Background One of the challenging options in end-of-life care that raises ethical concerns is the choice to forego or stop receiving treatments or therapy. When a patient’s request to commence or continue treatment will result in severe suffering, an unnecessary or uneven allocation of resources, or a course of action...
Introduction Healthcare is one of the most crucial issues in the United States today. The nation has traditionally used a hybrid public/private healthcare system, subject to much debate over the years. Under this approach, Americans can acquire government-subsidized health insurance or seek the same from private insurance companies. Federal and...
Introduction Preference is an act of favor for one person or something over another. The right to pick or choose something shows that humans are connected to the natural environment in various ways. Human preferences for events are controlled by natural components, the unceasing of natural assets, and the health...
Introduction Increasing the number of full-time nurses at United Medical Rehab is a critical task to achieve in order to address staff shortages and declining patient outcomes. According to Drennan and Ross (2019), the shortage of junior medical employees is a global problem, largely caused by inadequate recruitment and retention...
Introduction Workplace incivility is an immense concern in medical institutions. Scholars usually characterize it as low-level disruptive behavior that violates the mutual trust and respect standards of the workplace and has an uncertain intention to hurt the victim (Zhang et al., 2018). Workplace incivility is unkind, disrespectful, demeaning, and insulting...
Nurse Practitioners, with a focus on Acute and Critical Care Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants, is the topic of choice. This topic was chosen because nurse practitioners play a variety of roles in critical care medicine. The purpose of the study was to thoroughly investigate the use of nurse practitioners...
Introduction Diseases like Diabetes make it difficult for the body to regulate glucose levels, leading to hyperglycemia and frequent occurrences of high blood sugar. This disease causes many complications, including kidney disease and blindness. Diabetes is a progressive condition that should be medicated rather than treated as a chronic illness...
One of the vulnerable populations that need much health attention is infants. For infants to grow healthy, they need breast milk. Breast milk contains nutrients required to improve the immunity of an infant, including vitamins and minerals. Since some mothers cannot breastfeed their babies, infant formula is available. Mothers are...
Nursing theory is very important for the nursing profession and nurse practitioners in particular. While the nursing profession substantially relies on specific personal characteristics such as kindness and compassion, the nursing theory provides a foundation for nursing practitioners’ professional development. Thus, nursing theory is essential for the development of nurses’...
Health is the most valuable and universal human right that should be respected at all times. Unfortunately, multiple adverse experiences and influential social factors, including employment, education, income, and environment, cause inequalities in people’s health (World Health Organization [WHO], 2018). Indeed, the exposure to social disparities due to unequal distribution...
Introduction Despite the many problems that Texans have to deal with every day, the health insurance predicament is one that never subsides. For the fourteenth year in a row, Texas has the highest number of uninsured citizens at 23 percent (Grubbs & Wright, 2020). In addition, Texas has one of...
Introduction In a perfect world, healthcare providers always select the most economical treatment for their patients. However, provider-payment conversations aside, healthcare decisions are only sometimes straightforward. The correct selection for each patient should be reached through an open and frank discussion with their physician, covering their options, medical history, and...
The timeline and implementation milestones The topic is as follows: Strategies to improve the safety of Limited English Proficiency patients at Massachusetts General Hospital Emergency Room. There is currently more focus on the significance of communication difficulties with limited-English-proficient (LEP) patients and how they affect unfavorable situations. According to recent...
The intensity of care for the elderly varies across different countries. Some countries have the elderly as the majority of their population, whereas in others, the younger population prevails. In the US, the elderly comprise sixteen percent of the total population and this number is expected to rise to twenty-five...
Nurse practitioners are healthcare clinicians who are competent and certified in curing sicknesses and tending to other medical emergencies. Additionally, they give support to injury and disease prevention in patients. The podiatrists are responsible for examining and mentoring other nurses and staff and giving services in family health, pediatric health,...
Introduction In light of the nursing positions in various health faculties, shortage, and nursing retention are significant problems. Many relevant resources offer credible insights to explain the lack of nurses in most health institutions. These academic sources try to get the background information that leads to these shortages. In addition,...
