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this scenario to provide rich discussion of “how to” practically incorporate this into the nurse’s practice.

Tertiary prevention nursing interventions include: planning follow-up with the people treated for diseases to assure they are following treatment and to offer rehabilitation like activities in order to maintain the best quality of daily life and decrease chances of disease progression; repeat demonstration of washing hands, verbalize proper use of sanitation facilities, and disposing of trash; offering adequate physical and occupational therapy instructions; evaluation of proper medication treatment, dressing changes and wound care; assessing living/sleeping quarters for safety and cleanliness in order to promote healthy/safe practices.

As a Registered Nurse is a crucial component to ensure that there is effective communication between the nurse and patient. As well as being respectful to the person’s dignity, culture, values, beliefs and rights. This is because everyone is different, and due to this it is important that I am being cautious to each person’s individual needs.

The nurse’s role would be to evaluate first the patient’s level of understanding of their disease. It is important to also include a patient’s support system when teaching. The nurse must give the patient information about his or her condition in a form he or she can easily understand so the patient can develop a genuine comprehension of the disease process. After the patient has a good comprehension of the disease, he or she can then apply this knowledge to his or her own situation. When this knowledge is applied to a patient’s own situation, the patient is then able to ask questions and form a new way of thinking about living with the disease. When these steps are accomplished, the patient will then be able to create a plan that would help in achieving his or her goals in regards to living with the disease process. As nurses caring for patients with chronic illnesses, recognizing where patients are at in their journey with learning about their chronic illness, and meeting them where they are will help when educating and guiding them to the next step.

The nurse would identify if this was a community acquired problem, a lack of knowledge of disease process and prevention, or perhaps the result of poor socioeconomic standards. The nurse would then focus on educating the patient on proper health promotion and disease prevention so that he/she could help to prevent the patient from returning after discharge. The BSN’s advanced education that focuses on community health, advanced assessment skills, health promotion, and evidence based practice, gives the nurse the skills and confidence needed to treat the whole person in and out of the hospital setting These skills allow them to be leaders in the community and amongst their peers.

By educating staff on nursing sensitive indicators and the issues that need to be addressed, could advance the quality of patient care throughout the hospital. In this case, educating hospital staff on ways to prevent restraint use and pressure sore prevention, the staff could have possible prevented the use of restraints and the pressure sore. Also, by educating staff on how to use restraints would be

The nurse supposed to be aware of time consuming techniques and avoid those in emergency cases. For example, techniques that takes a long time, such sitting next to the patient and listening to the patient’s concerns must be avoided in emergency situations, instead the nurse can make eye contact with the patient and reassure him or her that everything will be done for the patient. Therapeutic communication must be used for all patients regardless of their ethnicity, race, age, sex, and religion. All nurses must apply these techniques in practice for all their patients in the same manner. Mostly all therapeutic techniques are under nursing scope of practice due to the reason that they are done psychologically and there is no specific use of medications, physical tasks, or decision making involved. Therefore, all nurses can apply these techniques freely since they are all under the scope of practice. Nurses must be aware of external and internal regulations while using therapeutic communication techniques. Sometimes, the techniques take time to be done and nurses must make sure they will do all other tasks that the organization assigned to them on-time. Potential breakdowns in these areas can be the low amount of time to apply the techniques at bed-side or in emergency situation. Nurses have multiple patients and multiple tasks to perform at all times and applying

contribute to the costly effect include the fact that nurses have, increased incidence of nurse burnout and patients have poorer outcomes increasing both mortality and readmission rates. Nurses are a large component to keeping readmission rates down through spending time with a patient and educating and empowering patients on self-care through helping patients understand importance of medication regimen adherence, importance of diet adherence, ways to reduce infection and various other skills to care for self at home" (Problem Memorandum Assignment, 2015) The documents exigence is crucial the audience to better the outcome of patients and that of the health

| In the nursing education the student should be helped to appreciate that not all patients are going to leave the hospital disease free, and that as nurses there is a need to learn that we need to help them in any way we can to achieve their maximum amount

Over the past number of years there has been a nursing shortage which has led to the need of more registered nurses in the hospital setting. This is due to the uprising acuity of patient care and a decrease in there overall hospital stay. In order for the patients to get safe and quality care, the staffing, education and experience of the nursing staff needs to be made a priority. Not only has the safety and quality of patient care suffered, the working conditions in hospitals

There are an abundance of contributing factors and to understand these, nurses should be initially educated on the

8. Organization should have enough resources to provide quality of care, make changes when appropriate and support its staff. 9. The nurses should be knowledgeable and competent to provide autonomous, great quality of care to patients. 10. Partnership with community to form stronger healthcare behavior. 11. Development of staff, preceptorship program for new staff and academic students. 12. Nurses form an integral part of patient care and should provide services to best of their competency. 13. Having mutual respect in different disciplines and conflict resolution policy in place if needed. 14. Healthcare organization should provide support and guidance for professional growth and development of staff. Programs should promote education and certification for staff.

Attaining a high level of education will improve the healthcare system only if nurses are fully utilizing their knowledge and abilities. Many times nurses face challenges in exercising their abilities and knowledge due to institutional policies or government regulations,

Nurses effectively carry out their duties by constantly providing care for patients without prejudice or discrimination, however sometimes it might be difficult if the patient is not actively participating in their own care plan. This might be frustrating for nurses because the patient refusing to adhere to taking prescription might not yield to better treatment results. But patients active participation in their own care plan provided by a nurse increases motivation for the nurse and gives satisfaction to both the nurse and patients.

When the purpose is to improve practice, nurses must give special consideration to questions such as these: