Download or read book The Relationship of Selected Academic Nonacademic and Clinical Variables as Factors Influencing Pharmacy Knowledge Acquisition in Associate Degree Pre Licensure Nursing Students written by Diane M. Stauffer and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract Effective medication management is critical to safe practice. The Institute of Medicine reports that medication errors are common and adversely affect patient outcomes. In order for nurses to effectively manage medications and ensure safe patient care, a comprehensive knowledge of pharmacology is required. However, studies suggest nurses are inadequately prepared and do not have sufficient knowledge. The lack of pharmacology knowledge is attributed to a variety of factors that impact nursing education including the lack of biological sciences, ineffective teaching, superficial learning strategies, inadequate time devoted to pharmacology, and barriers or lack of opportunities for clinical application. Identifying factors that contribute to academic success or failure enables educators to pinpoint high-risk students early, provide counseling and academic support, and optimize student performance. This study used a descriptive correlational design to examine academic, non-academic, and clinical variables for pre-licensure nursing students in an Associate’s degree program. The purpose of the study was to determine the correlation between selected variables and pharmacology knowledge acquisition as demonstrated by scores on a standardized pharmacology assessment. A second purpose of the study was to determine any correlation between student perceptions of clinical experience opportunities for medication management and performance on the pharmacology assessment. Seven variables were analyzed for the nature and strength of relationships including nursing grade point average (GPA), science GPA, previous college credit or degree, previous health care experience in direct patient care, working hours per week, family responsibilities, and clinical experience opportunities for medication administration and decision-making. The study found a significant correlation between nursing grade point average (GPA) and pharmacology test scores, and science GPA and pharmacology test scores. These findings are consistent with the literature that demonstrates science GPA as a predictor for academic success in nursing, and nursing GPA as a predictor for standardized testing and NCLEX-RN success. No other variables were found to be significant in the correlational analysis. Further study is recommended to examine the selected variables in a larger more heterogeneous population, and to analyze pharmacology knowledge acquisition among programs with varying clinical experience opportunities for medication management.
Download or read book Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists written by and published by . This book was released on 1955-04 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.
Download or read book Research Methods and Evidence Based Practice written by Pranee Liamputtong and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the foundations to becoming an evidence-based health practitioner.Research Methods and Evidence-based Practice introduces students to various research techniques they can use throughout their degree and into a range of health settings. It teaches qualitative and quantitative research methods of finding evidence to help students make informed decisions in their practice and for their clients.This new edition has been updated to reflect the increasing importance of evidence-based practice. It questions what type of evidence we need in health-care practice and explains how a research approach can help acquire the most suitable evidence for the situation. This book also addresses timely changes in conducting research, including internet and social-media research, research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and making sense of research data in a meaningful way.NEW TO THIS EDITIONFive new chapters highlight the increasing importance of evidence-based practice:Chapter 1: Introducing Evidence-based Practice in Health CareChapter 4: Ethics in Health ResearchChapter 14: Mixed Methods and Evidence-based Health CareChapter 15: Internet and Social Media as Research Tools for Evidence-based PracticeChapter 16: Research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander PeoplesA stronger focus on data analysis and interpretation.Updated Stop and Think boxes enable students to practise their research skills to generate evidence and critically reflect on their own responses to important issues discussed.Updated Practice Exercises encourage students to translate theory into practice.Updated Research in Practice boxes provide real-world examples that demonstrate how research can be applied to clinical practice in health care.
Download or read book Research Methods in Human Development written by Paul C. Cozby and published by WCB/McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1989 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For undergradute social science majors. A textbook on the interpretation and use of research. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Download or read book Improving Diagnosis in Health Care written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting the right diagnosis is a key aspect of health care - it provides an explanation of a patient's health problem and informs subsequent health care decisions. The diagnostic process is a complex, collaborative activity that involves clinical reasoning and information gathering to determine a patient's health problem. According to Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, diagnostic errors-inaccurate or delayed diagnoses-persist throughout all settings of care and continue to harm an unacceptable number of patients. It is likely that most people will experience at least one diagnostic error in their lifetime, sometimes with devastating consequences. Diagnostic errors may cause harm to patients by preventing or delaying appropriate treatment, providing unnecessary or harmful treatment, or resulting in psychological or financial repercussions. The committee concluded that improving the diagnostic process is not only possible, but also represents a moral, professional, and public health imperative. Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, a continuation of the landmark Institute of Medicine reports To Err Is Human (2000) and Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001), finds that diagnosis-and, in particular, the occurrence of diagnostic errorsâ€"has been largely unappreciated in efforts to improve the quality and safety of health care. Without a dedicated focus on improving diagnosis, diagnostic errors will likely worsen as the delivery of health care and the diagnostic process continue to increase in complexity. Just as the diagnostic process is a collaborative activity, improving diagnosis will require collaboration and a widespread commitment to change among health care professionals, health care organizations, patients and their families, researchers, and policy makers. The recommendations of Improving Diagnosis in Health Care contribute to the growing momentum for change in this crucial area of health care quality and safety.
