Essays on Patient Outcome

Introduction

The aspect of client-centered care has gained increasing interest as the delivery of care shifts from nurse-focused norms to care that focuses on individual needs and beliefs. The presence of a holistic, compassionate client-centered care has replaced traditional modes of health care delivery to modern types where nurses apply both the science and art of health care delivery to ensure a positive patient outcome. Understanding the meaning and characteristics of a holistic, compassionate client-centered care creates a collaborative health environment.

The meaning of holistic, compassionate client-centered care

The holistic, compassionate client-centered care refers to the process of providing care to the diverse population whereby the care ...

Effectiveness of the Management

Ineffective Practices The organization is reliant on debt to finance its operations- overreliance on debt financing could cause challenges for the organization such as stifle growth and limit future cash flow. Since most of the operations are financed by debt in cases of failure to pay the debtors the organization is exposed to property repossession which could have a devastating effect on patient outcome. EMR system- there was lack of proper integration of the EMR system. Some of the inpatient notes were not included in the EMR system and a separate system was used to enter physician orders (Porter, ...

The Contingency Theory of Leadership was developed by the psychologist Fred Fiedler in the 1950s initially as a series of measurements and then formalized as a theory in the late 1960s (Fiedler, 1967). The essential tenet of the Contingency Theory of Leadership is that there is no one single best model of leadership, but the situation will dictate the method and leadership style (Mills & McKimm, 2016). The focus tends to be on the leader being able to correctly read the situation and adapt the style of leadership accordingly. The theory states that the effectiveness of a leader is dependent ...

Nursing

Introduction The term management and leadership are often interchanged and interpreted as the same, but that is not always the case in nursing profession. This is because not every nurse can be considered as a good leader, and the same can be said about nursing leaders that are not necessarily managers. Primarily, a nursing manager holds the decision-making power in assigning organizational position, and is expected to carry out control over specific duties and processes. On the other hand, leaders may not have the same authority as managers, but the power that nursing leader posses is inherited from their ...

INTRODUCING EMERGENCY SEVERITY INDEX (ESI) FOR BETTER PATIENT OUTCOME

Introducing Emergency Severity Index (ESI) for Better Patient Outcome Introduction to ESI The core objective of various triage tools across the emergency department attributes to the systematic prioritization of the patients in accordance with the severity of their clinical conditions in the context of determining the period until which the patient might wait in the emergency department before his/her evaluation by the healthcare professionals (Gilboy et al., 2011). The nurse professional after executing a focused assessment of the patient determines the waiting time and accordingly provides a triage acuity level of the patient in the emergency department. The patient ...

Planned change in Hospital Center Unit

Healthcare facilities are some of the important industries in society. It is worth noting that healthcare facilities play a key role in the lives of human beings. For many years, shortage of staff has been a major problem that affects health care facilities. Shortage of nurses in health care facilities lead to increase in mortality rates, poor working environment, increases stress among nurses, increase in infections, and poor patient outcome. MedStar Washington Hospital Center is one of the facilities that focus on exceptional patient heath care. The Hospital Center is faced with a critical problem at the intensive surgical ...

Introduction

Access to quality, safe, and affordable healthcare is a priority of every person worldwide. Most countries in the world, especially, the United States of America (USA), have continued to put more efforts towards improving the delivery of care to ensure every citizen enjoys quality and safe health outcome. Health disparities act as one of the major issues affecting the delivery of health in the U.S. Health disparities affect different groups of people in the country, but it's more common among racial and ethnic minorities and underserved communities. The increasing documentation of disparities in healthcare calls for an urgent need ...

The purpose of this paper is to present a critique on a systemic review article on the topic of emergency department crowding and patient outcome (Carter, Pouch & Larson, 2014). The problem addressed by the article is the global increase in Emergency Department. Crowding in the Emergency Department is well-known to be associated with poor care processes such as timeliness of care and diversion of ambulances (Johnson & Winkelman, 2011; Kennebeck, Timm, Kurowski, Byczkowski, & Reeves, 2011). The review article sought to focus on another facet of Emergency Room crowding and that was patient outcome. The research question of the relationship of ...

Communication in Healthcare Teams

Complementary Roles, Decision Making and Shared Responsibility Effective communication is necessary to be incorporated in the healthcare teams in order to ensure the enhanced wellbeing of patients by means of developing and implementing the patient care plans in an effective manner. The effective implementation of the care plans is based on the shared responsibility of the healthcare teams or multidisciplinary teams, in which the individual members of these teams are responsible to provide care to the patients. The patients in the intensive care units or long-term residential facilities require services from the individuals of different departments and team members, ...

IM/IT Analysis

Question one

Patient Care Applications Features The introduction of information technology led to improvements in patient-centered care applications. Patient Care Applications are IT tools used by healthcare organizations that enhance and supplement communication between patients and healthcare providers. The main features include patient information recording (admission/discharge/transfer), report generation, and communication equipment, patient care plans, scheduling, and nurse staffing processes. Patient care applications have many capabilities in a healthcare setting.

Capabilities

The main capability of patient care application includes the support of the delivery of quality care to patients by making available their medical records to healthcare providers in an effective ...