Introduction Meaningful use is a term used to define minimum U.S. government standards for electronic health records (EHR). The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health HITECH Act of 2009 encouraged the adoption of these guidelines (Yuan et al., 2021). Meaningful use outlines how clinical patient data should be...
Summary In the United States, a person wishing to become a donor must register in a unique registry of his state (online or by mail). According to Ali et al. (2020), “from a medical perspective, transplantation may be the best treatment for organ failure” (p. 2). It is recommended to...
Introduction High blood pressure, known as hypertension, is a serious condition that can give rise to other heart diseases, including stroke. It is also known as a “silent killer” in the medical field, as it remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Beyond heart-related illnesses, high blood pressure...
Introduction The World Health Organization (WHO), the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued a new list of guidelines in 2022 that advocates for extending the breastfeeding period for babies. After a year of breastfeeding, the mother’s milk retains the same amount of...
Taking care of employees is an integral part of the work of any organization. This is due to the fact that human resource has the most valuable role since the success, competitiveness, and productivity of the company directly depends on the activities of this component. Thus, employment law has an...
The science and practice of integrating nursing knowledge and information with technology to integrate and manage health information is referred to as informatics in the nursing practice. The ultimate goal of informatics in the field of nursing is to enhance the health of communities and people while minimizing costs. In...
Introduction In recent years, quality has become one of the main topics of discussion in improving health care. In today’s society, the public health industry is defined as a market economy, which raises the question of financial incentives in this area. Moreover, this practice includes reimbursement issues for people in...
Learning Objectives Assessments are crucial elements of the educational process and can be divided into formative and summative. While each type has its specifics, both are closely connected to LOs (Learning Objectives). The present course focuses on instructing nurses on patient expectations and satisfaction. Learners will be able to comprehend...
Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive and irreversible neurological disorder that leads to degeneration of brain cells and shrinking of the brain, eventually destroying memory and other mental functions (Breijyeh & Karaman, 2020). It is a common form of Dementia observed among older. It progresses with time and in phases until...
Introduction The purpose of the current paper is to make the necessary recommendations for an Electronic Health Record (EHR) for the Alpha organization. The assessment is to review the essential details of the organization and make appropriate suggestions as to which EHR program is worth choosing. In addition, the paper...
Abstract The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) all currently advise against the initiation of breastfeeding for a variety of reasons. Prior to breastfeeding, the nursing parent should make a list of any medical history circumstances that could...
Introduction Patient safety and quality care issue affects many healthcare setting and manifests themselves through wrong medicine prescription, long waiting appointment times, and wrong medical calculations. Quality of care is how well healthcare offerings for patients and populations enhance health-related outcomes and maintain current technical competence. This paper provides some...
Introduction The current opioid crisis is a major domestic problem in the United States. In recent decades, the rate of opioid overdose deaths in the country has quadrupled. The magnitude and depth of the opioid crisis in the United States is not hyperbolized, although it did not actually happen overnight....
Introduction Quality and accessible healthcare services are fundamental rights for every citizen. It is the government’s responsibility to establish a healthcare system that facilitates the efficient and effective delivery of these services. Healthcare systems adopted by nations worldwide to provide health services to their citizens are different, with varying levels...
Clinical & Personality Disorders and Other Conditions That May Be a Focus of Clinical Attention (p. 715 in the DSM-5) The groups of mental health conditions that are characterized by atypical patterns of thinking, feeling, behavior, and inflexibility are referred to the personality disorders. People with these personality disorders find it...
Introduction Analyzing scientific material is a complex and voluminous process requiring considerable attention. Scientific publications consist of several parts, including the article’s title, abstract, description of the research methods and their results, and analysis of the data obtained. This article comprehensively critiques a study on patient mortality, nurse staffing levels,...
With the constant increase in population, the healthcare sector continues to be overwhelmed, posing various challenges to the patients’ safety. In response, the nursing field has embraced an initiative to shift to community-based care, which is more effective in giving care and preventing chronic disease complications (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2019)....
