Health - Nursing
Healthcare and Nursing
The most important characteristics and attributes a person must have to be successful in patient care are empathy, the ability to listen and communicate with the patient, kindness, patience and clinical expertise. I believe that the ability to identify with someone in their current situation, even if it means sharing a cup of tea and letting them "remember when" before helping them perform ADL's they are no longer capable of, is crucial to creating a feeling of trust. It is important to validate a person's humanity. This enables their willingness to work with you to determine and achieve goals they may have concerning their health care. Kindness in caring and patience in listening is at times, all a patient needs. Having excellent clinical skills is equally as important. Loving kindness does a nurse no good if they injure their patient through lazy practice and incomplete knowledge.
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A healthy community needs to be built from the bottom up. Those things that affect the children need to be addressed so that the children can have a better shot at growing up into healthy adults. Low birth weights, poor nutrition and a lack of physical exercise are all major contributors to the incidences of childhood illness and disease. Children can not control the environments that they are born into so everyone needs to work together in order to make sure that all environments are healthy so that the kids stand a shot of first off making it to adult hood and then being healthy when they get there.
The health of the community in Duval County, Florida seems to very cyclical. There is a high incidence of poverty and unemployment rates that usually lead to high degrees of crime and drug use. Those that live in these poorer neighborhoods are…...
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Crimes reported in Duval County Florida Crime 2000. (2007). Retrieved February 23, 2010,
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Duval County, Florida (FL). (2010). Retrieved February 23, 2010, from City Data Web site:
When left untreated, mental health conditions can lead to school failure, family conflicts, drug abuse, violence, and even suicide. Untreated mental health disorders can be very expensive for families, communities, and the health care system. Teens in rural areas in particular face many challenges for which there are not enough resources available. They face problems such as: isolation, loneliness, and poor access to transportation, increased economic conflict, unemployment, poor housing, divorced families, and a lack of specialized mental health services (Weiss, Battagilia, and Epstein, n.d). Teens often turn toward risk taking behaviors such as alcohol and drug abuse as well as sexual activity when they have no other way to deal with their problems (Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2003).
Providing a help center for these teens is one way to try and help the youth in these areas. The teen center would be beneficial by providing opportunities for mental…...
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Johnson, MPH, CFNP. Rhonda M. (2000). Rural Health Response to Domestic Violence: Policy
and Practice Issues Emerging Public Policy Issues and Best Practices.
Retrieved March 30, 2009, from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
career of Home Health Nursing. With the baby boomer generation aging quickly, there will be an increased need for in home health care and home health nurses. This is a career with a future, since many aging and disabled patients want to remain in their own homes, rather than a nursing or retirement home, for as long as possible.
Home health nurses perform nursing functions inside the patient's home. They can be all the functions of a traditional nurse in a healthcare facility; they are simply performed on site, instead of in the hospital. One real element of the home health nurse is interacting with a variety of patients. They often see several patients each day, and they have to get from one patient's house quickly and effectively, so they need to be organized, efficient, and still compassionate and understanding with each patient. A Web site notes, "apport is evident…...
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Editors. (2009). How to become a home health nurse. Retrieved 7 Nov. 2009 from the Mynursingdegree.com Web site:
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Editors. (2009). Home Healthcare Nurses Association. Retrieved 7 Nov. 2009 from the Home Healthcare Nurses Association Web site: http://www.hhna.org.
Editors (2009). National Association for Home Care & Hospice. Retrieved 7 Nov. 2009 from the National Association for Home Care & Hospice Web site: http://nahc.org/.
Disaster in Franklin County
Emergency Management is the organizational protocol that prepares for disaster response, supporting and rebuilding systems and society after natural of human disasters occur, and a continuous process in which groups from the community level up manage potential hazards and the impact of any possible trauma. EM is visible when events occur (hurricanes, flooding, bombs, etc.) but is really only as powerful and effect as its pre-Crisis planning and risk reduction management allows (Haddow, 2004, 2-4). Nursing response to emergencies will then, take two forms; the emergency room nurse manager who deals with tactical emergencies on a regular basis and the strategic nurse manager who prepares for uncommon and rare emergencies, and interfaces with the appropriate levels of community disaster preparedness groups. The manner in which nurses can interface well with emergency management comes partly through knowledge and participation in policy development -- working with their own administrator…...
