What were the advantages and disadvantages of this system of nursing education?

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Ever since the introduction of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) refusal of payment for hospital-acquired poor outcomes, nursing has gained visibility because these outcomes are nurse sensitive. Locate an article or website that refers to these nurse-sensitive outcomes and describe its findings.

 

2. The repeated sound of an alarm can be annoying to the patient, family, and staff. This can lead to someone shutting off the alarm. Give an example of an ethical or legal issue that may arise if a patient has a poor outcome or sentinel event because an alarm was turned off. What do the data show about the value of alarms in general? Is alarm fatigue an issue?

 

3. Select three of the best qualities of nursing education in different types of programs (ADN, diploma, and BSN) over the years. Using these lessons from history, how would you incorporate these qualities into a superior nursing education program for the future?

 

Think about the diploma schools that prepared many great RNs in the mid- to late-20th century. What were the advantages and disadvantages of this system of nursing education? Which of their great qualities were carried forward into the school you attended? Which qualities were lost?

Healthcare Ethics and Morals

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Healthcare Ethics and Morals

Consider the scenarios given below and answer the questions listed after each scenario. Justify your answers with appropriate research and reasoning.

Scenario 1

The rising number of uninsured patients has led to an increased reliance on the hospital emergency room for routine nonemergency care. EMTALA ensures patients’ access to the emergency room of any hospital, regardless of patients’ insurance status or their ability to pay. Using the Internet, read about EMTALA. You can search for this act by using the keyword, “EMTALA” and respond to the following question:

  • How do the law and the medical profession’s code of ethics impact those individuals who seek care from emergency departments for reasons other than those that are truly emergencies?

Scenario 2

Autonomy is one of the most important ethical principles discussed in long-term care. Often, autonomy is in danger of being sacrificed when a patient is in need of a higher level of care. Imagine you are part of the staff at the local nursing home. The administrator has asked you and a group of other employees to discuss the principle of autonomy and how it can be applied to the nursing home setting. As a staff member, answer the following questions:

  • How would you decide the best way to honor a patient’s autonomy in a nursing home and what will you decide?
  • How would you handle differences of opinion in the group as you try to come to a consensus on the best way to preserve autonomy?
  •  cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format

Can informatics be used to gain wisdom?

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To prepare:

 

  • Review the information in Figure 6-2 in Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge.
  • Develop a clinical question related to your area of practice that you would like to explore.
  • Consider what you currently know about this topic. What additional information would you need to answer the question?
  • Using the continuum of data, information, knowledge, and wisdom, determine how you would go about researching your question.
    • Explore the available databases in the Walden Library. Identify which of these databases you would use to find the information or data you need.
    • Once you have identified useful databases, how would you go about finding the most relevant articles and information?
    • Consider how you would extract the relevant information from the articles.
    • How would you take the information and organize it in a way that was useful? How could you take the step from simply having useful knowledge to gaining wisdom?

To complete:

 

Write a 3- to 4-page paper that addresses the following:

 

  • Summarize the question you developed, and then relate how you would work through the four steps of the data, information, knowledge, wisdom continuum. Be specific.
    • Identify the databases and search words you would use.
    • Relate how you would take the information gleaned and turn it into useable knowledge.
  • Can informatics be used to gain wisdom? Describe how you would progress from simply having useful knowledge to the wisdom to make decisions about the information you have found during your database search.

 

Your paper must also include a title page, an introduction, a summary, and a reference page

Describe an experience in your clinical practice in which you used nursing clinical judgment based on the holistic model. How did you use the nursing process in that example?

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Holistic Model of Nursing

Question 1

Using the South University Online Library, research the holistic model within the nursing profession.

Based on your research, complete the following tasks:

  • Describe an experience in your clinical practice in which you used nursing clinical judgment based on the holistic model. How did you use the nursing process in that example?

Question 2

Using the South University Online Library, choose two cultures other than your own. Research how illness is viewed in those cultures. Based on your research, respond to the following:

  • How would you go about providing care to patients of these cultures? Make a checklist of points to be kept in mind when caring for patients from these cultures
  • Describe an experience in your clinical practice in which you used nursing clinical judgment based on the holistic model. How did you use the nursing process in that example?