Acute care nursing is by far the most interesting and exciting field I have yet to encounter. There are a couple areas for improvement, and there a couple areas that I have exceeded in. With that being said, the first area of improvement is knowledge of the pathophysiology of the most common diseases seen in the emergency department. The second area of nursing that needs improvement is the titration of intensive care unit medications. Two strengths that I can identify are as follows: patient safety
visit an ER because of either a sickness or an injury. Acute care nursing is a career that involves helping others every day. Nursing falls in the Health Science field of learning, this involves both science and medicine. Acute care nurses have extremely important careers because of their chaotic work environment, their intense education/training, as well as their knowledge and skills needed. Work Environment and Tasks Acute care nursing takes place in the health science field or to be specific
Evidence Summary With the majority of available evidence pointing towards care in other areas of the acute care arena, there remains sufficient data to support the practice of intentional rounding on a pre-determined schedule in emergency care settings. All of the examples given in the Evidence Critique support rounding as a means of increasing patient satisfaction. In the Lyons, et al., report from the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Journal it is reported that patient satisfaction is equated
Introduction According to Houser (2012), evidence Based Practice Nursing is the application of evidence based findings by nurses to steer the nurse toward integration of clinical expert opinion and experience with an unbiased comprehensive analysis of the best scientific evidence professional nursing care literature can provide while integrating patient principles and preferences. When planning for sustaining evidenced based practice, it is vital to adopt a methodical critical thinking decision
times of health care, patient satisfaction and safety are imperative in order for care to be provided. Hourly/Intentional rounding amplifies the nurse-patient relationship, continuity of care, safety, and service excellence. Intentional rounding or rounding with a purpose can be a success as long as nursing staff have a better understanding and take ownership of the practice. Leadership and nursing staff need to collectively cognize each other’s role pertaining to the delivery of care regarding this
NURS 409 Community Health Nursing Weekly Clinical Journal Each clinical week a journal needs to be submitted evaluating your ability to meet the clinical performance objectives. Examples must be provided detailing how you have achieved the objectives. 1. Plan, provide, and delegate client-centered and coordinated care that promotes safe and high quality outcomes. - During this week I was not in the clinical setting, however I did participate in a case studies in which I was able to plan provide
Nursing is a learned profession. It begins as a first day nursing student who is unknowledgeable about protocols and procedures utilized to care for another human being with individualized disease processes. Four years ago, I started in nursing school as an unknowledgeable person and blossomed into an educated nurse that follows protocols and procedures while taking care of patients daily. Patricia E. Zander focuses on the different aspects of nursing by involving Barbara Carper’s “four patterns
Holistic Core Values Holistic nursing care involves treating the patient mind and body, as well as providing comfort through prayer. The overall ideal goal of providing holistic care is treating the patient as a whole. There are certain standards and guideline designed by the American Holistic Nursing Association in which establish the core values of holistic nursing (Frisch, 2001, p. 1). This paper will discuss the core value number three: holistic communication, therapeutic environment and cultural
Nursing care is grounded by the belief of providing holistic care to patients, with which is guided by evidence-based practice. Nursing interventions are evidence-based measures that have tried to unify the profession of nursing. The literature serving as testimony to the care that nurses provide has been growing increasingly, however, there are still areas of nursing care where the evidence is deficient. The lack of research, trickles over to a lack of training and evidence-based practice performed
The aim of this essay is to discuss and explore the evidence based nursing care for a 57 year old gentleman who has been recently diagnosed with Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS). A case study will be used in order to explore the pathophysiology, aetiology and how to manage the illness as well as published research in order to increase the nurse’s knowledge of the client and provide the best possible care for him. Throughout this essay, the client along with the family will learn how to manage the illness