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Nursing Standards and Legal Requirements in Providing Quality CareDuring my last clinical placement, I encountered one case that I believe was very significant in my studies. I was placed in a medical ward where my role was to take care of a patient who was undergoing a total hip replacement (THR). My main role was to follow the standards of nursing in conducting complete assessment and administering medications to the patient. From the stud...

Factors Contributing to Health Disparities among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in AustraliaThis paper gives a detailed description of the health disparities experienced between Australians of indigenous descent and their non-indigenous counterparts. Pieces of evidence reveal that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in Australia experience unfavorable health outcomes as compared to their non-aboriginal counterparts. This paper, ther...

Selection process overviewDataTech, which is one of the data management company have proposed some of the recruitment method for recruiting people with different job positions. The recruitment methods that are proposed by the company is quite helpful for analyzing the ability of the candidates to fit in the specific job position. However, it is identified that the selections methods does not provide appropriate indication about the efficienc...

Risk Identification and Intervention Appearance: The patient Dimitrie appeared to be quite young with lean body structure. He appeared physically healthy and well groomed; he was wearing a black t-shirt with loose fitted shirt and a pant and had combed his hair. He had a habit of biting his nails, which showed that he lacked good hygiene. Dimitrie had long black hair with thin black moustache. He was wearing spectacles and had no notable char...

Overview of the CaseOne of the fundamental aspects of nursing is the duty of care which most of the nurses view it as a vital part of their professional duties. The legal underpinnings of duty care have however been overlooked hence nurses tend to get stranded on what to do in cases of emergency, especially when off duty (Dowie 2017). Some of the ethical obligations involve confidentiality, accuracy, safety, and workplace relationships (Willia...

Causes and Risk Factors1.There is a disease in the liver called cirrhosis that might cause loss of the liver cells and irreversible scarring of the liver. Nathan is a chain smoker and also consumes two glasses of beer every day. He also used to take drugs and was diagnosed with hepatitis C. These are the main facts behind the Nathan’s liver problem because the main cause of liver cirrhosis disease is the consumption of alcohol and viral ...

The Impact of Respiratory Complications on Medical-Surgical Clients Respiratory complications have been reported as common incidences in Canada; research has shown that majority of respiratory complications occur due to post-operative surgical procedures and during general anaesthesia in hospital settings. These often contribute to acute respiratory failure in patients who have undergone surgical operations. Incidences of respiratory complicatio...

Nursing Interventions for JulieThe Mental Status Examination conducted on Julie led to the conclusion that the patient under consideration is psychotic. The fact that Julie depicts the attributes of being anxious and guarded plays a role in demystifying the fact that she is suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. Based on this analysis, the current study seeks to suggest the most effective interventions, the rationale for these interventions, a...

Case 1: Ethics in NursingThe report brings about the discussion on the value, ethics, and principles of the nursing practices in context to the Canadian Healthcare system. These aspects play an important role in delivering effective and safe care to the individuals. Therefore, these concepts will be assessed through the four case studies given and the report will answer the questions accordingly. The case represented the issue of ulcerated ...

Challenges faced by new graduate nursesThe healthcare environment is ever changing. However, one of the things that never get changed is the demand for the nurses. The need of more nursing professionals in the healthcare sector has become important because of the lingering issues of nursing shortage felt by the nation. Firstly, one of the reasons identified by researchers is the increase in the number of chronic ailments among the citizens alo...

Analyzing leadership strengths and coaching for maximizing leadership potentialThe report provides the comprehensive discussion of how the Panera bread company faced the mosh pit problem and will give the detail discussion of how the concept of VUCA and critical thinking is applied to provide solution to the problem faced by the company. It also describes the problem faced by the company Starbucks and the use of critical thinking to solve the ...

The Research QuestionIn this essay, the article by Hill et al. (2016) is criticallyevaluated by using the CASP tool. The authors tried to compare the effects of an anti-inflammatory dose of fish oil with lower dose of the fish oil. In this study, a randomized controlled trial method was used and almost 202 participants were allocated randomly in two groups that was high-dose group and low dose group. The researcher also tried to establish a re...

Importance of STEMClub together Science, Technology, Engineering and Math in an interdisciplinary fashion, add some innovative methods of teaching beyond the books and what we have in our hands will be a class learning with the help of STEM. At the turn of the previous century, the four components of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) served as the foundation of the development of Industrial revolution (Ross, 2016). Dur...