Abstract

Every health organization has the goal of providing quality, safe, and cost-effective care to patients. Some safety issues reported in hospitals today question the role of the health sector in improving the health outcome of the community. Many hospitals record poor patient outcomes because of the inability of the management to plan duties and changes in shifts between nurses caring for patients in hospital wards. Poor inter-shift reports between registered nurses act as one of the most common problems threatening patients' safety and delivery of quality care in hospitals today. Technology plays a significant role in influencing communication between ...

The professional nursing practice incorporates many elements that individual nurses should implement to achieve the acceptable patient outcome. The nursing professional holds the largest number of employees in the U.S. healthcare workforce and continues to grow as professionals introduce more initiatives and goals aimed at improving the quality of care. However, the presence of many barriers in the practice inhibits the ability of nurses to respond to changing health care settings and the expanding health care system. An effective evidence-based management practice promotes the overall practice of nursing by managing these barriers through the paradigm of Theory-Research-Practice-Policy. Robert Wood ...

InstitutionLeadership Learning Experience Project

- The Need for Interdisciplinary Teams

Interdisciplinary teams are important in nursing as they improve the quality and safety of care offered to patients. Interdisciplinary teams consist of professionals from different disciplines who work together and share expertise, skills and knowledge (Gardner, 2005). Collaboration and teamwork are imperative in healthcare which requires professionals with varied expertise. Poor collaboration between health professionals and lack of teamwork influences quality and safety of care (Gardner, 2005). Research linked poor collaboration with poor patient outcome and increase in medical errors. This is because patients do not get appropriate and timely care. Poor communication ...

Leadership and management concerns in the organization encompass diverse concepts ranging from the application of appropriate leadership style, skills and traits, depending on the situation, the subordinates’ personalities, and that of the leader; as well as discerning varied situations that necessitate an analytical analysis of alternative courses of action that would assist problem solving and decision making. To comply with the requirements of the current discourse, the aim is to describe the different approaches of nursing leaders and managers to issues pertinent to continuous quality improvement and patient satisfaction, which is included in the list.

Continuous Quality Improvement and Patient Satisfaction

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Abstract

This paper discusses how collaboration among various players in a health care delivery process can be promoted. It initially emphasizes on the manner in which various tasks in health care delivery are interconnected. Approaches that a health care administrator can apply to foster collaboration among clinicians are discussed. Collaboration is depicted as an important way to minimize human error in order to promote patient safety while also reducing organizational risks. The paper also discusses how physician leadership can encourage initiatives to promote reduction of organizational risks and patient safety.

Delivery of health care services in the current world is shifting towards a ...

Introduction

Nurses nationwide undergo career training programs aimed at giving them knowledge and skills to deal with different types of healthcare problems. Nurses are required to obtain their Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) in ten years before acquiring a full practicing license. The above degree program plays a significant role in preparing individual nurses for the tasks ahead. It offers an effective educational framework. The healthcare delivery system was introduced by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing to focus mainly on patients’ outcomes. All health care professionals have a focus of building safer health care system. The safety of patients is ...

Abstract

Different factors led to worsening of Carla’s condition. Communication lapses contributed to the adverse events as Ana did not call the physician at the dialysis unit to inform him of the importance to monitor Carla’s INR. In addition, the inflexible scheduling hindered Carla from getting the ultrasound test done at the right time and receiving timely care. Another factor is the patient’s failure to follow the discharge instructions. All parts such as the hospital, dialysis center and laboratory should communicate effectively by mailing discharge summaries and calling respective parts to ensure patients are receiving recommended care ...

Abstract

Although various studies in genres of writing have not been considering Medical Case Reports, as a genre, there are emerging evidences that more and more healthcare organizations are adopting them as their preferred medical texts. Their abilities to present unique and rare conditions that concern an individual patient, in his/ her context, but at low costs, have seen them being considered as the most scientific texts of studies. Therefore, this study has carried out oral interviews to medical students and medical professionals, and analyzed various written medical case reports from two medical journals to reveal their features as a genre in ...

In health care, the success a baccalaureate prepared professional nurse is not only dependent on the care given to the patient, but also the recovery time taken by the patient (Mailloux, 2011). It is worth mentioning that BSN nurses predominantly have an impact on the patient’s outcome. Because they have a well-established educational background and knowledge regarding patient care that in essence impacts the patient outcome positively, BSN nurses are of utmost significance when it comes to patient recovery (DeBrew, 2010). With the above said, this paper will essentially focus in BSN nurses and present how their skills and techniques ...

Cultural Overview

Leila is a woman aged 34 years old. She is of Haitian descent, and she resides in the State of Connecticut. She is married with four children: two girls and one boy. She is also five months pregnant. Leila lives with her husband and children in the same house. In addition, her Uncle and two siblings also reside in the same neighborhood as she does. They meet quite often and even share some meals together. Leila also has no friend apart from members of her ethnic group. Besides, she spends little time with her friends. The only people with whom ...

