Introduction This paper summarizes and presents in a sequential manner the core skills and experiences gained during the nursing hands-on course. The completed course, knowledge, skills, and practical experience gained in the learning process were recorded in a reflective diary. The diary is organized according to the following structure: for...
Psychological problems require close attention to human personality and a specific approach to the mental state of patients. Person-centered therapy is the method of motivation and encouragement of patients enabling them to take an active role in their treatment (Kittelson et al., 2020). Person-centered therapy is effective psychotherapy that allows...
Ashanti Davis is an enrolled nurture (RN) who procured her Master of Science in Nursing Administration (MSN) and an MBA. As the current Director at the Department of Surgical Services and with over ten years of experience as a Certified Nurse, Davis has an abundance of involvement with both patient...
The East Orange General Hospital Clinic is my practicum site, and its massive beneficiaries are the impoverished population representatives. During the first three practice weeks, my preceptor identified that the follow-up attendance among them was progressively decreasing. The challenge is serious because skipped visits worsen the effectiveness of treatment, making...
Although the issue of nursing shortage is a nationwide problem, its current solutions seem to be inefficient in addressing the scope of the challenge. According to the latest statistics, the US labor market is likely to experience unprecedented demand for registered nurses, with more than 10 million nurses required to...
Although the work of nurses is generally associated with increased workplace stress, correctional nurses are probably among those who have more chances to be consumed by negative feelings compared to their colleagues in other spheres. In this regard, one aspect necessitates special attention from the researchers and medical community, which...
Introduction The nursing profession is the largest segment of the health care workforce, and massive updates such as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) implementation directly influence how they operate. The ACA passage made the essential services accessible for additional 30 million Americans, adding an enormous load on the providers and...
Summary Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a condition occurring during pregnancy, under which a hormone produced by the placenta hinders the appropriate use of insulin in the body, leading to accumulating sugar in the blood. Persistent or frequent high blood sugar levels can cause different pregnancy complications and adversely impact...
The Connection Between Academic and Professional Integrity Academic integrity sets out the standards and norms of behavior for anyone who is engaged in educational activities. The relationship between academic integrity and writing is essential since writing allows students to show their academic progress. Scholars publish the results of their studies...
Reflecting on learning is an important task to track one’s progress and understand the difficulties and gaps that need to be overcome. However, some weeks or topics are not complicated, indicating either significant progress or insufficient understanding of the topic. I had such a week this time because I hardly...
Introduction Nursing practice is a multi-layered and complex field, with the professionals exhibiting a great degree of power and influence over the patient’s well-being. Yet despite the great degree of subjectivity and the close relationship with the medical theoretical basis, the nursing field operates under the umbrella of its own...
Summary Lingard (2016) argues that the medical sphere has originally been oriented towards the individualistic competencies of the workers. However, this paradigm is rapidly shifting towards understanding teamwork’s importance in solving complex problems (Lingard et al., 2017). Organizing professionals in one group boosts the active sharing of unique experiences, knowledge,...
Draft of Productivity Dashboard In this part, the paper will mainly focus on identifying and analyzing the activities and processes in the emergency departments that impact the patient experience and how they create inefficiencies. The paper will be based on the case study of Ron’s experiences in the hospital. The...
Desired Outcomes Nurses’ communication with patients, doctors, patient relatives, and other nurses is central to clinical practice. Not only is communication a personality attribute, but it is also a set of abilities that a nurse learns and develops via additional practical practice. Thus, the purpose of this project is to...
The poster presented by Group A perfectly addresses the assignment guidelines, clearly explaining the main ideas of the research and the methods to be implemented. The design of the poster unites each of the sections, allowing the reader to comprehend the material easily. Furthermore, all of the necessary elements are...
Thesis Statement Palliative care in Canada plays a key role in improving quality of life, ameliorating symptoms, lowering healthcare costs, and facilitating healthy bereavement. Introduction Opening statements: The term palliative care refers to specialized medical care provided to seriously ill patients with the aim of relieving and managing symptoms, providing...
Patient Information ST, 62, female, African American. CC: The patient reports that she has continuous vaginal bleeding that stops and starts again for the past three months. HPI: ST is a 62-year-old African American female patient who attends the clinic as a referral from Dr. Johnson, her PCP. Today, she...
