Assessing the Problem: Preventing Readmissions to Hospitals for Chronic Conditions Hospital readmission rates continue to surge across healthcare systems in response to unprecedented public health concerns. After hospitalization, patients often continue dealing with chronic conditions and may face difficulties while navigating their treatment plan. Research supports that frequent readmissions often...
Problem Statement Psychiatric registered nurses (RNs) and licensed practice nurses (LPNs) beginning their careers in inpatient psychiatric facilities face increased risks of developing compassion fatigue (CF) symptoms due to extensive engagement in emotionally and psychologically demanding patient communication endeavors. In mental health nursing, CF is explained as a type of...
Work Environment Assessment The Clark Healthy Workplace Inventory is an essential tool that helps assess workplace culture and environment. According to Clark (2015), a high level of civility and positive work settings inspire the success of employees such as nurses in fulfilling their obligations prudently. In this regard, the outcomes...
The purpose of this paper is to introduce an early discharge education program that aims to reduce the number of post-operative calls for nurses. This program addresses a common issue that impedes the workflow of nurses at Forest Hills Medical Services. More specifically, in their first days after completing the...
Introduction Palliative care is a sensitive part of the healthcare system since providers have to ensure the physical and psychological comfort of patients who are old or have terminal conditions. However, as the literature suggests, nurses lack knowledge on proper ways to assess patient’s needs and provide palliative care. Most...
Systems theory, as well as complexity science, can help nurse practitioners tremendously in their work. Understanding these two components allows them to make better decisions, thus gradually improving the quality of care. Nurses become able to multitask and handle complex cases more easily in the workplace. According to systems theory,...
Evidence-based practice involves using the current best evidence in collaboration with clinical expertise and patient values to guide decision-making processes in health care. The evidence may come from information in case reports, randomly controlled trials and other scientific methods such as qualitative and descriptive research. Applying evidence-based practice in the...
Introduction Nursing models are designed to help future nurses better navigate their profession. These models are closely related to the nursing process and its implementation. Moreover, the stages of this process open the way to the practical implementation of the nursing model and reflect its essence. In the form of...
Introduction Training as a professional nurse is a rigorous exercise that requires commitment, passion, and dedication. The nursing students pass through various learning experiences with clinical learning being the most important. The clinical practice has become an indispensable part of nursing student learning. The preparation work in the nursing school...
Today’s world situation has proven the significance of having maximally productive nurses with a considerable knowledge base and sufficient flexibility in terms of education. The new viruses have proven that most of them have the same symptoms and consequences and, as a result, might be similarly cured. At the same...
Introduction A declaration outlining a nurse’s ethics, values, and beliefs is known as a nursing philosophy. It describes a nurse’s reasons for choosing to work as an individual, helping people maintain healthy behaviors and avoid injuries. A practitioner’s personal philosophy can also reveal information about how they view nursing practice,...
Introduction Many theories support the importance of nurses’ holistic approach to the patient and how learning about it helps achieve the goal of holistic care. An important skill to use in holistic care would be communication skills with patients and other practitioners. It emphasizes that patients undergoing treatment will be...
To guarantee that nursing’s voice is heard, unity within the profession should be fostered. Hopper (2018) states that nurse unity may be conceived as a mosaic of many connected nursing pieces in a complicated system working towards a single coherent conclusion, much like a powerful art piece. Nurses from various...
Most nursing interventions aim to improve patient health outcomes but focus on various factors affecting the patient’s condition. Estridge et al. (2018), in their article, study the effect of comfort on adherence to fluid restriction among dialysis patients. This research is based on Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory, a middle-range nursing theory...
Introduction In modern conditions of the healthcare system, the problem of professional development of medical personnel is extremely important. The solution to it includes the continuous expansion of the nurse’s potential, their professional growth, and the progress of their career. To ensure that the nurse knows about their potential opportunities,...
Introduction The nursing profession is one of the most important careers. When the rate of infection of the COVID-19 continued to rise, people depended on the nurses. They were responsible for taking care of those who showed signs and symptoms of infection. This meant risking their lives in the line...
Global Healthcare Issue Health inequality. Description Health inequality refers to the disparities between groups of people in the healthcare sector. Access to healthcare differs depending on various factors of an individual, such as income levels, gender, education, ethnicity and disability (Malbon et al., 2019). Country United States Australia Describe the...
