Category: Health & Medicine 13691
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Advanced Practice Registered Nurses in Mississippi
Advanced practice registered nurses are an important resource in the healthcare industry because they contribute to disease management and prevention. However, institutional, regulatory, and state barriers to APRN practice persist today leading to increased healthcare costs limited access and compromised quality of care offered. Regulatory Barriers State laws and regulations limit the ability of APRNs…
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Nurse Staffing and Scheduling Options
Discussion There are a number of available options when it comes to staffing and scheduling of nurses. This paper will provide an overview of two vastly different options: self-scheduling and mandatory staffing ratios. Self-scheduling allows nurses to create flexible schedules based on their needs. This type of scheduling has proven to be effective not only…
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Assisted Living Center, Advantages & Disadvantages
The coherent society could be characterized by the great level of attention given to health care issues. The approach to the delivery of care changed greatly, and at the moment, people expect a high level of services and positive outcomes. Moreover, there is a great demand for establishments that work in the given sphere. In…
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Transitional Care Project Implementation
Introduction Transitional care is a process that seeks to establish the continuity of care by providing education to patients and their caregivers as well as by enhancing communication between providers (Czarnecki et al., 2019). The project will focus on the effectiveness of transitional care in improving patients’ long-term health outcomes. The evidence for the research…
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Electronic Patient Education Portals
Table of Contents Introduction Topic Examples Personal Experience Conclusion References Introduction The establishment of electronic patient portals became possible with the development of the Internet and online websites that provided information directly to the user. Patient portals today can be defined as secure websites or web pages that provide users with necessary information related to…
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CDC: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report is a weekly epidemiological periodical made available by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta in the USA for the expansion of the community health information and suggestions received by the CDC from the different state health departments on various health issues (Morbidity and Mortality Report, 2011;…
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Self-Care Plan in Medicine
Table of Contents Identification of a Personal Health Risk Information and Statistics about the Condition Risk Factors Prevention and Self-Care Plan Conclusion References A medical worker is to serve as an example of a healthy and responsible lifestyle to the patients. That is why it is highly important that a registered nurse knows how to…
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Effective Diagnostic Testing at Chest Pain Units
The undifferentiated patient population with acute chest pain not only causes diagnostic difficulties to the health care practitioners but also requires substantial economic expenses of the department for conducting all the necessary measurement procedures and evaluating the achieved results. The organization of a CPU with all the necessary equipment and qualified personnel in the hospital…
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Pressure Ulcers and Recommended Care Techniques
Introduction to the Problem Bedsores are frequent in long-term care Continuous pressure on the skin Problems related to proper blood circulation Sepsis and bacterial infections (cellulitis) A review of PU aversion methods PU protocols to be improved Pressure ulcers (PU) belong to the most common wounds associated with long-term hospital treatment. As is clear from…
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Nutritional Value of Wild Amaranth Grain
Indigenous people’s conventional foods represent a potentially new source of healthy dietary options in the contemporary world. The wild Amaranth plant resembles the soybeans in the early stages of growth. However, as the crop grows, it become taller, with purple-colored seeds producing amaranth grains, which can then be harvested (Kindscher et al., 2018). This crop…