Goal: Discuss health care payment systems. Identify the impact of payments systems on nursing practice. Content Requirements: For this assignment: Identify an aspect of the health care payment system. Provide an overview of the criteria and parameters for implementation. Identify the impact on nursing practice. Your PowerPoint presentation should be formatted per APA and references should be […]

Family Assessment:  Purpose: Holistically assessing a family and the individual family members in relation to family structure, developmental stages, and family relationships helps the student to understand how each individual affects the family as a whole and how the family affects each individual. The student will also gain an insight into how important a family’s health […]

Case Study CM is a 43-year-old female who presents with concerns regarding two painless right-breast lumps that she detected four months ago. She missed an appointment for evaluation by her primary-care provider at that time and presents today with reportedly no change in these findings since that time. There has been no breast discharge, bleeding, […]

Anaphylactic shock (AS) is one of the most dangerous complications of drug therapy classified as Ig-E mediated Immune response. The average overall prevalence of AS is 80–120 cases per million person-years, and the total mortality reaches 1% (the mortality rate of 1–5.5 per million populations per year). Causes of anaphylactic shock include drugs (contrast, antibiotics […]

©2016 American Association of Critical-Care Nurses doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4037/ajcc2016979 Pressure Ulcer Management Background Patients in intensive care units are likely to have limited mobility owing to hemodynamic instability and activity orders for bed rest. Bed rest is indicated because of the severity of the disease process, which often involves intubation, sedation, paralysis, surgical procedures, poor nutrition, […]