Boissy, P., Corriveau, H., Michaud, F., Labonté, D., & Royer, M. P. (2007). A qualitative study of in-home robotic telepresence for home care of community-living elderly subjects. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 13(2), 79-84. The roles of nurses have changed significantly since the introduction of innovative technological tools and devices...
Introduction Nursing science includes not only clinical practice but also ongoing research aimed at creating theories to improve patient outcomes and provide higher quality care. A central theme in nursing practice is also the development of principles of holistic care, which addresses not only the health problems of patients but...
The impact of a clinical practice problem on the patient(s) and the organization it affects The following PICO components of the clinical practice problem Patient/Population/Problem (P) The prevalence of catheter-acquired urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) in patients hospitalized in an acute care hospital setting is addressed. CAUTIs are urinary tract infections...
Prescribing a medicine, even with the professional competence and legal rights to do so, in this case, is a controversial issue requiring discussion. Without having a medical history of the patient and acting at a distance from the nurse, some implicit, automatic restrictions are required on which drugs should in...
Background The development and improvement of communication skills along with professional knowledge and skills is an indispensable component of the preparation of a modern nurse. Successful mastering of these skills can significantly improve the quality of care and should consist of several stages, including a preparatory training program before entering...
Summary During my Practicum Experience, I observed little guidance from nurses to explore the legitimate, administrative, repayment, and moral issues that can emerge while offering medical assistance employing innovation. While there are legal and moral rules for these issues that cover the overall act of healthcare, unprecedented challenges arise when...
Healthcare is a crucially important sphere of every person’s life that can help maintain physical well-being and even survive a severe injury or disease. In turn, medical workers are those who assist people with the right treatment and medical care providing them with opportunities for healing. Therefore, it is critical...
Nowadays, the key aspect of health care is the discussion of the field’s development and evolvement in the context of providing quality care for patients and providing beneficial working conditionals for the professionals. Some of the most significant milestones in the fields’ redesign were the adoption of the Affordable Care...
The problems that exist in the healthcare sphere very often necessitate the development of complex and long-lasting solutions. In order to facilitate project implementation, which addresses these issues, the well-known framework of Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) provides holistic guidelines regarding task development, implementation, and maintenance processes (Vohra, 2017). In...
Introduction In Tonier Cain’s speech, she highlights several different problems that she encountered throughout her life. Examples of three topics listed in ”Browse objectives” (n.d.) include women, children, and drug and alcohol use. As a woman, Tonier Cain has undergone extensive gender-specific abuse, having been raped numerous times, gotten pregnant,...
Over the years of clinical practice, I have completely reconsidered the definition of a qualified and professional medical worker. Medical workers are so frequently overwhelmed with the responsibility of proper medical intervention that they fail to recognize every patient as a unique human being with values and psychological needs. Hence,...
Summary Care coordination improves patient outcomes while reducing care costs, and nurses play a powerful role in ensuring patients receive quality health services and patient-centered care. Nurses should recognize the importance of care coordination on patient outcomes and determine the aspects necessary for care management. When nurses share medical information...
It goes without saying that health care providers are responsible not only for delivering quality care but for establishing contact with a patient on the basis of mutual trust and respect. However, in my practice, I have already faced several challenging patient encounters and realized the necessity of my personal...
Introduction Evidence-based practice in a hospital facility is beneficial and crucial. It helps the nurses and physicians to be able to manage and diagnose the patients appropriately to aid in quick and progressive recovery. Vomiting and nausea in patients in the postoperative rooms are common. The nurses working on the...
Introduction The development of a profession depends on the individuals who contribute their skills and research ideas. Therefore, the exchange of experience and knowledge is an essential point for the enhancement of high standards of a profession and the improvement of skills and performance excellence of new generations. Psychiatric or...
Hypoglycemia, or blood sugar levels below 70 mg/dL, is a common problem that harms healthy patients. Critical diseases can cause fluctuations in blood glucose levels, impairing glycemic control in hospitalized patients. Even frequent screening of patients and the use of insulin therapy can cause blood glucose levels to drop excessively....
Summary In the continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic, the US Congress began to consider the possibility of full authorization to conduct medical examinations using telemedicine. As the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, which sent millions of people worldwide to forced self-isolation, telemedicine systems with video communication have become an indispensable attribute...