Introduction Today, much attention is paid to a better understanding of evidence-based practice (EBP) and its effects on preventing serious diseases and conditions in patients. Nurses and other healthcare practitioners need to know the existing programs and strategies to assess problems and make sufficient decisions. One of the first common...
Introduction Cultural nursing theories, such as Leininger’s Theory of Nursing, seek to help healthcare institutions provide safe and meaningful care to patients of all cultures. The theories propose techniques that will aid nurses and other healthcare practitioners in respecting cultural diversity by embracing the notions of ethnicity, race, and universality...
Summary In healthcare facilities, a vast number of professionals may have difficulty following the rules, communicating with each other, and carrying out their responsibilities due to different reasons. In most cases, it may lead to decreased performance of the hospital and reduced patient satisfaction, as well as higher levels of...
Summary The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, published by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2010, is a comprehensive examination of the nursing workforce in response to the need to transform the nursing profession. The report’s recommendations center on the crucial point where the activities of the nursing...
Introduction The effective administration of medication is detrimental to ensuring the successful management of a disease or illness, its slowed progression, as well as improved patient outcomes if done without errors. However, when there is a mistake in medication administration, unintended consequences may arise, potentially causing adverse health conditions among...
One of the American Nurses Association (ANA) Standards of Professional Practice is “Quality of Practice.” This standard highlights that “nursing practice is safe, effective, efficient, equitable, timely, and person-centered” (ANA, 2022). Every nurse is responsible for providing quality patient care by following the standards set forth by different organizations. According...
Ethical education and knowledge of deontological approaches to patients among paramedics is important because the profession of a nurse is one of those where direct contact with another person plays a paramount role. The price of such communication is the health and, often, the life of a person. Responsibility in...
Rationing in the medical market has increased as a result of resource restrictions. Nursing professionals struggle to balance patients’ wants and the organizations’ financial viability. It is noteworthy that the healthcare variable pricing system restricts the nursing services provided to care services to address problems like resource depletion, rising demand,...
Nursing theories include environmental theory, interpersonal relation theory, nursing need theory, self-care deficit theory, system model, and Casey’s model. The nurse’s initiative to configure appropriate environmental settings for the progressive restoration of the patient’s health is based on environmental theory. The environmental theory states that external forces associated with the...
It is important to note that the hospital’s operational effectiveness heavily relies on the proper functionality of the healthcare professional staff. Nurses play a major role in ensuring that healthcare services are delivered safely and appropriately without any patient risks or medical errors. The specific problem addressed in the given...
Summary The primary goal of this assignment is to create a toolkit for nurses to use in safety improvement initiatives that would help decrease medication errors while also improving clinical outcomes. The 12 annotated materials in this toolkit will be broken down into four categories: the causes of medication errors,...
One of the common problems amongst the geriatric, bed-bound, immobile, unalert, and patients with limited mobility is the development of pressure ulcers. They happen when persistent pressure causes some parts of the skin to not receive enough blood flow, which damages the tissue. Pressure ulcers occur significantly often in skilled...
Patients rarely understand what type of nurses serve them; this is because the qualitative result is the main thing in working with people admitted to the hospital. The condition of hospital visitors often prevents them from accessing information about the nurses providing care. Moreover, patients do not always want know...
The COVID-19 pandemic has become a serious challenge for millions of people worldwide, including the mental health and well-being impact on healthcare workers. The number of mental health outcomes like anxiety, stress, contagion fear, obligatory isolation, and post-traumatic stress disorder has significantly increased (Biber et al., 2022). Many healthcare organizations...
Introduction There is currently a large nursing shortage and a growing trend to acquire BSN and higher degrees. Healthcare organizations are actively encouraging a nursing desire for professional development. Although there are a number of barriers, lifelong learning is an integral part of the activity, providing both personal and career...
Introduction The nursing practice in the past few years has drastically changed due to the COVID-19 outbreak and technological advancement. The medical field is applying more new methods to battle diseases and help patients; thus, traditional methodologies have become useless. Nonetheless, some theories like Virginia Henderson’s need theory are fundamental...
Individualized nursing care is considered a significant factor directly affecting patients’ treatment. Moreover, the experience and quantity of nursing practice are equally meaningful. Therefore, the article aims to guide novice students, nursing educators, and nurses at diverse levels to develop perceptions and enhance the implementation of medical care. It mandates...
