Family Nurse Practitioner

The Joint Commission focuses on certain goals each year. For patient safety and positive outcomes, hospitals are required to follow certain standards. National Patient Safety Goals were established in 2002 to help identify areas of concern with patient safety. This group is made up by a panel of experts including nurses, doctors, pharmacists and many other healthcare professionals. They advise the Joint Commission on how to address these different patient safety issues. Two goals to be discussed are improving the accuracy of patient identification and medication safety. To improve patient

The John Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Model is a powerful problem-solving approach to clinical decision making and is used in research. The model is designed to meet the needs of the practicing bedside nurses and used a three step process called a PET, facilitating nurses in translating evidence to clinical, administrative and education based on evidence. According to Melnyk and Overholt (2015), there are three steps to the JHNEBP model. The first phrase is practice questions: Identification of an EBP question and defines its scope. The second phrase is evidence of internal and external evidence team determine if its feasibility to implement. The final phase is a translation which includes recommended practice for changes and dissemination of findings.

Errors pervade in our lives whether it is our home, in our workplace, or in our society. The effects of healthcare errors have impacted all our lives either directly or indirectly. Patient safety and quality care are at the core of healthcare system which strongly depends upon nurses. “To achieve goals in patient safety and quality, thereby improve healthcare, nurses must assume the leadership role. Nurses need to ensure that they and other healthcare providers center healthcare on patients and their families. Even though the quality and safety of healthcare is heavily influenced by the complex nature

One of the biggest issues regarding nursing, medicine, and healthcare today is that of patient safety and medication administration and its impact on providing effective care, especially to the elderly. Anytime a patient is to receive a medication, several checks must be taken in order to ensure that the patient receives not only the appropriate type but also the correct dose. This is of utmost importance with regard to high-risk medications, such as warfarin. As a mainstream drug that is used for the treatment and prevention of coagulation in the blood, any medication error can be potentially disastrous or even fatal. As a result this, several studies have been conducted over the years in order to mitigate some of these errors and how best to incorporate consistent strategies that are both ensure patient compliance and safety, but that are also cost-effective, as well.

1). In the Quaid’s case, “heparin and hep-lock medications […] were labeled similarly in appearance and blue text/color on the vials,” therefore; the nurse made a mistake by not double checking the medication prior to administration (Shapiro, 2010, p. 1). Due to the number of anticoagulant medication errors, “The Joint Commission has designated reducing harm from anticoagulant therapy as a National Patient Safety Goal” (Dunn, 2014, p.

Anticoagulants are a type of drug that reduces the body’s ability to form blood clots in the blood by inhibiting the production of vitamin K in the liver. The goals of the anticoagulant therapy are to prevent stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation and artificial heart valves. In patients with PE/DVT, the primary goal of the anticoagulant is to prevent an existing clot from getting larger. Anticoagulant drugs can be used after surgery to prevent new blood clots. Anticoagulant drugs increase the risk of bleeding. Because of this risk, it is essentially important to educate the patient to take the medication exactly as directed and never take larger or more frequent doses. The challenges of anticoagulant therapy are to keep it in the therapeutic

Great essay regarding the leadership of nurse practitioners. Presently, I am an admirer of nurse practitioners and choose to see an NP over a physician for non-emergency ailments. In my opinion, nurse practitioners are more patient and caring over doctors. They listen to my concerns and explain why they would or would not decide on a particular treatment. Sometimes, they will give me options and allow me to make the choice. All of these factors are imperative for me and my family. In my opinion, physicians these days are too quick to fill out a prescription pad and complete their visit in order to move onto the next patient. Our health has been put on the back burner. Our medical care is now second to profit. Many physicians

Safety is what we all live for and one important thing that keeps us safe are drug treatments. These medications treatments can also be fatal if it is not given the right way. These medications are usually prescript by our physician or any legal specialist. “Five of the top 10 patient safety concerns have ties to some part of the medication process” (Patient Safety Monitor Journal, 2015, P.1).Medication errors can occur during prescription, dispensing and administer.

Nurse practitioner (NP) are authorized autonomous professional with graduate degree in nursing ranging from Master’s to doctoral degree and practices as a health care provider at ambulatory, acute and long-term care (American Association (AANP), 2013). They provide both medical and nursing care depending on their areas of specialty. They have several roles; they are: diagnosis and management of diseases, order and interpret diagnostic and laboratory tests, prescribe medications, educate patient on health promotion and disease prevention, and identify the effect of illness on the family (AANP, 2013; Ellis, Anderson & Spencer, 2015). Family nurse practitioner (FNP) provides care to individuals and family members of all age group (Ellis et al.,

Patient safety is a critical component of the care nurses deliver as we strive to prevent harm to our patients. Nurses work hard every day to provide safe and competent care in the setting in which they work. Gregory et al (2015) defines patient safety as, “the reduction and mitigation of unsafe acts within the health–care system, as well as through the use of best practices, shown to lead to optimal outcomes” (Gregory et al, 2015, p. 233) (also referenced as Davies, Hebert, & Hoffman, 2003, p. 12). Maintaining patient safety is very important to nursing care and health-care. The mother of nursing, Florence Nightingale, once stated, “It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the

When I was younger, every time someone would ask “What do you want to be when you grow up?”, I went for the standard answers – either a doctor or a flight attendant. But as I grew older, the answer became as clear as a mud. The only thing that wasn’t vague was that I wanted to help people. Nurses, in the simplest but most accurate definition, help people. And as lost as I am, I know that that is what I want to do. I’m most likely going to be a general nurse practitioner first. However, there are a lot of fields that I am ridiculously interested in such as Psychiatric, Forensics, Legal, Neonatal, Neuroscience, and Oncology. Some of these do require further study but I have to wait as I really, really want to help my family first.

This quantitative article was done to evaluate implementation of best practices that optimize inpatient anticoagulation and venous thromboembolism (VTE) management. The hospital study consisted of 189 patients with 211 identified VTE events. A VTE management best-practices bundle was designed and implemented using education, CPOE upgrades, clinical decision support, triggered consultation, and checklist; data was collected from CPOE and chart review. The VTE bundle helped improve the rates of warfarin compliance among patients and the warfarin-heparin overlap but it did not have a significant effect on low molecular weight heparin education, compression stocking use, laboratory testing before treatment, and clinical outcomes. Practice projects

Anticoagulants such as Warfarin, Heparin, Lovenox, and Eliquis are blood thinners that prevent a blood clot in patients at risk of developing deep vein thrombosis also known as DVT. According to Alquwaizani, Buckley, Adams, & Fanikos (2013), they are the primary therapy for preventing and treating blood coagulation for most hospitalized patients. Like other drugs, anticoagulants also have serious adverse events that nurses must know about. Nurses must be most concerned about bleeding because it could be fatal if not quickly detected and controlled. Therefore, they all should carefully assess and closely monitor patients on anticoagulant therapy in order to prevent complications and

Anticoagulants have been listed in the high alert medication that developed by the institute for safe medication practice (ISMP) as they have a risk of harm to patients when dosed inappropriately or when errors in administration occur.(45) Anticoagulants associated errors and bleeding events are associated with increased mortality. Anticoagulants are responsible for 5% of all adverse events that require emergency care.(46,47)

In today’s world, there is an increasing of medications usage to treat different diseases. Medications are there to help patients to feel better and continue their daily life. An advanced technology improves care and makes sure people are healthy. Meanwhile, there is also an increase of medication errors. This may be dangerous to the victim. It is a responsibility for each of health care team to prevent medication errors in order to reach the goal of treatment.