Section 1 Introduction In March 2012, a major improvement in dementia care was a challenge for England. This was one of the biggest challenges that were identified as there was high-level population that was suffering from dementia which cannot be ignored through a mere approach. These issues can be tackled through several approaches that can be drawn in areas of healthcare. Background The report consists of a three-ye...
Caring as a Human ScienceCaring is the fundamental concept of nursing that differentiates it from other health care professions and provides a framework to guide the nursing practice (Cook & Peden, 2017). According to Calong & Soriano (2018), many nursing theorists identified that caring is the fundamental principle in nursing practice applied to achieve and maintain the well-being of patients. One of the first theorist, Leininger, state...
Consider the Patient’s SituationIn essence, clinical reasoning, clinical judgment, as well as decision making are considered to be habitually used exchangeable in literature. In this light, clinical rationale is often used to elaborate the overall processor instead the procedure through which a particular nurse tend to gather cues, deal with the information, arrive in a specific understanding of the patient’s situation, prepare as ...
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Clinical Guidelines on Depression Screening for Stroke PatientsEvidence-based healthcare guidelines for the United States and other four countries have recommended that stroke patients should undergo screening for depressive disorder. Caregivers should also monitor and evaluate the symptoms of depression during the development of stroke and after hospital discharge. However, despite the clinical guidelines, caregivers cannot recognize, diagnos...
Background of the StudyThe International Association for the study of pain as defined pain as a hostile sensory and passionate experience that is related to potential tissue injury (Loeser and Treede, 2008). Pasero (2009) describes pain assessment as a necessary procedure which involves examining the location and intensity of pain. The role of providing the most appropriate ease for severely sick patients is an overall aim for doctors and nurs...
Challenges facing Nursing Leadership in Ensuring Quality and Safety of Healthcare ServicesIn essence, the issue of patient safety has for a long time now been the focal point of various healthcare practice as well as nursing throughout the history of medicine. Nonetheless, there has been an increasing case of a non-deliberate accidental harm on patients seeking care services across the world (Porter-O'Grady & Malloch, 2015). Notably,...
Presentation of the problem This is the study about Joanne, a 45 years old women who has been divorced. She is a patient of depression. Previously multiple suicide attempts have been made by Joanne. Three times she attempted it. She is currently under the supervision of a psychiatrist. The medicine given by the psychiatrist is not taken adequately by Joanne. Joanne has limited social interaction. Another essential point is that she has a firearm...
Comparing and Contrasting the Sustainability ReportsSustainability Report is considered as a major report that provides the stakeholders with the information about the environmental, social and governance performance of the business organizations. The main aim of the report is to compare and contrast the sustainability reports of two of the major Australian companies; they are Wesfarmers Limited and Woolworths Limited. It needs to be ment...
MethodsAntibiotics are those medications, which are utilized to treat microbial infections either by executing them or by ceasing the development of microorganism.We are using anti-microbial drugs since 1950s, but now a new problem with the anti-microbial drugs has been raised. Microorganisms are now developing immunity against these drugs. Therefore, many bacteria and other microorganisms are becoming resistant to these drugs. Another problem...
Peplau’s theory in nursing care Choose oneof the theories listed below and explain how it would apply to nursing care and nursing practice Peplau’s theory Peplau’s theory focuses on the development of the interpersonal processes as well as therapeutic relationship which develops between the nurse and the client. With this theory it helps the nurse and patients to come together as strangers, and work toget...
Distraction Techniques for Managing PainEvidence based practice can be considered as the integration of the best available clinical evidence of each of the patients from systematic research. It can be considered as the integration of the patient values, clinical expertise and research evidences in the decision making method for the care of the patient. EBP helps to improve the patient outcome and helps in reducing the hospital readmissions. EB...
Advantages of the Digital Health Record TechnologyDigital Health Technology is defined as a process of electronically documenting the comprehensive health information of the patients and thereby generating patient-centred digital records (Levine, Lipsitz and Linder, 2016). According to the reports published by Jensen, Jensen and Brunak (2012) at present the efforts are being undertaken in order to increase the application of the electronic hea...
