This group excluded one subject due to not fasting for a minimum of eight hours prior to the experiment. The experiment tested urine and blood samples every 30 minutes for two hours using Diastix reagent strips and a glucometer respectively. Results Figure 1 shows the average measurements of blood glucose levels at 30-minute intervals for two hours. For the experimental group, consuming 75.0 grams of dextrose increased blood glucose levels to 144.0 mg/dl after 30 minutes, an average increase of 55.3 mg/dl. Blood glucose levels then slowly declined for each successive measurement.
724.8 – Evidence-Based Practice & Applied Nursing Research Research Integration 724.8.3-06 Western Governors University A. Routine Shaving Prior to Surgery 1. Surprisingly, many hospitals continue this practice, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. This practice leads to increased risk of infection to the patient. 2.
For example, De Longis studied stress in 75 married couples. They gave participants a life events questionnaire and a hassle and uplifts scale. They found no relationship between life events and health, but did find a positive correlation of +.59 between daily hassles and next-day health problems such as flu, sore throats, headaches and backaches. This therefore suggests that life events are not necessarily a good predictor of health related behaviour and daily hassles may provide a more adequate account. Most of the studies on life events and illness have produced correlation data.
Case Study: Jason’s Health Data Scenario: The Missing Data: Data Linkages Celia Langlinais University of Phoenix HCI/520 Manzanita Brown July 28, 2012 Week-Two Selecting a Database for Personal Health Records: A 2011 analysis piloted by Markle Foundation showed that 79% of American adults have faith in the electronic form of personal health records (PHR) would make sizable benefits available in monitoring their health problems. Only 2.7% of the charted individuals keep PHRs in any electronic form. According to Markle Survey (2011), a large crowd of 58% respondents showed anxiety about their personal health records (PHR) security as the number one reason for their lack of enthusiasm to hold the knowledge. Information security is the protection of information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification or destruction. Information security is achieved by ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information.
Abstract Hospital accreditation is not the same as licensure or certification. Licensure is required to operate as a hospital and overseen by state government officials. Certification affords hospitals to participate in federally funded Medicare and Medicaid programs. Accreditation is defined as “A self-assessment and external peer assessment process used by health care organizations to accurately assess their level of performance in relation to established standards and to implement ways to continuously improve.” (Raik, 2001) For this case assessment I will discuss the role of accreditation as well as whether or not accreditation is mandatory. Finally I will discuss any weaknesses inherent in the healthcare accreditation process.
Procedure: • Gather a test group of 15 people who have not done any strenuous activity in previous hour, also no caffeine for 8 hours (to get resting heart rate). • Calculate the resting heart rate of the fifteen people, and record. • Take heart rate after twenty minutes have passed, and record. • Collect this data on three different test groups using the three variables of caffeinated beverage. Previous Research: The effects on caffeine have not been a closely researched topic in the scientific world.
According to Meleis (2007) knowing includes knowledge based on observation, research findings (evidenced based), clinical manifestations and scientific approach. As a stroke nurse empirical knowing it’s very important in taking care of stroke patients. I determine patient’s neurological status by performing neuro checks frequently every 1-2 hrs as the patient’s condition might deteriorate the first 24hrs and perform swallow test to determine if the patient can swallow medications. Patient’s plan of care is based on assessment findings(vital signs, Glasgow coma score).If a patient is confused and very weak fall precaution is observed by activating the bed alarms, request for a PT/OT consult, if the patient does not pass the swallow test, a speech therapist is consulted. Sometimes patient’s neurological deficits get resolved after a few hours or days and that calls for change of treatment plan.
The decline of falls in the third quarter of 2009 in which the goal was reached with 0 falls; however, the other three quarters the goal was not met because there was 5.97 to 9.19 reported falls. The percentage of patients who were at risk and on fall prevention protocols ranged from 80 to 100. Nursing Plan The elderly
Keep Patients Waiting? Not In My Office. Shantorra Baker and Dionne Kern Pamela Payne 6110 Operation and Management 12/10/2012 Keep Patients Waiting? Not In My Office Introduction The United States healthcare industry represents 15% Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and this number is expected to double by the year 2050. This highlights the importance of the healthcare industry, and more importantly the heart of the health care system which is its scheduling practices.
Results The study sample consisted of 17 nurses with no dropouts (response rate 100%). Nurses' age ranged between 18 and 40 years, and their experience in pediatrics ranged from 1 to 20 years (Table 1). Only about one nurse had a master degree (5.9%) and other nurses with a bachelor degree (94.1%). Nurses' knowledge of the cognitive behavioral method pain management was very low before the intervention (Table 2). This was particularly evident regarding the psychological causes of pain, nurse role in pediatric pain, and the environmental approach in its management, where none of them had satisfactory knowledge.