Medication Errors and Patient Safety Even though several nursing issues and concerns exist in healthcare settings today, I have chosen medication errors due to their high prevalence and adverse effect on the patient, and sometimes on the nurse. Medication errors account for at least one death occurrence every day. About 1.3 million Individuals are annually reported to have been affected by medication errors in one way or another (Izadpanah et al., 2018). The issue has been ranked number one among the five patient safety concerns. Unfortunately, the problem has persisted even after the adoption and implementation of electronic health records. However, the fact that these issues can be prevented provides hope that such cases would be minimized. Medication errors are often caused by mistakes made by healthcare personnel. In order to eliminate such costly issues, nurses should incorporate an effective handoff communication strategy to prevent miscommunications that always result in errors. Physicians should equally strive to make accurate diagnoses upon which the prescription and administration of medication are based. The healthcare team should directly involve pharmacists in the treatment plan…
What does it mean to document accurately and appropriately? To document appropriately and accurately in the medical field means ensuring that records are created for every service provided by any medical practitioner, either nurses, doctors and any other staff. It is vital for such information to in good condition, comprehensible and more transparent for all the users of the information such as the patient, payors, government agencies, legal system, researchers, accrediting groups and any other interested party (Webb,& Pass, 2004, p 35). What are the documenting guidelines? When is it appropriate to use abbreviations? To ensure that documentation is accurate and appropriate, the medical practitioners adhere to documenting guidelines which are laid down as fundamental aspects of documentation. They include being factual. This means that medical records have to contain descriptive and objective information about what a practitioner sees, feels, hears and smells (Hammond, Boyce, Briceland, Canaday, Carr-Lopez, Eggleston, & Hudson, 2003, p 90). Documentation has to be accurate, which is asserted through the provision of exact measurements. This helps to asses any minor change to a patient which can…
The Impact of Internet popularization on consumer behaviors in e-commerce businesses. 1.1 Research Gap The internet has significantly affected the consumption pattern of consumers and the way consumers engage in buying behaviors. With the rise of the internet and its use, most individuals participate in the process of obtaining goods through the internet or seeking to get services through the internet. The increased use of the internet by consumers has led to increased research on the subject of internet popularization and the way it affects the economy. The research gap that exists, however, is that there is extensively minimal research detailing the way internet popularization has changed the consumer buying pattern. In essence, there is the fact that through the popularization of the internet, the consumer behaviors relating to e-commerce must have shifted towards a specific direction. This paper attempt to engage in extensive research to determine the increased internet use and accessibility has had on the consumers who participate in the e-commerce business practice. 1.0.An elaborate exploration of the research questions The study attempts to fulfill the gap of…
Drug Use as a Destructive Naturally Loathsome Pandora Box Introduction Rob Delaney’s article Drugs will Kill your Friends published by the Atlantic magazine in 2013 describes a drug addict’s journey and the destructive impacts drug use has on individuals and families. The author makes a serious argument for the negative implications of drugs by comparing rehab or halfway houses to war because not all people who go through this journey make it as drug addiction can be compared to facing powerful adversaries and as opposed to the external nature of combat drug addiction occurs inside the individual. The significance of this story is that it is particularly persuasive as the Delaney extensively utilizes pathos to persuade readers not to engage in drug use. It is for this reason that David Barash, in his article “Two Cheers for Nature,” he suggests that because some things while natural are loathsome, they are best left alone. Thus,Barash seems to contend that everything in this world cannot be unnatural, but it is crucial to understand the folly and avoid it with all determination. Arguably,drug…
Poster Assignment Introduction Effective healthcare leadership entails having decent strategies that would be used to improve the healthcare work environment. They include being committed, organized, and determined to attain what is seemingly impossible for the others. In my case, I believe that having effective leadership skills goes a long way in ensuring that patients receive the best services. Past/Current Leadership Skills – Which do you think shows more of a leadership style? In the recent past, I served as a team representative for The Big Clash Gameshow. I was the link between the chosen 5 and The Official TBC Team. It was my role to form a team of 5 players and support them over the course of 6-8 weeks to prepare for a gameshow against another university and get them to win and to the final. This role insisted on being present at all rehearsals and guiding the team on what strategies can be used to win the game. As a previous Big Clash participant, myself, my own experience had a massive impact on the team to feel…
