There were two main questions for this research which are 1) what are the differences in urinary incontinence and knowledge between RNs, LPNs, and CNAs; and 2) are there any changes in attitude and knowledge about urinary incontinence among nursing staff after educational in services and the placement and utilization of a bladder ultrasound scanner in a skilled nursing facility? These questions are clear, concise, and easy to understand what the research is looking for. These questions play a vital role in the research, without these two questions there would be no research. These questions are testable and measurable.
The article grabbed the attention of many including the legislators and policy makers who failed to recognize the contribution of nurse practitioners in making healthcare more affordable and accessible. The aftermath of this article is the current state of advance nursing practice. Even though we have not overcome all the barriers but there has been a lot of improvements in existing barriers. As Safriet mentioned in her article that nurse practitioners can be fundamental in restructuring the complex healthcare system. Nurse practitioners have repeatedly proved that they can provide cost-effective and high quality care to patients of all
A notable finding of the study was the more autonomy the nurses felt they had compared to their peers on medical surgical floors. Their research states that oncology patients normally have complex cases and require a lot of knowledge and time. Due to the complexity of their cases, nurses on oncology floors tend to have much lower patient to nurse ratios and provide special training programs. This led to enhanced nurse autonomy as well as improve other aspects of their leadership skills such as improving their collaboration with physicians and other health care providers (Shang, Friese, Wu, Aiken, 2013). Overall, the findings showed that oncology nurses were more happy in almost every aspect of nursing environment compared to those on medical surgical floors.
Before EBP was imbedded into healthcare, nurses relied in the advice of senior nurses and what they learned through education and trial and error. Floranc enightengal ……. However, it wasn’t until the mid-1800s that evidence-based medicine had its beginnings, but did not come into play until the year of 1972. Through many years different modifications, various groups of nurses have drafted their own versions of evidence-based practice guidelines into play.
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.
The term Evidenced-based practice (EBP) is one of the most talked about concepts in healthcare. Nursing scholars, worldwide, have sought to provide healthcare workers with the evidence from research to be transform this into clinical care. To ease this transference of data into practice, scholars have developed EBP models. These models direct the researcher with the process from hypothesis to implementation of the data. The perplexity of EBP is that the data can come from research, clinical experience, patients, or local context and environment (Rycroft-Malone, et al., 2012).
Nursing research is defined as the systematic, rigorous, critical investigation that aims to answer questions about nursing phenomena (LoBiondo-Wood & Haber, 2014). These two terms are similar but have very different guidelines. Research applies a qualitative or quantitative
Introduction The scope of the nursing practice is changing with the improvement of technology. Computer and information technology is just as important to nurses as their stethoscopes, so implementing and using Medical Information Technology (MEDITECH) an Electronic Health Records (EHR) is vital in improving patient care. The importance and knowledge of the possibilities and limitations of EHR systems is brought up throughout this paper. Chilton Hospital and Fairmont General Hospital review their possibilities and limitations about using MEDITECH.
This struggle is not unique to nursing but common to all health professions, including medicine. Challenged to address this important issue, an international commitment to evidence-based health care has resulted in a number of initiatives to improve access to research findings such as the Cochrane Collaboration, the Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group, critical appraisal skills teaching programmes, centres for evidence-based practice, research utilisation conferences, and evidence-based journals. Evidence-based nursing leads to “cookbook” nursing and a disregard for individualised patient care In practising evidence-based nursing, a nurse has to decide whether the evidence is relevant for the particular patient.
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In other healthcare procedures she reminded teachers to inform her when they were going on field trips, so that she can gather the required medications, etc for students. In conclusion, the meeting was a wonderful learning experience. During the meeting I was able to observe the beginning of the school year medical procedures and learn about the specific needs of students how to care for them. Something valuable that I took away from the meeting is the importance of having a good foundation of communication between the educator and school nurse. A strong foundation allows the educators and nurses to work together and properly meet the student’s
In discharge instructions it is important for both the nurse and patient to rate information topics equally important to learn. In the “Patient education needs as reported by CHF patients and their nurses” article studies have found that nurses and patients differ in rating the importance of patient education topics. Generally, studies have found nurses value information about medication more than patients do. Patients and nurses may value different information and that patients may not believe it is realistic to learn all the information while hospitalized.
he Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Model (JHNEBP) is a model that is utilize as an outline to aid in the synthesis and translation of evidence into practice (Baker, 2008). The JHNEBP is made of up of 3 components of nursing. These components consist of practice, evidence, and translation. JHNEBP model also has internal and external factors that need to be considered before change can be implemented. During the practice stage/question stage a question is refined in answerable terms.
Evidence based practice (EBP) is need and used within the nursing leadership of health care today, redesigning care tgiven to patients that is effective, safe, and efficient. (Huber, 2014). The purpose of this discussion board is to discuss the helpful attributes of an organizational infrastructure and culture implementation of nursing evidence-based practices and to discuss what process my organization uses for implementing evidence-based practice. Evidence-based practice (EBP) programs within healthcare organizations is helpful in that it enable the nurses to develop competencies to promote the quality,safety and clinical decision making, problem solving as well as allows for cost effective outcomes within their environment (Stevens, 2013).
The purpose of this posting is to discuss the nurse’s scope of practice. The nursing scope of practice includes the functions, actions, or procedures that nurses can legally perform (American Nurses Association 2010). As a registered nurse (RN), I must know what is within the scope of practice since I work under the direction of a licensed physician (MD) or advanced practice nurse (APN). The MD or APN may place an order that may not be within my scope of practice and performing that task may be harmful to the patient and result in loss of my license. Each state or country has their own definitions of the scope practice which are important to know as well as they may differ.