Analysis of the Data PresentedIdeally, the early save program has been effective in improving the resuscitation and health care system of the patients in the hospital. Based on the graph before the program was introduced that is (pre), there was a large number of deaths of the patient who could not make it after being resuscitated that is around 25% has been interpreted from the graph (Hockenberry, Wilson and Rodgers, 2016, p.20). This shows...

Bronchiolitis and its SymptomsBronchiolitis is a type of lung infection which causes congestion and inflammation in the bronchioles (small airways) of the lungs. The causative agent of bronchiolitis is virus which is popularly known as respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) or pneumovirus. The main target group of this inflammatory viral infection is young children and infants. The initial symptoms of bronchiolitis might be confused with common col...

Patient's Medical HistoryThe following reflection is based on the case study of a 47-year old male (Max) who is presented to the external clinical for routine skin, nail and wound care. His medical history highlights R/1st amputation, type-2 diabetes mellitus, diabetic neuropathy, high blood pressure, high level of blood cholesterol, high basal metabolic rate (BMI) along with L/1st plantar and anxiety. He was a chain smoker for the p...

Challenges in Perioperative Nursing CarePerioperative nursing can be defined as a nursing practice that involves catering to patients who have undergone a surgery or some other kind of minimal invasive procedure. Nursing professionals who are involved in perioperative nursing techniques work in close association with anaesthesiologist, surgeons, nurse practitioners and surgical technologists (Blomberg, Bisholt, Nilsson, & Lindwall, 2015,p....

Transtheoretical Model of Change and Motivational Interviewing techniquesTranstheoretical Model of Change (TMC) is used as the foundation for increasing appropriate interventions that will enhance health behavior adjustment. The TMC describes the modification of problem behavior or how people acquire helpful behavior. The model mainly focuses on the individual capacity to make the decision; it involves behavior, cognition, and emotions of the ...

Impact of Preterm Birth on NeurodevelopmentAfter birth care and nurturing plays a fundamental role in the growth and development of the child as it continues to growth and develop with time. Especially for the preterm babies, the importance of the growth and development focused care holds tremendous value in preserving and protecting their physical and neurological development. Preterm babies are the result of premature birth facilitated by ...

The Roper, Logan and Tierney Model of Nursing and Activities of LivingNurses have to provide an array of support services to the patients while they are availing the care services. Especially for the aged care sector, the nursing professionals often have to indulge in supportive assistance that even encompasses the activities of living for the patients as well (Ahmed et al., 2018). On a more elaborative note, it has to be mentioned that for th...

Alzheimer's Disease: Symptoms and StagesAn illness trajectory is known to focus on the experiences of an individual as they complete the journey of life after development of the illness. Though experiences of illness might be varying among individual, common themes emerge from such experiences on the basis of qualitative research studies.  The present assignment is based on a creative work, the movie ‘Still Alice’ that ...

Importance of Aim of the ProjectThe aim of the project always gives the proper idea of the project is all about?  The aim of the project must be specified accordingly to address a large section of the country. The aim of the project must attract the attention of all the medical staff to combat the deadly disease as early as possible. This diabetes care project needs to bring new opportunities to the medical staff as well ...

The Code of Conduct for Nurses and the Registered Nurse Standards for Practice from the NMBACultural competence can be defined as the process by virtue of which care providers and health care organizations deliver medical services to the minority group with respect to their ethnic, cultural and linguistic background (Shen, 2015,p. 309). Through effective understanding and use of cultural competence, safe medical service delivery is ensured to ...

Assessment TaskThe cultural safety and appropriateness has become one of the most integral aspects associated with the care planning and delivery in the present day scenario. It has to be mentioned that the aspect of patient centred care focuses on planning and delivering care that is culturally appropriate and respectful towards the individuality of the patient that is being care for (Zubair, 2015). The concept of therapeutic relationship als...

Introduction to Teaching Games for Understanding (TGFU) ApproachMany training and activity models have been adopted in the approach to Physical education. The Teaching for Effective Understanding (TGFU) approach has been considered as a fundamental methodology to approach any teaching of games and sports in the upper primary as well as other dimensions of education (Alcalá, & Garijo, 2017). For the success of any school-ba...