Introduction The introduction of technology into clinical practice made it possible to determine the patterns and trends of glucose level excursions, to obtain reliable data on short-term glycemic control. Appropriate glycemic control is a critical factor influencing the course of diabetes mellitus and the risk of its complications and comorbidities....
Introduction Heart disease, classified under cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), refers to any condition in which the heart fails to operate as it should. It raises the danger of cardiac arrest, cardiogenic shock, eventual death, stroke, and irregular heartbeats, all of which lower life quality and shorten the lifespan (Maniatunufus & Herliani,...
Learning Needs Assessment The learning context for this assessment involves patient fall prevention for the Latino population, whose needs have never been considered by fall prevention programs. The learners in this assessment include older adult Latino patients with a falls history. The lesson is a three-month program that will be...
Compassion is essential to the nursing profession, as it enables workers to provide the highest quality of services. Emancipatory knowing requires nurses to work on eliminating inequality in healthcare facilities and promoting ethical behavior (Chinn & Kramer, 2018). I have been in a situation where this skill could have been...
Introduction Childhood obesity remains a significant burden globally due to its high prevalence [30]. Obesity in children below five years of age exceed 40 million [30, 2] and those older than 5 years and adolescents has reached over 330 million [30]. The global challenge posed by obesity has prompted the...
Introduction The safety of the patient is vital in ensuring quality health care and recovery. Most patients do not heal fast or fail to eat better because of a lack of the required medical attention. To ensure that the healthcare services provider satisfies the patient, the healthcare department should be...
Introduction This paper examines an ethical and legal dilemma in a nurse practitioner’s decision-making regarding honesty versus withholding information. Ethical principles, laws that may have been violated, integrity decisions, distinctions between legal and ethical reasoning, and advice for resolving moral discomfort in a dilemma among advanced nursing practitioners are all...
One needs to clarify that the Advance Directive being reviewed is the one that applies in the state of California. Its full official title is “California Advance Health Care Directive” (National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, 2022, p. 7). A sample of this document was obtained from the digital source...
Nursing covers the care of patients of different ages, backgrounds, and different social statuses. That is the basis of the work of nurses, as it significantly improves the patient’s condition during recovery. Medical workers are commonly known for being multi-taskers and are capable of providing suitable care for different kinds...
Introduction Nursing is the practice of autonomous and collaborative care for sick or healthy individuals, families, and communities. The roles of nurses range from recording patients’ medical history and symptoms to performing diagnostic tests, administering medication, monitoring patients’ health, and providing support and advice to the patient. When attending to...
Introduction Psychiatrists and psychologists rely on observing human behavior to diagnose individuals, predict actions, and explain feelings. Noteworthy, behavioral health is a relatively new topic compared to other medical sciences. However, there are significant milestones that have been made in the development of this discipline. Many theorists and researchers have...
Introduction Nursing is a unique profession that relies on scientifically proven theories to improve the practice by positively influencing the quality of a patient’s health and life. These theories comprise an organized body of language that defines the meaning of nursing, what nurses do, and why they do it. Although...
Introduction The COVID-19 disease and its pandemic have impacted the world in nearly all spheres of human activity. It has changed how the economic, social, educational, and many other systems function. In addition, it has led to many tragedies as it took the lives of millions of people and damaged...
Case 1 The analyzed case shows the image of the brain with the diminished substantia nigra. This area is full of dopamine-producing nerve cells, which might start dying in some cases. As a result, the person with this problem might demonstrate a set of numerous symptoms. These might include tremors,...
At Hampton VA Medical Center, Community Living Center (CLC), during drug administration to dementia patients, nurses face many interruptions. Due to the lack of the opportunity to fully focus on the patient and complete the procedure to the end, the risk of medication errors increases. In the CLC, the nurse...
Nurse Educators A professional development plan, which should always be updated, evaluates a person’s present skill set, assists them in setting career goals, develops strategies, and identifies resources that will enable them to achieve those goals. A team member’s goals, necessary skill and competency development, and objectives must all be...
