Clinical handover in the trauma setting: a qualitative study of paramedics and trauma team members Research is the key contributor of professional development in many professions, particularly healthcare. It allows practitioners to inform, adjust and monitor particular ways of practice or issues. The ability to evaluate research evidence appropriately is essential to avoid the assumption…
Patient Safety in a Hospital – Research
Attitudes toward incident reporting. Attitudes and perceived barriers to incident reporting among tertiary level health professionals were researched by Malik, Alam, Mir, & Abbas (2010) to address the limited incident reporting framework in Pakistan. A random sample of 217 doctors and nurses in Shifa International Hospitals were given a modified version of the AHRQ’s questionnaire…
Therapeutic Milieu And Mental Health Nursing Nursing Essay
Therapeutic milieu is “the controlled environment of treatment facilities that shelters patients from what they perceive to be painful and frightening stressors, thus providing them with a stable and coherent social environment that facilitates the development and implementation of treatment.” (Stuart, 2009) The chief purpose of selecting this topic is that it is an exclusive…
Effects of HIV/AIDS in Democratic Republic of Congo
Research proposal 1. Title A study of AIDS/HIV Epidemic and Impact of Getting to zero Strategy among Women in the Eastern Region of Democratic Republic of Congo from 1996 2. Abstract This research project presents the conditions and consequences of HIV/AIDS among Congolese women in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from 1996 to…
Research Methodology: Effect of Smoking Cessation Education on Smoking Cessation
Data Collection, Analysis, Evaluation, Dissemination of Results and Conclusion There are two types of research methods that can be used for an Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) project, qualitative and quantitative. A quantitative research method is used when the researcher prefers to have numerical data as the basis of making an analysis which can be statistical. A…
Core Values In Mental Health Nursing Nursing Essay
The Department of Health (DOH 2006) recognises that mental health nurses are the largest profession working within the field of mental health today. In the Chief Nursing Officer’s (CNO 2006), review it recommends that, it is essential for mental health nurses to incorporate the broad principles of core values when carrying out care (DOH 2006)….
Example Answers to Exam on Mental Health Nursing
Search for the Victorian MH Act on the web and define the following terms Approved Mental Health Service The Mental Health Act (1986) defined an approved mental health service as a service or premises which either proclaimed to be an approved mental health service under section 94 or declared to be one under section 94A…
Biopsychosocial Approaches to Diagnosing Mental Illness
Many people say that people with mental health disorders are not easy to understand and describe them as abnormalities because they do not fit in the society, but there are many studies investigating mental health illness and the stigma of looking at this subject is improving. Applying the right knowledge to investigate, diagnose and get…
Mental Health Nursing And Concepts Of Behavioral Psychology Nursing Essay
During my mental health clinical rotation i came across a 35 years old male patient admitted with complain of hallucinations delusions, obsession, aggression, and self talkative behavior. During history patient reveals that his parents get separate when he was seven years old and he was single child shifted with his mother at that time. His…
The Importance of Assessment in Mental Health Nursing
The assignment will discuss the importance of assessment in Mental Health nursing, focusing on a 54 year old lady suffering from major depression. The Department of Health (DoH, 2010) pointed out that depression is a disorder of mood and may be characterised by low mood and feelings of unhappiness, exhaustion, self blame and suicidal thoughts….