Several notable issues arise from overcrowding in an emergency department (ED) for both patients and staff. Longer wait times, higher ambulance diversion rates, longer stays, higher incidence of medical errors, higher...Several notable issues arise from overcrowding in an emergency department (ED) for both patients and staff. Longer wait times, higher ambulance diversion rates, longer stays, higher incidence of medical errors, higher rates of patient mortality, and greater harm to hospitals due to financial losses are some of these problems. Collaboration is crucial in the healthcare industry since it determines the team’s hourly performance in managing patient care. By using Walker and Avant’s (2011) concept analysis method, the author reviewed the literature to better understand ED crowding, to ensure that patients receive safe treatment in a timely manner, and to highlight best practices that can be identified through concept analysis and practice evaluations. In conducting this concept analysis, Walker and Avant’s framework was applied to examine the nature of the findings selected for the advancement of the concept. Everyone working in the ED, from those who determine policy to those on the front lines continually encounter new obstacles, but has little or no time to formulate fresh concepts or reconsider how ED treatment is provided. Overcrowding occurs when the number of patients requiring attention, awaiting transfer, or undergoing diagnosis and treatment exceeds the physical capacity of ED staff. If a clear plan is not in place to increase and improve services in proportion to a growing population, this situation will persist.展开更多
Theory is considered essential for integral assessment, adopting its foundations and concepts is of great utility. The theory provides different templates to help nurses provide care that respects patients and improve...Theory is considered essential for integral assessment, adopting its foundations and concepts is of great utility. The theory provides different templates to help nurses provide care that respects patients and improves outcomes. Through understanding the intersection of nursing, patients, health, and the environment, theories aim to simplify the complicated, ever-evolving relationship that nurses have with their profession. Nursing theory helps distinguish nursing as a separate discipline from medicine and related sciences, and assists nurses in understanding their patients and their needs. The behaviors of healthcare providers affect how patients participate in and experience care situations. In the nursing discipline, the theoretical structures of caring have been established as the core concept of guidance in all nurses’ work. The aim of this paper is to develop a critique of Kristen Swanson’s theory of caring—a theory structured around five caring principles (maintaining belief, knowing, being with, doing for, and enabling) by applying it to nursing practice. When applied to nursing practice, each of these five stages stimulates the caregiver’s attitude, which in turn improves the overall patient’s well-being. Implications to nursing practice are mentioned [1] [2].展开更多
文摘Several notable issues arise from overcrowding in an emergency department (ED) for both patients and staff. Longer wait times, higher ambulance diversion rates, longer stays, higher incidence of medical errors, higher rates of patient mortality, and greater harm to hospitals due to financial losses are some of these problems. Collaboration is crucial in the healthcare industry since it determines the team’s hourly performance in managing patient care. By using Walker and Avant’s (2011) concept analysis method, the author reviewed the literature to better understand ED crowding, to ensure that patients receive safe treatment in a timely manner, and to highlight best practices that can be identified through concept analysis and practice evaluations. In conducting this concept analysis, Walker and Avant’s framework was applied to examine the nature of the findings selected for the advancement of the concept. Everyone working in the ED, from those who determine policy to those on the front lines continually encounter new obstacles, but has little or no time to formulate fresh concepts or reconsider how ED treatment is provided. Overcrowding occurs when the number of patients requiring attention, awaiting transfer, or undergoing diagnosis and treatment exceeds the physical capacity of ED staff. If a clear plan is not in place to increase and improve services in proportion to a growing population, this situation will persist.
文摘Theory is considered essential for integral assessment, adopting its foundations and concepts is of great utility. The theory provides different templates to help nurses provide care that respects patients and improves outcomes. Through understanding the intersection of nursing, patients, health, and the environment, theories aim to simplify the complicated, ever-evolving relationship that nurses have with their profession. Nursing theory helps distinguish nursing as a separate discipline from medicine and related sciences, and assists nurses in understanding their patients and their needs. The behaviors of healthcare providers affect how patients participate in and experience care situations. In the nursing discipline, the theoretical structures of caring have been established as the core concept of guidance in all nurses’ work. The aim of this paper is to develop a critique of Kristen Swanson’s theory of caring—a theory structured around five caring principles (maintaining belief, knowing, being with, doing for, and enabling) by applying it to nursing practice. When applied to nursing practice, each of these five stages stimulates the caregiver’s attitude, which in turn improves the overall patient’s well-being. Implications to nursing practice are mentioned [1] [2].