I recently discovered that I want to become a nurse, and the change happened within the past few years. I always wanted to become a doctor, but I could never pinpoint why. I wanted to help patients, but many occupations have that duty. It never occurred to me why I...
Introduction According to the student’s opinions and assumptions, such two competencies as leadership and ethical decision-making will be necessary, meaningful, and especially useful in a future role as an APN. In this case, leadership in nursing practice is mainly focused on patients, their families, the organization, and a system within...
Introduction of the Problem Intensive care nurses must provide care for patients needing special medical care, unlike other nurses in non-intensive care units. Thus, they participate in the prevention and treatment of patients at regular intervals. Nurses have to devote their full attention to patients constantly because the chances of...
Introduction Nursing is a profession that is often stereotyped. It has a lot of varieties about which people do not know, including community health nursing. Unlike public health nursing, which targets large populations, community health nursing focuses on individuals or families. Collaboration between community health nurses and community stakeholders as...
Introduction Healthcare providers who implement barcode management systems reduce the risk of medication errors by automating the tracking and distribution of prescriptions. Because it ensures that patients receive the correct medication in a timely manner and that it is verified electronically, this program is critical in health care. Healthcare practitioners...
Introduction It is important to note that the nursing shortage is a significant issue that affects patient and home patient care. The problem is a severe one since the risk elements involved are centered around medical errors. The provision of care the nursing professionals are done with the purpose of...
The National Database of Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators (NDNQI) tracks the efficiency of healthcare providers’ operations and develops annual reports accessible nationwide. The source is essential for monitoring how specific nursing activities influence patient outcomes and workload assessment in healthcare organizations (Beck et al., 2019). The results reported by NDNQI outline...
Currently, a nurse manager is obligated to maintain a unit’s efficiency, safety, innovation, financial performance, and quality. The nursing profession places a great responsibility on leaders and managers to fulfill various duties to guarantee that patients’ requirements are met. The interview was held with Katrina James, a clinical nursing supervisor....
The issue in question is the falls prevention in patients who are staying at a medical facility. This quality improvement (Q.I.) project should ensure that the rate of falls in an inpatient care facility is reduced. A risk factor is anything that makes it more likely for older adults to...
The healthcare industry is a vast field that offers a plethora of career choices in its different sectors. Within the field, nursing is considered the largest profession, with numerous specialties and growing nursing fields (LeBoeuf, 2022). Different types of nurses have distinct responsibilities and perform unique functions within a healthcare...
Introduction American Association of Managed Care Nurses (AAMCN) is a professional organization representing nurses who work in managed care. Through the use of teaching, advocacy, and research, the purpose of this organization is to advance the state of the art in managed care nursing. AAMCN was founded in 1993 in...
Health is not solely medical but essentially a social and cultural construct. Health-seeking behaviors of different individuals are influenced by their cultural and social notions of what wellness is and what illness is. Culture is a social determinant of health, and it can “influence access and delivery of safe and...
The Covid-19 epidemic has presented healthcare professionals with several issues, including the need to restructure healthcare and the medical waste increase. During the Covid-19 outbreak, healthcare institutions confronted several significant management issues. The necessity to rethink patient care models in real-time has been one of the most difficult problems. Physicians,...
Introduction Implementation of evidence-based practice guarantees that innovations in quality improvement are supported by the best available scientific data in the nursing field. The use of performance feedback, the employment of valuable directors, and the frequent collection of data are all examples of evidence-based practice (Miranda Neto et al., 2018)....
Dorothea E. Orem developed the Self-Care Deficit Theory in an attempt to improve the overall quality of nursing. Her model delivers a novel approach to nursing and associated activities. Using the theory, nurses can now identify the most important aspects of care they should prioritize at any particular time while...
Introduction Nursing is an important and complex process as part of the health care services provision. There are several nursing theories today, however, I chose Virginia Henderson’s theory. This model was selected since it is one of the basic foundations on which the understanding of nursing rests. Moreover, Henderson’s concepts...
Introduction Every professional area has terminology related to the specifics of its work. In nursing, NANDA-International (NANDA-I) represents a standardized nursing terminology (NT) and promotes the growth of nursing knowledge from a disciplinary conceptual basis (Rabelo‐Silva et al., 2020). Rabelo‐Silva et al. (2020) suggest that NANDA-I is more explanatory than...
