Patient Care At The Nurse

With the ever-growing metropolitan area of Minneapolis and St. Paul, and the increasing number of people aging into the geriatric community, hospitals and ground ambulance services are being used more than ever. This means that safe and effective care is needed more now than ever before, and therefore we need more services such as Life Link III. This air ambulance service can bring people from outside the metro area to a healthcare facility with ease and excellence. Their safety standards are through the roof, and they’re able to provide their services to different parts of country, flying patients from Minnesota to various specialty centers in the country so that they can receive the best care possible. This paper will discuss how the nurse can provide safe and effective care while also promoting the quickest healing time possible.

There are three major organizations in nursing that have made great impacts on the way nurses guide and represent their profession. One of the organizations is the American Nurses Association (ANA) whose mission statement is “nurses advancing our profession to improve health for all” and their philosophy is committed to ensure that there are an adequate supply of “high-skilled and well-educated nurses is available” (ANA, 2014). The ANA helps to advance the nursing profession through fostering high standards, the promotion of the general welfare of nursing professionals in the workplace, projecting a positive as well as realistic view of nursing practices, and lobbying within Congress about health care issues that affect both nurses and the general public (ANA, 2014). The ANA is primarily responsible for restructuring healthcare through legislature and lobbying on both state and national levels (ANA, 2014).

Verbal communication between the nurses during shift change or simply writing a progress report on the status of the patient does not cater to the needs of the patient, it is a mere communication method that is unreliable and nurse perception of the written report are often molded with bias and does not wholly represent the patient’s holistic health care needs. As dictated by Caruso (2007), “Change of shift signifies a time of carful communication in order to promote patient safety and best practices... [the risk exists of] relaying important information becomes muddled by irrelevant information instead...” (p.17). In essence, implementation of bedside nurse shift report/handover deems to provide the most opportune outcomes and focuses on patient-centered

On august 13, 2016 I was assigned to follow one of the ICU Nurse. It was a very calm day. She had two patient one was more critical than the other. Both patients were on the ventilator because they had to be intubated the night before. The lady is obese and had gastric bypass surgery two years ago and suffering from severe sleep apnea, but the patient is non-compliance to the CPAP treatment. That was her second time being intubated. She was admitted for seizure monitoring because she was constantly having seizures the day before while she was at home. Due to the fact that she did not want to wear her CPAP machine while in the hospital, after pain medication was administered she was found unresponsive, that was the reason for her intubation the night before. Patient was on intermittent suctioning, she has sinus tachycardia . I had the opportunity to observe some of her daily care. The patient was on fentanyl but when the Dr. try to wean her out of the ventilator she stop breathing, therefore, the DR. discontinue the fentanyl temporarily in other to retest her later.

Scenario: You are the Chief Executive Officer at a small non-profit community hospital. In January the area was hit by a large snow storm while you were vacationing in the Bahamas. Many of the hospital staff who provided patient care called out from work on the 3-11 and 11-7 shifts. Despite efforts from the nurse managers to get relief staff, only one nurse agreed to come in. As a result, the patient units were understaffed and health care personnel on day shift were required to remain on their assigned unit until they were relieved from duty. During the course of this occurrence several patients sustained minor injuries from falls out of bed and one

A nurse-patient collaboration experience I encountered stood during my junior year of high school. At the time, my mother was incarcerated and I suffered from constant anxiety and depression.Two attributes of collaboration that occurred in this exchange included communication and teamwork. Communication enntailed three components - silence, remaining neutral, and acknowledgment of emotions. Silence sanctioned me time to truly consider what I needed, and to decide what emotions to share. As I expressed my concerns, the nurse remained neutral in her judgements - giving me options, without pressuring me towards choosing what she considered to be the best choice.Throughout the conversation, the nurse did not focus on lecturing me, but rather

The American population is aging with the baby boomers getting older and health care being so advanced patients are living sick longer. Money issues are tighter than ever. All business are doing more with less. There is a massive shortage coming of bedside nurses and nurse educators. It is imperative that students who achieve their degree in nursing take and pass the NCLEX© and become nurses. Obviously pay would be a huge incentive for nurses to continue at the bedside. With all of the cutbacks in healthcare it is hard to figure out where the extra money would come from. Further investigation and studies are needed to fix the

This legislation has a great impact for me as a nurse. The place where I work provides educational incentives that include tuition reimbursement for nurses who wanted to continue their education. They have education opportunities given to nursing assistants who wants to go back to school to get their license as a registered nurse or licensed vocational nurse, an ADN nursing graduate who wants to advance their education and go for the BSN, and BSN graduates who want to go for their Master's degree and many more. They also provide training programs for nurses such as lengthy orientation programs and preceptorships for new nursing graduates and new hires that require more intense orientation.

