Does Nurse Led Medication Education Improve Medication Compliance and Reduce Errors? Cardiovascular disease (CVD) costs an estimated $444 billion per year in the United States (US). 83.6 million Americans have been diagnosed with CVD and of those, 735,000 patients have a myocardial infarction (MI), or heart attack, every year. 210,000 of those patients are likely…
A Study On Culture And Nursing
To be able to be provide sufficient nursing care to all, nurses must understand and demonstrate culture respect and awareness. Nurses and all health care professionals must demonstrate cultural competency, cultural sensitivity. The health care system is a cultural diverse area that all health care professionals must utilise and thoroughly understand to be able to…
Reflective Essay On Pressure Sore Nursing Essay
My aim of this essay is to reflect on my learning outcome pressure sore care and management. Pressure sores also known as decubitus ulcers. Benbow (2006) defines it as areas of localized tissue damage as a result of excess pressure, shearing or friction forces. To reflect on my learning process, I am going to apply…
Exploring The Effects Of Violence In Nursing Workplace Nursing Essay
Have you ever been slapped, clothing pulled, or bitten by a patient? Has a patient, a relative or even a health care professional used abusive language, or threatened you if you tried to enforce a hospital policy or did not comply with a demand? If your answer is “no,” consider yourself one of the few…
Education and Assessment of Proper Electrocardiagram Lead Placement
Electrocardiogram lead placement – Implementation Paper Executive Summary Electrocardiography (ECG) is a diagnostic test that has been used for over a century. ECGs are one of the most common diagnostic tools to assess for signs of cardiac disease. With nearly 50 million ECGs performed annually worldwide, it is vital to ensure that this widely used…
Asthma: Pathophysiology- Education and Health Promotion
Diagnosis: Based on the HPI, ROS, PE, and diagnostic tests, the diagnosis is most likely to be an acute asthma exacerbation. Episodes of an asthma attack are mostly triggered by exposures to an allergen, including: grass, pollen, dust or animal dander (Tillie-Leblond, Gosset, & Tonnel, 2005). Some triggers also include air irritants such as chemical…
Reflective Essay on Personal Performance
Reflective account of on-going nursing training programme This essay is a reflective account on the progress I have made during the on-going nursing training programme I have embarked upon. The areas I intend to cover include the usefulness of assessment feedback for facilitating growth and for understanding the areas that need to be improved in…
Labor Room Comfort for Pregnant Woman
Comfort is associated by nursing responsibilities with a firm and strong concept. This is given traditionally to patient and families with the use of comfort measures. It is intended to provide comforting measures in order to strengthen the patient and their families. Nurses show proper care because of their abilities. There are no certain measures…
Overview of Causes of Mental Illness
Abstract There is no surprise that mental health is very imperative when it comes to living a healthy life. According to the National Institute of Health (NIH) on National Institute on Mental Health, “mental illnesses are very common in the U.S. Their prevalence studies in 2017 were an estimated 46.6 million adults aged 18 or…
Mental Health of Children with HIV
Chapter 1 Introduction Women are more at risk of acquiring HIV infection than men in sub-Saharan Africa mainly due to Gender inequality, this relatively increases the risk of children acquiring HIV through mother-to-child-transmission [1]. According to available statistics about 30% of babies born in sub-Saharan Africa to HIV positive mothers will themselves be infected with…