The Impact of The IOM Report on Nursing Mariama Jalloh Grand Canyon University Professional Dynamics NRS-430V-0500 Teresa Gaither June 21, 2015 The Impact of The IOM Report on Nursing The Institute of Medicine (IOM) is an independent, nonprofit organization, which was established in 1970. Their aim is to provide advice to all level of healthcare sectors to ensure that effective healthcare policies are being implemented. In the late 2010, IOM released a special report “The Future of Nursing: Leading change, Advancing health”. The report contains three messages related to nursing, which focus on the following sections: transforming practice, transforming education and transforming leadership. This paper focuses on the IOM report and how it impacts nursing education.
All over the world there are doctors and nurses. Did you know that there are many types of nurses? I’m going to tell you about Licensed Practical Nurses. They are the people who help elderly people with their daily lives. They are the people who bring you into the exam room when you visit your doctor, or maybe they help the mother who is in labor.
Details: Write a formal paper (750-1,000 words) that addresses the following: 1.Discuss the differences in competencies between nurses prepared at the associate-degree level versus the baccalaureate-degree level in nursing. 2.Identify a patient care situation in which you describe how nursing care or approaches to decision-making may differ based upon the educational preparation of the nurse (BSN versus a diploma or ADN degree). For additional help finding research on this topic, refer to the GCU Library tutorial located at in the Student Success Center. Refer to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Fact Sheet: Creating a More Highly Qualified Nursing Workforce (http://www.aacn.nche.edu/media-relations/NursingWorkforce.pdf)as a resource. Refer to the assigned readings for concepts that help support your main points.
We are invincible! The company’s motto was, “The opportunity to rip you off is now”. The Company’s Downfall Thinking they could steal from the government and the taxpayer but could never be caught. The Punishment One- Becoming the largest healthcare fraud case in the United States history and Two- An investigation that settled at a net record of $1.7 billion dollars. Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation: The Beginning The Healthcare Company started in 1987; Richard Scott teamed up with Richard Rainwater to form the Columbia Healthcare Corporation.
Introduction of Capstone Project Roxane Spinelli Chamberlain College of Nursing Capstone NR660 Dr. Mikel Hand March 6, 2014 Introduction of Capstone Project Nursing is considered to be a challenging profession, due to the nurses working long hours caring for patients that are extremely ill and dying. There have been discussions among the experts on how to reduce job-related burnout and job dissatisfaction, decrease nurse workloads and improve patient safety. They have continued, stating there should be more nurses working in hospitals per patient. This is measured as the nurse-to-patient ratio. This can be described as one nurse taking care of x-amount of patients.
The Via Christi Clinic in Wichita, KS has several immediate care locations throughout the city. They are open daily from 8 am to 8 pm, offering walk-in treatment for non-life threating injuries and illnesses. The main immediate care location also offers occupational medical services. Via Christi Clinic target audience is employers who have occupational medical needs for employees and consumers who require medical services after office hours or a consumer that needs to be treated and can’t wait for an appointment with their family physician. Via Christi Clinic includes more than 200 doctors practicing in more than 40 specialties in Sedgwick, Harvey and Butler counties ("Via Christi Clinic", 2015).
The facility has four Gastroenterologists who perform the procedures at the facility. The schedule is broken down to each surgeon has an assigned day and the owner usually operates two days with one of those days being Saturday. The communication characteristics of this surgical center include verbal and nonverbal communication. There are many different types of communication between professional-professional, professional-patient, and professional-family members. The center houses many different types of communication and the difference in the communication between the professionals is where the issues come into play.
The Emergency Department consists of a 14+ pediatric department, a 29+ bed adult pod, four trauma bays and a locked emergency mental health department. There are right around 130 nurses in this department working a variety of shifts. The emergency department is approximately the size of 2 football fields. The facility is a designated cardiac catheter center, stroke center, and trauma center. The staff care for patients of every age with complaints ranging from a laceration to an amputation and everything in between.
Home Health Continuum of Care I. Introduction II. Stakeholders and IDS 1) Description of the roles of various stakeholders in the health care industry who are involved in the continuum of care a. Employers b. Payers c. Providers d. Patients 2) How the component contributes to or detracts from the overall management of health care resources e. Does it affect health care; positively or negatively 3) The characteristics of an integrated delivery system (IDS): f. Cottage industry g. Healthcare organizations h. Community healthcare i. Vertically integrated systems III. Services and employees 1) Discussion of the services provided and how these services fit into the continuum of care a.
Facility administrators need to establish a balance between providing a safe environment, while at the same time providing each resident with opportunities for choice, control, and individuality (Kane & Kane, 2001). The staffing levels of professional nurses in a nursing home are not as high as that of a hospital; however, nursing homes have registered nurses on duty that perform assessments, administer medications, perform treatments, and interact with families and physicians, to name some of their many responsibilities. Nursing home residents often become ill. In 1997, there were 1,465,000 nursing home residents and 2.1 million elderly nursing home discharges due to hospitalization and death in the United States (Gabrel, 2000). When a resident is observed to have a condition change, the nurse performs an assessment and makes a decision whether or not to notify the physician and the resident’s family or guardian.