Entries by Daphne Hanson

Clinical decision support system

Medical Dosing Support is one clinical decision support system (CDS). This system allows clinicians to find appropriate doses for medication requests. This tool provides “pick lists” and dose calculations for patient weight, height, renal function, and hepatic function. Please give reference to support your explanation or answer

Urinary tract infection

A 75-year-old female was admitted to the hospital 3 weeks ago with a history of a urinary tract infection at home and was diagnosed with pyelonephritis upon admission. Despite treatment, her kidney infection progressed, and she developed acute kidney injury. After her antibiotic therapy was adjusted she recovered well enough to be discharged to her […]

Long term care quality

This week we are speaking about long term care quality. How can we ensure consistent quality care be provided to residents? If you were an administrator at a Long Term Facility list 4 different types of training you would do with your healthcare staff to make them better healthcare employees.   250 words  and including at […]

Intimate partner violence

Adults who have been involved Intimate partner violence in situations where they have suffered physical and or emotional abuse find themselves in difficult circumstances. What legal and ethical principles would you use when providing care to an adult who has been in an abusive situation? Review Ricci Chapter 9: Violent and abuse (pp. 291-320) for […]

Nursing Roles and Leadership

Differentiate between Nursing Roles and Leadership, problem solving, decision making, critical thinking, and clinical reasoning. describe how case studies, simulation, and problem-based learning can be used to improve the quality of decision making 3 ● explore strengths and limitations of using intuition and heuristics as adjuncts to problem solving and decision making 4 ● identify characteristics […]

Valvular disorders of heart

Caring for Clients With Valvular Disorders of the Heart . Daisy Parker, a 72-year-old female client, is admitted on telemetry monitoring with severe aortic stenosis. She has a history of a congenital defect of the aortic valve and a recent anterior wall myocardial infarction 6 weeks ago. Her current medications consist of digoxin 0.125 mg […]

Specific and Measurable learning outcomes for a lesson or curriculum

An effective nurse educator is able to use student learning needs to create specific and measurable learning outcomes for a lesson or curriculum. Develop a short needs assessment of 10-20 open-ended or closed-ended questions for a learning needs assessment related to your education focus to administer to your practicum audience. Administer this learning needs assessment […]