What is utilization review and why is it important in healthcare?

Discussion This is a graded Discussion. Please refer to the Discussion Board Grading Rubric in Course Home / Grading Rubrics. Respond to all of the following questions and be sure to respond to two of your other classmates’ postings: What are the steps in the quality improvement model and how is benchmarking involved? What are […]

Use of NSAIDs in the Postoperative Period: Advantage and Disadvantages.

Please respond to the discussion below with a minimum of two paragraphs with two references, APA Style and no plagiarism. -Nsaids are a commonly used drug that can be bought over the counter without a prescription. NSAIDS are used for patients that have chronic pain, stroke, atherosclerosis and postoperatively this medication is used very commonly. […]

Discuss how leaders use values to develop an effective health care team

References no more then 10yrs old. this is based in Australian and the NSW health system. make sure you address the marking guide aswell as what the assessment task is asking. Using the literature critically analyse what makes a health care team effective and how your personal values allow you to be an effective member […]

How do you apply ethics to your own area of nursing practice?

•Apply knowledge of tort law to formulate risk reduction strategies that could protect the nurse against legal action. •The term “applied ethics” means the application of ethical theory, principles, and reasoning to a realm of practice. How do you apply ethics to your own area of nursing practice?

guideline for prescribing opioids for chronic pain

Please reply to this post with a minimum of two paragraphs with two references, APA Style, and no plagiarism. -The management of acute and chronic pain often includes opioid therapy. In both the acute and chronic pain settings, however, opioids have several disadvantages including risk of nausea and vomiting, somnolence, constipation, respiratory depression, androgen deficiency, […]

What are the roadblocks that hinder HIS Application adoption?

Despite its data-intensive nature, much of the global health care delivery community has yet to convert to fully digital HIS (Healthcare Information Systems) Applications for managing information. Significant challenges exist across the entire delivery continuum for converting to HIS Applications, not the least of which is having a process. Software initiatives involving the development of […]

Explain why the nurse needs to know this information in order to provide nursing care.

To complete a holistic/variable assessment, utilize the same person that you obtain a health history from to perform an assessment of variables. Assessment of the variables provides a holistic view of the client and which attribute to their overall health. The variables assessed are to be as follows:       Developmental – includes physical and […]

Do you favor socialized healthcare?

Economist George Stigler once wrote that, according to consumer theory, “if consumers do not buy less of a commodity when their incomes rise, they will surely buy less when the price of the commodity rises.” Explain this statement using the concepts of income and substitution effects. Some AIDS activists believe that health insurance companies should […]