Registered Nurses Case: The Nelles Case

One of the vitals skill required by the Registered Nurse is the skill to assign tasks to subordinates (Saccomanos and Pinto-Zipp 2011). When tasks are delegated to subordinates, the RN remains accountable (Nursing and Midwifery Council 2008). On the other hand, an individual who has been given a task also bears responsibility for the task and is answerable to the RN. Hence, delegation involves “responsibility, accountability and authority” (Sullivan & Decker 2005, p. 144). This essay will examine the role of the registered nurse in relation to delegation. Areas that would be discussed includes definitions of delegation, benefits, types of delegaton, nursing process in

Tammy was the exoneree and was charged and arrested on November 23rd, 1993 for the second degree murder of her 2 ½ year old son Kenneth. Charles Smith the leading expert in Canada on performed Kenneth’s autopsy and insisted that the cause of death was asphyxia. Smith convinced the crown that Tammy was a young mother with limited financial resources, parenting and coping skills, and was involved in an unstable relationship with Rick and Tammy was sentenced to life in prison with no parole for 10 years.

A child Owen Collins was found dead in the woods, in a burnt cardboard box. The child’s mother 23 year old Breanna Arnold was a meth addict. She lived with her 31 year old boyfriend Zachary S. Barnes was also addicted to meth. One day Arnold, Barnes and 16 year old Zachary Barker were at home shooting up with Owen Collins and his older brother in the next room. Zachary Barnes told the police that when Arnold went to check on the children Owen was already dead, so he decided it would be a good idea to get rid of the child’s body by wrapping him in plastic and putting him in a drawer. The next day on a Sunday Barnes and Barker put Owen into a cardboard box and rode with a woman to Marion. The woman said that she did not

A discussion regarding the health care reform or even health care in general can be somewhat controversial. The definition of health is drastically different depending on whom you speak to. Many would define health as " a person's absence of disease, others would describe good health based on the status of mind, body & social well-being" (GCU Lecture, module 2, 2012). According to The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, health is defined as "The overall condition of an organism at a given time". An individual's overall health affects the nation, this is where stakeholders come into value. According to Keele, Buckner & Bushnell a stakeholder is either an individual or an organization that either invest time and

In this editorial, we are being informed about what occurred about 40 years ago. Forty years ago, in Maryland, two sister went to Wheaton Mall and never returned home. Both sisters’ bodies have not yet been found. However, since last year police officers have named a person of interest in the case, Lloyd Welch. Welch was charged with two first degree murders, regarding the disappearance of both sisters. But, prosecutors will have a difficult time trying to prove he’s guilty due to the long time frame, and lack of evidence.

Does one ever think about the words “required” or “extended work shifts”? To countless nurses these terminologies or jargons mean mandatory overtime. In today’s healthcare, “required” overtime has sky rocketed, attributable to, the nursing shortages throughout the United States. Studies have revealed that working “extended work shifts or additional shifts” have a negative impact on both patient and nurse safety. The purpose of this paper is to inform and advocate for the Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act. This author will discuss the key points, provide a critique of empirical evidence, and demonstrate the importance and impact of this Act to the nursing profession.

Waters, Renita Apr 4 2017 12:21PM Waters, Renita April 4,2017 10:05 AM TC Beth Orrick RN nurse from Bent Wood Nursing for information on Mr.Allen Union who was in Bent Wood for a wound on his feet. Ms. Beth explained Allen was getting OT, and PT and was on a walker. Beth stated Mr. Allen wanted to leave and go pay his rent and other bills yesterday he didn't return back. Beth stated she TC Mr. Allen at home and he refuse to come back for any more therapy. Beth explained to Allen he must have more treatment on the wound on his feet to heal and he did take Bent Wood walker back he took. I asked Beth was Allen on any medicine she commented he left all his medication. Beth stated Allen is a diabetic and has high blood pressure including a open

After it was found to be cyanide Stella and Paul Webking, Susan’s husband, were asked to be questioned via polygraph. Paul accepted, though he was irritated about it, he cooperated fully. Stella, on the other hand, declined because she claimed to be too ‘shaken up’. It was suspicious to investigators when Stella had two of the contaminated pill bottles out of the five found. This led to her being focused on, in doing this, investigators found that Bruce’s name on some of his insurance policies was forged. Eventually, Stella agreed to a polygraph test and failed it, sadly this was not enough to link her to the crimes. It was also shown that she checked out books about poisons. However, in 1987 her daughter Cynthia Hamilton came forward with more information. Cynthia told the police that her mom always talked about wanting her husband dead and that he was boring. Also, her mother told her that she tried to poison him with foxglove at first, but that failed so she moved to cyanide. Lastly, her mother stated the things the two of them could do with the insurance money. Cynthia, of course, testified against her mother which that, along with other evidence, led to the conviction of Stella Nickell on all

