Reflections on the minority elderly in healthcare.
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Biomedical subjects
R Davidhizar
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Malnutrition in the elderly.
Home care nurses daily work with elderly patients who have various nutritional problems. This article discusses the factors that contribute to malnutrition in the elderly and suggests interventions that can be used by the patient and the family to improve the patient's nutritional status.
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Haitian Americans: implications for nursing care.
Each year a number of Haitians enter the United States and may become part of the U.S. health care system. Nurses need to be sensitive to cultural differences and should assess clients for special needs that may arise because of cultural diversity. This article provides strategies for interacting with the Haitian American client in a clinical setting to ensure success in providing nursing care.
Emigration and Immigration↗
"I didn't know if it would work, but I tried it anyway".
To be an excellent manager, daring, creative, and innovative solutions should be tried for management problems. A manager may feel he or she is treading on ground where no one walked before; however, the manager who takes no risk will never come up with the novel and original solutions. This article supplies guidelines for the evaluation of creative and innovative solutions. These guidelines are especially appropriate for the employee who needs a smooth transition into management.
Administrative Personnel↗
Surviving organizational change.
Modern health care organizations are constantly undergoing change to keep up with technology, new federal regulations, new information, changes in personnel, budgetary problems, and a myriad of other factors. People are spending fewer days in the hospital than ever before. Businesses are taking a more active role in the health care their employees receive. Sage, chief executive officer (CEO) of Memorial Health Care System in South Bend, Indiana, states, ¿Health care reform is here. And it's going to continue regardless of what happens in Washington.¿
Employment↗
When you lose your job in health care management.
In the present age of downsizing in health care, many health care professionals are losing their jobs. This significantly affects both the physical and psychological health of the person who has lost the job. Additionally, those left on the job are likely to feel insecure and fearful that their job may also be threatened. This article presents guidelines for coping with the loss of a job and how to aggressively seek a new one.
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Consent: what is the role of health care workers?
This article considers legal and ethical aspects of consent, as well as the need for consent to be a communication process that informs patients about procedures. Recent examinations of the use of agents (such as nurses and allied health professionals) in securing consent are discussed. While there is a clear role for nonphysician health care workers in advocating for the patient and assuring that consent has been secured; their actual role in securing consent in the absence of a physician is less clear.
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Have you become a handwringer?
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Overreacting: a manager's dilemma.
Time-proven strategies assist nurse managers to react confidently, coolly and effectively when others are overreacting. Each person is responsible for his/her own feelings. Nevertheless, managers can teach others better coping mechanisms so that overreactions are replaced with sophisticated coping strategies.
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Power nap rejuvenates body, mind.
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Humans↗
Tips on how to succeed in nursing school.
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Nursing care of the client with AIDS.
The client who has an immune deficiency manifests clinical symptoms that vary in severity and occur in multiple systems of the body. However what is known at the present time for the client with HIV infection is that the development of AIDS may occur from 18 months to more than 10 years after the initial infection. At the present time, AIDS is not curable; and is a disease that progressively worsens and ends in death from one or more of the complicating illnesses. Supportive care by the nurse is essential to assist the client to maintain maximum quality of life and a sense of self-esteem and self-efficacy. Since personal factors influence how rapidly a person's HIV-positive status progresses to AIDS, reducing re-exposure to HIV, optimizing nutritional status, avoiding pregnancy and stress are factors that the client should consider in optimizing quality of life.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
When you think a subordinate is after your job.
Many managers find themselves in a position where they think a subordinate is after their job. Guidelines are presented for the manager's response when it appears a subordinate is after the manager's job. Deciding on a plan of action, discussing the matter with the supervisor and subordinate, confronting the subordinate with lack of support, maintaining a positive self-image, avoiding actions that can be criticized, and setting limits on the employee's behavior can all be acceptable approaches for the manager to use.
Administrative Personnel↗
"That's not my fault!".
Employees may use denial as a way to cope with underperformance. When denial is used in the health care environment by employees, it often presents the supervisor with a situation requiring intervention. This article describes the dynamics of denial and strategies for the supervisor for responding to denial in the workplace.
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The seven S's for successful management.
Becoming a successful manager in a health care agency is, for most new managers, an awesome goal. Successful management is more than knowledge of leadership roles and management functions that can be learned in school or educational workshops. Successful management involves effective use of both the manager's affective and cognitive domains. Mentoring and apprenticeship with a successful nurse leader is for many novice managers a highly valuable way to learn management skills since this allows for techniques with a successful nurse manager to be visualized and then modeled. "Seven S's" that provide a framework for managerial success are discussed.
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Humor-care for the caregiver.
Humor is exclusively human. No other species is proven to introduce humor into any situation. Humans, however, find it beneficial in many ways. Advanced nurse practitioners will find humor a valuable aide in self-help, enabling them to continue helping others.
Attitude of Health Personnel↗
Taking the dread out of annual performance evaluations.
Many employees and managers alike dread annual performance evaluations. However, there is a way to get past the "dread" factor. Annual performance evaluations can be a positive experience and even motivational. They can be a time for affirming good work of the past year and planning together what will be accomplished in the year to follow. By keeping employees informed of the larger picture, helping them to see how they fit in, involving them in setting performance objectives, dealing with performance problems as they arise, and noticing when they have achieved their objectives can make evaluation a positive experience.
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Eye to eye.
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Attitude of Health Personnel↗