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 Reference this Share this: Facebook  Twitter  Reddit  LinkedIn  WhatsApp   Enhanced Assessment Skills and Decision Making in Adult Nursing This assignment will highlight an event from clinical practice where it was essential to make a collaborative care decision and will analyse the decision-making process. A collaborative care decision is where there are joint decisions made between more than one person by […]

 Reference this Share this: Facebook  Twitter  Reddit  LinkedIn  WhatsApp   The topic I have chosen for my project is the Enhanced Recovery Programme (ERP) for patients undergoing elective colorectal surgery, and whether this aids with early discharge from hospital. I shall discuss traditional pre and post operative assessments alongside the one used for ERP. I will also discuss each of the […]

Share this: Facebook  Twitter  Reddit  LinkedIn  WhatsApp   Introduction Graduate nurses have many learning needs as they enter into the nursing workforce and they must continue to improve on their basic learning skills and competencies while attempting to learn new complex nursing skills (Phillips, Kenny, Esterman, & Smith, 2014). All areas of nursing present many challenges, therefore orientation to the area […]

Share this: Facebook  Twitter  Reddit  LinkedIn  WhatsApp   Explain and evaluate how you ensured dignity and respect during a service user/care interaction                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The NMC code is a set of standards applicable to any nurse, nursing associate, midwife or student nurse entering or hoping to remain within the profession. It outlines what is expected of professionals not only by the nursing and […]

 Reference this Share this: Facebook  Twitter  Reddit  LinkedIn  WhatsApp   The NMC (2008) requires nurses to maintain competence in all areas of practice (Meretoja et al, 2004). Nurses can contribute to the ongoing maintenance and development of clinical competence and ongoing professional development through reflection (Gustafson and Fagerberg, 2004). Reflection supports clinical reasoning, critical thinking and review of clinical actions and […]

Share this: Facebook  Twitter  Reddit  LinkedIn  WhatsApp   Nurses in most healthcare facilities have some of the highest levels of direct patient contact of any employees. They play an essential role in achieving organizational goals and of providing high quality care to the community. Hospitals are important health care and social system where nurses are the cornerstones for their effectiveness and […]

Share this: Facebook  Twitter  Reddit  LinkedIn  WhatsApp   Epilepsy as defined by Epilepsy Action Australia is, “a disruption of the normal electrochemical activity of the brain that results in seizures. Under certain circumstances anyone can have a seizure”. (Epilepsy Foundation Victoria, 2011, http://www.epilepsy.org.au/about-epilepsy/understanding-epilepsy/what-epilepsy). Epilepsy a common neurological disease, although epilepsy cannot be cured it can be managed through medications. (Epilepsy Foundation […]

Share this: Facebook  Twitter  Reddit  LinkedIn  WhatsApp   People with chronic and complex conditions are usually characterized by complex causality, multiple risk factors, a long latency period, a prolonged course of illness that cannot been cured, and functional impairment (Wilkes, Cioffi, Warne, Harrison, & Vonu-Boriceanu, 2008). These people are often treated by primary care professionals such as the community care. Community […]

 Reference this Share this: Facebook  Twitter  Reddit  LinkedIn  WhatsApp   This essay will focus on an individual the writer has been involved in caring for during a community practice placement. It will give a brief and relevant history about the patient. It will describe the term ‘biopsychosocial’ and how it is related to holistic care with specific reference to Dementia. For […]

Share this: Facebook  Twitter  Reddit  LinkedIn  WhatsApp   The decision support systems that are now used by many of the healthcare providers have aided to their better decision making capabilities. Due to the Invasion of Information Technology in the healthcare domain, computers are used to validate and suggest the Healthcare professionals about the diagnosis of the disease and the correct line […]