The activity of a nurse contributes to increasing the availability and quality of medical care to the population; therefore, professional development is significant. One of the most important competencies of the nursing staff is digital. It consists of the ability to work with data and evaluate outcomes. There are several...
Background Information Florence Nightingale was one of the most famous nursing theorists who laid the foundation for the existing metaparadigm of patient care. Numerous standards of care provision that she developed and promoted are still used to this day. During the 1800s, almost nothing was known about infections and bacteria,...
Introduction Identifying gaps in practice is an opportunity for an AGNP to influence the quality of care improvement and apply skills obtained during the education. Indeed, my site, East Orange General Hospital Clinic, provides multiple groups of beneficiaries with various services and working with my preceptor enabled me to analyze...
Case Gail is driving home after a very busy 12-hour shift in the cardiovascular intensive care unit. She is 5 minutes from home and is looking forward to spending the evening with friends. As she rounds a corner, she sees a multivehicle accident. She slows her car and observes a...
Introduction The patient, in this case, is 5’5″ in height and weighs 225 lbs, and is reported in the patient’s clinical findings to suffer from chronic bronchitis. For the last 22 years, M.K. has been smoking and eating poorly. She has a family history of Type II diabetes with primary...
Introduction Social justice spins around human rights and societal equality ideologies. Social justice is all about giving privileges and fair opportunities to all individuals globally. It aims to readdress the inequalities based on genders, races, disability, ages, religion, or other less vulnerable social characteristics. Social injustice, commonly referred to as...
The SBAR project is significant as through the doctor of nursing practice (DNP), students are equipped with an opportunity to systematically transform their best theoretical evidence into practice (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2006). On the other hand, the AONE Nurse Executive Competencies outlines the transitions that should be...
Introduction Healthcare quality measurements consider diverse factors to reveal the issues, and timely address them to improve cost savings, patient outcomes, and overall efficiency of services. In the United States, Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) established domains of care through which initiatives, interventions, technologies’ implementation, and nursing practitioners’...
The work of a nursing professional involves delivering care to a variety of different people from many different backgrounds. In this process, it is crucial to consider that each demographic may require its own unique approach, and the experiences of individuals are shaped by their allegiance to particular social groups....
Rules and standards are the concepts that allow people to maintain a high level of the services they perform and constantly improve them. The Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competencies that were developed “to improve the quality and safety of health care” are one of them (Altmiller &...
The process of evaluating a nursing theory is essential because it revolves around a series of criteria that are required to highlight differences and similarities between the legacy version and its update. The relevance of the proposed nursing theory is, therefore, evaluated against a series of evaluative criteria that might...
Nursing has developed over the years; hence, it is crucial to support people who have chosen this field in professional development. One of the best ways to help is to incline more in advanced practice. It can be achieved through the provision of benefits and certification. Attestation is held every...
The patient suffers from unstable, and at the same time, short menstruation periods. She has not had many previous GYN exam visits. The average cycle length can reach 40 days. The girl says that she leads a fickle sex life. Besides, in adolescence, she suffered from an eating disorder, the...
A 47-year-old male came to the emergency department complaining about abdominal pain, diarrhea, and nausea that started three days ago. He rates his pain as 9 out of 10 on the acuity scale when it first started, but now it is five. However, the patient does not mention pain radiation...
For any organization to thrive, it is imperative to outline the primary directions in which leaders and their followers should move to align with their ultimate mission. Strategic planning, as a tool that helps leaders look into the future and design tangible objectives to move towards, is an asset in...
Nursing leadership is an integral part of constructing the workplace to provide effective care for patients. During my practicum experience, there were no visibility and collaboration of nursing lead. It was hard to understand who had more responsibilities than others and who were the head nurses. Such administration and management...
Every person sooner or later faces the question of choosing a profession. I decided for myself that I wanted to choose a path for myself related to actively helping people. I am a person who strives to help people and make their lives better. The most suitable career for me...
Interview Summary I talked to a registered nurse who has worked in Novant Health Matthews Medical Center Emergency Room for ten years. I operate within the same hospital’s cardiovascular telematics unit and have seen the Nurse for a while now. In the emergency department, he was responsible for triaging patients,...