Introduction Improving refugees’ access to health care services is critical to managing diseases, promoting wellbeing, and increasing the quality of life in the country. Therefore, it is essential to conduct key informant interviews to collect relevant data and address ongoing challenges. This essay aims to identify the barriers to accessing...
Introduction Modern health systems present health professionals as equal participants in the public health system. Nurses can overcome inequalities in access to health care and the provision of knowledge about health and medical education, using professional expertise and competencies in the largest group of medical professionals. It is the professional...
Introduction Throughout human development, nursing has found its place and ground rules. From the beginning of this profession until today, there were always people who moved the process forward. One of those people in nursing is for sure Virginia Henderson. In 1955 she developed the Need Theory, which defines the...
Introduction: IT-Related Progress in Healthcare The incorporation of artificial intelligence helps keep the records of patients, administer drugs in their correct portions, and curb the mixing of drugs menace (Davenport & Kalakota, 2019); Patients now can access robot doctors for medical advice; Electronic sign-out and hand off tools ensure safety...
This research paper will focus on Florence Nightingale, the environmental theory author. Nightingale revolutionized public consciousness about the role of the nurse. I would call her one of the most important faces in nursing history because of her invaluable contributions to health care. She was able to change society and...
Introduction To provide healthcare of a higher caliber, informatics is applied. Patients can use informatics to give their clinician, or perhaps a group of healthcare providers, vital information. By accessing their electronic records while using a secure method to connect with their nurses and doctors, patients can take charge of...
Introduction Nursing is guided by numerous theories that guide professional practice. Such theories provide critical information on how nurses can handle the various situations they encounter daily. The different concepts are based on nursing practices that the theorists observed during their service to the general public. The theorists identified the...
The chosen topic is breast cancer inherent to the US female population, which will be analyzed by appealing to the relevant statistics. Specifically, there is a necessity to explore health disparities coming from the racial factor in the United States. Hence, the target population for this discussion will be non-Hispanic...
Introduction BTC is a primary care physicians’ office BTC has a team of four physicians and two nurse practitioners BTC provides care to individuals of all ages Primary care practices incur considerable costs when adopting and implementing comprehensive primary care abilities BTC is not an exception A care delivery model...
Introduction The nursing profession is complex and essential to the provision of quality health care for patients. Different medical roles require different levels of education, knowledge, contribution, and skills from individuals. For instance, Advanced Nursing Practice (ANP) and Advanced Practice Nursing (APN) are two distinct fields of medical practice (Lewis,...
Introduction Healthcare policies contribute to establishing standard practice. Medical service delivery relies on stakeholders’ involvement. Practitioners focus on enhancing patient’s quality living. The government ensures affordability and accessibility among the citizens. Health insurance policy fosters optimal financing of services (Goldenberg et al., 2020). The insurance financially secures individuals for medical...
In healthcare settings, aggressive behavior exhibited by acutely ill clients is a pervasive problem that contributes to poor outcomes for both patients and medical staff. It is widespread in inpatient mental health wards, where 7.8 cases are reported per 100 medical workers yearly, with nurses being the most likely victims...
Introduction This paper is a summary of the assigned article by PhD Duke Biker which focuses on the benefits of mindful self-compassion for frontline nurses. The impact of the article contents on my own future professional nursing practice due to the fact that I, as a nurse, also need to...
Introduction Over the years, a large number of people have traveled from their home countries to foreign nations to obtain necessary healthcare services. The aspect is common, especially where the country of origin does not have the required facilities to enable the treatment and management of specific disease conditions. In...
Introduction Psychological health is an essential part of a person’s general medical condition. This is due to the fact that all elements of the body are interconnected with each other and are under the constant control of the nervous system. That is why the state of a person’s psyche affects...
Introduction For me, this is an extremely near and dear subject, a good friend of mine passed away due to an accidental overdose. A series of observations coupled with an analysis of the available evidence will show that the problem of the opioid epidemic is caused not only by the...