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Diaster in Franklin County: A Public Health Similation. (2012). University of Minnesota Centers for Public Health Education and Outreach. Retrieved from: http://ustar.ahc.umn.edu/cpheo/catalog/main.cfm?event_id=4516&activity_id=7594
Berbarie, T. (2010). Charge Nurse Program Builder. Marblehead, MA: HCPro.
Haddow, George. (2007). Introduction to Emergency Management, 3rd ed. Butterworth.
Veenema, T., ed. (2007). Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness. New York:
Community Nursing Reflection #5
Reading through Chapters 21-24 and 30-32 allowed me to have a more comprehensive view of nursing as my chosen profession and vocation. In these chapters, I learned about the different facets of nursing, which could be dependent on the people that nurses work with or the environment or settings they work in. For example, nurses could work with people of different socio-demographic profiles. Most evident was the different kinds of work that nurses do depending on the "developmental progression of individuals." Nurses might focus their work with toddlers and young children, school-age children and adolescents, adult men and women, and/or the elderly. Further, nurses could also work in different settings, such as schools, communities, and private institutions or organizations (e.g. nursing homes). This range of people to work with and places to work in for nurses demonstrate not only the nurse's wide scope of work, but most…...
Introduction
Clinical reasoning is linked to sound and evidence-based clinical judgment, to problem solving and decision-making, and to critical thinking. Critical thinking in the nursing profession is in turn defined as the “purposeful, self-regulatory judgment that uses cognitive tools such as interpretation, analysis, evaluation, inference, and explanation” of contextual variables (Benner, Hughes & Sutphen, 2008, p. 1). Therefore, clinical reasoning is central to promoting a high quality of patient care and in ensuring positive and goal-driven patient outcomes.
The clinical reasoning cycle provides a standard framework for critical thought in healthcare, and can be used by nurses in every patient sector. This current case study illustrates the importance of taking into account a multitude of variables, in order to achieve patient outcomes in a holistic manner. The clinical reasoning cycle minimizes biases, assumptions, and prejudices, allowing healthcare providers to remain open to a number of different options and possibilities. Description of the…...
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Benner, P., Hughes, R.G. & Sutphen, M. (2008). Clinical reasoning, decision making, and action. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Happell, B., Conwin, L., Roper, C., Lakeman, R. & Cox, L. (2013). Introducing mental health Nursing : A service user approach. 2nd ed. Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest.Howe, D., Batchelor, S., Coates, D. & Cashman, E. (2013). Nine key principles to guide youth mental health. Early Intervention in Psychiatry 8(2): 190-197.Kidd, S., Kenny, A. & McKinstry, C. (2014). From experience to action in recovery-oriented mental health practice: A first person inquiry. Action Research 12i(4): 357-373.Kidd, S.A., McKenzie, K.J. & Virdee, G. (2014). Mental health reform at a systems level. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 59(5): 243-249.McCloughen, A., Foster, K., Kerley, D. et al (2016). Physical health and well-being: Experiences and perspectives of young adult mental health consumers. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing 25(4): 299-307.Rickwood, D., Van Dyke, N. & Telford, N. (2013). Innovation in youth mental health services in Australia: common characteristics across the first headspace centres. Early Intervention in Psychiatry 9(1): 29-37.
Psychosocial Care in Mental Health Nursing
The study conducted by MacNeela, Clinton, Place, Scott, Treacy, Hyde, and Dowd (2010) dealt with the issue of psychosocial care in mental health nursing. Discussed here will be the method and presentation used in the study, along with the relevance and significance of the findings, the evidence that was offered, and whether that evidence was the most appropriate when contrasted with other evidence. The method and presentation use in the study involved 37 nurses who worked exclusively in the mental health field. They were asked to respond to a case (simulated) in which a person had a chronic and enduring problem with his or her mental health (MacNeela, et al., 2010). Both acute hospital nurses and those recruited from the community were asked to participate. There were two tasks to which these nurses were asked to respond: determining the person's problem, and making a…...
mlaReferences
MacNeela, P., Clinton, G., Place, C., Scott, A., Treacy, P., Hyde, A. And Dowd, H. (2010), Psychosocial care in mental health nursing: a think aloud study. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 66: 1297 -- 1307.
