Hildegard Peplau published the first nursing theory in 1952 and was recognized internationally as a nurse leader. Peplau’s Interpersonal Relations Theory emphasized the nurse as a change agent for patients healing. This encouraged interaction between the patient and nurse including concepts of anxiety, frustration, conflict and needs (George, 2011). She describes four steps in the interactional process that are relevant to nurses; orientation, identification, exploitation and resolution (McCrae, 2011). Her work contributed to the development of the National Mental Health Act of 1946 as well as providing input to the World Health Organization and National Institute of Mental Health (George, 2011).
Screening is a common practice that has been widely adopted to curb the rate of cancer and preventable diseases. Screening refers to medical approach used to detect disease in individuals early when signs and symptoms are not present. The purpose of this paper is to identify the shortfalls of the Every Woman Matters program and define necessary strategies to implement change. Every Woman Matters Every Woman Matters is solely a federally sponsored program that is controlled by the State of Nebraska to help low- income women to gain access to health care through screening. EWM offers breast exams, mammograms, pelvic exam a pap smears, along with diabetes and cholesterol testing.
It is real and can be as debilitating as a stroke or heart attack. I would encourage the family member to be patient with their loved one. I would tell them that treating this disorder is a long process that takes many hours of counseling and possible hospitalizations before it will be under control. I would give them names of support groups to attend if they need more encouragement and understanding. I would remind them to be supportive of the patient and not to expect too much of the loved one.
The implementation of EHRs in LTC facilities or home health can manage patients care to promote improvements in the patients outcome and possible help decrease medical cost. In this forever changing healthcare industry, which stresses continuity of care, the movement to push for EHRs in LTC facilities is necessary. Review of another study stressed that the healthcare team is vital in the implementing of EHRs. The healthcare team approach is vital to the success of the EHRs and vice versa. If done effectively, care coordination puts patients at the center of the care process, encouraging, engaging as well as responsibility.
That’s why it’s important to have regular prenatal visits to have your blood pressure checked. Women who have high blood pressure before pregnancy (or develop it before the 20th week of pregnancy) have what is called “chronic hypertension.” This form of hypertension does not go away after delivery. If you know you have high blood pressure you should see your doctor before you get pregnant. Without treatment, hypertension can cause serious problems such as slow fetal growth, low birth weight and preterm delivery. The good news is that these problems can usually be prevented with good prenatal care.
This is a popular order because this gives the patients that suffer from a terminal illness, the ability to end their life instead of prolonging the pain. There also are other consents for this Act which also help the families make decisions for their loved ones if they are not in the position to make the decisions for themselves. The records management procedures have had to change since this Act was taken into effect because they have had to make sure that when the patient signs any of the consents, they this record is in the patients files so the medical staff is aware of what the wishes are. There could be consequences toward the medical staff if they were to revive a patient when their wish was to be let go. This can cause a lawsuit and possible termination of the
Lillian Wald emphasized the significance of prevention. A practice that continues to be reiterated everywhere. As seen in commercials or billboards or even on the radio, prevention is key to a long, healthy lifestyle. When patients leave the hospital, discharge education is vital to making sure they are capable to care for themselves and, hopefully, bring down the numbers of hospital visits. F. Scenario Sometimes patients are admitted into the hospital for something as simple as daily intravenous antibiotics.
The thought of losing one’s life is a topic that cannot be ignored. From the article’s perspective, end-stage heart failure is a complex disease with a poor prognosis (Chen-Scarabelli et al., 2015). Early identification and intervention such as medications and lifestyle modification can help in prolonging one’s life and possibly improving the quality of life. Therefore, it is important for medical staff to intervene early, once the patient is confirmed to have heart failure. Although it can cause an ethical dilemma in patient care, it is highly regarded that all principles be applied to help patients dignity in end of life
Current Health Promotion Pamphlet Paper Mary Penny-Johnson Developing and Evaluating Educational Programs/ Nur 588 Jennie Pattison Current Health Promotion Pamphlet Health promotion and disease prevention are an important role of nurses, physicians, and health organizations. Patients that are active participants in their own health care understand their responsibility in managing their care. Additionally, health promotion decreases hospital stays and may prevent disease related complications. In 2006 health care related spending exceed two-trillion dollars in the United States (Jadelhack, 2012). A huge amount of money is saved by promoting health and educating the public on preventable health problems (Goetzel, 2009).
These respected staff members were veterans from other NICU’s and provided a natural source of referrals from the Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU’s) that they had previously been employed with. As TIC grew they accepted sicker infants and enhanced its clinical services. The clinician community acknowledged the significant difference TIC made in the lives of the families and patients while maintaining low costs and TIC soon became the “prototype for the care of medically fragile infants” (Gittell & Toth, 2000, p. 3). A new executive director (later chief executive officer) Pamela Schanwald was secured and Nancy Kennedy, a registered nurse and a founding member, was promoted to clinical administrator in 1993. Initially, marketing efforts were minimal with TIC depending solely on referrals from clinicians who were personally familiar with the TIC physicians and staff.