The Joint Commission (2012) defines risk management in healthcare as “the clinical and administrative acts undertaken to identify and evaluate the risk of injury to staff, patients and visitors and the risk to loss of the organization itself”. Studies have shown that the litigation against nursing homes is on the rise; thus making risk management very important in day to day care. Malpractice insurance premiums for nursing homes are also on the rise; this contributes to bankruptcy and forces many facilities to operate without malpractice coverage (Weinburg M.D & Levine, 2008). This threatens quality of care and access to healthcare for ill elderly people that need round the clock care. Effective risk management in a nursing home requires one to accurately
Unit one: Understanding effective communication and interpersonal skills Introduction Throughout health and social care there are many barriers and milestones within communication that are there for a professional within the establishment to overcome. These things can incllude environmental barriers, physically barriers, intellectual barriers and many others that all come into place in the health and social care setting. Within my assignment not only will I be looking at these barriers but I will be explaining them, evaluating them and looking at a case study and analysing how they can be overcome. Case study Mrs Singh is due to be discharge home shortly after having had major bowel surgery. You and other members of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) are holding a meeting where they can discuss what is next for Mrs Singh.
Only 17 meet the criteria, and one more was excluded due to a quality appraisal. Therefore 16 studies were accepted for the systematic review. Key Elements Stress in the nursing profession is clearly a problem and contributes to many areas which need improvement in nursing. Galbraith & Brown clearly stated the need for future studies and the lack of studies in this area (2011), as they reviewed many research studies from multiple discipline areas related to stress management and interventions in nurses and students. According to Galbraith and Brown there are several areas of stress in a nurses or students life which may lead to sickness, absence and attrition (2011).
Freidman Family Assessment NUR/405 Family Dynamics Family assessments can be complex and tedious at times because of the amount of information needed to identify nursing diagnoses and interventions needed for each family member. Information about the family dynamics needed range from the developmental stage and history of the family to how the family deals with stressors of life. Using the Friedman Family Assessment model family assessments have an organized method of identifying data for the developmental stage, history, environmental data, family stressors, coping mechanisms, and family composition to create nursing diagnoses and community interventions to help families (Stanhope, & Lancaster, 2008). History of Family The family in question has a quit complex history. The father who is currently 38, and mother who is 44, met when the husband was working odd jobs and was struggling to find stable work in Northern California in the month of June 1996.
Chapter 2: Case Assignment Saint Leo University Mark Pate July 5, 2014 The potential problems that the Interwest Healthcare CEO, Cynthia Manzoni have many constraints and not a lot of opportunities. The potential source of the problem or problems can be from many different sources. These potential problems can be caused by the firm’s management information system, lack of training for hospital staff, hospital staff time constraints, and motivation for hospital staff to enter data correctly. Whatever the potential problem is for the date input not being completed, it would be very important to analyze the complaints of both sides. It is important to analyze the different dynamics to these potential problems.
Wk6 Assign: Doctor/Patient Relationships Ty Moore Daniel Soodjinda 3OCT-SOCS321-WCO-V4D2Intercultural Relations There are many professions where we need to have effective communication. It is essential for a successful interaction. One profession is the clinical/ therapist profession. They rely on verbal and non-verbal communication. One of the biggest barriers can be language barriers which can lead to miscommunication which can lead to further problems with the wrong treatment or over-diagnosis.
Prescriptive Authority and Nurse Practitioners Kaymie Chandler Johnston Austin Peay State University Healthcare Policy NURS 5001 February 7, 2013 Prescriptive Authority and Nurse Practitioners There are many healthcare policy issues that affect nurse practitioners today and in the future. The Affordable Care Act is to add approximately 32 million Americans to the roles of the insured at a time when there is a shortage of primary care providers. (Fairman, Rowe, Hassmiller, Shalala 2011). Nurse practitioners will be part of the solution for this shortage, but with ever tightening restrictions on the care that they can provide, it will prove more and more difficult to ease the strain on an already over-burdened system. One policy that is especially concerning and confusing to many advanced practice nurses and future advanced practice nurses is prescriptive authority.
Dealing with Difficult Patients in the Medical Field Unit 6 Project Danielle Robinson CM 107 Outline Introduction A. Dealing with the difficult patients can be very stressful to your health if dealt with in the wrong way. B. All medical workers should have the availability to be able to take seminars that a. are offered to them throughout their career to keep them informed and update with b. any changes or new ideas or policies that might come into play on how to c. More effectively handle any or all situations. C. Difficult people are everywhere and dealing if them is an everyday life.
Nursing Burnout According to McIntyre & McDonald, (2010) “Problem-solving and decision making have been ingrained in the discipline of nursing since its inception”(p.6). Today nurses are feeling at an even greater need to examine and articulate issues facing them in practice on a daily basis. Nurses are also faced with increasingly complex issues in multiple areas of practice, the need for political advocacy has emerged (McIntyre & McDonald, 2010). With a growing sense of leadership and political action, nursing advocacy has led to examination of topics in search of resolutions. High levels of work place stress and professional burnout continually affects nurses and other health care workers globally.
Upon growing older there many choices to be made and one of the most difficult is having to place the elder person in a nursing home when he/she is no longer capable of being independent. In the White American culture, nursing homes seems to be the popular choice to place their loved ones. This paper will discuss the demographics of the elderly with Alzheimer's disease and how the White American culture in America responds to the elderly with this disorder in the nursing facility, the writer’s personal awareness and attitudes prior to discovering information about the population and reflection after research was done about the population. Demographics of Elderly with Alzheimer’s disease It is not a normal part of the aging process when an elderly suffers from dementia; this is however, caused by an underlying condition. Dementia is severe loss of social and intellectual ability that interferes with their activities of daily living.