Communication
Mental Health Nursing
Communication plays an imperative role in building and maintaining any relationship. However, a positive and safe environment is essential to obtain the real benefits of communication. This refers to an environment where people communicate for positive goals and aims. Besides this, people in this environment feel free to communicate with others and share their views. This type of environment always results in achieving goals, making appropriate decisions, understanding the ideas of others etc. In contrast to this, an environment where people do not feel free to communicate always results in misunderstanding and conflicts (Thayer, pg. 20, 2009). A safe and positive communication environment is always good for individuals as well as for the society.
As far as the professional relationships are concerned, they cannot be maintained without effective communication between the service provider and the client. It is because of the fact that the service provider will only let…...
mlaReferences
Grimshaw, C., & Hussain, I. 1997. Communication. Chicago: World Book in association with Two-Can Pub.
Thayer, L. 2009. Communication. [S.l.]: Xlibris.
Epidemiology in Public Health Nursing
When a disease is described as endemic, it usually refers to the expected or normal prevalence of an infectious agent for a specific group or region (Beaglehole, Bonita, and Kjellstrom, 1993). The cause of malaria, the parasite Plasmodium faciparum, is limited to tropical and subtropical regions of the world, including Central and South America, Central and South East Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa (Hay et al., 2009). Malaria is therefore endemic to these regions.
The definition of pandemic varies depending on which international or national health agency or organization is referred to (Doshi, 2011), but generally speaking, a pandemic represents at least two epidemics of a single novel infectious agent, occurring at the same time in at least two distinct populations or geographic regions. While many health organizations include widespread morbidity and mortality in the definition of pandemic, the recent global 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak was declared a…...
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Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS. (2010). Global Report: UNAIDS report on the global AIDs epidemic -- 2010. Retrieved October 3, 2011 from http://www.unaids.org/globalreport/documents/20101123_GlobalReport_full_en.pdf
Blood tests are done to look for signs of inflammation which can suggest inflamed arteries. Certain blood proteins are tested that can increase the chance of stroke by thickening the blood" (Definition, 2009, Medicine net). ith a carotid ultrasound a transducer can send high-frequency sound waves into the patient's neck to look for narrowing of the carotid arteries. In arteriography, a catheter is manipulated through the patient's major arteries to examine them after the arteries are injected with dye (Tests and diagnosis, 2009, Mayo Clinic).
hat medicines, treatments, and/or surgeries are used for a patient who has had a CVA?
The cause of the stroke will determine the patient's course of treatment. For patients with strokes due to coronary factors, anticoagulants are often used to minimize blood clotting. Drugs that can dissolve blood clots may be useful in some patients, as can the administration of oxygen and medications that can help…...
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Diagnosis and treatment. (2009). Mayo Clinic. Stroke. Retrieved September 5, 2009 at http://www.mayoclinic.org/stroke/
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2009 at http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/stroke/DS00150/DSECTION=treatments-and-drugs
These spots, called petechiae, are caused by bleeding under the skin. Patients often suffer from paleness or jaundice accompanied by fatigue and fever. They often have a quickened heart rate and shortness of breath. Symptoms often include a headache, speech changes, confusion, coma, stroke, or seizure. There is sometimes found to be a protein or blood in the urine (What Are the Signs and Symptoms of Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura, 2009).
Although most people will only have one episode of TTP in their lifetime, a small percentage of people have repeated episodes. Some research has shown that during a 10-year period from the initial onset of the disease about a third of patients will have at least one relapse. A relapse can occur up to eight years after the initial episode. Currently there is no way to identify those who might relapse. Doctors often recommend long-term preventative measures that include low…...
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Allford, Sarah. (2009). Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP). Retrieved December 7,
2009, from Net Doctor Web site: http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/diseases/facts/ttp.htm
Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura. (2006). Retrieved December 7, 2009, from University
of Missouri-Columbia Web site: http://www.vhct.org/case2300/etiology.htm
Epidemiology-Descriptive Method
DESCIPTIVE EPIDEMIOLOGY IN NUSING PACTICE
Descriptive Epidemiology in Nursing Science
The genesis for the disease control involves summarizing the different conditions using the variables such as place, time, and person to analyze the disease outbreak, patterns, and the outcomes. Often, sound decisions regarding the outbreak of an epidemic require data collections, hypothesizing the possible causes of diseases outbreak, and using effective strategies for evaluation of the program to understand the health status in the population (Lithovius et al. 2015). The desire of public health professionals in an epidemiological study is to understand the determinants of the disease and its distribution. The distribution and the patterns of a disease are important in determining the intervention programs and evaluations strategies to counter the disease outbreak.
