Hand Hygiene in Healthcare This assignment explains the concerns in the healthcare regarding to National Patient Safety Goals established by The Joint Commission. Hand washing is very important in a long-term care facility. Insisting that everyone does it properly it greatly diminishes the risk for nosocomial infections and passing bacteria and pathogens amongst people. Hand Hygiene: NPSG Goal 7- 07.01.01 Goal seven of the National Patient Safety goals addresses the issue of reducing the risk of health care associated infections. This goal targets the prevention of mortality from health care-associated infections caused by several different drug resistant organisms, surgical related infections, and infections of the bloodstream related to catheter insertion.
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Running head: CULTURAL SENSITIVITY 1 Cultural Sensitivity in Professional Communication with the Amish Kathy U. Walker Grand Canyon University: NUR 502 May 8, 2013 Cultural Sensitivity in Professional Communication With the Amish It is a well-known fact that disparities in healthcare exist among minority groups. The nursing profession, in an effort to deliver more appropriate and individualized patient care, is continually gathering data that can influence the patient’s experience. One very important arena is that of culture. Culture can be a determining factor in the care delivered, and therefore should be included in the approach to maintaining and restoring health (Barker, 2009). One such minority culture is that of the Amish.
18-19). These early hospitals provided shelter, food and aid to the sick and infirm, under the direction of the local priests and physicians. While the art of nursing was practiced during this time, it was also a time of great superstition and cruelty, with illness being attributed to evil spirits and witchcraft, often resulting in the barbaric treatment of the ill and mentally disturbed (Funnell Koutoukidis Lawrence 2010, pp 4-5). It was during the nineteenth century, that progress was made in the field of medicine and a more complex understanding of disease and ill health was formed (Funnell Koutoukidis Lawrence 2010 p5). Due to the patriarchal structure and gender bias of the time, the science of medicine was considered solely a male field of expertise.
The women of the family of Asklepios were mythological nurses. The world's history of nursing records Hygeia as being the goddess of health. In the Roman Empire, Roman noblewomen cared for the sick. However, in some cultures the care of the sick was not a revered enterprise and was a task of prostitutes. During the middle ages, the focus of the world history of nursing changed and became centralized around religious orders.
And in 1912 the public health nursing really began to have an impact on healthcare. The National Organization of Public Health Nurses was founded for which Lillian was the first President. And this organization helped to set standards and share techniques within the public health nursing community and also to protect the reputation of its members. Current public health nursing looks a little different today but has the same basic foundation of promoting health and preventing disease. Some current issues that are relevant to public health nursing are national disaster planning, health promotion, disease prevention and education, homelessness, and economy.
Because women traditionally provided nurturance to their own infants, it was assumed these same caring approaches could be extended to sick and injured community members as well. Women who died in child birth or who could not nurse their child had the child nursed by a ‘wet nurse’ (Dietz and Lehozky, 1963). Kelly and Joel (2002) argued that in other societies, care of the sick was a role assigned to medicine men, shamans, or other male tribesmen. Because no formal education in the care of the sick was available, the earliest nurses learned their art through oral traditions passed from generation to generation, from observations of others caring for the sick, and many times, through a process of trial and error (Kelly and Joel, 2002). Wall (2003) asserted that during the early Christian era the nursing ideals of charity, service to others, and self-sacrifice were in harmony with the teachings of the early Christian church.
Family Nursing Since the time of Florence Nightingale, nurses have had family at the forefront of their minds whilst caring for an individual (Wilson 2004). The holistic approach of the nursing model should convey to nurses the importance of the family on the health and the illness of individuals (Friedemann 2002). The term ‘family’ is a complicated one and its different definitions will be discussed within this essay; as it can evoke different meanings not only out-with individual countries but also within a country (Friedemann 2003). The two traditional familial structures are decreasing, whereas a variety of other familial structures, including same-sex couples, are not only increasing but not being seen as ‘abnormal’ (Hanson, 2005). No matter the structure or location, it will be shown all families provide the same support and function.
Introduction Nursing is a profession that was known even before our year count started. In history, nursing has been described as caring for those in need of support due to poor health. In the past nursing was not the task of professionals but of those surrounding the ill (Verberk and Kuiper, 2006). Around 1859 a description of nursing as a profession was created from the writings of Florence Nightingale. Due to Nightingale’s efforts to develop nursing into a profession and to provide those practicing with proper education, nursing was professionalised.