Nursing process

Importance of Nursing Informatics Healthcare is an ever-changing system that requires adaptability to the most up-to-date patient care advancements and improvements. Informatics specialized nurses are dedicated to the advancement and improvement of nursing, information, computer and cognitive sciences that are vital to the enhancement of patient health. Informatics specialized nurses collect, manage and disseminate essential nursing “data, information, knowledge and wisdom” to provide superior…

project is to improve the communication and collaboration among the nurses at Rosewood Care Center’s sub-acute unit. The implementation of bedside reporting to standardize the process of shift handoffs will be part of an evidence-based nursing quality improvement project of the unit. The goal is to develop a change in nursing practice that will ensure the delivery of safe, quality, and effective patient care. The project focuses on the CNL’ core curriculum of Quality Improvement and Safety under…

be implementing a transformational management style within health care organizations and by also by using the specialized orientation programs within an organization. The transformational management style method would work in the process that it would empower the nursing staff in feeling that they were an important aspect to the organization and that they were helping in making a change. The new management style works to empower employees to the extent that it helps to improve their quality of…

Model was chosen because it allows the knowledge collected from evidence-based research findings to be directly applied to the targeted area under review (Schaffer, Sandau, & Diedrick, 2013). This model is a valuable tool in critical thinking and nursing investigation because it allows nurses to consider all the necessary processes and steps needed to implement changes as generated by evidence-based research findings (Schaffer et al., 2013). The Stetler Model best suits the facility because it…

A nursing problem that is concerning to this author is that psychiatric patients that are boarding in the emergency room do not have a therapeutic environment to starting the healing and recovery process. This phenomenon of concern is important to the writer because the writer works in an emergency room and sees this every day. Most nurses went into nursing to help people this writer does not feel like she is helping these psychiatric patients when they are boarding in the emergency room.…

to consider an intervention, such as escalating care by calling a rapid response team. EWS scores were originally designed for paper, requiring periodic hand-scoring of multiple variables. But the time and effort required made it burdensome for nursing staff. Leveraging technology, it is now possible for EMRs to analyze values entered, display an updated EWS score each time new data is entered, and trigger an alert in the EMR (Kho et al., 2007). Use of automated EWS was found to…

In the nursing profession it is important that one should strive to gain strong leadership skills. Every nurse is considered a leader. A good nurse leader can use different styles of leadership depending on the situation at hand. They should be able to be flexible in any situation presented. The right style of leadership should be carefully chosen for any given situation because it is vital for employees to be able to perform at their full potential. Good nursing leadership can help to boost…

School nursing practice, “in daily practice, school nurses implement some or all of the practice components of care coordination based on an assessment of the student and family needs” (p.46). It includes many areas that the school nurse performs to keeps the students healthy and safe. This requires wearing several hats, which are case manager, chronic disease management, collaborative communication, direct care education, interdisciplinary teams, motivational interviewing/counseling, nursing…

Professionalization of Nursing Introduction In Singapore, Nursing has undergone through professionalization. Before defining Nursing as a profession, we should look at what constitutes professionalization and profession. According to Hamilton (1992 p.32), professionalization is “the process by which an occupation develops the characteristics of a profession". Webster 's Dictionary (quoted in Gokenbach, 2013) defined profession as a "chosen, paid occupation requiring prolonged training and…

INTRODUCTION Continuity of care is an essential objective promoted in nursing practice (Messam and Pettifer, 2009) and the indispensable component in achieving an effective transfer of patient’s care between health practitioners are often referred to as clinical handover (Evan et al., 2012). The term ‘handover’ is acknowledged as a moment of making a significant transition in maintaining patients’ continuity of care which involves a process whereby a patient is ‘handed over’ from one clinician…