patient outcomes, reduce morbidity and mortality, reduce complications and errors,…

she realized that nursing was not the path she wanted to take. However, Libby was still interested in the healthcare field and wanted to pursue a career in that direction. When she looked at the health care administration major, she noticed that most of the pre-nursing courses she had taken coincided with the courses needed for the healthcare administrator major. For that major, students get to participate in an internship as a student…

“Spiritual Care: Nursing theory, research, and practice,” the author define self-awareness as listening to what is within, to that “still small voice,” an “Inner wisdom,” or “Inward light,” maybe a way to listen to and be aware of God (Taylor, E.J., 2002). The author implies of one-self, it is the personal inner being that comprises of the truth, beliefs, and intentions. To achieve the goal of wellness for the patient, Taylor suggests evaluation of one-self to the nurses rendering care. She…

Patient-centered care revolves completely around the patient’s comfort, preferences, and values. “Patient-centered care (PCC) is recognized as a measure of the quality of health care” (Robinson, Callister, Berry, & Dearing, 2008, p. 600). As a nurse, this means before you make any clinical decisions, you should take the patient’s feelings and preferences into consideration and make sure the decisions you are making provide the best possible care to them. The nurse’s sole focus should be to make…

Nursing Process Peter O. Case Study The purpose of this paper is to establish an effective care plan for Peter O. The nursing process is used to analyze his assessment data and physical examination to establish a priority, a long-term, and a teaching nursing diagnosis. The paper will focus on evaluating subjective and objective data and determine attainable goals for the nursing diagnosis’ using proper nursing interventions and rationales. Care Plan Nursing Diagnosis (Priority):…

during the hurricane attack should be dealt with. In view of this, the following five methods should be done by healthcare facilities. 1.) Immediate deployment of 300 or more healthcare staffs per million in urban areas. At the same time, 125 patient care personnel should be assigned in rural areas. 2.) Treatment, triage and disposition of about 500 pediatric and adult patients per 1 million of population who are experiencing trauma or acute illness that requires hospitalization should be done.…

Nurses Impact on Past and Present Health Issues The impact nurses have with regards to immunization and health care, is by being an advocate, and a resource used to educate people on the importance that vaccinations have on their overall health. According to a report given by the former American Nurse Association [ANA] President Karen Daley, “Registered nurses play a vital role in teaching patients, families, and communities about how to prevent disease…with pertussis, we are counting on nurses…

certified EHR technology; however, EHR is more focused on the patient’s total health and does not include all needed data. “When designing data collection efforts, quality improvement teams need to maintain a balanced perspective of the process of care by collecting data in all four categories: clinical quality, financial performance, patient satisfaction, and functional status” (Joshi, Ransom, Nash, & Ransom, 2014, p.113). Patient’s satisfactory have to be done separately to have a complete…

The patient is a 57 year old female who went to the Urgent Care due to a complaint of shortness of breath, weakness and leg edema. She was seen by the Urgent Care Physician who advised her that she has fluid overload with severe hypertension and a holosystolic murmur. She was then sent to the ER for further observation. Her religious preference is Catholicism. N.E. has no known allergies. Imaging studies of the chest was done and the imaging studies suggested congestive heart failure, and the…

intends to reflect on and critically analyse the provision of palliative care within her clinical setting, a twenty-one bedded medical unit, with reference to one case study in particular, as well as on a more general level based on her experiences to date. The writer intends to discuss one case study in reference to the guiding principles of palliative care and the concept of a good death in relation to that individuals care and the setting in general. A high proportion of patients are…