Introduction to Clinical ReasoningClinical reasoning is also referred to as clinical judgment or critical reasoning (Kelton, 2014). It is defined as the process of tracing information concerning patient symptom to find out the cause of the epidemiology instead of simply treating it for the sake of recovery. By examining the history of the patient, determining causes to the sickness as well as assessing previous response to medication, health c...
Application of Clinical Reasoning Cycle on Pneumonia PatientRegistered nurses needs to be flexible in the in the decision making approach and to ensure a continuity of care. In order to provide a safe and a high quality of care, they should possess the ability to judge, think and reason. Clinical reasoning is a complex process that utilizes the formal and informal reasoning strategies for gathering and the analyzing the patient reasoning. This...
What is Epistemology and Ontology?In the event that in the normal sciences it is for the most part acknowledged that they build up the laws of the encompassing reality, at that point in the sociologies there are steady talks about the idea of the sports and exercise science research itself and the status of the applicable information. This sort of exchange alludes principally to the epistemology and ontology of logical research (Silva, 2014, p...
Overview of Beck's Cognitive Theory of DepressionIn Beck’s cognitive theory of depression, he states that depression is instituted by how one views him/ herself and not that one have’s negative views towards him/herself as a result of depression. This greatly affect us socially on how we perceive others and associate our dissatisfactions with others. Different theories suggest that depression come as a result of irrational or fault...
The Ford Pinto case and the impact of cultural values1. The case scenario of the Ford’s Pinto was about the American prevalent cultural value. This Ford Company designed car which had fuel tank issue in early decades. Therefore, many individuals had to suffer due to this fuel tank issue of Pinto car. The opening of this Ford’s Pinto originated in the early stage of 1968. Meanwhile, Ford's honourable president Mr Lee Iaccoca selecte...
The Significance of Clinical Reasoning in Patient CareClinical reasoning, as the due procedure followed by nurses and other clinicians in finding out all the possible problems faced by a patient, helps in perceiving imminent patient decline (Levett-Jones, et al., 2010). Nurses enriched with problem solving skills stand a better chance of positively influencing a patient’s outcome as they see the bigger picture of the situation (Pu...
Part 1- Describing the communityObesity is one of the major challenges, which is being encountered by the entire world. The epidemic of obesity or overweight is rapidly increasing. This is a multi-factorial and much more complicated disease, from which third of the world population is suffering (1). The prevalence of obesity can be found mostly among children and young adult. Diabetics, high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke and cancer are...
DescriptionFalls lead to severe injuries to the patients (Johansson, Dahlberg, Jonsson, & Patomella, 2015). Caregivers should invent efficient prevention strategies to prevent accidents and the resulting harm. The case study involves a conversation between a tutor and a 75-years-old falls victim. e-health records are an electronic version of the patient's medical history. Electronically stored information is safer than paper charts. Theref...
Cross-sectional studyEcological study Cross-sectional study Retrospective cohort study Cross-sectional study Prospective cohort study Period prevalence Maintaining high rates of follow up can be difficult The disease should be severe, relatively common and perceived as a public health problem Relatively quick and cheap to conduct Can investigate a wide range of possible risk factors Can be used to effectively identify and study cas...
The current assignment focuses on the concept of diabetes management in the United States. Type 2 diabetes is one of the most prevalent community based problems within the United States. In this respect, 3 out of 11 people have been seen to be affected with type 2 diabetes in the US. There are a number of causes for the alarming figures such as binge eating, increasing stress, sedentary lifestyles. In the current paper we have tried to analyze...
What is Congestive Heart Failure?Congestive heart failure can be described as the chronic condition, which mainly affects the pumping ability of the muscles of the heart. It mainly refers to that of the particular stage in which fluid is seen to build up surrounding the heart and thereby causes the heart to pump in an inefficient manner. This disorder may result from many other health conditions that have the ability to directly affect the car...
Risk factors associated with CHF1. Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a diseased status in which heart loses its ability to pump the necessary amount of blood. Insufficient quantity of blood pumping by heart mainly occurs due to cardiovascular conditions like high blood pressure and constricted arteries (Povsic, 2018). CHF is associated with risk factors like demographic factor like age, social factor like smoking and inadequate phy...