In nursing practices, the descriptive epidemiology is one of the sources of information about the health status of the population. It helps give a picture regarding the distributions of…...
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Assiri, A., Al-Tawfiq, J. A., Al-Rabeeah, A. A., Al-Rabiah, F. A., Al-Hajjar, S., Al-Barrak, A.,. .. & Makhdoom, H. Q. (2013). Epidemiological, demographic, and clinical characteristics of 47 cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus disease from Saudi Arabia: a descriptive study. The Lancet infectious diseases, 13(9), 752-761.
Ausserhofer, D., Zander, B., Busse, R., Schubert, M., De Geest, S., Rafferty, A. M.,. .. & Sjetne, I. S. (2014). Prevalence, patterns, and predictors of nursing care left undone in European hospitals: results from the multicountry cross-sectional RN4CAST study. BMJ quality & safety, 23(2), 126-135.
Canadas-De la Fuente, G. A., Vargas, C., San Luis, C., Garcia, I., Canadas, G. R., & Emilia, I. (2015). Risk factors and prevalence of burnout syndrome in the nursing profession. International journal of nursing studies, 52(1), 240-249.
Lithovius, R. H., Ylikontiola, L. P., Harila, V., & Sandor, G. K. (2014). A descriptive epidemiology study of cleft lip and palate in Northern Finland. Acta Odontologica Scandinavica, 72(5), 372-375.
Background
Josephine Lawrence (name changed to protect anonymity) has been a community health nurse employed by the city for almost five years. Working in the public sector is radically different from working in a private healthcare institution, notes Lawrence, who had practiced as an RN for ten years prior to her career change. When asked what precipitated the change. Lawrence said that a lot of it had to do with the way her mind works. She always preferred “big picture” issues, as she put it, recognizing the need for greater community activism, empowerment, and advocacy.
Changes to the Profession
According to Lawrence, the profession has not changed appreciably over the past four to five years. The most important changes to healthcare in general have been due to legislation and policy, with the Affordable Care Act having less of a bearing on community health operations than on the budgets and management of private institutions.…...
Windshield Survey on Community Health Nursing
This survey is out of San Jose, California to define 3 out of 5 aspects (mental, emotional, physical, social, and spiritual health) of a community that could affect health. These communities are based out of specific groups in the San Jose neighborhoods who reside in close areas and sometimes even share the same cultural and historical backgrounds. In the public health sector of this area, we are concerned with the evaluation and enhancement of the well-being of the population, as well as, its application and community health nursing education and practices. One main health indicator that we have observed is the responsibility of sexual behavior. Therefore, this windshield survey below will address each of the components we have listed as they relate to the people of San Jose, California.
Housing & Zoning:
Notes: new homes constructed in 2010 were 74 built with avg. cost of $245k,
Transportation:
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Bloom’s taxonomy is a way of using three hierarchical models to classify learning objectives. Bloom’s taxonomy breaks learning down into three broad models based on learning styles: cognitive, affective, and sensory. It then further divides each of these three larger categories into smaller areas. The cognitive domain is divided into knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. The affective domain is divided into receiving, responding, valuing, organizing, and characterizing. The sensory domain is divided into perception, set, guided response, mechanism, complex overt response, adaptation, and origination. It can be helpful to keep these various....
Nursing Theory and Practice
The Impact of Nursing Theories on Patient Outcomes
The Role of Critical Thinking in Nursing Practice
Ethical Decision-Making in Nursing: Frameworks and Case Studies
Interdisciplinary Collaboration and its Implications for Nursing Care
Innovations in Nursing Education: Exploring Future Trends
Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice
The Importance of Nursing Research for Improving Patient Care
Conducting Nursing Research: Research Designs, Methods, and Analysis
Translating Research Findings into Clinical Practice: Challenges and Strategies
The Role of Technology in Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice
Evaluation of Nursing Interventions: Methods and Impact
Nursing Management and Leadership
The Transformational Leader in Nursing: Inspiring and....
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