Introduction This presentation explores the application of a nursing theory, Dorothea Orem’s Self-care Deficit theory, on an area of concern within advanced nursing practice. The issue selected for this assignment is the non-compliance of patients with chronic conditions with treatment regimens recommended by health professionals. The slide deck begins with...
Introduction Florence Nightingale is widely known to be the founder of modern nursing. This reputation is well-deserved due to her extensive work in nursing and health care, providing the following generations of nurses with invaluable knowledge. Her legacy can be discussed in relation to her influence on several aspects: the...
Introduction In the modern healthcare system, hiring practitioners with various backgrounds and competencies is a solid initiative to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs. Understanding advanced practice nursing (APN) roles is critical due to the expanded scope of practice during the last several decades and its direct impact on patient...
Introduction This paper analyzes research articles on applying various grand and middle nursing theories and their impact on the usefulness of nursing within the research and in general. Grand theories tend to touch on the nurse’s role in the big picture of medicine, exploring the more fundamental aspects of her...
Virginia Henderson’s Theory Proposed by Virginia Henderson in 1960 in the United States, and then expanded upon in 1968, this model focuses nursing staff on the physiological and then on the psychological and social needs that can be met through nursing care. The main thing in this model is the...
Introduction In the field of nursing, it is one of the responsibilities of nurse practitioners to deliver care to individuals and their families by providing support in managing health issues. Therefore, it is particularly important to ensure evidence-based and theoretically validated delivery of care to families, the members of which...
Introduction Jean Watson can be called one of the leading theorists of nursing. She is the creator of the caring theory, the basis of which is the need to avoid patients’ dehumanization due to the strong bureaucracy in public health (Sitzman, 2019). According to the theory, patient care should be...
Introduction Nursing theories and models play an essential role in the healthcare industry. One can state that nurses can use them as a guide for making decisions during their professional practice to ensure that patients receive adequate care. Numerous models and theories exist, meaning that healthcare professionals can choose among...
Introduction In order to be able to accomplish goals that nurses set up for themselves, it is imperative to consider the nursing metaparadigm as it provides structure as to how a discipline should function. The nursing metaparadigm and its core concepts allow to create more defined motivations for the achievement...
Introduction Nurses are particularly susceptible to burnout and role pressure in their workplace. Every year, almost 38% of nurses report feeling burned out (Nicholas et al., 2018). When nurses are constantly overworked, underappreciated, and under-supported, their quality of care suffers, and they become less effective caretakers. Patient safety is jeopardized...
Evidence-Based Practice is a special professional standard of modern healthcare. The effectiveness of this practice is confirmed by scientific research based on focus group testing. The study by Singleton subdivides fifty medical student participants into five cohorts (2017). Group effects, which are an integral element of evidence-based practice, are manifested...
Professional Identity Overview A nurse’s professional identity is defined by the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics. Aside from embracing these regulations, a nurse commits to continuous learning, serving the people, and obtaining various degrees and certificates (Pullen, 2021). The notion of lifelong learning and improving their skills is a...
Evidence-based practice improves patient care considering social, cultural, and geographic factors. However, EBP is not fully implemented in the health care system, which leads to many medical errors that jeopardize the safety of patients’ lives. It is also essential to mention that the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) is a...
Self-care is the key to effective treatment and health maintenance. Dorothea Orem’s self-care deficit theory suggests a particular focus on nursing. The nurse should help patients take care of themselves to make continued home treatment more effective (Chakrabarty, 2021). The theory is based on the original ability of people to...
Problem Statement When people choose nursing home services, they expect high-quality care, support, and treatment at all levels. Older adults who do not have spouses and are seriously ill decide to move to such facilities for physical and mental well-being maintenance. There are more than 15,600 nursing homes with about...
Introduction In this paper, attention will be paid to the concept of competence in nursing. Every facility offers high-quality services and prepares professional employees to cooperate with patients at different levels. Understanding the worth of competence in practice is a critical element. Sometimes, the concepts of competence and competency are...
The nursing craft, although focused primarily on providing quality health care to the community, cannot be perceived in isolation from the country’s socio-political landscape. Indeed, years of nursing experience have provided me insight into the profession, suggesting that nurses are obligated to be community advocates because they are frontline workers...
