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Articles: Good Patient Care
A typical day on your unit includes a long list of never-ending tasks. In order to manage these tasks effectively, critical thinking skills must be applied. In this article, we supply you with a blueprint for critical thinking application. It is as easy as A-B-C!
Calling on Managers: Managers can make a Marvelous Difference in Retaining New Nurses
Nurses who express satisfaction with their jobs often cite their relationship with their managers as the reason for their longevity. With retention as a front burner issue, skilled, visible managers are more important now than ever before. Here are five recommendations a manager can implement to keep that new nurse a satisfied, retained nurse!
Domestic Violence: a Healthcare Provider's Role and Responsibility to Female Patients
Nurses and other healthcare providers play an important role in the assessment, education and support of victims of domestic violence in hospitals and clinics. Here are some guidelines for a domestic violence assessment, including how to respond when your patient is a victim of domestic violence.
As a new nurse, your focus is on understanding the basics of delivering responsible patient care. And as your experience grows, more complex clinical decisions will require you to go beyond the basics in order to respond effectively. Here is a list of recommendations to help you move from the basics to an advanced critical thinker.
A Dedicated Nurse Discusses his Approach to Precepting New Nurses
Bill Freedman is an experienced, dedicated nurse who works on a renal unit in a hospital in Northern California. Bill loves to precept new nurses on his unit. His steadfast commitment to teach new nurses to master their clinical skills and effectively manage their workload has given him the well-deserved reputation, as the nurse other nurses love to learn from.
Nurse as Patient Advocate: An Expectation for Delivery of Comprehensive Patient Care
A Case Study: Mrs. Smith has been diagnosed with stomach cancer; as her nurse, you notice that this patient appears very unmotivated and therefore, unwilling to comply with her recovery plan. While Mrs. Smith says she is going to comply with the plan, she is reluctant to do much. Mia, a new nurse on the unit, is feeling increasingly frustrated by Mrs. Smith's reluctance to comply with her recovery. Mia doesn't know what to do; she wants Mrs. Smith to start to take some initiative in her own recovery, but her efforts at motivating her patient are not producing results.
Patient-Centered Care Equals Good Customer Service
New nurses are encouraged to learn how to multi-task work, but one place a new nurse needs to refrain from multi-tasking is during an interaction with a patient. Being fully present with a patient means an increased ability to truly listen to what a patient says, rather than what a nurse thinks he or she has heard. Here are seven recommendations to help you slow-down and deliver patient-centered care.
With so many new nurses being hired, the role of the preceptor has gained some well-deserved recognition. If you decide to take on the role of preceptor, there are a number of skills and techniques you can use to help you become the preceptor you want to be.