Download or read book Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patient-centered, high-quality health care relies on the well-being, health, and safety of health care clinicians. However, alarmingly high rates of clinician burnout in the United States are detrimental to the quality of care being provided, harmful to individuals in the workforce, and costly. It is important to take a systemic approach to address burnout that focuses on the structure, organization, and culture of health care. Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout: A Systems Approach to Professional Well-Being builds upon two groundbreaking reports from the past twenty years, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System and Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, which both called attention to the issues around patient safety and quality of care. This report explores the extent, consequences, and contributing factors of clinician burnout and provides a framework for a systems approach to clinician burnout and professional well-being, a research agenda to advance clinician well-being, and recommendations for the field.
Download or read book The Nurse the Math the Meds written by Joyce L. Mulholland and published by Mosby Incorporated. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text emphasizes the simplicity of the dimensional analysis method to help even those students with math anxiety minimize or eliminate medication calculation errors. It begins with a comprehensive review of general math skills and an explanation of basic dimensional analysis methodology. The book focuses on the analysis and setup of practice problems, formulation of a reasonable answer, and evaluation of the answer. This one-of-a-kind text is designed for nursing students at all levels, including graduate nurses and practicing nurses who want a refresher. It is an appropriate text selection for agency in-service programs as well as for physician assistant medication math courses. A companion CD-ROM packaged with the text offers additional practice problems. A self-assessment test precedes the comprehensive math review in Chapter 1, promoting a strong math foundation. Chapter 2 introduces the dimensional analysis method and includes several basic practice problems, facilitating consistent application of the method throughout the text. The analysis and setup of practice problems increases comprehension, reduces errors, and complements use of the dimensional analysis method. To help reduce medication errors, the text follows JCAHO and ISMP recommendations regarding avoidance of ambiguous abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols. Each chapter begins with a quick overview of chapter contents to orient students as they prepare to read and study the material. The text's full-color design includes a special margin section in which students can work out practice problems on the spot. Rapid Practice exercises follow each main concept, allowing students to review even when their study time is limited or frequently interrupted. Test Tips enhance comprehension and improve students' test-taking skills and comfort level. Selected Mnemonics are supplied to facilitate memorization and conserve learning time. Red Arrow Alerts call attention to critical math concepts and patient-safety theory as well as to key nursing practice issues. FAQs and Answers are derived from students' actual classroom questions. They are particularly helpful to students who are studying outside of a traditional classroom environment. Ask Yourself questions help students comprehend and synthesize content. Communication boxes, which present sample nurse-patient and nurse-prescriber dialogues, illustrate clinical applications of medication administration. Cultural boxes describe selected math-notation and medication-related cultural practices. Clinical Relevance boxes show how abstract concepts, such as legal issues, apply to everyday clinical practice. Website addresses and other useful references are provided where applicable. Two chapter finals are included at the end of each chapter, one multiple-choice format and one traditional format, with answers provided in the back of the book. Two comprehensive finals, one using an NCLEX examination-style multiple-choice format and one following a traditional format, test the major concepts covered in the text and offer an opportunity for additional practice. An answer key in the back of the book contains step-by-step solutions to the Rapid Practice exercises, chapter finals, and comprehensive text finals, allowing the student to pinpoint specific areas for further review.
Download or read book California Nursing Practice Act With Regulations and Related Statutes 2014 written by Board of Registered Nursing and published by LexisNexis. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in conjunction with the California Board of Registered Nursing, this newest edition of California Nursing Practice Act with Regulations and Related Statutes is a must-have reference manual for California's nursing community. It features all of the statutes and regulations governing nursing in the California plus: * Scope of Regulation * Nurse-Midwives * Disiplinary Proceedings * Nursing Corporations * Nursing Schools * Public Health Nurse Certification * Nurse Anesthetists * Nurse Practitioners * Clinical Nurse Specialists * Registration and Examination * Continuing Education * Denial, Suspension and Revocation of Licenses * and much more! Also included are a comprehensive table of contents, a table of sections affected by new legislation, and a professionally prepared index to help you find the law quickly on a particular topic, saving you valuable research time. The included CD-ROM contains the full contents of the print publication and allows the user to search, cut, paste, and download information in a user-friendly format.
Download or read book Time Management from the Inside Out written by Julie Morgenstern and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time management is a skill anyone can learn. Take control of your schedule, connect the activities of your daily life to your deepest big-picture goals, and live the life of your dreams. Julie Morgenstern shows you how.
Download or read book The Doctor of Nursing Practice Project written by Katherine J. Moran and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Doctor of Nursing Practice Project: A Framework for Success, Third Edition provides the foundation for the scholarl process enabling DNP students to work through their project in a more effective, efficient manner.