Faye Abdellah was a pioneer in nursing research. She developed the patient-centered approach of nursing, also known as Faye G. Abdellah’s twenty-one nursing problems. During her 40-year career as a Commissioned Officer in the US Public Health Service (1949 to 1989), she served as Chief Nurse Officer (1970 to 1987)....
Madeleine Leininger appreciated the importance of cultural caring in the nursing profession. During her initial stages as a nurse, she identified a lack of cultural care as a missing component to understanding patients’ conditions. She recognized that patients’ healing and wellness depend on their cultural care. Leininger’s Culture Care Theory...
Peplau’s middle-range theory of interpersonal relations was developed to help improve nurses’ relations with patients. Peplau emphasized the importance of patients’ experiences, “their needs, and their perceptions about the care they received from nurses” (Hagerty et al., 2017, p. 2). To be successful, the relationships between a nurse and a...
Nursing Theory and Nursing Philosophy Nursing theory and a nurse’s own nursing philosophy are inextricably linked. A nursing theory, often known as a nursing model, is designed to help nurses provide proper patient care (Younas & Quennell, 2019). These concepts frequently describe the nursing practice, define the role of nurses,...
Connecting theory and practice has always been a rather intricate process in nursing. Although patients do share a significant range of characteristics, each case remains unique, and each patient requires an approach tailored specifically to the needs of the patient in question. Therefore, in some cases, the connection between nursing...
Introduction The building blocks of nursing theories are concepts; however, some concepts are difficult to operationalize, lack clarity, and are ambiguous. According to Levi et al. (2020), Walker and Avant concept analysis is used to evaluate the essential elements to ensure conceptual clarity and concrete concepts. This analysis will use...
Summary Nursing assistants and other hospital workers have an essential role in patient care, and they often discover things before licensed nurses and doctors. It was nearing discharge time for the patient, who had been hospitalized for a moderate respiratory tract infection and COPD exacerbation. When the resident intern observed...
Introduction Background Nurses are an integral component of the health care system. Patients receive high-quality and safe treatment as a result of the stability of this pillar, which contributes to efficient healthcare care delivery (Halcomb et al., 2018). In a setting where nurses are under great pressure, they provide basic...
The following concepts can be used to describe the link between theory, practice, and research. Based on a focus on the parts that evidence-based practices are accommodated by Medicaid Services’ viewpoints, the major goal is to improve the value-based patient care system. This proponent of analysis believes that when practicing,...
The Committee for Recognition of Nursing Achievement (CRONA) is a union that comprises approximately five thousand nurses from Stanford Hospital and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. The union recently negotiated several three-year contracts with the nurses’ employers. The negotiation happened after the nurses went on a one-week strike. For a long...
Introduction The nursing profession is known to be associated with increased tension due to a large number of tasks and an enormous responsibility. The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to the amount of stress that front-line healthcare workers experience every day. According to Spoorthy et al. (2020), the pandemic caused an...
Introduction Physical assessment involves the evaluation of anatomical findings through percussion, palpation, and observation. Physical assessment is the initial step of providing patient care, as they have to record their vital symptoms and signs before making the diagnosis (American Association of Colleges of Nursing [AACN], 2008). Physical assessment permits the...
Introduction For this group, the group developed a PICOT question to help narrow the research and find the used articles in this assignment. The question was, in hospitalized patients, do strategies such as handwashing and isolation precautions decrease the spread of infectious disease by nurses working in this environment? Based...
In the profession of nursing, one’s academic knowledge is not enough to provide high-quality patient care. Nurses require robust communicative skills, practical experience, the ability to work in teams, and confidence. Thus, newly graduated students who enter the workforce with limited preparation may encounter many difficulties while advancing through the...
Middle-range theories refer to the sets of interrelated ideas about specific dimensions of nursing care. Such theories advance the science of nursing by illuminating new concepts peculiar to care delivery and proposing the models that outline conceptual relationships relevant to everyday practice. The purpose of this discussion is to review...
Critical thinking refers to the individual’s ability to form conclusions from an available combination of facts, observations, and evidence. Critical thinking presents an essential component of decision-making, which is common in patient care. On the other hand, evidence based practice is a tool used in nursing to ensure the quality...
Summary of Case Injury resulting from trauma is one of the most complicated nursing issues, which requires immediate and collaborative action to save human lives. Indeed, trauma is one of the leading causes of death in the United States for individuals younger than 44 years (Urden et al., 2016). Moreover,...