Abstract Among hospital employees, nurses are by far the biggest segment, and they are entrusted with the vast majority of care coordination and delivery. Patient discontent, greater readmission rates, and increased negative incidents can be caused by a lack of proper staffing levels. Moreover, there is proof that insufficient nurse...
Evaluating the process and outcome of an intervention is a critical part of understanding its effectiveness and providing adjustments. Three data sources will be used to evaluate the intervention: records of a daily patient survey conducted by the nurses, the unit secretary in charge of the call lights or the...
Nurses play an important role in formulating effective public, health, and nursing policy at all levels through participating in planning and decision-making. Professional nursing education has always encompassed concepts such as promotion of health, risk elimination, and population-based care in its baccalaureate nursing degree programs (Clark, 2017). Nurses’ level of...
Introduction Root-cause analysis refers to a methodical strategy that aims at finding the causes of different events to suggest relevant preventive measures. A root-cause analysis of nurses’ roles in medication administration safety was conducted to investigate the roles of nurses in medical administration safety and provide relevant recommendations that can...
Introduction To work effectively with information technology in the health sector, a nurse needs to have professional skills and qualities, including quick learning and adaptation to new medical trends (Warm & Thomas, 2011). To improve my level of competence, I signed up for a six-week EMR conversion assignment through an...
Introduction Nursing practices rely on a foundation of knowledge that stems from several sources. Processes and decisions provided by nurses are directed by academic, personal, and social interpretations of information. The value of implementing a number of ways of knowing within nurse experiences cannot be understated, as it can define...
Communication Strategies It is crucial to begin by identifying significant elements where nurses’ collaboration is required. Informing research personnel about the patient clinical state, coordinating nurse care and symptom management to optimize study participants’ capacity to complete study activities, and supporting and encouraging patient participation are just a few instances....
Role of NPs Nurse practitioners in cancer screening provide patients with procedures and further surveillance. According to multiple pieces of researches, there is no big difference between the treatment of NPs and doctors. In addition, patients managed by nurse practitioners receive equal-level care compared to patients cured by doctors. Moreover,...
Introduction The insights of clinical nurse leaders can be of exceptional value for resolving the issues related to the nursing profession. As professionals that are consistently involved in numerous nursing practices, nurse leaders possess significant information regarding the quality of health care and limitations encountered by the nursing personnel (Lunden...
Arnetz et al. (2020) conducted a cross-sectional survey to investigate the nurses’ experiences regarding the early periods of the COVID-19 pandemic, aiming to outline the most prominent origins of distress perceived by the nursing staff. The authors used a qualitative content analysis approach to analyze the result of an 85-item...
Introduction Titilope Olalekan is a registered nurse working at BronxCare Hospital and holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Titilope Olalekan asserts that he chose the profession of nursing because he loves making positive impacts on patients’ lives daily. He reiterates that nursing is a profession that makes a massive...
Summary Comprehensive data collection, reporting, and monitoring of metrics are essential to improve the quality of healthcare and patients’ safety. The treatment of severe mental disorders in people with obesity preceded or induced by therapy is a complex clinical problem of modern psychiatry. Unfortunately, many effective psychotropic drugs contribute to...
There is no doubt that the realm of health care is constantly evolving, as it cannot exist in isolation from society. The community, as the primary interest of health care, provides medical personnel with the need for constant adjustment to the social needs, including cultural sensitivity, care prioritization, cost-efficiency, and...
Both management and leadership play a critical role in the sphere of nursing, as a nurse manager cannot secure a good team’s performance without being a role model and inspiration for colleagues. However, while these aspects frequently overlap, they still obtain some core differences in terms of their characteristics. Thus,...
Summary The study conducted by Honkavuo (2020) researches the nursing student’s attitude toward digital teaching. The results of the study reveal that the variance associated with digital teaching could be connected to such factors as education, knowledge, gender, participation in the promotion of digital teaching, and motivation to do so....
Introduction The article to be reviewed in my paper is ‘Thinking like a Nurse: A Research-Based Model of Clinical Judgment in Nursing.’ The essay aims at reviewing the emergent body of research displaying clinical assessment in a nursing environment. Contextually, the article presents the alternative decision-making method based on nursing...
