Safety is paramount and all healthcare workers have a responsibility to perform effectively, efficiently, transparently and professionally. It is very important that the safety of both the health care worker and the patient is upheld to the highest of standards because it is a huge aspect of quality patient care. While human error cannot completely be eradicated, a nurses should always be to reduce and try to prevent the harm of a patient from a result of their care. Safety I have worked at a hospital
The use of restraints on elderly patients is very substantial issue in nursing and there are many types of restraints such as physical, chemical, and environmental. Patient safety is the top priority; nurses should have profound foundation of knowledge about the risks and advantage of restraints. The use of restraints is negatively escalating the risk for injury on patients especially the elderly population rather than preventing them. Additionally, it can be skeptically perceived if the nurse
Review Christy Hernandez Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Legal and Ethical Issues in Healthcare NURS 4383 October 22, 2015 Incident Based Peer Review The Texas Board of Nursing (TBON, 2015) specifically defines peer review as the evaluation of nursing services, the qualifications of a nurse, the quality of patient care rendered by nurses, the merits of a complaint concerning a nurse or nursing care, and a determination or recommendation regarding a complaint. The TBON (2015) continues
the need in the hierachy, the more fundamental they are and the more a person tends to abandon the higher needs in other to pay attention to adequately meeting the lower needs. The hierachy presented in this theory includes physiological needs,safety,love and belonging,self esteem and self actualization to describe the elements which motivates an individual. This framework is very famous in the field of psychology, sociology and research. Maslow also emphasized on the need for self-actualization
Abstract The main purpose of this article is to analyze and inquire three professional nursing affiliations. The three professional affiliations that I selected for review are Oncology Nursing Society, Academy of Neonatal Nursing, and Emergency Nurses Association. The following aspects of the professional nursing affiliations are tackled in the article: 1) the description and the scope of the affiliations; 2) the mission and value of the affiliations; 3) the journal or email newsletter the organizations
that the quality standards have been met as patients are taken care of. This is a responsive approach that seeks to examine the reason why facilities failed to meet their standards and think about the next steps to be taken, for future improvements (University of Minnesota, n.d). On the other side, Quality Improvement is a way of proactively studying the healthcare processes with the main intention of preventing or decreasing the likelihood of patients through identification of areas of opportunity
Bachelor of Science in Nursing can continue her education through advance studies. A 2010 Institute of Medicine report noted the importance of continuing education for nurses. The report recommended that nurses must practice nursing to the complete extent of their education and training. Typically, barriers to this notion have been historic, regulatory and policy driven. The report emphasized the importance of bachelor prepared nurses to continue to higher levels of nursing education in order to fill
Portfolio project Throughout the years of studying for the nursing program, a lot of information have been read, revise and analyzing with the intention of developing a better understanding of the nursing role on the medical field. By being able to look back to a variety of prior papers created as part of the program, the understanding of the intention of those projects become clearer as development of researching, analyzing, critical thinking and understanding of evidence base practice. The rationalization
medication error. As we know about medication error is very serious condition and can cause harm to the patient, medication error can prolong hospitalization and others complication happen. Each year statistic show high incident occur in hospital setting is medication error. What happen? Issues happen due to the shortage of staff causing workload increase by 1 staff nurse take care on 2 to 3 patient. According to Cheragi, Manoocheri, & Ehsani,( 2013) stated that medication error s more likely occur
argues that many managers, and senior leaders while influential in driving change and innovation are not always perceived as clinical leaders by the care teams. Therefore it is important to ensure clinical staff engagement at all levels. (Journal of nursing education and practice May 2012)