Advocacy is an important aspect of nursing practice since it helps nurses advocate for their patients and provide high-quality care. According to Vitale et al. (2019), nursing advocacy means creating “a supportive atmosphere for the patient’s decision-making process” and helping them discover the significance of various life processes (p. 64)....
Middle range nursing theory is the medium between the theory and practice in advancing nursing research. It allows implementing the precise theoretical knowledge in practice. Being more oriented on a combination of testing and clear theoretical instructions, the middle range theory enhances nursing practices’ advancement from theoretical and practical perspectives...
Introduction In the present day, nurse burnout may be regarded as one of the most serious threats that affect patient outcomes, the quality of health care delivery, and medical facilities’ general performance. Burnout is a particular occupational phenomenon characterized by nurses’ emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment (Kelly et...
Introduction Nursing is a profession that unites not only a unique number of skills and amount of knowledge but also develops a worker from the inside, his attitude to human ethics, specialties of care providing. A nursing professional is also a bridge between the patient and the physician making the...
Introduction The older population usually has various chronic health conditions that require subsequent medical support from nurses. The care for older adults is often complicated by the presence of multiple chronic diseases. According to Demiris et al. (2019), such adults’ medical needs constitute at least half of annual Medicare expenditures....
The topic I would like to study is my chosen profession – Nursing. The main duty of a nurse is to assist a doctor at all stages of their work as well as performing many additional actions. Such an employee has the right to provide pre-medical care, maintain part of...
Prior to reviewing current aspects and features of nursing, it is important to know the history of this field in general. In the 18th century, nurses usually cleaned, fed and looked after the patients. However, one century later, they were in higher demand due to the ongoing wars at the...
Introduction Nurses are essential members of society today because they promote health, educate the public and patients on how to avoid injuries and diseases, participate in recovery, and provide care and support. Nursing’s role in influencing nursing principles involves not just caring for the ill and the community but also...
Introduction Aging is a continuous process in the day-to-day living process. Gerontological nursing refers to professional healthcare given to older patients until they die. The nurses are the prominent people in the gerontological team in caring for the elderly since they possess the required skills and attitudes needed in the...
Introduction The critical care nurses make a great contribution to the CCU functioning as, indeed, without them, no proper care for critical patients would be possible. In such settings, the high level of clinical culture must necessarily be maintained, as nurses provide not only physical services to the patients but...
Today, evidence-based nursing practice is an actively developing area in nursing, the purpose of which is to improve the efficiency and quality of nurses’ work. Other contemporary nursing care tenets, such the nursing diagnosis or the nursing process overall, can be effectively included with this approach. Some situations still make it...
The first theory focuses on the self-care needs of an individual. Orem’s self-care deficit theory defines self-care as actions intentionally performed by individuals to maintain their own life, health, and well-being (Hartweg & Metcalfe, 2022). According to Hartweg & Metcalfe’s (2022) interpretation, self-care aims to satisfy an individual’s corresponding needs....
Shoulder dystocia is a clinical emergency during vaginal delivery, where one or both of the baby’s shoulders intertwine. It is serious and should be diagnosed and treated as soon as possible for both the mother’s and the child’s wellbeing. Nurses play significant roles in the prevention and treatment of this...
Introduction Hand hygiene compliance is a critical component of health and is necessary for preventing infections. This is practiced and assessed regularly in hospitals, however, there little is done to track its implementation and the compliance level in other health settings like nursing homes. It is important because it helps...
One of the core nursing competencies is the nurse’s ability to employ evidence-based practice (EBP) in their daily healthcare delivery. This competence presupposes critical evaluation of the latest research evidence and clinical expertise to choose the most effective interventions guaranteeing better patient outcomes (Institute of Medicine, 2003). Therefore, the focus...
The leading reasons for patient falls are multifold in nature. Interestingly, common causes of patient fall differed from patients’ predicted fall risks. The actual causes of personal falls were lack of awareness or haste, environmental hazards, and improper use or lack of walking aids (Collins et al., 2020). However, patients...
Retention of nurses is a complicated process, and a nurse manager should conduct a thorough analysis of the reasons why nurses tend to quit their job to find appropriate ways to retain them. According to Vardaman et al. (2020), retention in the healthcare system “is specifically problematized by the frequency...