Nurses make up the single largest health profession in the U.S. Nurses perform many different patient care task and deliver critical health care services in many different settings, including hospitals, nursing homes, ambulatory care clinics, hospice, home health care and public health facilities. The distinction among the different types of nursing reflects education, role and medical background. Registered nurses have different levels of educational degrees. Every graduate nurse must pass the national exam, The NCLEX-RN, before they are licensed to practice. Registered nurses provide direct care services at many different levels, such as designing a plan of care for individual patients, educating patients on disease process and prevention, administering treatment and promoting health for patients, families and communities

The research concluded that in order to meet the needs of a complex patient demographic the number of Bachelor’s prepared nurses needs to be increased by 80% by 2020. This is a necessary move to develop more highly-educated nurses and ensure that nursing workforce is able to handle an expanded set of competencies. The focus on nursing education should be a life long journey that supports and encourages those who seek higher degree programs. The burden of student debt is one barrier in need of being addressed in order for more nurses to pursue their education further. In order to alleviate this burden and open the door for nurses to further their education, more federal grants and scholarships must be made available. In addition to the changes needed in funding, schools need to increase the capacity of their healthcare programs to accommodate all returning students. The importance of the foundation’s research is overwhelming, once these recommendations are implemented nurses will have greater support in every area. Nurses stand to gain better education options, more financial aid, better training programs for new nurses and residency programs for transitioning to a new area of practice (Education,

The lead researcher in this study was Mary A. Blegen, PhD. Dr. Blegen and her colleagues study were built to examine the effects of registered nurse education, by determining whether nurse-sensitive patient outcomes were better in hospitals with a higher proportion of RNs with baccalaureate degrees. This was a cross-sectional study that was conduction using data from 21 University HealthSystem Consortium hospitals. The clinical data set contained patient diagnosis and procedure codes, actual and expected length of stay, while the operational data set contained direct caregiver hours for each unit. The study found that there is strong association with RNs with baccalaureate or higher degrees with better nurse-sensitive patient outcome; in regards

Nurses provide excellent patient care, teach patients about health conditions, and give advice and support to patients and their families. Nurses have a variety of duties. They must monitor and record patient symptoms, take vital signs, watch patients diet and physical activity, supervise less skilled nurses, and order and interpret tests to access the condition of the patient. Nursing can be a wonderful, caring, and thoughtful job. However, to other nurses: nursing can be a difficult, tiring, and stressful job. Any job can be tough but nursing is emotionally and physically draining on a person. Nursing can be such a burdensome and demanding job sometimes because of the long hours, the exam to become a nurse, and dealing with other people.

In the world of registered nursing a mutual respect between the physicians and the nursing staff is crucial to patient centered care. As nurses they are our superiors in the past 50 years the relationship between these two disciplines has changed dramatically. Nurses in the past were viewed as subordinates and they simply performed the tasks assigned to them. It was frowned upon to question any orders from a physician and nurses took on more of a submissive role in patient care. Presently, nurses are part of a multidisciplinary team that works together with other health care providers to come up with strategies for an effective plan of care. Dr. U. (DO) a 30 year old female whose practice is in family medicine in New York shares the same attitudes about her nursing staff. I chose her for a couple of reasons one because she is family and two because family medicine seemed like a great overall platform for this assignment. Plus, maybe part of me wants to know what she really thinks of the nurses sitting around our table at Christmas dinner.

This research will take place in the office of a nursing registry; this office is located on the third floor of a 30-floor multi-office building. Upon walking into the office, one immediately enters the main room, which leads to two other smaller rooms. The rooms have an overall similar layout but retain some important differences. For instance, in every room, desks are strategically angled toward the door, so that employees will immediately notice visitors who enter their office. The rooms, however, have some differences that are discussed later.

Without the employees, a company cannot prosper; therefore, employees need to feel that he or she plays a pertinent role in obtaining the company’s vision. According to Huffstutler and Thomsen (2015) “when the individuals who make up an organization are part of a culture that values their ideas and contributions and encourages their professional development, communication improves and engagement rises, and the effect on performance is palpable” (p. 47). This criterion examines if employees are provided with the essential tools to complete the necessary tasks. Do the nurses have adequate supplies/instruments to provide appropriate treatment to the patient? Are the computers that are used to hold patient data secure, up to date, and working?