Childhood and adolescent obesity have reached epidemic levels in the United States. Currently, about 17% of children in the United States are obese (Sanyaolu et al., 2019). Obesity can affect all aspects of children’s lives, including their psychological and cardiovascular health; their overall physical health also suffers. The link between...
This reading assignment included the article “Racial disparities in renal function: the role of racial discrimination. The Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil)” by Camelo et al. (2018). In this scientific article, the authors aimed to investigate the relationship between the racial discrimination experienced by respondents and estimated glomerular...
Introduction The section “Guide for enhancing core functions and essential services for public health improvement” presents numerous resources to study this topic. Some of the issues discussed include the assessment of community problems, needs, and resources, the ways of collecting information about the problem, the development of strategies and plans,...
The skin cancer is a group of malignant and non-malignant tumors that develop from different skin cells. Each type of skin cancer varies in severity, symptoms, mortality rate, and potential to form metastases. There are several rare forms of this disease, such as Merkel cell carcinoma, dermatofibrosarcoma bulging, t-cell lymphoma,...
Introduction Horizontal violence in healthcare is understood as acts of aggression, bullying, intimidation, or refusal to assist nurses and healthcare professionals towards each other. While respective attitude towards colleagues fosters collaboration and teamwork, horizontal violence leads to the formation of a negative working environment and constant stress often results in...
Introduction The understanding of the human body parts, how they coordinate, and how the organs keep people alive has been transformed by physiological study, from medieval notions to molecular scientific methods. Diabetes is a chronic disorder that results from inadequate pancreatic insulin production and ineffective use in the body. Compared...
Introduction One of the most socially debatable issues over the past years is the healthcare provider’s capacity to accept or deny euthanasia. World Health Organization report indicates that often in their line of duty, physicians usually are faced with euthanasia as a challenge. Ideally, the act is regarded as the...
The patient’s presenting problem is the risk of falls, which has already occurred recently. Unfortunately, multiple persons over 65 are at risk of a similar problem. The chance of falling, as well as fall-related issues, increases with age. Many older adults are afraid of falling, even if they have never...
Lou is a patient who had abdominal surgery and was diagnosed with a nosocomial infection due to a catheter in his bladder during post-op hospitalization. Nosocomial infections are commonly diagnosed in people who have to stay in hospitals for some period. Their major transmission routes include contact with an infected...
The one-sample t-test is used as a tool of inferential parametric statistics, which allows using the findings of the sample analysis for comparison with the general population. The essence of this test is to evaluate whether a given sample comes from the general population or, to put it another way,...
Introduction The nursing profession is extremely stressful. Nurses are responsible for someone’s physical and mental well-being, which can take a toll on the nurse’s mental health. After all, they frequently work long night shifts in busy settings while providing care for several patients, and sometimes the situation is genuinely life-or-death....
The prevalence and incidence of heart disease contribute to high mortality and morbidity globally. Heart disease stands as a leading cause of death in the United States. Statistics show that the health problem claims more lives than every form of cancer combined, annually. Thus, the mortality rate of heart disease...
Executive Summary The topic for this paper is the role of people management and its relevance in the Australian public health sector. The primary finding of this research is that the concept of people management has become instrumental in many organizations that want to achieve their business goals. In the...
The study discovered that the average acceptance rate across all studies in LMICs was 80.3%, with middle-income countries such as Pakistan at 66.5% and Low-income countries such as Burkina Faso at 66.5% having the lowest acceptance rates. Findings suggest that personal protection against COVID-19 is the primary factor that explains...
Abstract Physicians have a responsibility to discuss do-not-resuscitate (DNR) decisions and end-of-life (EOL) care with patients and family members. The aim of this study was to explore the DNR and EOL care discussion experience among physicians in Taiwan. A qualitative study was conducted with 16 physicians recruited from the departments...
The article discussed in this essay focuses on a diabetes prevention program. The study by Cha et al. (2017) determines effective strategies to help individuals at risk of type 2 diabetes avoid the associated complications. The method used is a prospective randomized clinical trial (RCT) that involved 420 respondents with...
