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Pearson (2013) explains that clinical decision making is crucial in all aspects of patient care (p. 214). It involves the ability to gather information and make decisions that will be applied in a specific situation. Evidence-based decision making requires selecting from various possibilities and combining knowledge through research and scientific evaluation. The purpose of this…

The interplay between the law and ethical code is a crucial aspect in advanced practice nursing. While ethical principles are integrated into the legal system, this article seeks to explore the differences between legal and ethical reasoning. To achieve this objective, case law and analysis will be employed to provide a comprehensive discourse on legal…

Patient: 48 year old male admitted for alcohol dependence. Medical history includes anxiety, bipolar, PTSD, and hypertension. Pt had one suicide attempt in 2001. K+ at 3.2 upon admission. Pt claims his dependence on alcohol began when he was in the Air Force. He lives with an alcoholic partner who depends on him for housing….

Does the thought of being a registered nurse interest you? Registered nurses keep track of symptoms patients may be having, patients’ medical history, perform diagnostic tests and analyze results, RN’s often help with rehabilitation, operate equipment, give prescriptions, and they provide emotional support and advice. Healthcare would be negatively affected without the help of registered…

“Why I Believe in Nursing” I believe in nursing because of the care and compassion that is involved in being a nurse. Nursing is a profession that only certain people can be good at, it takes a large amount of care, compassion, and understanding to take care of patients with medical problems. When a person…

Advanced nursing Practice The aim of this essay is to demonstrate the development of existing skills in health assessment and critically utilise outcomes of advancing health assessment as the basis for expert decision making in stroke patient care. This assignment will compare four cases describing my journey through the development of health assessment skills using…

Introduction Critiquing a qualitative research is fundamental to nursing research utilization and evidence based practice. The process of qualitative research is an intellectual activity which investigates human experiences in naturalistic settings, pursuing meanings that inform theory, practice and which will help one decide as to what extent research maybe useful in practice; to see if…

Code Green Exploration of the problem identified in Code Green: In order to empower nursing and employ change, it is necessary to have a grounded and complete understanding of issues that need to be tackled and essentially how to deal and solve such issues. In Rosswurm and Larrabee’s paper titled “A Model for Change to…

Introduction Many patients seek to health care to treat their medical problems and they expect to receive high quality of care. Unfortunately, for some patient, instead of receiving high quality of cares, they receive cares that harm them actually or are potentially harmful to them. As in the story of Lewis Blackman, a series of…

Watson calls caring the ethical principle or standard by which curing interventions are measured (Alligood, 2006). Watson’s caring theory evolves in a global state no longer limited to facility settings. Watson’s theory is the development of a caring fluid experience expanding from the person to the community onward to society. Her six Caritas process uses…