These are principles instilled in us throughout nursing school, and guide nurses in our practice. Nursing-sensitive indicators are formulated to allow for better patient outcomes. These guidelines identify specific practices nurses can utilize to achieve safer and optimal patient-centered care. According to Beth Ann Swan, author of the article Making Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators Real in Ambulatory Care (2008), “Leaders in ambulatory care nursing must articulate the value of nurses’ contributions, as has been accomplished through the development of indicators of quality patient care and nursing-sensitive outcomes for other venues where nursing care is delivered (1).” On the flip side however, these same indicators can also be used to identify issues that can interfere with or hinder the patient care process. Some of the specific indicators identified in this scenario that impede patient care include: 1) complications such as pressure ulcers, 2) restraint use leading to neglect and patient injury, 3) Patient falls related to or resulting from use of sedatives or narcotic administration, 4) safe patient transfer 5) use of urinal instead of ambulating, and 6) creating a situation for a negative patient/family member experience by not being culturally sensitive to the patient’s needs.
The organisation could also be fined by not complying with the law which would have a negative effect with exposure in the media. Organisations would have a reduction in patient and public confidence and so their reputation would be affected and patients would choose to have their care else where. Members of staff would also have a decrease in confidence with the organisation and their stress levels will increase. On the individual: This could cause further complications to their primary condition increasing their recovery time and possibly giving them a lengthy stay in a hospital setting. Patients may be forced to stay off work which will lead to a loss of earnings putting more stress on the individual and their families, possibly leaving a patient needing treatment for depression.
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Nursing Documentation and Malpractice Law HCS/545 Health Law and Ethics May 31, 2010 Mary Nell Cummings Nursing Documentation and Malpractice Lawsuits Proper medical documentation can prevent liability issues and malpractice lawsuits. The focus on my paper will concentrate on nursing documentation and malpractice lawsuits. I presently work for a home health care agency. The entire staff throughout the company was recently informed of increased Medicare denials and possible lawsuits as results of inadequate documentations. A series of education training of documentation was implemented to help reduce episodes of Medicare payment denials and self-protection through adequate documentation.
The graduation rate shows successful completion of college and gives an idea about quality of the program provided by college. UTA’s four year graduation rate is 36.2% of student population in 2010 (collegemeasure.org). Crime rate is one on the biggest problems in society today. With bad economy crimes are constantly rising in colleges. It is very hard to find colleges who have less than 200 crimes per year.
Compassion Fatigue Most nurses enter the field of nursing with the intent to help others and provide empathetic care for patients with critical physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs. Empathic and caring nurses, however, can become victims of the continuing stress of meeting the often overwhelming needs of patients and their families, resulting in compassion fatigue. Compassion fatigue affects not only the nurse in terms of job satisfaction and emotional and physical health, but also the workplace environment by decreasing productivity and increasing turnover. Recently compassion fatigue is getting a lot of attention, especially in regards to nursing. For good reason; it could be very detrimental to your practice, permanently reducing your ability to care.
There are numerous anxieties in the human services staff, but burnout has to be one of them. You have your cons and pros when working in Human Services. It can be amazing and demanding at the same time. A huge amount of effort, not keeping under control, and harmonizing between family and occupation can cause the surroundings to become tense. The purpose of this paper is to assess suffer exhaustion; explain some of the person, ethnicity, clerical, administrative, and community encouragement factors that bring about burnout.
Insufficient sleep has become an epidemic among college students. After conducting a research in which I questioned 15 college students, I discovered that 12 out of the 15 students had admitted to feeling depressed or having felt symptoms of depression. These same students admitted to only having a maximum of 6 hours of sleep per night. The correlation between the two is uncanny. Think back to your college years and the relentless nights spent studying and working on college assignments.