Health and nursing Q & As

1. What are health disparities? The inequalities that take place in the supply of healthcare and the approach towards the healthcare undertaking various ethnic, racial, socioeconomic, etc. groups are known as health disparities. 2. What is incidence? Incidence can be defined as the number of new cases that took place at a given time period, … Read more

Case study – 14 month old child with Pneumonia

Patients Details Name: xxxxx Age: 14 months Gender: Male Race: Malay Date of Admission: 7 December 2016 Date of Clerking: 8 December 2016 History Chief Complaint xxxx, 14 months old Malay boy, presented with 3 days history of cough, fever and rapid breathing. History of Presenting Illness He was apparently well until 3 days before … Read more

The Operating Room Nurses Association of Canada (ORNAC)

The Operating Room Nurses Association of Canada (ORNAC) is a professional Association for operating room nurses. ORNAC’s mission, vision and core values support patient care. Enhances nurse’s leadership qualities, advance education, promote competency to execute safe perioperative nursing practice and patient safety. Provide evidence-based practice care for a better client outcome. Maintain aseptic technique throughout … Read more

Analysis of two nursing articles: Sepsis education & antibiotic use in hospitals

Background or Introduction Sepsis is a serious and potentially fatal cascade of events during a serious infection. Nurses need to be able to recognize the early signs and symptoms of sepsis before it becomes too late to help our patients. The journal I chose states that the study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of … Read more

Integrating Nursing Informatics: Enhancing Patient-Centered Care Through the DIKW Continuum

Introduction Every day, nurses interact with patients from different backgrounds, presenting with distinct infections. Due to the amount of the information that a single nurse has to handle, it becomes essential to integrate the system to record and store the extra details about an individual. There is dire need to establish a program that incorporates … Read more

Informatics and Technology in Nursing

In nursing Informatics and Technology are defined as “specialty that integrates nursing science with multiple information and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage and communicate data, information, knowledge and wisdom in nursing practice, consumers, patients, the interprofessional healthcare team and other stakeholders in their decision making in all roles and settings to achieve desired outcomes” … Read more

Nursing responsibilities

Registered nurses are responsible for a lot but one of their main responsibilities is providing hands-on care to patients. Caring for people is not something that should be taken lightly and usually is not. It can be very rewarding but it can also cause a lot of stress so nurses need support wherever they can … Read more

Nursing

Nursing as a profession of front line care, requires not only scientific knowledge procured through study, but most importantly a high level of interpersonal and practical skills. All components of communication; verbal and non-verbal are essential prerequisites in meeting the needs of patients and their families as well as integral parts of nursing such as … Read more

PBL 3: E=Ecstasy – Nursing

PBL 3: E=Ecstasy   INTRODUCTION The scenario refers to Leah, who while celebrating her 18th birthday took one Ecstasy tablet. Over the next 3 hours, Leah seemed to enjoy herself but she complained of feeling hot and sweat a lot. She kept drinking water and 4 hours after taking the tablet she was found slumped … Read more

Ethics – nursing case study

Ethics are standards of behaviour which nurses act on when caring for patients (Tschudin, 1986; Edwards; Holland et al, 2008, Kozier et al, 2008. Conflict between ethics and moral dilemma is enshrined in the NMC (2015) code ethics their role as nurses and duty to the patient who want to know the truth and the … Read more

Spirituality and nursing

Spirituality is at the core of nursing professional identity (Hensel & Laux, 2014). It was reported that nursing students perceived high personal levels of spirituality (Shores, 2010). However, it is essential to include spirituality in nursing curricula to meet the demands of the profession (Wallace et al., 2008), as nursing students experience stress to meet … Read more

Nursing Pain Management

Abstract The phenomena of overcrowded Emergency Room have worsened with the immigration of health care professionals out of the Island of Puerto Rico. There are not enough nurses for the massive number of patients that arrive daily. Consequently, there is patient overflow to hallways for more than two weeks, and nurses find it difficult to … Read more

Some patients get better despite nursing care not as a result of it

As the exercise for the discussion suggests “some patients get better despite nursing care not as a result of it” (Marquis & Huston, 2015). The importance of the quality of nursing care cannot however be discounted in the patients’ outcomes. I strongly believe that the quality of nursing care goes a long way in making … Read more

Effect of Clinical Supervision Program for Head Nurses on Quality Nursing Care

1. Introduction Position of head Nurses is a vital at each unit and one of the most difficult, demanding, and challenging jobs in any organization, where assess, evaluate the work performance of nurses, review completed medical forms to assess record keeping abilities and inspect work areas for organization. So most of his/her functions are concerned … Read more