Nursing homes

models of care that are designed to reduce costs and provide a value-based health care system. These models are the Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), the Medical/Health Homes, and the Nurse-Managed Health Clinics (NMHCs). With a focus on reducing admissions, reducing readmissions, and decreasing…

The different types of advanced practice nursing roles are the nurse practitioner, the nurse educator, nurse administrator and the nurse informaticist. These roles can be further defined by clinical versus non-clinical practice. While all of these roles require a graduate level education or greater, such as a Doctorate, the setting for practice and role in the health care industry do differ. According to the website Healthleadersmedia.com, the nurse practitioners role is to “focus on health…

In the last five years, I have worked as a CNA, an LVN at a nursing home and clinic, and an RN in the CVICU. All of these experiences have greatly contributed to my solid nursing foundation. As a CNA, I enjoyed the direct interaction and knowing my patients on a personal level. As an LVN, I handled up to 35 patients while supervising the CNAs. I also performed wound care for up to 100 patients when I worked as a Wound Care Nurse. As a float nurse at the clinic, I felt most connected to the…

The Washington DC Board of nursing is an agency in charge of regulating all category of Nursing like Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, and Nurse Midwives, Nurse Practioners, and Advanced practice registered nurses. The board of nursing also regulate nursing assistive personal such as certified nursing assistant and home health aides. The DC board of nursing perform its regulations by ensuring and verifying that each healthcare provider have adequate education and training needed…

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Telenursing: Is It in My Future Sukhpreet Kaur Chamberlain College of Nursing NR-361: Information Systems in Healthcare November 2015 Telenursing: Is It in My Future How about telenursing? Could a position as a telenurse be the career change I have been seeking? These questions have been playing over and over in my head from the moment Tomika suggested that I should apply for the position; it seems to offer many benefits. She says that I would be able to monitor my patients, assess and…

you are to be in a long term care facility, 70% of people over 65 can sooner or later be in a nursing home. The regulations state and federal are to protect the patients from neglect and abuse. Nursing homes are required in order to participate in Medicare and Medicaid to participate in quality of care rules. The law that nursing homes must go by is the nursing home reform act, it states that nursing homes must provide services that keep…

My Nursing Career Journey Nursing is a professional career that can be challenging for most people. To be a nurse, it does require you to have some of these few characteristics: understanding, patience, knowledgeable, friendly, respectful, flexible, caring, emotional stable, and most of all kind. There are many more qualities involve to be a good nurse; it is a never-ending learning experience when you enter the world of nursing. Seem tiring, isn’t it? But very rewarding at the same time!…

Florence Nightingale was born May 12th, 1820 and died August 13th, 1910, during that time she accomplished many feats that shaped the field of nursing today. She reduced death rates during war by thousands, improved sanitary conditions in hospitals, overall health care reform and implemented a formal school for nursing. As a child Florence lived in Italy, she was the younger of two children. At a young age she was interested in philanthropy, ministering the ill and the poor people in the small…

Working in a nursing career. Nursing is one of the faster- growing occupation in the United States. Making up the majority of the healthcare industry, Nurses prevented illness and injury, they alleviated the suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of the person, and advocated the care of the Individuals, families, communities, and populations. Nurses work in general and surgical hospitals, doctors’ offices nursing care Facilities, outpatient Facilities, schools and home Health…