The questions on legal liability issues were minimal as the field of legal issues is new in nursing. The questions addressed a theoretical part regarding the legal liability issues. They were no need of clarification since the questionnaires were easy and self -- administrative. Although the researcher was there for assistance but telephonically.
1.7. Data analysis

In this chapter, the analysis is discussed in detail. Data was collected by means of questionnaires that were distributed in the critical care units of a private hospital group over five weeks. The questionnaires were completed and returned to the researcher. Of the two hundred questionnaires distributed, 171 were received back. This represents a response of 85%, which in view of the discussion can be rated as very good.

1.8. Layout of the study

The paper is divided into five chapters. Chapter one in generally on the general orientation of the paper while chapter is on the….

Director of Critical Care
Mr./Ms. X, Chief Nursing Officer

Adventist Midwest Health System

120 North Oak Street, Hinsdale, IL 60521

E: DIECTO OF NUSING III, Critical Care, Full Time (Job Number: 118447)

Dear Mr. / Ms. X:

My annexed resume is submitted for the position of "Director of Nursing III, Critical Care, Full Time, Job Number 118447." While the resume details my extensive qualifications, I appreciate this opportunity to speak pointedly about my exceptional capabilities for this position. Excellent patient care is the hallmark of my 20-year Nursing career and with or without the title of "Director," I have readily led, collaborated or followed as needed in my unflinching commitment to that ideal. As a result, in addition to the customary minimal qualifications, I possess a depth and breadth of outstanding skills that make me an exemplary candidate and I welcome 24-hour accountability to achieve system-wide excellence.

I am specifically well-suited to an executive role in the….

The final question (g) of having adequate resource availability in terms of familial and financial aid I was unable to assess. I was curious if the medications she would have to take would be a burden in terms of costs, administration, or confusion with her many other treatment.
Personal reflection about visit to the CSICU

Although I was a bit frustrated I was not able to get to know Ms. X better, I thrived in the very intense and fast-paced environment. I was constantly aware of the need to closely monitor the patient, because I knew there could be and was likely to be constant change in terms of the patient's medical condition as she was still very critical and highly unstable, when she first came in from the operating room. It was very personally empowering to me to know that I had such a positive impact upon a patient's recovering….

The conglomeration of BCs and platelets held together by the fibrin forms the clot. After the injury to the damaged artery heals, the clot is no longer needed. The body will then destroy the clot by breaking down the fibrin fiber network that binds the blood products together. This action is performed by a chemical called tissue plasminogen activator (TPA), which is secreted by the endothelial cells within normal blood vessels. To be strictly correct, the TPA itself does not break down the clot but instead initiates a cascade in which plasminogen is activated and becomes plasmin, with then acts on the fibrin breaking fibrin down into fibrin degradation products. The fibrin fibers are cleaved, and the clot is destroyed. All thrombolytic agents facilitate the conversion of plasminogen to plasmin and are therefore known as plasminogen activators
Indications for thrombolysis are ST-elevation in two or more contiguous leads on ECG….

Orem's Theory And Critical Care
Background- The 21st century nursing profession has a greater exposure to new technologies, methods, and techniques than any other in the past. In fact, "the use of clinical judgment in the provision of care to enable people to improve, maintain, or recover health, to cope with health problems, and to achieve the best possible quality of life, whatever their disease or disability, until death" is one of the definitions of modern nursing (oyal College of Nursing, 2003). While this is certainly the case, it is also important not to lose touch of the holistic approach -- that of advocating and caring for the patient based on their individual needs. One approach that can help the nurse manage patient care and advocacy is the theory of "Self-Care Deficit," based on the book Nursing: Concepts of Practice (Orem, 2001).

Orem found the medical care system Post-World War II more….

Quality of care provided by nursing practitioners at the emergency departments.AbstractOver the previous couple of decades, overcrowding in emergency rooms has now become progressively typical. Longer wait durations in the emergency room are linked to higher disease and death and lower client satisfaction. Providing quality care requires providing both the scientific and humanitarian aspects of nursing. The Rogers theory of unitary human beings enables nurses to function from a position of factual certainty while emphasizing the care they deliver. Personnel such as health care professionals, executives, and other professionals who undertake medical and non - medical roles play a significant role in evaluating the healthcare services delivered by nurse practitioners in the urgent care context. They assess the actions involved in providing quality care, make recommendations, and maintain quality.The studys primary objective is to report, review relevant, and consolidate the highest quality data on the quality of treatment, patient-to-provider time,….

users of your curriculum? Medical Providers are the primary target user group of the Fundamentals of Critical Care curriculum.
What are their needs? Medical Providers need to continue applying relevant research to critical care practice. Ongoing support and continuing education are essential for effective, reliable, and evidence-based quality of care. Medical Providers need to make "sound and rapid clinical judgments" while under pressure and also need to "recognize and deal with the ethical issues inherent" in a critical care environment (WHO European Strategy for Continuing Education for Nurses and Midwives, 2003). Therefore, primary needs include measurably improving quality of care based on patient outcomes, and improving perceived quality of care measured by both staff and patient self-reports.

How will evaluation results be used? Global rating forms, self-assessment forms, essays on the respondent's experience, written or computer-interactive tests, oral examinations, questionnaires, individual interviews, group interviews or discussions, direct observation, and performance audits….

Leadership Development Plan
As Moneke (2014) notes, the CCN certification "is a mark of excellence and a distinguishing accomplishment" (p. 77). It represents the knowledge that one, as a nurse, has and professionally uses to provide optimal level care to patients. Giving patients both the reassurance and confidence they require when receiving critical treatment and ensuring that I myself am qualified to give them the best care they can get is a top priority of mine,. Thus, my SMAT goal topic is to become a Critical Care egistered Nurse by obtaining my CCN certification.