Ethical Considerations One of the most critical aspects of any continuous quality improvement (CQI) effort, especially in healthcare, includes accounting for ethical considerations. The latter is necessary in order to avoid conducting the intervention improvement at the cost of healthcare ethics, which lie at the foundation of advancing human health...
Introduction Modern health care needs quality management. To achieve this, the government, citizens, patients, clinicians, purchasers, and providers need a variety of information about the performance of healthcare organizations. In doing so, the importance of analytical work, independent expertise, benchmarking, monitoring, and evaluation increases. Quantitative assessment of management through rating...
Introduction There is a great deal of support for the Canadian healthcare system, but there are also many questions about its long-term viability. In the second decade of the 21st century, Canada’s healthcare system and the national Medicare program continue to struggle significantly with the provision of healthcare services. Discussion...
Systems thinking is a framework of approaching problems while looking at the bigger picture. Instead of trying to address a specific problem on a small scale, this method encourages to look at how different agents interact in a way that reproduces the issue (NIHR, 2019). These agents may involve people,...
Numerous government health bodies acknowledge depression as a serious health problem. Only between June 29 and July 11, 2022, about 23.2% of individuals in the United States reported having a depressive disorder (Elflein, 2022). Depression is characterized by chronic sadness and a lack of interest in or enjoyment of once-delightful...
Introduction The healthcare system in a country determines the quality of care that the citizens of that country get whenever they seek medical services. Because healthcare is one of a country’s most important services, the government works hard to create policies that ensure citizens receive high-quality care at the lowest...
Ethical considerations are vital in nursing; they involve effective communication and complete understanding. Nursing is closely connected to ethical decision-making, for example, when the patient refuses care. Indeed, patients’ views and beliefs might become a struggle for medical interventions and lead to misunderstandings or offenses (Manias et al., 2015). Contentious...
Background Covid 19 pandemic has become a serious challenge for the modern world. The extremely high contagiousness of the virus, difficulties associated with its treatment, and development of numerous adverse effects resulted in numerous deaths globally. For this reason, the international community has to respond to a new threat and...
Choosing an appropriate sampling method for the research is crucial because it allows ensuring the credibility of the study. Identifying the target population and its features is an important step made prior to planning the interventions and tests. Nursing research can involve various groups of researchable populations, which may include...
Abstract This paper presents an attempt to examine frontotemporal dementia (FTD) based on a critical review of the evidence-based literature. Considering that many patients under the age of 65 and over face mental issues, this topic cannot be underestimated. To better understand the identified disease, the paper provides an analysis...
Introduction Nowadays, there is a growing trend for using medication for beneficial purposes in order to alleviate the symptoms of various conditions. For example, treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity (ADHD) disorder with medications has proven to be immensely helpful (Edinoff et al. 3). However, between 1995 and 2008, stimulants that are usually...
Bell Grove, Medical care center is an example of an urgent care center that deals with patients with no appointments. The patient walks in and out of the hospital now and then, seeking medical attention. Such hospitals are usually less expensive for emergencies as they treat less life-threatening ailments, such...
Patient safety is a medical specialty that arose in response to the increasing intricacy of medical systems and the associated increase in hospital patient harm. Its purpose is to avoid and minimize risks, mistakes, and serious adverse events while providing health care. Constant growth-based learning from failures and bad events...
Social media are a significant part of people’s everyday lives, and it is natural that hospitals also establish their online presence to promote their services and market them to larger audiences. According to the recent statistics provided by Smith (2017), in the United States alone, more than 90% of top-ranking...
The DNP degree was established to prepare APRNs, including nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse anesthetists, and nurse midwives. The development of the DNP is interlinked with the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) report on the prevalence of medical errors and safety and quality issues. Based on this report, in 2003,...
Typically, PTSD is defined as a mental illness that directly results from anxiety-related symptoms that follow a stressful experience. Natural disasters like floods, which are caused by heavy rain, are one example of this. These events can cause PTSD in certain people, causing them to react badly to different external...