The most essential for my professional development goal is to develop and implement my clinical nurse informatics knowledge to improve healthcare quality. To gain professional experience and become more qualified in different aspects of my future work, I plan to join American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and NMA after graduation....
It is essential for healthcare institutions to keep a sufficient amount of nursing personnel available at all times to avoid any decreases in the quality of care. However, there are obstacles in this process, such as understaffing, high patient numbers, insufficient managerial efficiency, and other issues. They all lead to...
Introduction Pharmaceutical compositions are the cornerstone of scientific medicine, as a wide range of diseases became curable due to the discovery of helpful drugs. However, a certain substance can be a remedy solely on the condition that healthcare professionals abide by the rules of safe admission. Not adhering to the...
A community health nurse is a medical assistant that utilizes nursing abilities to care for people and refer them to an appropriate healthcare center that operates outside of the area of the nurse’s competence. Moreover, the specialist participates in health promotion among the communities. Social resources and nursing simultaneously generate...
Elimination complexities are rather severe and uncomfortable medical conditions that significantly interfere with patients’ and their families lives. These conditions prevent the proper removal of wastes and by-products in a person’s body, which may lead to certain complications and the inability to perform everyday activities (Chai & Birder, 2016). For...
Introduction Nurses are increasingly caring for patients in diverse cultural settings due to global migration. Nurses are required to approach their patients as unique individuals by considering their cultural needs. However, to achieve this, they must develop intercultural communication competency. Intercultural communication refers to “interaction between individuals from different nations,...
Summary Mainly, leaders present employees’ grievances in the nursing sector by participating in collective bargaining and, in extreme cases calling for work boycotts. The advocacy targets policymakers, and most often, leaders employ strategies to achieve the desired outcomes. Nursing unions play an integral role in facilitating change in their profession,...
Spirituality is a vital component of the nursing practice since healthcare professionals and patients have to deal with the psychological burden of illness and death. Spirituality is the intrinsic component of humanity that assists in the search for meaning in life and connects us with others and ourselves (Grand Canyon...
Core measures are evidence-based national standard procedures and best practices that were developed to improve the quality of patient care and health outcomes. The Specifications Manual for National Hospital Inpatient Quality Measures was developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Joint Commission (TJC) to facilitate...
PICOT question for current research: In hospital patients (P), how effective is continuous bedside pressure mapping (I) compared to repositioning every two hours (C), in reducing the incidence of hospital-acquired pressure injuries (O) within one year of implementation (T)? Background The background on the issue requires summarizing both qualitative and...
Is this an ethical dilemma or a moral dilemma? In this dilemma, ethical and moral principles are closely linked. Nurses have a responsibility to follow a code of ethical conduct, which includes moral principles such as loyalty, beneficence, and respect for patients’ dignity and self-determination (Fowler, 2015, 4.2). Ethics oblige...
The two forms of curriculum structure considered by the Curriculum Committee are relevant since they will each develop creative and rational ideas that would be embraced by the learning institution to accommodate the proposed changes. It is the responsibility of each committee to come up with ideas, and justify why...
Introduction Nurse leaders must select the most effective style of leadership that will allow them to build productive relationships with the team members, as well as communicate with patients. Each leader has his or her personal preferences, but it is also important to be aware of all the existing leadership...
Introduction Nursing is one of the professions that are asymmetrically represented in terms of gender. This may be due to several factors including legal restrictions, exclusionary policies, social stereotypes, and self-induced restrictions. The history of nursing dates back as far as 250 BC when the first nursing school was established...
Introduction This paper aims to describe a clinical evaluation tool for assessing nursing students’ competency with taking blood pressures. The proposed tool uses the method of observation to evaluate students’ performance while measuring blood pressure. According to Oermann and Gaberson (2019), despite its wide use, observation is questionable in terms...
The nursing profession is sensitive, and it requires one to abide by the ethical principles to be successful. Nurses are accountable to society, their profession, employers, healthcare consumers, clients, or patients. Concerning Mr. Cole’s case, the nurse’s role is to help the patient and their families understand the consequences of...
Introduction When people change their places of work or just begin their career paths, they have to be ready to follow special norms and values, which usually requires investigation and analysis. Entering a profession is associated with adaptation, studying the expected roles, and understanding of self in a new environment...
