This paper is going to illustrate a case study, which has been chosen during the two weeks of clinical practicum. It will present the medical history of the patient, focus on current health status and discuss the main responsibilities of community health nurse. H.S is a 74 years old Emirati, female, married and has 3…
Nurse Strategies to Prevent Elderly Suicide Attempts
Investigation into nurse strategies to prevent or minimise attempted suicide in patients aged 65 and over. Abstract This dissertation considers the rationale for positive nurse-based intervention in consideration of issues relating to suicide in the elderly. The introduction sets the context, including the historical context, of the issues and discusses the negative effects of ageism…
History of Funding the NHS and Differing Political Views
BASHIR IBRAHIM KHALIFA INTRODUCTION Over the last 60 years, the National Health Service (NHS) has become an intrinsically innovative form of healthcare in the United Kingdom. The NHS holds three core principles: to remain free at the point of delivery by allowing individuals to have unlimited access to the NHS based on clinical needs despite…
Application of Groupwork Theory to Discharge Group
Identify an intervention with a service user or service users from your own practice. Discuss the theories for practice that informed the chosen intervention. Illustrate your answer with examples from your practice and evaluate the outcomes of the practice. Any names used have been anonymised and I have used pseudonyms throughout to ensure confidentiality. In…
Acquisition of Nursing Critical Thinking Skills Strategies
Aims Aims are general statements of the expected educational intentions of the subject taught (Butt, 2006). The aims of the lesson are: 1. To provide nursing students with opportunities to acquire critical thinking abilities necessary for distinguishing genuine patients 2. To enable students to apply and implement the learnt critical thinking strategies learnt in actual…
KHA-CARI Guidelines for Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease
As part of the profession nurses work to uphold and follow all relevant guidelines to shape the care given to patients to ensure effectiveness. The KHA-CARI Guidelines work are used by Renal nurses to ensure best possible outcomes for Chronic Kidney disease patients living within New Zealand and Australia (KHA – CARI nd). These guidelines…
Strategy Proposal for Alcohol Addiction
Propose a strategy to help reduce alcohol addiction based on your knowledge of current prevention, screening or intervention strategies. Introduction Addiction can be defined as a behavioural process that provides pleasure and relief from internal discomfort, however, it includes a recurring failure to control the behaviour and a continuation of this behaviour despite its harmful…
Case Study: Adolescent Type 1 Diabetes
Mary is 19 old female as she just come for higher studies in university. She was diagnosed diabetes type 1 at the age of 11. Her objective data shows the symptoms of uncontrolled diabetes. Diabetes have many complication include diabetic ketoacidosis, hyperglycemia, hyperosmotic non-ketotic state, and hypoglycaemia. In Australia 3.2% of female and 4.0 %…
Preventing Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI)
Introduction Clinical governance is important for providing safe care to patients and is essential to continuous improvement in patient safety.(vicgov) One of the key components in relation to this safety and quality issue in health care is preventing and controlling healthcare associated infections(HAI) which plays a significant role in poor outcomes of patients.(sahealth) To prevent…
Critical Thinking Practices for Developing a Patient Care Plan
Student Learning Outcome Four Integrate current evidence-based practices and critical thinking techniques to develop the patient’s plan of care (Ivy Tech Community College, 2019-20). Rationale Registered nurses use a lot of critical thinking techniques in order to provide evidenced based care to their patients. They also use critical thinking to join objective data from assessments…