Nursing and Healthcare Essays

Study On The Management Of Chronic Asthma
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Introduction: According to the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), Ms V was on step 2 in the management of chronic asthma. She was on MDI Salbutamol 2 puffs when required and MDI Budesonide 200 mcg ...

Study On Substance Abuse Among Nurses
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Introduction: Alcohol and drug addiction are foremost, habitual, advanced, and often a catastrophic problem. United States society does not acknowledge addiction as a disease, but as a moral failure or lack of will...

Skills and Techniques Assessing Depression in a patient
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Introduction: Assessment of a depressed patient in at a keen level of mental illness could perhaps be one of the most significant jobs that a registered mental health nurse should deals within their vocation. The s...

Clinical Management of Opoid induced constipation
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Introduction: This case study outlines the clinical management of a client with a problem Opoid induced constipation. Throughout the analysis the anonymity and confidentiality of this patient will be protected as o...

Evidence Based Practice Paper On Myocardial Infarction
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Introduction: Also known as a heart attack, myocardial infarction (MI) is a dramatic and life changing event. The victim does not know how to resume a normal life post MI, so the nurse plays a pivotal role as an ed...

People Suffering Mental Disorder Auditory Hallucinations
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Introduction: Auditory hallucinations for some people suffering mental disorder are frequently experienced as alien and under the influence of some external force. These are often experienced as voices that are dis...

Aromatherapy In Reducing Patient Stress Levels
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Introduction: This report investigates how effective is aromatherapy, as a Complementary and Alternative Therapy, in order to decrease the level of stress in humans. The consequences of unhealthful lifestyles and n...

Communication With Family Members Of Critically Ill Patients
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Introduction: Critical Care Unit (CCU) or Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is designed to meet the special needs of acutely and critically ill patients in a hospital setting. In many acute care setting, the concept of ICU...

The concept of hope in nursing
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Introduction: INTRODUCTION The aim of this assignment is to explore the concept of hope in context to nursing practice. Various literature supports will be also undertaken for the concept in this piece of work. Hop...

Becoming a advanced scrub practitioner
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Introduction: I qualified as an Operating Department practitioner in September 2005, since qualifying I have worked hard to consolidate my training and look for ways in which to develop my career. Six months ago m...

Care, rationale and outcome in Coronary Care Unit
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Introduction: Nurses are required to continue education and upgrading of skills to ensure their patients receive the best possible nursing care. Cardiac nursing is a dedicated nursing practice that gives focused a...

Study On The Importance Of Healthcare Management
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Introduction: Healthcare management is a kind of process that seeks to manage and overlook properly one or two elements of the healthcare system. Today, great chances are there to become a manager within the health...

The Communication In A Diverse World
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Introduction: The first session was about the introduction of the Communication in a Diverse World. Communication can be described as the process of sending, receiving and sharing information between two people. (B...

Effective Leadership And Patient Safety Culture
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Introduction: In 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) reported that 44,000 to 98,000 Americans die each year as a consequence of medical error. These alarming figures published in the IOM article, To Err Is Human:...

Frameworks Of Care Assessments Applied To Childcare
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Introduction: This essay will discuss the framework of Roper, Logan and Tierney with regard to a holistic assessment of a child whom I have cared for while on placement. I will include a detailed explanation of the...

Role Of The Nurse As An Educator
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Introduction: The concept of the nurse as an educator, otherwise referred to as preceptorship, in nursing practice is nothing new. Infact, it has been an important part of training since the time of Florence Nighti...

What is clinical decision making?
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Introduction: Internal and external variables such as the nurse’s personal experience, knowledge, creative thinking ability, education, self concept, as meshed with the nurses’ working environment, and ...

Side Effects And Complications Of Chemotherapy
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Introduction: Chemotherapy is the treatment of cancer with the use of antineoplastic agents. It aims to attack fast-growing cancer cells in order to slow down or reverse the spread of cancer. It is used in the trea...

Oral Hygiene during Placement Simulation
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Introduction: In this essay, I will be reflecting on the importance of oral hygiene and my experience of giving and receiving oral hygiene care whilst on placement simulation. In conclusion, I will identify my own ...

Assessing A Student Nurse In Clinical Competencies
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Introduction: In the present environment of health care, a student graduating from any entry must be ready to hit the rat racing world. The student must be able to manage the client’s skilfully in an effectiv...

The Midwife: Promoting Normality In Childbirth
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Introduction: The aim of this essay is to discuss how the midwife is ‘the expert of normal’ and how she may promote normality in childbirth. The author will define ‘the midwife as the expert of th...

Shared Governance: Empowering The Staff
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Introduction: Nurses are in general leaders at heart but sometimes they need a model to express the need for shared leadership. Through the use of the shared governance model we as nurse leaders can empower the st...

Experiences of left handed student midwives
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Introduction: My choice of topic emerged whilst I was searching for my research paper to critique. In the September 2009 edition of the British Journal of Midwifery there was an article titled ‘Clinical Skill...

The History Of Medication Errors
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Introduction: Patient safety is an important part of nursing and is an expectation by the patient. According to the Institute of Medicine report, between 44,000 and 98,000 people die in hospitals each year from p...

The Different Aspects Of Health And Social Care
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Introduction: In the UK, Health and Social Care is a broad term that relates to integrated services that are available from health and social care providers. As a subject discipline, Health and Social Care (H&...