Introduction In the current healthcare systems, the nursing shortage has posed significant challenges. According to Slattery et al. (2016), it is estimated that by the year 2022, an insufficiency of approximately one million nurses would exist. The causes of nursing shortage are currently multifaceted and are not limited to healthcare-associated...
One of the leading causes of accidental injury deaths worldwide are falls. Over 646 000 people die globally as a result of falls and the highest fatality rate is among those of the age of 65 and older (WHO, 2018). Nursing homes and long-term care facilities constantly face this issue....
Introduction Non-interprofessional behaviors, including lack of cooperation, carelessness in acts, colleague inquiries, and disintegrating care, impact the nursing profession’s foundation for ethics of care and justice. The frameworks are used mainly by nurses when faced with an ethical problem. While a few professional nurses favor the ethics of justice and...
Introduction Florence Nightingale became world famous during the Crimean War in the 1850s when she significantly contributed to the development of nursing. In 1859, the author published her famous book Notes on Nursing: What It Is and what it is not, which almost immediately became a classic in the relevant...
Introduction The advanced nursing practice patient safety concern to be addressed in this paper is medication reconciliation issues during face-to-face patient care. In this context, medical reconciliation refers to the procedure carried out when comparing the medications taken by a patient before and after the change in care. It assists...
Introduction Ethics play a vital role in the healthcare industry, especially in nursing, where the care and well-being of patients are at the forefront of every decision made. The principles of autonomy, beneficence, and non-maleficence serve as the foundation for ethical practice in nursing. In this essay, will be discussed...
In modern times, the automation of processes and the translation of paper documentation into electronic is of particular importance. More and more medical institutions are switching to maintaining electronic health records (EHR), which are standard patient records containing the history of the disease, clinical data, laboratory data, and other information,...
It is important to note that there is a wide range of newly emerging or re-emerging diseases that require significant involvement and input from nursing professionals. As of October of the previous year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2022) highlights Pseudomonas aeruginosa as an emerging infectious disease...
Introduction Diabetes is a chronic, complicated illness that can lead to amputation of the lower limbs, and other serious consequences include heart disease, stroke, blindness, kidney failure, neuropathy, and diabetic foot ulcers. Diabetes patients’ quality of life is substantially impacted by diabetic foot. Due to the extreme morbidity and mortality,...
Introduction The nursing profession has experienced a number of significant changes in recent years. Throughout the course of the pandemic, the failings of the US medical system have become more apparent, and the pressure to maintain population health fell on understaffed, overworked, and endangered nurses. In light of this development,...
Introduction Palliative care is a particular branch of medicine that deals with terminally ill patients and their families to ensure that their quality of life is not jeopardized. Terminal illness typically provides patients and their families with traumatic moments that reduce the quality of life and lower life expectancy. Multidisciplinary...
It is important to note that prone positioning refers to a technique that is utilized to improve breathing in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). It is stated that “in prone positioning, patients lie on their abdomen in a monitored setting. Prone positioning is generally used for patients who...
Spirituality plays an integral role in the well-being of patients. Faith is especially crucial to assess the need of the individual and provide quality treatment. Although offering patients with medications and therapy, medical care must be holistic and rely on supportive measures that can help build trust and confidence in...
Containment can be viewed as a pattern of communicating mental experiences. Individuals undergo difficult and traumatic experiences that result in overwhelming emotions (Gibson, Till, and Adshead, 2019). The inability to contain these feelings can result in challenges in integrating with people. Containment is a concept that arises from early childhood...
Nurses are healthcare providers who are mainly concerned with the well-being of patients in the hospital. In this practice, they are governed by nursing theories, which give them a framework to shape their scope of practice and care. Nursing theories give nurses a foundation for making important decisions in the...
Party A, a Psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) and Party B (collaborating physician) collectively presented as “Parties”, want to make a formal collaborative agreement. This collaborative agreement seeks to act as a legally binding document guiding the terms of the collaborative partnership. Party A is a licensed and registered professional...
Healthcare practitioners are mandated reporters under Massachusetts law and must notify the Department of Children and Families (DCF) of any occurrences of abuse or neglect. The issue is whether a medical provider should notify the DCF about a patient who is homeless and a single parent when they obtain treatment...