SMAT Goal

My goal is to become CCN certified and be in a position to provide optimal quality person-centered care to patients.

M

I aim to achieve this goal first by obtaining the appropriate study materials for taking the exam and utilizing them to strengthen my understanding of the core assessments; I will study, practice and finally schedule the exam….

ealth Care Theory
The Modeling and Role Modeling Theory was developed by elen Erickson, Evelyn M. Tomlin, and Mary Anne P. Swain. It was first published in 1983 in their book Modeling and Role Modeling: A Theory and Paradigm for Nursing. This theory is very pertinent in regards to the changing dynamic of healthcare currently underway. New health care laws and regulations have created a more diverse and unique set of individuals with access to healthcare. Many of these individuals, were previously uninsured, or had very limited coverage. Due primarily to new regulation, many of these individuals can now access health care. The theory enables nurses to care for and nurture each patient with an awareness of and respect for the individual patient's uniqueness. This concept is critical as individual patients, more than anytime in history, will now have unique attributes that need attention. This exemplifies theory-based clinical practice that focuses….

The decade-old system that specifies least standards for staffing in nursing homes need to be restructured, the report says. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services must call for nursing homes to have at least one N within the facility during all times. Based on the departments' 2001 report to Congress on minimum staff-to-patient ratios for nursing homes, the HHS should mention the staffing levels that increased with the number of patients. Central and state report cards on nursing homes should give information on levels of nursing staff, and measuring of staffing levels should be developed for hospital report cards. The healthcare facilities should avoid using nurses from temporary agencies to fill the vacancy. (Substantial Changes equired in Nurses Work Environment to Protect Patients from Health Care Errors)
Working for long hours on the part of the nurse's makes them fatigue since it decreases their energy and reduces their….

Furthermore, one of the pillars of collaborative care that will need to be firmly established is the fostering of clear dialogue and a means for strong communication within the care management planning. For instance, there needs to be a clear decision and communication of all tests ordered and when the test results will be available. One of the most important aspects of this collaborative care will be the nursing interventions which can have significant impact on the patient's health and stabilization (Allen, 2010). In fact, strategic nursing care can even minimize readmission rates of Margaret and other patients with comparable conditions (Chen et al., 2012).

Prioritize the Nursing Care Needs of Margaret

The prioritization of nursing interventions is essential, and the way in which a nurse determines this priority is going to be something unique and distinct. "Trials reviewed demonstrated a beneficial impact of nursing interventions for secondary prevention in patients with….

Care:
Issler is a patient who recently moved with his daughter-in-law who is no longer married to his son. As part of her interest in helping to take care of Mr. Issler, she noticed that he was pale and diaphoretic after a two and a half hour flight. The daughter-in-law took him to an emergency room where he was attended to by a cardiologist and set a follow-up check up for an echo cardiogram next week. Mr. Issler has complained of congestive heart failure and a history of deep vein thrombosis. The cardiologist recommended that he seeks out a primary care provider and check up of his thyroid. As the primary care provider, the patient has also expressed his uncertainties on whether he has hyper of hypo thyroidism though he has been under thyroid medication for several years. In addition to being very pale, he has a large bag of….

Evolution of Health Care Information Systems Physician's Office Operation
Filling in the hole of health care information technology will endorse safe, capable, patient-centered, and patient care that is fruitful in a timely way. In this essay, the theme is to look into two modern health

care organizations and then compare and contrast many characteristics that will involve the kind of evidence systems are using at the moment, investigate the transmission of information 20 years ago and how the substitute of data today. Furthermore, this essay will cover two major events and technology developments that have inclined present Health Care Informational Services practices.

Compare and Contrast Doctor's Workplace Operation

These day's doctor's office operation is familiarizing to the health care reform that was sanctioned in 2010 by the Obama organization. During sometime in October of 2013, the exchanges in health insurance was available on the market for customers on order to buy health insurance placed….

Caring for ody and Soul
Critiquing Research Report

Modern nursing practice has focused more and more on treating the whole person, through four domains (Chan, 2009). These are physical, mental, social, and spiritual. Of the four, the spiritual domain is the most neglected. A retrospective study recently found that nurses with religious beliefs are more likely to extend spiritual care. The greater their spiritual perceptions, the more frequently they include a spiritual dimension to their care of patients (Chan). However, not many nurses are able to extend care in this domain.

Jean Watson's Theory of caring is applied as theoretical framework. Her concept sees caring as a process of transpersonal caring. It is something exceeding the self and recognizing the relationship as "mutual and reciprocal (Goliath, 2008)." It is in this environment that the nurse connects with the patient under his specific circumstances. Watson uses 10 carative factors in applying her theory.

This….

Critical Thinking Case Study: Let it Pour - My First Assignment as Executive Assistant
Key Problems and Issues

The first of the problems are coming from the origin of the hospital as it is an organization with a lot of spiritual heritage and values. These have to be retained even while providing all the required services and satisfaction for the patients. The second problem that the hospital is facing is due to the difficulties that exist in the operations of any hospital, and those difficulties exist irrespective of the mission or the origin of the hospital. One of the problems from this origin is the headlines and extensive coverage given by the media to medical errors that hospitals are committing. These are mentioned and reflect on all hospitals whether they are a party to such errors or not. Another problem arises from the differences within the issues of living up to the….

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Ethical Decision-Making in Nursing: Frameworks and Case Studies
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Conducting Nursing Research: Research Designs, Methods, and Analysis
Translating Research Findings into Clinical Practice: Challenges and Strategies
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