Staff Acknowledgement : The Nursing Department

Process Patients have the right to notify staff that they are unhappy with an aspect of the care that has been provided. The steps to addressing complaints and grievances are: 1. Any patient or family complaint should be immediately addressed by the employee who receives it. If it is an outside call, every attempt should be made to identify what unit or department they have the concern with and to forward that call to the individual within that department who is best able to assist the caller.

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN NURSING. APRIL, 2016. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I sincerely express my gratitude to all who have helped me in the completion of my CAPSTONE PROJECT. Firstly, I express my profound gratitude to the Almighty God and our management for giving me the opportunity to do my capstone project at Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital (Wesley Guild Hospital, Ilesa). I also thank the Medical and Nursing staff who assisted me in gathering information

theory has been a pioneer on new and old developments of holistic nursing that guide students, faculty, and practicing nurses with breakthroughs related to expanding consciousness research, notions of internationality, energetic healing, and new views of body, as well as spirituality through compassionate human service. Nursing is a privileged profession to understand the contrast between different societies and individuals. Nursing is unique in that it closely involved individuals and their personal

This paper will discuss the National Patient Safety Goal NPSG 0.7.06.01 entitled “ Use proven guidelines to prevent infection of the urinary tract that are caused by catheter” (The Joint Commission, 2015). It will identify reasons why this National Patient Safety Goal was chosen as well as the type of organizations that utilize urinary catheters. It will look into the cost of implementing an educational process compared with the hospital cost of Catheter-Associated Urinary Infections (CAUTI). The

Action Steps The seeds of nursing must be planted in the heads, hearts and minds of youth. Seeing one’s self as a nurse, or a reflection of who you are in a nurse role, is important as children develop ideas about what they want to be when they grow up. To impact the rural nursing shortage long term, more young people must consider a career in nursing, especially those from rural settings. In order to influence those decisions, children must see themselves as nurses, which means men, women, Native

Root Cause Analysis of the Sentinel Event Abstract This paper highlights a root cause analysis of the sentinel event in a case involving child abduction. It describes the sentinel event in addition to explaining the roles of personnel present during the event. The paper further analyses the obstacles that may slow down efficient relations among the personnel present during the sentinel event. It discusses quality improvement methods used in the root cause analysis by outlining a corrective action

magic number of reference sources needed to properly explicate the caring concept you have selected from your Nursing Situation, a minimum of 6 sources is adequate to achieve the task effectively. Limit the number of pages in this section to 4 pages. Section 3 and 4 together are worth 12 points Jean Watson’s theory has been a pioneer on new and old developments of holistic nursing that guide students, faculty, and practicing nurses with breakthroughs related to expanding consciousness research

researched for this review is nurse burnout in the operating room and critical care areas. Nurse burnout negatively effects staff, patients and healthcare as a whole (Henderson, 2015).With the use of research plans to implement new guidelines and best practices can happen leading to being able to resolve the problem. With nurse burnout becoming more common leading to a nursing shortage and the amount of patients that will require care increasing, it will be very important to learn about and prevent

computer literacy. Numerous advances in technology during the past decade require that nurses not only be knowledgeable in nursing skills but also to become educated in computer technology. While electronic medical records (EMR’s) and charting can be an effective time management tool, some questions have been asked on how exactly this will impact the role and process of nursing, and the ultimate effects on patient safety and confidentiality. In order to

When one thinks about nursing, caring, empathy, and compassion come to mind. There exists a link, an unbreakable union, for nurses that "compassion fatigue is the cost of caring for others in pain" (Boyle, 2015, p. 49). Compassion fatigue (CF) and its impact on nurses are predominating problems in various Emergency Departments (ED). Nurses perform a number of procedures throughout the day; however, the essential item that they deliver the utmost is themselves (Harris & Quinn-Griffin, 2015). Nurses