In your textbook, choose a workplace issue mentioned in Chapter 25. Find a research article on the issue selected. For your primary post, answer the following questions:
1. How does this workplace issue effect the nurse and/or the patient?
2. What education, for the nurse and/or client, do you feel needs to be in place to address the workplace issue?
3. How would you measure the outcome of the education for the nurse and/or client?
4. How often do you anticipate this education needs to be given or repeated?
Use complete sentences, giving examples when possible.
Support your answer with a minimum of two (2) references – one from the textbook and one from the research article.
A retrospective review of several charts showed that documentation for 40% of PRN medications was lacking a previous assessment of pain. About 50% of the charts did not have documentation that the pain was evaluated according to policy within 30 to 45 minutes after the PRN medication was administered. You have been asked to lead a team to resolve the problems that mostly occurred on your nursing unit.
1. What standard of practice has been violated?
3. Who would you include on your team?
5. When will meetings be held? What are the ground rules?
10. Imagine that you have some excellent RCC results. What will you do to control the improvement?
What Is ESAR-VHP? The Emergency System for Advance Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals (ESAR-VHP) is a federally funded program through ASPR that forms a national system that allows efficient use of volunteer health professionals in emergencies by providing verifiable, up-to-date information regarding the volunteer’s identity and credentials to hospitals or other medical facilities in need of the volunteer’s services. Each state’s ESAR-VHP system is built to standards that will allow quick and easy exchange of health professionals with other states, thereby maximizing the size of the population able to receive services during a public health or presidentially declared emergency
1. How do you register for ESAR-VHP in your state? What organization is responsible for coordinating the process? Who should register?
