nursing facility, oral hygiene care is very important, but the importance significantly increases when our patients are functionally dependent or cognitively impaired. These patients are unable to perform this task and depend on nurses to provide daily care. Nurses need to pay close attention for potential problems. They will need to perform assessments, develop oral care plans, and identify preventions and strategies to eliminate any potential problems. Poor oral health has been linked to serious
The health education program is addressing the health topic diabetes. Mostly, diabetes is a health condition that needs a life-long self-management that is substantial to the patient. Through having a good intervention plan will lead to a better long-term medical outcome. This will enable the patient to lead a much healthy life. Goals of intervention The program plan for intervention of diabetes will help to control the blood sugar levels. According to Ulbricht (2009) with high levels
Mental Health: A Global Crisis Mental Health is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as “a state of well-being in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to her or his community (WHO, 2014).” Any deviation from that definition constitutes a mental health issue. It is important to note that mental health issues do not necessarily constitute a mental disorder
to assist in the planning, delivery and the evaluation of quality nursing care (Lundberg, 2008). Using a standardized nursing language for documenting nursing care is important to both the nursing profession and to the nurse’s practice. The purpose of this paper is to explain standardized language in nursing, to describe how the tool is applied in the clinical setting and to explain how standardized nursing language impacts nursing outcomes. Standardized Language Defined A straightforward definition
At the center of a successful falls prevention program is an organizational culture that values safety for both patients and associates. Creating a culture of safety is one of the key interventions that reduce harm for patients in a heath care setting (Quigley & White, 2013). If a health care organization fails to protect patients from harm, there are both legal and financial implications. In the effort to prevent harm to patients and hospital acquired injuries, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
research into what has become known as the social determinants of health; the central claim arising from this research is that “various social factors have a strong influence on population health and on inequalities in health outcomes across social groups”. (Preda & Voigt, 2015) Social determinants of health are conditions in the environments in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality of life outcomes and risks. Conditions
Question 4 Changing demographics and its impact on the health care markets. A.Ageing As per statistic NZ has an aging population. In line with this, it can be noted that old people are more susceptible and prone to acquire chronic diseases. NZ health care system are normally funded by the government and having this trend, the working population decreases so the taxes that is normally use to fund the health care sector is also affected. Also, because of the government aggressiveness to promote
their priorities right especially in the health sector. Discuss some of the qualitative and quantitative techniques that can be adopted to enhance quality strategic decisions. Not more than 5pages Solution In resource limited settings there prevails unending situations of resource scarcity. This poses difficulties to governments especially when it comes to considering national priorities in the process of resource allocation. Taking it down to the health sector, there intra-sector challenges faced
and communication are very important in providing good quality care, especially in the healthcare field. A team is described as a group of people that works together and cooperatively, between each member of the group to reach a common goal (Sullivan, 2013). For a team to function, communication is essential. A report by McKay and Crippen (2008), as stated by Alfaro-LeFevre, (2013) showed that when collaboration is in place, hospitals can decrease their mortality rate by 41%. When mortality rate is
this research project involves accounting for ethnological and structural factors, as well as an interventional plan of behavioral change, a much simplified form of the well-known theoretical model of PRECEDE-PROCEED while integrating Leininger’s culture care theory will be utilized as it fits the criteria for a comprehensive framework upon which a quality plan and evaluation thereof can be developed. Glanz, K. (2008) provides a whole chapter on using the PRECEDE-PROCEED model to identify, implements