Achieving Course Goals
After review of the topics we shall be covering, relations between my nursing practice and course material became noticeable. The course topic that I felt related most to my current practice is, "grammar and punctuation" for the following reasons. Nurses must be precise and effective when documenting which makes grammar and punctuation an essential skill to understand and perfect. The purpose of documentation is to promote effective communications, ensure quality patient care, and meet professional legal standards. Documentation is a vital component in the healthcare delivery system and is essential in communicating amongst other professionals. It is the way healthcare providers can be assure of continuity and quality care being provided to patients.
Proper documentation accommodates the need of patients and protects the nurse by providing an audit trail in a court of law. Inadequate documentation can lead to any claim in regard to a supposed act of negligence or malpractice (Curtin, 2014). Clear and precise documentation can therefore be a vital means of proof for nurses faced with a dispute over quality of care. In frequently hectic workplaces, registered nurses are faced with some constraints to accurate documentation, though, that must be overcome in order to capture the requisite clinical data (de Ruiter & Demma, 2011).
Irrespective of the nature of the working environment, nurses must accurately record all relevant facts concerning their patients' conditions (Green, 2014). In addition, documentation by nursing staff should also include all of the primary clinical concepts that relate to current and future patient care (Green, 2014). Finally, nursing documentation must provide the associated ICD-10 codes for the recorded patient conditions (Green, 2014). This final point is an especially important one because as of October 1, 2014, the ICD-10 code set replaced the former ICD-9 code set with a corresponding increase in the number of codes that are required to be learned and used routinely by nursing staff (Green, 2014).
Many times documentation errors are caused by misunderstandings or miscommunications but in some cases the sources of other documentation problems are less readily discernible. The research to date shows that in some improper documentation incidents, nurses have left blank spaces on patient's charts that have been added to by other nursing staff that caused delays in treatment and medication, while...
COURSE DEVELOPMENTCommunity Health Nursing Course DevelopmentPart ACourse OverviewBSN nurses must be prepared to practice and function effectively in a wide range of settings. Community health is considered an integral part of the public health sector. For this reason, it remains part and parcel of efforts to not only improve the health and wellbeing of the masses, but also fend off infectious diseases. This course will equip learners with the skills
Collaborative Nursing Course Reflect on your mastery of each goal (Leadership & Organizational). Summarize what you have accomplished to date; what did you learn? The different goals were concentrating on improving leadership development and organizational planning. What was accomplished was we learned the best techniques and strategies in achieving these objectives. The challenges that were faced are understanding how and when to apply these areas in a real world setting. The problem
Learning in adults is most effectual when the environment is both participative and interactive. Another important characteristic is that learners obtain instantaneous feedback. Teaching methods that necessitate a learner to think though data or information and come to a conclusion or forecast an outcome are more valuable than is reading or lecture. "The minute-to-minute care and monitoring of critically ill patients requires nurses to collect, analyze, and react to
Nursing shortages and high nurse turnover are very common issues faced in the health care industry. This instability of workforce in the health care industry in many countries is raising questions about performance of the nurses and quality of the patient care. Gray & Phillips (1996) pointed out that nursing turnover has a negative impact on the organization's ability to meet the needs of the patients and provide them quality care.
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The procedure itself and the hospital stay associated with it is only one small chapter in the patient's life. They will eventually go home and will have many years after the procedure. It is important for the nursing staff to make a positive impact on how they feel about the procedure. The procedure will represent a lasting memory to the patient. If the patient perceives this to be a
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