Nursing

Interdisciplinary Care As healthcare technology advances over time, different methods to treat what were once considered fatal medical problems also increase. Since its introduction in the 70s, (ECMO), Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation has recently become a fairly common therapy alternative for newborns experiencing respiratory failures (Rehder et al., 2014). For example, the procedure can be used […]

Knowledge in Clinical Practice Data is defined as raw facts, context-free values or statistics(Dammann, 2019). Data includes the numbers obtained from sources such as measurements, images, simulations, sound recordings, survey results etc. Data in itself has no significance or meaning outside its existence which can be in useable or non-usable form. However, this data can

The Healthy People 2020 Healthy People 2020 is a prevention agenda by the federal government with the objective of building a healthier nation. The agenda entails more of a statement of national health objectives that are designed to identify significant preventable health threats and reduce them. WHO defines health as a state of complete mental,

Health Promotion Strategies Education has come out as a social determinant of health. The aspect goes to the point of measuring health by assessing the “students who graduate with regular diploma 4 years after starting 9th grade.” According to data, we are improving on this aspect as a country. The percentage of students graduating in

Strategic Versus Deep Learning There are times when balancing school life and other aspects of one’s life can be tricky. This results in adopting varied learning strategies.  I can remember a particular class where I had to adopt a strategic learning approach as opposed to deep learning. It was a psychology class, and the aspect

Health Assessment History The patient is a 35 years old married African American female named MG. The interview took place on 01/07/2020 at 1200 hours.  The patient is alert, oriented and a good historian. Patient skin is elastic, intact, color normal warm and for ethnicity. Patient facial features are symmetrical, and there appears to be

Workarounds Workarounds are alternative methods through which providers bypass standard healthcare procedures and rules in order to achieve a goal(Seaman &Erlen, 2015). An example of a workaround is when doctors use pen and paper to write their orders and have the nurses enter them into the Computerized Patient Record System and then sign the orders

Patient Safety: Walkarounds Workarounds occur when healthcare providers use alternative approaches to bypass standard operating healthcare procedures in a bid to accomplish a goal (Seaman & Erlen, 2015). For example, instead of collecting and entering patient data into the Computerized Patient Record System themselves, doctors have been known to use pen and paper to make

Sports and Drug Test Program Indeed, federal resources have been critical in enhancing evidence-practice within the industry for a recommendable period. Besides the provision of financial support by the federal divisions, and interaction with professionally well-equipped teams assists in mitigating the acquisition of experience and broader knowledge by the various candidates (ASLA, 2020). With the

How Does Mental Health Impact the Personality of an Individual? Prompt: how much impact is the use of social media has on the mental health issue. Who is my audience?  The age group 0 – 35, the millennial generation, the dot com generation, and the generation Y. What is my Claim? My claim is that social media is