Importance Of Nursing Intervention

Rotarix is highly effective in preventing rotavirus related gastroenteritis and has been shown to be effective according to studies conducted in the united states. Also encouraging the mother to bring W020 in for regular checkups and make sure she is up date with her vaccinations to avoid any future complications. Problem 4-5 (Educating mother on proper hygiene and lack of access to clean drinking water): To provide instructions to mother on proper hygienic practices that can significantly reduced the risk of transmitting water-borne diseases. Also educating the patient on proper hand washing techniques and exploring areas within the local region to improving access to safe drinking water and access to sanitation

As a student, one of my competency to achieved to become a professional nurse is medication administration. Since medication error can kill, there is the need to be vigilant at all time in dispensing under supervision. I have managed to disperse quite a few times but occasionally get muddled with the whole process by doing little errors and the pace at which I administer needs to be faster due to factor of time and the amount of patient lined up for medication. I have noticed some errors that needs to back up all the time. I have discussed with my mentor {and all areas of weakness have been recognized as a great opportunity for improving my experience in medication administration.

Patient has knowledge deficit related to postoperative nutritional care after total gastrectomy. Nursing Intervention for nutritional risk: Observe the tube insertion site. See if there is any inflammation, redness,swelling or tenderness. Ensure the dressing is intact and changed everyday to monitor the sign of infection and prevent

P6 Explain safe working practises necessary in preparing, cooking and serving food in the health and social care environment To be able to work in any food environment in the Health & Social Care setting you must first do a food hygiene course and they all come in different levels and categories, these are basic food hygiene to level 1 Food Safety, preparing drinks and snacks, for example, cups of tea, hot chocolate, making a sandwich or serving a piece of cake or fruit, Level 2 Food Hygiene, preparing and serving meals with hygiene training for those preparing and serving meals. And Level 3 Food Hygiene Certificate for supervisors. Your kitchen sink can contain more germs than your bathroom sink, germs such as E. coli, campylobacter and salmonella

A one on one talk with the pharmacist will enable a platform where the patient can clear their doubt and summarize their understanding of their prescribed medication. d. Most patients do not adhere to their medication due to the complexity of the dosage regime; in this, case the pharmacist can suggest that the prescriber breaks down the dose regime using medication cards or dosette to simplify the

Introduction Nursing is provision of professional care to individuals, families, and communities in order to make them attain, maintain or recover optimal health and resume the good quality of life. Other than the receiving professional training and possessing well-trained therapeutic skills, nurses should also have good ability of interpersonal communication, because during the process of therapy, large amount of communications are involved in it. Nurses and patients will experience an inter exchange of information between each other so as to reach their mutual goals. Hildegard E. Peplau raised the theory of interpersonal relations, the theory explains the phases of interpersonal process and nurses’ roles in different phases, encouraging

This will in turn decrease chronic diseases and the financial burden patients experience. Nurses need to know how to plan, assess, implement and evaluate such health promotion

Doctors and nurses should be considerate and kind to the patients by listening and attending to all their concerns. Teamwork is an important professional value that is vital in the provision of care centered on patients. A culture that is based on learning from previous mistakes and openness is fundamental in the provision of care and ensuring that patients are satisfied. In view of that, workers in the health sector should maintain honesty with the patients they are attending

The most dominant characteristic overall that being a nurse requires is resilience. Nurses must resist the symptoms of stress and be able to quickly recover from difficult situations. A study in the book Support for Caring and Resiliency Among Successful Nurse Leaders, supports the practice of self-care, responsibility, and reflection to increase resilience (Dyess, Prestia, and Smith 108-110). Self-care involves attending to self-cues by listening to the body to maintain balance. For instance, having a job in the health department can seem never-ending, and as a result pushes clinicians to continue working until the job is finished, despite how tired and possibly burnt out he or she is.

The nurse must be able to discuss appropriate coping strategies with her patient and provide information in regards to their correct usage. In patients whose body reality has been altered coping strategies have been shown to be extremely effective in relieving immediate stress. (Niven, 2006) The importance of social supports should not be undermined, as active social support can provide an environment which is conducive to the integration of the patient’s new body image in society. The nurse should promote communication with both family and friends, social supports such as these can encourage the patient to view their new body reality in a positive ways.

Cultural awareness allows a nurse to develop interventions that will decrease the health disparities with this cultural group. A nurse that strives in building a nurse/patient relationship that focuses on facts, spending time to understand their true illness, and seeks the opinions and advice of the family will overcome a history of mistrust with outsiders (Giger, 2013, p. 264). A second nursing intervention would be to provide dietary education and changes to their diet to decrease and treat problems associated with high blood pressure and diabetes. The biggest challenge to implementing these goals is the limited time to educate and teach these health illiterate individuals of the factors contributing to disease and health problems. This cultural group has limited knowledge and understanding of medical explanations of how illness occurs or how to prevent cardiovascular illness or diabetes (Giger, 2013, p.

Cultural education and awareness are key factors in providing respectful care to our patients. Being aware of differences in forms of communication, beliefs about life and death, and being able to accept and show respect for traditions that may not be our own will all come through continuing our education as nurses. We must remain vigilant to our patients and their families, noticing just how giving of ourselves and our time we are. With a Native American family, tone and body language can completely override the words that are spoken. The nurse who is attempting to provide respectful, culturally competent care will have to take the extra time, to develop the trust and respect that are so integral to their culture.

Article Summary The impact of CAUTI remains a major threat to the safety of the patient and accounts for about 40% of hospital-acquired infection. The main culprit associated with the occurrence of CAUTI is having an indwelling catheter during a hospital stay. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CAUTI’s are well thought-out to be an avoidable barrier of hospitalization, hence no extra payment is afforded for this treatment.

Disparity in Pain Management among Patients with Substance Use Disorder Fatimat Odeyemi University of Maryland School of Nursing   Disparity in Pain Management among Patients with Substance Use Disorder Description of the Problem If pain according to Ignatavicius and Workman (2010) is what the patient says it is and it exist when and where the patient says it does, why does research studies show disparity in treatment with patients suspected of substance abuse or those diagnosed with substance abuse disorder? Studies by Morley, Briggs and Chumbley (2015), Morgan (2014) and Paschkis and Potter (2015) all supported the hypothesis that nurses provide inadequate pain relief to their patients because of the perception that constant request