Tag: Nursing

Ethical Concepts in the Provision of Nursing Care
11th Feb 2020
Introduction: The nursing process is more than a method that nurses use to diagnose and treat actual and potential health problems. The American Nurses Association (ANA) Standards of Nursing Practice provides a bas...

Development of a Learner in a Hospital Setting
11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Clinician To Educator Nurse Additional skills and requirements Making the transition from clinician to educator is an exciting step in a nurse’s career. Clinicians considering the transition should ...

Impact of the European Paediatric Life Support Course
11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Abstract Background: Even though anaesthetists do not resuscitate children on a daily basis, they need to perform paediatric life support regularly due to their different duties. As the knowledge of i...

Significance of Evidence Based Practice in Nursing
11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Nursing is a profession accountable to society for providing high quality cost-effective care for patients and their families (Burns & Grove, 2007). This assignment will define evidence based pra...

Symptoms of Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC)
11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Pathophysiology Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is an acquired syndrome that occurs when a stimulus pathologically activates intravascular coagulation and fibrinolysis resulting in an unb...

Cost Effectiveness of Dialysis for ESRD Patients
11th Feb 2020
Introduction: From 2002-2009 diabetic nephropathies represented 41% of all end-stage renal (ESRD) patients in St. Lucia, which is significantly higher when compared with global distribution. Renal replacement thera...

The Impact of Education on Economic Cost of Diabetes
11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is undeniably a global epidemic. Development of drugs and other health care tools for the treatment of diabetes patients are in full swing all over the world, yet, little attention i...

Improving Concordance to Smoking Cessation Treatment
11th Feb 2020
Introduction: National Institute of Clinical Excellence (2009) identified that medicine taking is a complex human behaviour that lies ultimately, in the hands of the patient. NICE (2009) estimates that between a th...

History of and Importance of Handwashing
11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Introduction Hand washing is the removal of micro-organisms from hands using running water or alcohol rub or gel (Brooker and Waugh, 2007). It is the most effective way of controlling the spread of in...

The Heart, Hands and the Mind in Midwifery
11th Feb 2020
Introduction: The Art of Midwifery Midwifery places the woman and the midwife at the centre of midwifery care. It is said that midwifery is an art that uses the heart, the hands and the mind. In relation to working...

Dignity in Care for Adults with Learning Disabilities
11th Feb 2020
Introduction: The primary aim of the proposed research is to analyse the meaning, perceptions and quality of dignity in healthcare with respect to adults who have learning disabilities in the United Kingdom and stu...

Accountability and Assessment in Nursing Mentorship
11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Introduction The Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) (2008a, p.23) declares in its Standards to Support Learning and Assessment in Practice that a “mentor is a mandatory requirement for pre-regis...

Development of Nursing Skills in Oral Care Placement
11th Feb 2020
Introduction: INTRODUCTION This essay is going to focus on the nursing skills that I developed during a period of placement simulations and in the community, placing emphasis on oral care, communication and bed bat...

Importance of Nursing Informatics in Nurses Daily Practice
11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Introduction Data is the basic and the fundamental concept that this study focus on. Since there is no information can be acquired without availability of data (Ahsan and Shah, 2006). The data that we...

Infection Control Practices in Nursing Homes
11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Introduction Literature review on the infection control practices in the Nursing Homes most particularly in the United Kingdom. It is well known that the elderly population has a substantially increas...

Causes of Road Traffic Accidents (RTA)
11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Road accident fatalities are one of the major causes of death and injuries in Malaysia. Believed it or not, every years more people died because of road accident compare to diseases. Human factors, in...

Congestive Cardiac Failure: Signs, Symptoms and Treatment
11th Feb 2020
Introduction: James Rowe Assessment 2 Mr Wright’s admission states that he has heart failure (Congestive Cardiac Failure). Clearly define heart failure. What organs and which body systems are affected by ...

Relationship Between Staff Motivation and Performance
11th Feb 2020
Introduction: INTRODUCTION Shortages can be a symptom of demotivation, poor management and lack of organizational support (Zurn et al., 2005). Shortages are resulting in heavy workload, which is a precursor to job ...

Assessment and Accountability in Nursing
11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Mentors have responsibility to assist students to develop their clinical skills and knowledge on placements. As well as developing clinical skills, students also develop their interpersonal skills an...

Ethical, Legal and Professional Duties of Nurses
11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Introduction: Nurses are subject to a large number of ethical, legal and professional duties which are so many to be discussed in this essay so that is why only main important ethical and legal duties...

Decision Support Methods in Healthcare
11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Introduction Currently, healthcare practitioners are working hard to ensure that the safety of patients is guaranteed. They are also working toward averting expensive lawsuits that result from medical...

ABCDE Approach for Critically Ill Patients
11th Feb 2020
Introduction: The topic I have chosen for my vignette is a patient with chest pain. The Resuscitation Council (UK 2006) recommends that clinical staff should follow the ABCDE approach when assessing and treating cr...

Respiratory System Procedures
11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Carol Bailey, MSN, RN Introduction | Task | Process | Evaluation | Conclusion | Credits Introduction You are a nurse working in a PCU. Your clinical unit specializes in the care of patients who ar...

Pharmacists Role in Complementary & Alternative Medicines
11th Feb 2020
Introduction: Pharmacists Role in Complementary & Alternative Medicines The first section of this paper will provide background information on the use of complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs) and thei...

Importance of Statistical Research in Medicine
11th Feb 2020
Introduction: The Nepal Journal of Epidemiology is the first journal of its kind in Nepal. Our main objective in pioneering this journal is to attempt to provide a common platform for all researchers, particularly ...