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Ethical and moral values are of the upmost importance in healthcare delivery. Healthcare professionals need ethics as they must identify dilemmas in healthcare, and make good decisions based on their personal values and the governing laws (Nieswiadomy, & Bailey, 2018). For nurses who deal with ethical dilemmas every day, the foundation of their practice is […]
Change is an essential component in various professions and areas of practice. In nursing profession, one of the areas in which change theory is usually applied is the area of specialized and nursing care in ICU. It is a practice which defines the role of nurses in taking care of patients who are admitted in
Nursing interventions studies are aimed at knowing whether an intervention is effective, to whom it is best effective, the benefits of the intervention as well as the expected outcomes of an intervention. Nursing interventions must be designed in a way that seeks to support and improve the lives of patients and their family members. Over
Write your own definition for each concept of the meta-paradigm of nursing. Which concept would you add to the meta-paradigm of nursing and why? Which concept would you eliminate and why? Definitions of the Concepts of the Nursing Meta-Paradigm The person is a component of the meta-paradigm that focuses on the person receiving treatment from
Medication Safety Standards Medication safety is one of the most prominent health service standards seeking to introduce aspects of safety and quality in health service standards. This is because the use of medication is the most prevalent type of treatment intervention globally. Adherence to directions on how to use medications safely promotes significant improvements to
Morgan, L., Flynn, L., Robertson, E., New, S., Forde-Johnston, C., & McCulloch, P. (2016). Intentional rounding: A staff-led quality improvement intervention in the prevention of patient falls. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 26(1-2), 115-124. Critique for Research Problem, Research Questions, and Hypotheses The research study was designed to solve nursing problem of patient falls, which is easy
Gerard, S. O., Kazer, M. W., Babington, L., & Quell, T. T. (2014). Past, present, and future trends of master’s education in nursing. Journal of Professional Nursing, 30(4), 326-332 The main focus of the article is that there was need to revise master’s education in nursing in order to give the students the needed expertise in the
This paper critiqued article “A Randomized Controlled Trial Of The Effects Of Nursing Care Based On Watson’s Theory Of Human Caring On Distress, Self-Efficacy And Adjustment In Infertile Women.” By Ilkay, et al., (2013). The aims of this article were to evaluate the effects of nursing care Based on the theory of human caring on
Definition of nursing The Oxford English Dictionary defines nursing as “the profession or practice of providing care for the sick and infirm” (Oxford Living Dictionaries, 2017). However, much as nursing is concerned with providing healthcare during treatment and palliative care of the sick and infirm, it also includes providing preventive healthcare to people who are
Over the years, middle-range nursing theories have been identified as an essential element of practice and research. They are highly recommended owing to fact that they are perceptible and verifiable using standard testing techniques. The Theory of Unpleasant Symptoms is one of the most well-known middle-range theories in the nursing profession. Thus, it is essential