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Week 3: Respiratory System
Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are significant public health burdens. Currently, more than 25 million people in the United States have asthma (HealthyPeople.gov, 2019). As an advanced practice nurse, you will likely encounter patients who will present with respiratory disorders, including asthma or COPD. Understanding specific treatment protocols as well as the types…
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NURS 6512 Ethical and Legal Implications of Prescribing Drugs The patient in this case scenario is an elderly 85-year-old lady
NURS 6512 Ethical and Legal Implications of Prescribing Drugs Ethical and Legal Implications of Prescribing Drugs The patient in this case scenario is an elderly 85-year-old lady with significant cognitive decline at her end-of-life phase. She has renal failure, and heart failure, and has been on prophylactic anticoagulants. She is currently in immense pain and…
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NURS 6512 Ethical and Legal Implications of Prescribing Drugs
Title: NURS 6512 Ethical and Legal Implications of Prescribing Drugs The promotion of safety and quality in the prescription of medications is imperative in nursing practice. Advanced registered nurses make treatment decisions based on best practices available and utilize interprofessional collaboration to optimize treatment outcomes. Therefore, this paper explores the ethics of prescribing a new…
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NURS 6521 week 1 Assignment: Ethical and Legal Implications of Prescribing Drugs Ethical and legal implications for all involved stakeholders
Title: NURS 6512 Ethical and Legal Implications of Prescribing Drugs Drug administration error causes some of the fatal medical accidents that could result in a patient’s death. Policies and legal frameworks exist to reduce the occurrence of such incidences, and other medical errors, through a reporting system. The case scenario involves prescribing medication to a…
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Addressing the Critical Need for a Sustainable Healthcare Workforce: An Exploration of Workforce Challenges and Solutions
2 Introduction The healthcare workforce is a critical component of any healthcare system, playing a vital role in delivering quality care and ensuring positive health outcomes for patients. However, the healthcare workforce faces numerous challenges that threaten its sustainability and efficiency. These challenges include workforce shortages, burnout, skill gaps, and inefficiencies (Rotenstein, Berwick & Cassel,…
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Importance of Nursing Theory for the Nursing Profession
Nursing theory is essential to the profession of nursing on many levels. Theories help to define the discipline and play an important role in research and concept development helping to discover more facets of nursing for research (Im and Chung, 2012). Generating theory consolidates the nursing profession and ensures new roles are created and founded…
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Importance of Nursing Theory
Nursing theory was largely neglected after Florence Nightingale first defined nursing in 1860 with her writing of Notes on Nursing: What it is, What it is Not (Zborowsky, 2014). Nursing theory and models grew exponentially beginning in the 1950’s (McCrae, 2012). Early nurse theorists recognized the need to distinguish the profession from medicine and the…
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How my Worldview and Nursing Theory will help in Developing my Future Practice
How my Worldview and Nursing Theory will help in Developing my Future Practice My worldview and nursing theory will help in developing my future practice in many ways. Firstly, it will help me engage in research that will contribute to the practice of safe and efficient care. It will also help me engage in care…
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Describe your personal worldview, including the religious, spiritual, and cultural elements that you think most influence your personal philosophy of practice and attitude towards patient care. Choose a specific nursing theory that is most in line with your personal philosophy of practice and approach to patient care and discuss the similarities
A Sample Answer For the Assignment: NUR 513 Worldview and Nursing Process Personal Statement Assignment Title: NUR 513 Worldview and Nursing Process Personal Statement Assignment Nurses have a critical role to play in the provision of care that promotes safety, quality, and efficiency. In doing this, they practice in accordance with their worldview.…
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Mid-range theories are used as theoretical frameworks for research studies. Mid-range theories are open to use in practice and should be tested by research. Mid-range theories can be the scientific end product that expresses nur
Middle range, or mid-range, nursing theories lie between the most abstract theories, such as grand nursing theories, models, or conceptual frameworks, and more circumscribed, concrete theories, such as practice theories. Compared to grand theories, mid-range theories are more specific, have fewer concepts, and encompass a more limited aspect of the real world. Concepts are relatively…