Bandman, E. L. & Bandman, B. Nursing ethics through the life span (2nd Ed.) Norwalk, CT.: Appleton Lange, 1990. An outstanding text divided into major sections. Section one deals with the moral foundations of decision making in nursing and includes portions devoted to exploring the role of the nurse as client advocate and the dynamics of the nurse-physician relationship.
RTT Task 1 Dede Storms WGU Organizational Systems and Quality Leadership 734.3 Kevin Sauls December 26, 2014 RTT Task 1 A. In this task I was asked to discuss how nursing sensitive indicators could have helped the nurses in the case scenario in identifying issues that may interfere with patient care. Nursing sensitive indicators reflect the structure, process, and outcomes of nursing care. (American Nurses Association, 2014). Indicators of structure are measures by the supply and skill level of nursing staff as well and the education and certifications of the nursing staff.
Psycholgy AS &A2. Essex: Pearson Education limited. Harlow, H. F. (2000, March). Classics in the History of Psychology. (C. D. Green, Editor) Retrieved October 12th , 2011, from psychclassics: http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Harlow/love.htm Mcleod, s. (2007).
Comparison and Contrast: Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring and Rosemarie Parse’s Theory of Human Becoming Nursing theory, according to Florence Nightingale, helps to describe and explain what nursing is and what it is not. Nursing theory is important because it assists the profession of nursing to develop and understand nursing practice (Parker, 2006). Two nursing theorists, Jean Watson and Rosemarie Parse, share some common themes and perspectives as well as some significant differences in their theories. The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast these two theories in order to understand these similarities and differences as well as to examine the similarities of other nursing theories to Watson and Parse’s theories.
(2011, p.22) had to evaluate the effects of implementing the Advancing Research and Clinical Practice through cross collaboration (ARCC) model. It was aimed at addressing the effects on nurses and the outcomes and its impact a community setting. To facilitate the study, a 2-group of controlled and randomized sample was used for the design. Nurse participants were recruited from Queens, the Bronx and Manhattan. The findings indicated the effectiveness of ARCC model incorporating the EBP in home healthcare settings and mentoring nurse beliefs about EBP and its implementation (Levin at al., 2011, p.21).
Thompson, L. Y., Snyder, C. R., Hoffman, L., Michael, S. T., Rasmussen, H. N., Billings, L. S., Heinze, L., Neufeld, J. E., Shorey, H. S., Roberts, J. C., & Roberts, D. E. (in press). Dispositional forgiveness of self, others, and situations. Journal of Personality. Tsang, J-A., McCullough, M. E., & Hoyt, W. T. (in press). Psychometric and rationalization accounts for the
Organizational Systems and Quality Leadership Task 1 Western Governors University A. Embedded in the founding principles of nursing is the responsibility of nurses to measure, evaluate and improve practice. Hospitals use data and clinical tools to compare themselves to other healthcare organizations in an effort to achieve quality patient outcomes. Having an understanding of the principles of nurse-sensitive indicators, organizational leaders can advance patient care throughout the hospital. A. Nursing-Sensitive Indicators Healthcare organizations and regulatory agencies recognized a relationship between nursing interventions and overall quality of patient care in the mid 1990’s (Erickson, 2011). This is when nursing-sensitive indicators (NSIs) were introduced as a means to measure patient outcomes.
Introduction: In this reflective account essay, I will be describing nursing skills that I undertook during my practice placement, using Driscoll’s (2000) reflective cycle, a recognised framework for reflection to demonstrate my ability to reflect on different nursing skill. According to Driscoll’s (2000), there are three processes when reflecting on one’s practice. They are: What (what happened), so what (what were you feeling, what was good/bad about the experience and Now what (if it happens again what you would do differently). The application of Driscoll’s reflective cycle will enable me link theory to practice. As outlined, in the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC, 2004), the practice of reflection will allow me to explore, through
In other words, who are the recipients of the services outlined in the document? The target population involves the nursing staff and patient. Hickman et al (2003) found that the effects of patient outcomes is based on the working conditions of the unit which included the workforce staffing, workflow design, personal, social factors, physical environment, and organizational factors. There were six key questions in the study used to prove that the complexity of nursing responsibility provides evidence to show that the nurse workload and job responsibilities affect the outcomes of the patients questions that was asked in the study: * “How nursing workload affects patient outcomes and patient safety? * “Does nursing workload affect the rate of medical errors?
To enable nurses to systematically evaluate evidence for practice hanson et al (2008) suggested the use of critiquing tools which is achieved by using criteria of scientific merit and issues of practicality and feasibility. This research will be evaluated using Caldwell, Henshaw and Taylor’s (2005) critiquing framework as a guide (Appendix 1). Boswell and Cannon (2009) states that nurses must improve their knowledge and base their provision of care on the most current and up-to-date health information available in order to provide such care more effectively. This is achieved using evidence-based practice (EBP). EBP is defined by Polit and Beck (2010) as the use of the best clinical evidence in making patient care decisions.