Peter Hill
which can be viewed by more than one clinician at the same time from different locations. Such promise holds the potential for improved communication, which can improve the quality of care provided to the patient. The value of effective communication i.e. accurate...
STROKE PATIENT WAS TORTURED WITH KNIFE; Jail for Male Nurse Who Terrorised Mute VictimA MALE nurse who repeatedly cut a helpless stroke victim with a knife was jailed for three years.Birmingham Evening Mail (England)
practitioner provides some care previously offered only by physicians and in most states has the ability to prescribe medications. Working in collaboration with a physician, a nurse practitioner provides high-quality, cost-effective and individualized care for the lifespan of patient’s special needs....
The complexity of chronic conditions means that a comprehensive treatment plan is essential to achieving a positive outcome. A treatment plan will include goals for the patient to work towards. Encouraging patients to stick to these objectives is an essential part of a senior nurse’s role. This...
We are here trying to save the patient’s life. But if they are making it difficult for you, what can you do? You just have to stand your ground. If they tell me they cannot give me more PPE, then I cannot go into the room and take care of the patient. We are h...
An example of the patient-centric nature of EMRs is that most are capable of displaying a nursing care plan-driven task list for a given patient, but not for all of a given nurse's patients combined into a single task list. Yet, such a list is extremely helpful to the nurse in settin...
decrease the time to essential nursing stroke care interventions and wait times to neuro-interventional acute stroke treatment.#Methods:Utilizing the Plan-Do-Check-Act quality improvement method, we cross-trained our Rapid Response Nurses to various types of emergency responses including Code Stroke. Th...
Transitional care refers to ‘a set of actions designed to ensure the coordination and continuity of patient care and to prevent poor outcomes when patients transfer to different locations or different levels of care within the same location’ [1,2,3,4]. An optimal transitional care requires a...
Worked short staffed, same as everywhere else in healthcare and due to staff not coming in when scheduled. The patient flow is not adjusted for the staffing available to take care of the patients. 优点 They will pay you 缺点 Patient acuity is more ICU than Rehab ...