Public Health Service Act64, when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Nurse Training Act into law (Nursing Community, 2014). Now 50 years later, it is still in effect and called the Nursing Workforce Development programs. This act is located under Title VIII of the Public Health Service Act, which is administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Foci of this nursing manpower act are areas within nursing recruitment, retention, and education. Healthcare facilities and Nursing education is support by this act from graduate school to entry-level programs (Nursing Community). More than 450,000 nursing students, healthcare facilities, and nursing programs were

The global healthcare industry is facing a wide array of pressing challenges at present, many of which can carry grave consequences for the quality and accessibility of medical treatment in the immediate future. The high cost of healthcare, the large proportion of individuals who are currently uninsured and the great variance of health outcomes across different facilities in the field are all conditions that carry significant repercussions if left unaddressed. However, perhaps fewer issues are more troubling to the field than the mounting nursing shortage that threatens labor availability in all manner of hospital, public health clinic and miscellaneous medical facilities. With this shortage come a number of consequences and dangers too extensive to predict in total but including the more frequent occurrence of medical error, the potential for neglect and the assurance of less personal attention for each patient. This denotes the topic of the present research, which concerns the Legal Implications of the Nursing Shortage.

What are some views on some of the current nursing legislative issues at the federal level? According to Hood (2014) there are many issues the affect citizen safety, health care policy and the control of nursing practice; these issues are encountering the federal legislator today. According to the American Nursing Association some important issues are safe staffing, safe patient handling, nurse workforce development, Health reform, APRN's and nursing home staffing. I believe that patient to nurse ratio is one of the most important issues at this time. I believe that each current nursing legislative issue is important, but in different ways. We as nurse should become involved and fight for our issues in health care.

Good afternoon, your honor, members of the jury, press and families. I also say greetings to my opponent who i respect greatly, however find their lack of judgment on this case truly appalling. We are here to defend Ms. Lewis. .These allegations made by our opponent lack evidence, lack truth, and lack justice. Ms. Lewis was part of a social experiment and while Mr. Lewis death is a tragedy it was not a murder. It was a nice sunny day, normal as ever, Ms.Lewis received a package and a note telling her that a Mr. Stewart would come at 8:00. Mrs. Lewis then went on with her day. At 8:00 Mr. Steward arrived, and sure that it was a sales pitch Ms. Lewis let him in the house. Mr. Stewart explained the package and told Mr. and Ms. Lewis "If you

We hear nurse’s talk about how rewarding their profession is but what they seldom talk about is how it can be very challenging as well. There seems to be many issues existing in the nursing profession. One of the most affective issues in nursing is the decreasing number of staff nurses. With inadequate staffing, nurses are demanded to have more responsibilities thus causing more stress on the nurse. This increase in responsibility causes nurses to neglect many aspects of their patients’ care. Patient care is suffering from the shortage of nurses as there is an increase in adverse patient outcomes due to the shortage. Also, there is evidence that there is a positive relationship between the number of staff and the effectiveness of their teamwork. The more staff available the more likely nurses will work together as a team. A new act is being implemented to help with the nursing shortage. This act is called the National Nursing Shortage Reform and Patient Advocacy Act. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the issue of nursing shortage and how the National Nursing Shortage Reform and Patient Advocacy Act is an example of evidence-based practice.

The Registered Nurse (RN) Safe Staffing Act, H.R. 2083 was first introduced on April 29, 2015; where it was read twice and referred to the to the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Committee on Ways on April 29, 2015; and subsequently to the Subcommittee on Health on May 1st, 2015. This bill was introduced by Representative Lois Capps and has thirty-six cosponsors, from twenty states. The legislation makes amendments to title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require each Medicare-participating hospital to institute a committee composed of at least fifty-five percent nurses providing direct care, to establish nurse staffing plans that are specific to each unit (American Nurses Association [ANA], 2015).

they also receive on the job training as education through trial and error while working