Mainstream American Person(Rising from Poverty to Riches) Becoming a successful person is so easy, but the input and the self-dedication must be at their top-notch to succeed. Becoming successful and wealthy does not take a miracle, as many think. People deny themselves opportunities to grab the chance of becoming successful by taking their situation of poverty to undermine themselves. It is, however, worth remembering we are who we are out of our own making and decision and not out of the conditions and families we were born. I am a living testimony of the success stories of from poverty to riches. I am a very time cautious time, and to me, everything is all about time. I am that person who usually arrives early in any occasion even on a date. Time is one thing I have come to realize matters a lot to determine who we are and what we become. I am a very dedicated and ambitious person with the eye and zeal to make use of any opportunity that comes in my way for any undertaking that…
product promo trailer The main goal of the project is to present a product that will provide several beneficial services to consumers. First, it will offer a platform that will enable users to protect their data from unauthorized access. Secondly, it will create awareness about how new users can be signed up to access the services. Lastly, through subscription to their services, the user will gain online exposure to different aspects of the program. The project will present all this in the form of a product promo trailer. The project requires a topic and depth research and must result in a resentful outcome. It needs to spark the interest of the audience and capture their undivided attention on the product. The magnitude of the project makes it too challenging for me cause it an area different from my expertise. For the product to allure and prosper, I will consult several experts in this area for ideas and understand how to make the product more effective and efficient. Ideally, getting ideas from experts living in different backgrounds and lineage can provide…
The non-pharmacologic approaches involve offering emotional and psychological counseling to the patient. NHS is coming up with strategies that will ensure sickle-cell patients are well-taken care. They are advocating for early diagnosis of the condition to reduce the cost of treatment and the rate of hospitalization. They will also help in reducing the psychological impacts of the pain on patients. Most patients have particular psychological responses to both acute and chronic pain episodes. The responses or effects include low mood, stress, and poor coping strategies such as alcohol abuse and negative thinking. Most patients adapt these responses at an early age, and it becomes difficult to change during old age. However, psychological therapies can be used to reduce the psychological pressures experienced by these patients. Socioeconomic factors have an impact on clinical patient outcomes. The deprivation of these factors has adverse effects on the quality of life of sickle-cell anemia patients. For instance, patients who do not have insurance covers avoid hospitals due to financial problems. To reduce such cases, the UK NHS is offering universal medical care. Evaluation of…
Date management (TQM) Date management (TQM) is philosophy and set of guiding principles in applied in management of quality with an organization. It consists of organization-wide efforts to install and make permanent a climate in which an organization continuously improves its ability to deliver high-quality products and services to customers. While there is no widely agreed-upon approach, TQM efforts typically draw heavily on the previously developed tools and techniques of quality control. Total quality management is a management system for a customer focused organization that involves all employee in continual improvement of all aspects of the organization. TQM uses strategy, data, and effective communication to integrate the quality principles into the culture and activities of the organization. Total quality management and continuous improvement that comes with it is among the of the management approaches of improving the effectiveness of any organization (Oakland, 2003). Business Process Reengineering is aimed at improving an organization as a whole. These approaches have similarities among one another in certain areas but the outcome and core of its distinctive styles differ completely. However they both share the common goal of turning…
Research Proposal for Statistics in Psychology Research question The research question: How does childhood bullying affect the victims’ physical and emotional health as an adult? Hypothesis H0: There is no difference in the means of long term effect of childhood bullying amongst young adults. H1: There is a difference in the means of long term effect of childhood bullying amongst young adults. Theoretical Framework Bullying has been found to affect the mental and physical state of an individual both in the short term and the long-term. Previous studies have concentrated on the immediate effect and solution for bullying. However, several researches have shown that long-term effects of bullying are serious and far more reaching. A Previous research done by researchers from King’s College London, UK discovered that social, mental and physical health effects that arise from childhood bullying can last up to 40years (Wolke and Lereya, 2015).Bullying is still considered as a passage of rite in schools with over 77% percent of American students experiencing it whether mentally and physically or verbally (McNamee, 2014).Worldwide at least up to 35% of…