Category: Health & Medicine 13691

Table of Contents Background of the Study Methods of the Study Results of the Study Ethical Considerations Conclusion References Nursing research requires a profound understanding of current problems in the public health sector as well as specific analytic skills (Burns & Grove, 2011). As it was identified, the problem of understaffing is one of the…

Table of Contents Case Report Empirical Level Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) Systematic Literature Review Meta-Analysis References Evidence-based medicine, also known as EBM, relies on evidence to make a decision. EBM engages the hierarchy of evidence to evaluate and assess the evidence that it has; five levels will be examined below. Case Report Case reports and…

Table of Contents The Best Practices Policy Information Security and Confidentiality The Cost Efficiency Policy References The growth of informatics in the nursing field has been integral in facilitating the efficient management of information and communication processes in the delivery of healthcare services (Van Weert & Munro, 2013). This paper compares the different informatics policies…

Table of Contents Image of a Nurse White Uniforms Possible Improvements References Image of a Nurse Although implying a rather abstract person with a general set of healthcare skills, the concept of a nurse evokes a distinct and quite well-defined image in most people’s minds. The propensity to visualize a nurse can be attributed to…

During my field experience at Vatsalya Adult Medical Daycare Center, I worked as an intern social worker student. Then, I faced a divorced woman, 55 years old, whose mother had unexpectedly died from a heart attack; it could be beneficial to employ the resilience theory in this case. The presenting problem was that the woman…

Table of Contents Read Codes Relationship between READ Codes and SNOMED SNOMED REFSETS Reasons for Using SNOMED References Read Codes READ Codes are an integral component in clinical research and practice history. READ Codes designing commenced in 1986 by Dr. James Read with colleague Dr. David Markwell (Benson & Grieve, 2016). The codes were known…

The indicators of the normal distribution of variables in medicine can be used for different purposes, for example, in calculating disease dynamics, growth data, and in other cases. With this distribution, most of the values ​​are grouped around some average indicator, and on both sides of it, the frequency of observations decreases evenly. The ideal…

Dental caries is a bacterial infection that occurs on organic matter and hard tissues of the teeth such as the dentin, the enamel and the cementum leading to their demineralization which is as a result of the production of acids by the bacteria (Levine et al. 465). The acids accumulate on teeth surfaces until the…

Table of Contents iCARE Assignment Compassion Advocacy Resilience Evidence-Based Practice Summary References iCARE Assignment The interprofessional teams are currently present and developing in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). According to ANA (2015), interprofessional care stands for care implemented by a healthcare team, which includes professionals with different expertise. Their roles and obligations are overlapping in…

Leprosy is a chronic infection that mainly affects peripheral nerves, skin, eyes, and the upper respiratory tract. It is caused by a slow multiplying bacillus, which determines its lengthy incubation period: five years on average, although symptoms may appear after as much as 20 years after the bacillus is contacted (“Leprosy Fact Sheet”). The formation…