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    population (WHO 2012). The prevalence of senior citizen’s falls in acute care settings varies widely and the danger of falling rises with escalating age or frailty. Falls of hospitalized older adults are one of the major patient safety issues in terms of morbidity, mortality, and decreased socialization

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    active in your care at the hospital Diabetes has been known to be one of the most widespread lifelong disorders among the American people. The brochure chosen was published by The Joint Commission to be a part of the “Speak Up” campaign. The “Speak Up” campaigns were created to be able to promote awareness of the nationwide patient safety goals that were developed by The Joint Commission. This brochure lists the significant ways to be active in your care while a hospital setting. This brochure

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    their own homes or more to residential care setting which can provide 24 hour care? This is a difficult decision not only for the older individual, but also for their family, friends and support system. In this review I will take a look at some of the research done regarding this issue. The effect of one’s environment seems to have a significant impact on how well an individual does in various setting whether it be their own homes or in institutional setting. A great deal of research has taken

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    according to their professions that promote the wellbeing of their patients and communities (ANA, 2010a). The standards provide a mechanism to patients that they are been taken good care of and that the nurses know exactly what to do so as to provide high-quality care and the measures are in place to determine whether nursing care meets the standards. These activities are related to performance like ethics, quality of practice, education, communication, resources, leadership, environmental health, professional

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    Pressure ulcer is an adverse outcome in the clinical care setting that also linked to poor quality of nursing care. Though pressure should never happen in a professional care setting, it is still prevalent throughout the world’s medical settings. This article looks at many other previous studies from 1992 to present to compare and find the underlying issues that may contribute to pressure ulcer. A closer look at the nurse’s knowledge versus actual decision will be observe, because it is the key

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    Ambulatory Health Care from 2016 National Patient Safety Goals. Ambulatory Healthcare is an outpatient medical care such as regular check-ups, observation, diagnosis, treatment and follows ups.Proper Ambulatory health can prevent recurrent hospital admissions as many medical treatments for acute and chronic health illness can be done in ambulatory health care.Some minor surgical and preventive ways of many diseases and other services can be done in ambulatory health care. In ambulatory care patient not

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    self management starts with increasing self efficacy because its associated with healthier behaviours simultaneously health behaviours associated with personal and family factors, community factors and medical care system. Self management programs are designed with a cultural relevance which will be appropriate for the ethnic diverse groups because ethnic groups are more prone to long term conditions.Once the programmes implementes systematic follow up and assessment is mandatory.Quantitative

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    health care provided to youths and their families (Kerig & Lindahl, 2001). Many different observational coding systems are being implemented in school settings, as well as in clinical research, to naturalistically capture the specific behaviors within mental health services. Observational coding systems can vary in their content and methodology. The ultimate goal is to better understand how adults and parents can help children achieve developmental success in family life and in school settings, in order

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    Dombal’s system for acute abdominal pain’ to ‘’IBM Watson Health’’, this health information technology has been a key for the perfection and improvement of health care systems around the world. In a perfect world, Clinical decision support systems seem to be the answer to human errors made by physicians and improvement of quality of care for patients. But, what have we learn in the past 50 years of having these devices? Do they actually deliver all the wonderful promises that they make? Are they actually

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    One of the primary goals of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to provide affordable health care coverage and increase access to affordable health care to the community. Unfortunately, since the passage of the ACA, while there has been an increase in the number of people with health care coverage, those same people do not necessarily have access to affordable health care. Currently, the public views the Emergency Department (ED) as a safety net by the community it serves; as demonstrated by the increasing

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