Question #1

This week was quite hectic and busy and the only way to face the tight schedule of events was being organized and setting priorities. I was dealing with five complicated patients, and it became very hard to take breaks. The psychiatric unit is pretty unique in terms of dealing with patients. Patients in this unit have unique needs that require a multi-dimensional and holistic approach (Shea, 1998). Within the weekly, schedule, I was supposed to attend to five different patients, and this implies that finding breaks were a tall order. However, as my preceptor decided; I was going to take entitled ...

Overview

United States has experienced an increase in prevalence and incidence of cancer among its citizens over the last few decades. According to American Cancer Society (2014), cancer refers to a group of diseases that present with uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells. Cancer emerges due to several factors which include; smoking of tobacco, exposure to chemicals and radiation, hormones, and inherited mutations (American Cancer Society, 2014). Even though there are many causes of cancer, the disease can be prevented. For instance, avoiding smoking and minimizing exposure to chemicals and radiation by observing safety precautions can greatly help reduce chances ...

PROPOSAL FOR INTRODUCTION OF A WIRELESS NURSE CALL SOLUTION

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Introduction The nurses work environment is continually receiving more work that results from an increase in the number of diseases and the shorter stay in the hospital facility. The nurse to patient ratio has always shown that the number of patients is more than the nurses can handle comfortably. This hardship is compounded with the dwindling number of nurses (Kelly, 2012). Training a nurse takes time and requires a lot of resources. It is, therefore, important to ensure that the few nurses that are available are retained and treated well by making their work environment the best. ...

Application of the Nursing Process

Part 1 Nursing process is a systematic, organised, and holistic patient-centred approach in delivering care to patients. The nursing process has five steps that include assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. The second step in the nursing process is diagnosis. In this step, registered nurses make clinical judgments based on data gathered in the assessment step about the client’s health problem and the potential health problem of the client. Nurses also make judgements on the ability of the clients to adopt practices that can improve their health. For instance, the assessment of the old man in the ...

Evidence-based practice in nursing focus on the enabling nurses to integrate the vast literature as well as technology into their daily practice with a view to improving health care quality and subsequently the patient outcomes. It is a process that incorporates nursing practice, nursing theory and empirical evidence into a single entity focused on improving the overall quality of health care. This implies that the nurse, the patient and the nursing research agencies all have a hand to play in this case. With such a common approach, then there is a higher possibility of care improvement. As Scott & McSherry (2009) assert, evidence-based nursing is “ ...

Introduction

Patient health outcome is influenced by different factors. One of these factors is the nursing staff-patient ratio. Nurse staffing and how it affects the patient and nurse outcomes is of major concern to the hospital administrators and policy makers. This can be linked to the findings of several researches done relating to the outcomes of nurse-patient ratios. Since delivery of high-quality patient care is a key motivating factor for managers, understanding this myriad of issues and providing key solutions will be a beneficial step towards restructuring the nurse-patient relationship within the health care system. The review paper by (Patternson, 2011) pointed ...

Health care management is considered as a vital component in clinical settings. With the growing needs and demands of patients, appropriate strategies need implementation by the health care professionals. Patients who present severe life threatening conditions appear in need of great support. Here, the ultimate goal is to promote an improved patient outcome and quality of life (QOL). This task could rely on the skill and professional expertise of caregivers especially, nurses. Nurses have great potential in caring patients. They could incorporate special patient tailored strategies to improve outcomes. This description focuses on ‘nursing interventions to promote patient outcomes’. ...

Abstract

This paper answers four questions. In addition, through a case study, the paper illustrates considerations made in order to prioritize care given to hospitalized patients. A case study is given of six patients with various complications and care needs. The paper points out that those with airway problems are usually considered first for care delivery before other patients with other conditions. This is because airway problems pose more acute danger than other conditions. In this case, the paper gives a case study of patients with various complications and how the complications are managed. In addition, the paper, through another case study, ...

Veteran Health Administration: Action Equation

The project is to become a magnet hospital. The critical goals or essential goals for this project include: delivery of excellent patient result, high level job satisfaction within the workforce, and reduction of staff turnover rate. This same set of goals can also be considered non negotiable as they are the most basic for achieving magnet status in Veteran Health Administration. Developing an action plan is important for the hospital to execute the strategy needed to achieve magnet status.

Delivering and maintaining high level of patient outcome

The nurses need to know what to do and why they are doing it

The nurses and other staff members need ...

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The field of nursing continuously faces different day-to-day situations and challenges in the real world. The high level of nursing-patient relationship is vital towards success and proper health maintenance. Different factors, problems, and aspects such as nursing shortages, quality medical care, risks, patient outcomes, potential problems and the like play an important role in building a healthier society. Organization executives and top stakeholders always make a plan that can bring benefits in the future. In real life, people find many ways on how they can find a solution to such troubles. Speaking of finding a good solution, one usually narrows down ...

Introduction

Technology is an essential aspect in the management of different sectors of any country’s economy. The health care sector is one of the important fields in which requires technology for the execution of various tasks as far as offering health care services is concerned. Technology in the health care sector is applied in areas such as performing x ray scans, the use of laser beams to eliminate cancerous cells amongst other areas. Additionally, technology is applied in this sector when it comes to the storage and retrieval of patient records. In this case an improvised data base system ...