August 28, 2018

Drawing Conclusions About Research Findings and Their Implications for Clinical Practice As a current or future nursing researcher and professional, your ability to draw reasonable conclusions from research findings will determine the effectiveness of proposed solutions for clinical nursing practice

Nursing Assignment: Application: Drawing Conclusions About Research Findings and Their Implications for Clinical Practice As a current or future nursing researcher and professional, your ability to […]

August 28, 2018

Critical Review of the Literature for Administrative Topics

Critical Review of the Literature for Administrative Topics Selecting a Topic There are several things you will want to keep in mind as you are […]

August 28, 2018

describe two strategies that you use in your nursing practice to effectively communicate with other members of your team, and with your patients

Introduction: Welcome to Riverbend City The Riverbend City mission in this unit illustrated the importance of effective communication. For this assignment, describe two strategies that you […]

August 28, 2018

Name and discuss at least 3 key points that you found to be especially helpful in thinking about the spiritual needs of patients with a

Regarding our Unit 3 assigned reading, chapter 7 of Spirituality in Nursing: Name and discuss at least 3 key points that you found to be especially […]

August 28, 2018

Sherwood, G., & Barnsteiner, J. (2012). Quality and safety in Nursing: A competency approach to improving outcomes. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell.

Quality improvement is an important issue in professional nursing today. In Milestone 1, the student will define a nursing care issue (not a workforce issue such […]

August 28, 2018

Care Clinic Scenario: The Executive Team of Care Clinic prides itself in the care that is provided to the community of Summerville, Florida. The Clinic is known for holistic approach to the individuals served at the clinic as well as presenting various community outreach programs. Annually, the Executive Team of Care Clinic reviews the client satisfaction benchmark results related to client service and quality indicators. The scores have substantially decreased in the past 12 months in the categories of client satisfaction and quality care. Observations from the care clinic scenario: Video 1: 45 year old patient comes to the clinic with a history hypertension and diabetes and uses the insulin pump.  Nurse greets patient and states “the clinic is very busy today” then she ask patient what brings him to the clinic on this day  Patient: ‘Well nurse, my blood sugar has been very high lately and I haven’t been feeling good’  Nurse: ‘Well im sorry to hear that, let me check yourblood pressure Blood pressure reads 160/80.  Nurse: “well it is a bit on the high side” RN moves to check recent lab work and notices patient’s last lab work shows high glucose levels.  Nurse: “are you doing a diabetic diet? Which diabetic diet are you on”?  Patient: “I am on a 1400 calorie diet”  Nurse: “I know its hard to resist carbohydrates and sweets but you have to count your calories correctly”  Patient: “I know how to count my calories”  Nurse: “Are you experiencing pain of loss of feeling in your feet? “  Patient: “No. not really”  Nurse: “I am going to print out a food log for 7 days. I will print out information on diabetic diet and you need to make a follow up appointment in the front desk. When you come I will give your more information just when Im not as busy as today” Video 2:Scenario: Nursing assistant enters patient’s room to take vital signs. Care assistant performs handwashing and explains to the patient what she will do. As care assistant is getting ready to take patient’s vital signs a code is called where assistant is needed and she explains to the patient she will return to take his vital signs. RN at station is reviewing patient’s chart to begin medication administration.  RN: “Hmmm I wonder what the patient’s blood pressure is since I have to give him labetalol and it’s the blood pressure medication. The nursing assistant still has not documented any vital signs yet. Nursing assistant returns to the patients’ room as promised and the RN walks into the room.  RN: hey you have not documented any vital signs  Assistant: I have been very busy and I haven’t been able to document yet  RN: what was the patients bp and what time did u take it?  Assistant: 10 minutes right before I got called by another patient and the blood pressure was 140/86  RN: “can you please go and document the now” okay, I can give you your blood pressure medication sir. Let me scan your bracelet. As the RN is scanning the patient and opening the medication, the medication fall to the floor  RN: these darn packages are so difficult to open. Thank God for the 5 second rule  Patient: I cant take that! You didn’t wash your hands and that pill fell on the floor! You better go wash those hand and bring me another pill. From your leadership perspective, determine how the declining benchmarks can be addressed and improved. Discuss the actions/changes that need to be implemented in order to improve the satisfaction scores and attained Care Clinic quality outcomes 1. Client satisfaction benchmark to be discussed: a. Decrease in the quality nursing care related to interventions provided to clients at the Clinic. 2. Describe the leadership dynamics related to how the improvement/change project will be managed. 3. Identify the change model that will be used in addressing the selected benchmark. 4. Describe the course of action/change. Format Description of the Assignment The focus of the assignment is to address decreasing benchmark scores regarding customer service or quality care with the use of leadership strat

Care Clinic Scenario: The Executive Team of Care Clinic prides itself in the care that is provided to the community of Summerville, Florida. The Clinic is […]

August 28, 2018

Answer the question correctly and provide rationale and/or support for your answer. A simple yes or no answer will not earn full credit; there must be rationale or evidence to support the answer.

Complete Exercises 6, 8, and 9 in Statistics for Nursing Research: A Workbook for Evidence-Based Practice, and submit as directed by the instructor. 1) Answer the […]

August 28, 2018

Describe the progress made to date on achieving the recommendation

Note: Due to Hurricane Irma. you must submit one post (one substantive original post) AND evidence-based citations and references are required for your original post. NO […]

August 28, 2018

In your initial response, provide a definition of caring that aligns with your perspective on the concept of carin

This week’s topic is centered on the concept of caring in contemporary nursing practice. In your initial response, provide a definition of caring that aligns with […]