CHECK THESE SAMPLES OF Clinical Focus and Advocacy in Patient Care in Specialist Nursing Practice
It will focus on diabetes, stroke and heart specialists and their perception and utilisation of the hygienist during patient care.... Skills which help resolve these communication barriers need to be applied and improved by the dental hygienist in order to ensure that these problems do not worsen and the gaps in medical care would be filled.... They all perform important functions in the care of the patient and in the delivery of medical services....
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Essay
The purpose of Quality Assurance is to set a standard of providing the highest quality of care in the Medical Field (Quality Assurance in Nursing Standards 2011).... The paper "Plan for Dedicated and Patient-Focused Registered Nurse" states that a Registered Nurse holding a Masters's degree in Nursing is equipped for advanced practice.... A Quality Assurance team is also best suited for nursing schools and universities.... Quality assurance basically is the job of evaluating the quality of care and ensuring a constant and unceasing quality level of such are (Quality Assurance in nursing Care: Structure and Process of nursing Care....
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Term Paper
The paper "Professional, Legal and Moral Issues in Nursing" focuses on the outcome of treatment processes, which are successful and using them as a standard practice.... The practice of nursing is governed by professional, legal, and moral issues which in totality make up the ethics of nursing.... The nursing profession is a science and an art, in which the primary aim is to promote quality of life.... Florence Nightingale is the first person to start modern nursing practices and New Zealand was the first country to regulate nurses nationally....
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Essay
This Chapter provides evidence that supports the relevance of assessment of advanced competency skills for critical care nurses, as a vital part of their effectiveness in a clinical situation.... In a changing modern environment where clinical needs and definitions are constantly changing and greater accountability is expected in health care, the relevance of adequate competency frameworks is a vital issue to address.... A comprehensive review of available literature on the subject of critical care competency was undertaken, with a view to extract relevant information concerning advanced skills which may be relevant in critical care nurses....
12 Pages
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Dissertation
In the paper 'Contemporary Issues in Mental Healthcare' the author analyses a more community-based approach to mental health practice.... The shift to a more community-based practice has not diminished this stigma.... The treatment of the mental health patient has also shifted to a more evidence-based practice as opposed to a more scientific based practice.... The District General Hospitals that soon replaced Mental Health Hospitals was an evident shift in a more community-based approach to mental health practice....
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Essay
The philosophy of palliative care in the current specialised setting is about paying equal focus on the physiological as well and the psychological issues of a terminally ill patient.... It neither hastens nor postpones death; it provides relief from pain and other symptoms; it integrates the psychological and spiritual aspects of patient care; and it offers a support system for the patient and his family until the patient's death.... This paper shall now discuss the philosophy of palliative care and how such philosophy is applied in the current clinical practice in either a general or specialist setting....
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Essay
In this case, specializing refers to the act of concentrating or focusing one's practice into a part of the greater nursing practice.... Advanced nursing practice includes the expansion of skills and knowledge – beyond that which is normally covered by nursing practice, sometimes even overlapping the usual boundaries of medical practice (Jansen & Zwygart-Stauffacher, 2010).... In the practical setting, this may include the advancement of nursing practice into radiology or diagnostics....
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Case Study
are for dying patients has continued to remain a very fundamental aspect of nursing.... These nursing professionals bring in what is noted to be a unique set of qualities and skills that greatly enhance the overall support and care that is provided to patients facing the end of life.... Cicely Saunders first articulated the idea of developing modern hospice care based on the careful observation of terminally ill patients in the late 1950's, nurses have continued to play a progressively more vital role in the provision of hospice care to....
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Research Paper