Tag: Nursing

Palliative Care Nurses’ Ethical Dilemmas: Literature Review of Palliative Sedation When Patients Reach End-of-life Stage
17th Dec 2019
Introduction: Contents Page: Acknowledgement………………………………………………………………...

Homeless Lifestyle: The Impact for Adult Patients in Primary Care
17th Dec 2019
Introduction: To understand the homeless lifestyle, how this impacts on the care received in Primary Care services and how these services could improve to benefit the homeless....

Diabetes Management Case Study
16th Dec 2019
Introduction: Case Study The purpose of this case study is to critically explore the issues related to the assessment, intervention and management of a patient with complex diabetes that has been recently managed ...

Care Needs of a Confused Client Case Study
16th Dec 2019
Introduction:  Development of a client profile and assessment of individual client need. Determine the level of assistance required to complete activities of daily living. INTRODUCTION   For the purposes of this ...

Schön's Theories on the Reflective Practitioner
16th Dec 2019
Introduction: ‘Without problems, there can be no personal growth, no group achievement, no progress of humanity. But what matters about problems is what one does with them.’ – Hoff, 1992   Introduction ...

Educational Intervention to Improve Nurse Knowledge on Nurse Knowledge
16th Dec 2019
Introduction: Improving knowledge of assistant nurses regarding pressure injury through an educational intervention to prevent pressure injury in an aged care facility. ABSTRACT Being knowledgeable of anything is v...

The Impact of Culture on the Workforce Effectiveness of a London-based NHS Hospital
16th Dec 2019
Introduction: Executive Summary This study aimed to identify whether the recruitment of more culturally diverse employees to a central London based NHS Trust (STAR – acronym used to anonymise this Trust as agree...

Nursing Risk Assessment and Intervention Management
13th Dec 2019
Introduction: Patchwork Text Patch One- Discuss critically a particular intervention or incident which involved the assessment and management of risk In this patch I will be focusing on a case that I am working on...

Perceptions and Attitudes of Mental Health Nurses to Clinical Supervision
13th Dec 2019
Introduction: Abstract Clinical supervision is recognised as a valuable resource due to the stressful nature of mental health nursing. For mental health nurses, clinical supervision has become an important strateg...

Promoting Normality Through Midwifery Care: Water Births
13th Dec 2019
Introduction: Maria is a primigravida woman who wants to have a water birth but she is concerned about neonatal safety in the water, as she has heard and read different stories and opinions about it. She is willing...

Proximity Interventions for Health-Related Behaviours
13th Dec 2019
Introduction: Altering availability or proximity of food, alcohol or tobacco products for changing their selection and consumption BACKGROUND Description of the condition Non-communicable diseases, principally card...

Impact of Homelessness on Access to Primary Care
13th Dec 2019
Introduction: Homeless lifestyle: The impact for adult patients in Primary Care ABSTRACT Purpose: To understand the homeless lifestyle, how this impacts on the care received in Primary Care services and how ...

Nursing Shortage in the United States
13th Dec 2019
Introduction: NURSING LABOUR FORCE IN THE U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM Abstract The well-anticipated demographic change attributed to the ageing of the baby boomer population in the USA will led to a significant...

Transition from Nursing Student to a Newly Qualified Nurse: The Delegation Aspect
13th Dec 2019
Introduction: Abstract The transition from being a nursing student to a newly qualified nurse was evaluated in this work with the author focusing on the delegation aspect in regard to emerging themes of accountabil...

Hydration Management in Acute Stroke Patients
13th Dec 2019
Introduction: Introduction Stroke is a global public health concern with many sufferers presenting with varying levels of confusion (Oh and Seo 2007). Management of hydration in acute stroke patients is not standar...

Strategies for Staff Shortages in the NHS
12th Dec 2019
Introduction: Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Background: British National Health Service (NHS) has experienced a sensitive shortage of qualified nurses. This has placed retention issues on the political agenda. Nursing...

Radiation Protection for Angiography Procedure.
12th Dec 2019
Introduction: Fluoroscopic procedure produces the greatest patient radiation exposure rate in diagnostic radiology. Therefore the radiation protection in fluoroscopy is very important. Several feature and technique...

Why Is HRT Prescribed For Menopausal Women
12th Dec 2019
Introduction: This dissertation to answer the research question (Why HRT is prescribed for menopausal women despite the risk of breast cancer?) was carried out as mentioned in the methodology section using the lite...

Role Expansion of Support Staff in the NHS
12th Dec 2019
Introduction: Abstract In this dissertation we examine the various aspects of role expansion of support staff within the confines of the NHS. We consider it on both a broad front and also make specific examination ...

Holistic Nurse Prescribing: A Case Study
12th Dec 2019
Introduction: Introduction 1 the patient and their presenting symptoms. Mr Pickles presents an interesting, complex and therapeutically challenging problem. In essence he is a gentleman with multisystem pathology w...

Philosophy of Nursing: Reflection
12th Dec 2019
Introduction: A philosophy is a statement of belief about something. Humans, their health, and the environment in which they live and function are phenomena of particular interest to nursing. Learning to reflect cr...

Antidepressants for Postnatal Depression
12th Dec 2019
Introduction: Antidepressants are they a safe and effective choice for the treatment of postnatal depression? This review assessed the evidence concerning the effectiveness and safety of antidepressants in the mana...

Nursing Discipline Overview and Reflective Account
12th Dec 2019
Introduction: NURSING DISCIPLINE – MENTAL HEALTH BRANCH From the 16th Century mental health patients were contained in asylums until mental health hospitals were introduced during the 1950’s. Sometimes...

Analysing the Concept of Informed Consent in Healthcare
12th Dec 2019
Introduction: Chapter 1-Introduction 1.1 In modern society, everyone has the basic right to consent to medical treatment. However, this is a recent development as consent was not always considered a critical issue ...

Inter-Professional Education in the Healthcare Sector
12th Dec 2019
Introduction: Chapter 1 Introduction Health carers working in Malta are expected to work towards a patient-centred care and to communicate and collaborate in multidisciplinary teams even if they lack sufficient bas...