Download or read book The Nurse s Role in Medication Safety written by Laura Cima and published by Joint Commission Resources. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written especially for nurses in all disciplines and health care settings, this second edition of The Nurses's Role in Medication Safety focuses on the hands-on role nurses play in the delivery of care and their unique opportunity and responsibility to identify potential medication safety issues. Reflecting the contributions of several dozen nurses who provided new and updated content, this book includes strategies, examples, and advice on how to: * Develop effective medication reconciliation processes * Identify and address causes of medication errors * Encourage the reporting of medication errors in a safe and just culture * Apply human factors solutions to medication management issues and the implementation of programs to reduce medication errors * Use technology (such as smart pumps and computerized provider order entry) to improve medication safety * Recognize the special issues of medication safety in disciplines such as obstetrics, pediatrics, geriatrics, and oncology and within program settings beyond large urban hospitals, including long term care, behavioral health care, critical access hospitals, and ambulatory care and office-based surgery
Download or read book Practical Research written by Paul D. Leedy and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For undergraduate or graduate courses that include planning, conducting, and evaluating research. A do-it-yourself, understand-it-yourself manual designed to help students understand the fundamental structure of research and the methodical process that leads to valid, reliable results. Written in uncommonly engaging and elegant prose, this text guides the reader, step-by-step, from the selection of a problem, through the process of conducting authentic research, to the preparation of a completed report, with practical suggestions based on a solid theoretical framework and sound pedagogy. Suitable as the core text in any introductory research course or even for self-instruction, this text will show students two things: 1) that quality research demands planning and design; and, 2) how their own research projects can be executed effectively and professionally.
Download or read book Nclex Rn Review written by Sylvia Rayfield & Associates Inc and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are a nursing student or a new nursing graduate, what is the most important exam you will ever take? Of course the answer is the NCLEX ! ®. What makes this book different from all other review books? Utlizing Accelerated Learning Methods, we have blended a smorgasbord of learning into one book. There is opportunity to vist a large number of audio and video URLS for virtual learning. Current NCLEX ® STANDARDS from research provide the complete structure for this book and make it significant. The unique arrangement of factual nursing concepts ties the simple to the complex to make learning easier. Practice questions are clinical reasoning, high difficulty level NCLEX ® style items structured with the same percentages that are in the current test plan. Quality over quantity lessens the number of items needed for practice. Authors are NCLEX ® specialists with years of experience and current information. Author experiences provide a look at the "unseen and unspoken" that make nursing an art as well as a science. This Book is divided into eleven chapters organized around the body systems with each chapter including adult and children's health issues. Each chapter includes high-difficulty level questions, developed with the same percentages as found on the current NCLEX ® examat the end of both the adult and pediatric sections. The entire book is 490 pages and includes a professionally prepared index.
Download or read book High Acuity Nursing written by Pamela Stinson Kidd and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A supplement for a variety of junior/senior-level courses in Critical Care or Advanced Med-Surg Nursing courses and others throughout the nursing curriculum. Written by practicing nurses in acute care, this text provides students with a basic understanding of complex patients and the ability to provide nursing care across a variety of settings by using a series of reality-based, self-paced, self-contained modules that focus on multiple system problems frequently encountered in working with high acuity patients. Using a "nuts and bolts" approach, it addresses essentials by using examples, analogies, and metaphors; focuses on concepts and principles that can be applied across practice settings and patient populations; and includes nursing diagnoses. The modules progress from simple to complex and contain pretests and posttests with answers, learning objectives, glossary, abbreviations, and review questions and answers.
Download or read book The Nation s Nurses written by Aleda V. Roth and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Write Right written by Jan Venolia and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simplifies the most important points of grammar, punctuation and style. Includes a list of frequently misspelled words and demonstrates proper usage with quotes from literature and politics.
Download or read book Factors Affecting Academic Performance written by Julio Antonio González-Pienda and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowadays, society is constantly changing, and new ways of life are being developed by due to nonstop technological advancements. This generates changes in family, schools, the media, etc. New technologies are creating virtual environments to manage learning and academic achievement, and this is a new challenge to approach formal and informal education. In the last few decades, teachers, families, and educational administrators had very well-defined fields of action and roles to play. Now, these roles are disfigured, and influences from all agents are arguable and more difficult to face. At this current stage, problems sometimes appear that require different forms of intervention. Some of the problems are violence towards people; child abuse; drug abuse at increasingly early ages; integration problems due to immigration; dropping out of school; and typical problems related to student development, personality, disabilities, social and psychical maladjustment, teenagers socioaffective relationships, etc. Research on school success and failure has a long history, but there is still no agreement concerning the prevalence of these variables to explain academic achievement, the relationship between those variables, and which other variables modulate their level of impact. For many years, cognitive psychology has emphasized cognitive function as the most relevant for learning in school. However, recent studies highlight the importance of motivational and affective functions in building consistent models to explain learning and academic achievement. This change of perspective, from the classical cognitive model to a self-regulated learning model, has implied a new orientation in the research of the factors involved in school success and failure. Self-regulated learning models try to integrate students cognitive, socioaffective, and behavioral aspects. These models describe the different components involved in successful learning at all school stages, explaining reciprocal relationships between those components and directly relating learning to personal achievement, motivation, volition, and emotions. With this new paradigm, students not only contribute to strengthening their intelligence, but also their motivational and emotional qualities, all related to achieving personal balance. This book presents studies, ideas, and recommendations to shed light on the complex educational world. Education has limits and difficulties, but it is also the only instrument that can develop students potential into personal success.
