In 2011, an estimated 2.5 million people were newly infected with HIV. 330,000 were under the age of 15. Every day nearly 7,000 people contract HIV—nearly 300 every hour. In 2011, 1.7 million people died from AIDS. 230,000 of them were under the age of 15.
Case Study Using the following American Heart Association (AHA) resources on blood lipids and heart disease, determine the risk of heart disease for the following three people and make recommendations on what they need to do to modify their blood lipids and lower their risk. * Diet and Lifestyle Recommendations Revision 2006: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association Nutrition Committee: http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/114/1/82 * Go to this link and do a search on blood lipids: http://americanheart.org * Scientific Statement on Managing Abnormal Blood Lipids: http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/112/20/3184#TBLU13 * Executive Summary of the Scientific Statement on Diagnosis and
The Roles and Ways of Knowing for a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Through the practice of scholarship, theories, models and conceptual frameworks the Advanced Practice Nurse integrates clinical knowledge into evidence based practice. Healthcare reform has created a need for the advanced educated nurse at the Bachelor through Doctorate degree level. The nurse practitioner has become the norm in healthcare settings and is found in every specialty along the lifespan. Educational and clinical requirements defined by the APN Consensus Statement sets the standard for entry into clinical practice. According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s Position Statement on Defining Scholarship for the Discipline of Nursing (1999), the APN/DNP’s role of scholarship serves to benefit nursing research, teaching, education, and the practice of nursing itself.
3. Every minute, Nearly 800,000 every year 4. No definite cure as of yet 5. Heart Attacks 6. The cause of heart attacks and were looking at family history and blood tests 7.
Accountability of Nursing Professionals Grand Canyon University: NRS-430 V Professional Dynamics January 21, 2011 Accountability and AHRQ Professional accountability is the responsibility of every nurse. Accountability in healthcare is the moral, ethical and legal commitment. Nurses are accountable for providing the best possible care for their patient. In other words, the nurse is responsible for her actions and its outcomes. Agency for Health Care Research and Quality consist of evidence-based practice with scientific view, medical treatment findings, technology assessment, patient safety practice, current clinical practice guidelines and preventive services (AHRQ, main page).
Scott & McSherry (2008) also define evidence based nursing is a process by which nurses make clinical decisions using the best available research evidence, their clinical expertise and patient outcomes. We will also discuss nursing’s simultaneous reliance on and critique of EBP in the context of critical reasoning. There will also be discussion of a study done that examined the effects of integrating evidence based practice into clinical practicum among RN-BSN students and the limitations of evidence based practice and an alternate view of decision making. Lastly we will discuss evidence that challenges the traditional practice regarding injection sites (Cocoman & Murray 2010). According to Guem et al.
Management in Health Care (EBP) This assignment will aim to discuss the implementation of a nursing initiative, which could change practice. It will focus upon the process of change in relation to evidence-based practice. Then go on to discuss barriers to change, the role of change agents and how different management and leadership styles influence the change process. The implementation of research based evidence into nursing practice has long been recognised as an important issue. The aim of evidence based practice (EBP) being to help clinicians base their actions on best current evidence.
The author of this paper, an emergency department nurse, will compare and contrast how she would expect nursing leaders and management to approach these issues in her department. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) defined quality improvement (QI) as a “systematic and continuous action that lead to measurable improvement in health care services and the health status of targeted patient groups” (HRSA, 2011). An important role for senior leaders of a management team implementing a new quality improvement program is to create energy, positivity, and consistency with their team to ensure follow through with intended goals throughout their department or facility. Patient satisfaction scores offer insight into a department’s quality of care that is given to their patients. A management team utilizes both positive and negative comments given by their patients.
Early efforts to study client outcomes began from quality improvement studies with nurses’ participation in the development of interdisciplinary care plans such as critical pathways and care maps that are still in use. Evidence-based practice (EBP) is using the best available evidence on hand to guide clinical decision making in order for nurses to provide the most current and best available care for their patients (Chitty & Black, 2010). EBP is a combination of knowledge to the research process, theory, clinical decision making and findings. The use of EBP requires that one must be aware of research that supports detailed and specific
APN Paper--Certified Nurse Educator Denise Vavrinak Cleveland State University Abstract A Certified Nurse Educator is “a registered nurse whose primary area of interest, competence, and professional practice is the education of nurses at the university level. Minimum education required is Masters of Science in Nursing” ("Mosby," 2009, p. 21). Nurse Educators are responsible for educating and preparing future generations of nurses who will be charged with providing quality care to the population. The academic community should not assume that because an individual holds a certain credential or is said to have expertise in a field they would make adequate educators. In order to achieve this goal, Clinicians have to be competent.