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were admitted to the facility was taking up over 30 minutes of their time, time they could have spent with critical patients or seeing a new patient. After much research, I have came up with a change project for Logan Regional ER that would definitely help cut down on waiting time for patients and take some of the workload off of the nursing staff. My change project consists of paid transporters, who are already staff in the ER for every shift and who have already had their CPR class, to transport…
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Assignment 2 Annotated Bibliographies Jennifer George SOC 490 Social Science Dr. Susan Fournier August 19, 2014 Child abuse is a key issue that I feel affect our population, which affect everyone that have some connection with children. As stated by the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act “any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation, or an act or failure to act, which presents…
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Convalescent homes are another form of nursing homes; a convalescent homes purpose is to provide short term rehab services. Although they seem to be accomplishing the exact opposite of that. It is evident to see that poor management plays a huge role in not meeting the needs of its patients after reading the article “Just How Bad Is Nursing Home Care”. The GAO report from “Just How Bad Is Nursing Home Care?” (Ila Swan) article states that, “Hundreds of nursing homes have filed bankruptcy… due to bad…
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Administrators decide on a practice to adopt and it is mandated for the nursing staff. Administrators rarely meet with practitioners to reevaluate and get advice on whether to continue with a practice or end the new practice. Research has consistently shown that when practitioners are given a voice in decisions and also are given valid reasons for change that practitioners will adopt a practice much more…
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Evidence-Based Practice and Applied Nursing Research Yvette Riviere Western Governor’s University Evidence-Based Practice and Applied Nursing Research Article critique Sayre, M.M., McNeese-Smith, D., Leach, L.S., & Phillips, L.R. (2012). An educational intervention to increase “speaking-up” behaviors in nurses and improve patient safety. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 27(2), 154-160. AREA|METHOD OF REPORT (HOW IT WAS ADDRESSED)| 1. Background information2. Review…
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Annotated Bibliography on Innovation Patricia Manning He, Q., & Chen, C. (2014). The empirical study on influence mechanism of positive, negative leadership behavior on team innovation performance-based on the contingency model of group emotional atmosphere. Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research, 6, 2647-2653. Retrieved from www.jocpr.com The researchers described the impact of positive and negative leadership on a team’s innovation activities. Using the heuristic model of measuring a…
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Annotated Bibliography Shaunta Holden ENGL 111 Kevin Kliver July, 17 2015 Whitcomb, Rachael. (2011, 09}. Pot for pain? PG 64 This article it pointing out that a Seattle company is trying to make pot patches for pain control in dogs’ cats and horse’s. It also says the use of medical marijuana has gained in popularity in the last few years. A vegetarian pain management specialist says that transdermal use of marijuana could have a place in veterinarian armamentarium…
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days?” the next question he asked was, “Have you been out of the country mainly to West Africa in the past months? He had never asked me these questions before so I went ahead and asked him some questions as well since I am currently majoring in nursing and I needed some knowledge, something new to learn. He had said they have been training and doing different things then normally, everyone on post had been getting ready in case of an outbreak. El Paso and Fort bliss is one of the 20 quarantine stations…
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its effects on wound healing. Nursing Standard 25(45), 41-47. The article discusses the complications of diabetes and its effects on would healing. It also discusses why those with diabetes have a decrease in healing and preventing infection. The article also went into detail about the pathophysiology of how uncontrolled diabetes effects wound healing. Watkins, J. (2012). Differentiating common bacterial skin infection. British Journal of School Nursing, 7(2), 77-78. The article shows…
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EBT 1 -Task 1 Selected Article from a Nursing Journal: APA Citation: Bradley, S., & Mott, S. (2010). Handover: Faster and safer? Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, 30(1), 23-32 A2. Graphic: Background Information Traditionally nurses delivered clinical information about the patient, the clinical events on their shift and the plan of care to the oncoming shift to ensure continuity of care and to make sure that their colleagues were informed about tasks or instructions that needed to be…
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