Nurses' Conflicting Values in Competitively Managed Health Care

The combined effect of the medical model of care and a philosophy of health care as a business is threatening the complex human interactions that are essential to nursing. In the United States, nursing in 1999 is practiced in an environment that restricts understanding of its value and purpose.     

Ethical Principles and Guidelines of Global Health Nursing Practice

Background

Nurses are among the many U.S. health professionals engaged in international learning or service experiences and often travel to low-resource countries lacking guidance for ethical practice, respect for host partners, or collaborative work in different health systems.

Advocating for Mental Health Services for Children With Depressive Disorders

The Advocate is a forum for exploring our roles as advocates for the children and families we serve.     

社区传染病的调查及管理分析

目的 探讨社区卫生服务中妥善管理传染病的措施及规律。方法 对本院门诊及住院的2462例传染病患者分类建卡、统计、简单提问、答卷，分析社区中传染病的特点。结果 社区中的传染病以肝炎为主，占62．10％；通过实施社区卫生服务，传染病患者对实行社区传染病管理的认可率明显提高（由45．69％上升到70．54％）。结论 社区卫生服务的合理实施可有效地控制传染病的漏报，使社区中传染病得到有效的管理。     

医学服务、科研和教育中的伦理原则、监管与公共监督

医学承载人类健康责任。技术能力、服务标准、职业道德和社会责任心共同构成这个行业的灵魂。不伤害和有利原则、尊重和公正原则,是建立良好医患关系和规范医疗服务行为的职业伦理体系,已被国际、国内行业规范所认定。医学科研的发展,要求在保证真实性、有效性、安全性的基础上,确保受试者自主选择、风险最小化和社会公正,并建立起与之配套的各项程序。现代医学教育肩负为医学行业提供适任的人力资源的责任,直接影响卫生服务的可及性与健康结果,其目标、运作和评估日益成形。面临当前医疗公平问题突出且医患关系日益恶化、医学科研领域丑闻和伦理争议层出不穷、医学教育未能完全匹配社会需求的诸多问题,循证医学方法学向政策和社会科学领域延伸,以期为获得高质量科学证据提高决策质量提供助力。     

Ethical practice guidelines: an evaluation

Ethical practice guidelines (EPGs) were developed for use in Central Sydney Area Mental Health Service to guide contemporary mental health nursing practice and serve as a resource for clinical mental health nurses in relation to their professional conduct and practice. This survey of mental health nurses aimed to ascertain feedback on the application of the EPGs in the clinical arena. Nurses from the Central Sydney Area Mental Health Service ( n = 350) were asked to complete a 15-item survey developed by the authors. A total of 121 nurses completed the survey. Findings from the survey reveal that the information provided in the EPGs is useful (91%) and the EPGs provide sufficient guidance for practice (94%). Most respondents (96%) reported feeling confident dealing with ethical practice situations and 75% indicated interest in further education and training in this domain. Findings from this survey support the need to explore avenues to facilitate education, discussion and reflective practice in relation to ethical mental health nursing practice .     

社区保健服务的需求与护士参与的潜在优势

社区保健服务和社区护理是目前护理研究的热点。从不同人群日益增长的保健意识和对健康教育的多层次需求方面综述了我国社区保健服务的需求和发展状况以及护士参与社区保健服务的潜在优势。     

健康教育工作手册的应用与管理

针对医院健康教育工作开展中的实际需要,制定统一规范的健康教育工作手册,建立了工作的规范引导和质量控制标准。经3年临床实践运用,加强了对全院健康教育工作的规划、协调和考核;促进了工作的规范化、科学化管理,有效提高了组长的工作能力,确保了全院工作的同步开展与落实。     

美国卫生服务管理职业发展

健康服务经理用不同的方式负责为卫生保健机构筹措资金,并管理其运作.本文介绍健康服务管理业的相关信息,包括职业发展简史、健康服务经理人的职业角色,以及为获得职业资格所应接受的教育科目.相关科目可以通过攻读学士、硕士以及博士学位获得.文中还讨论了行业的就业前景..     

Ethical practice in nursing: working the in-betweens

BACKGROUND: While contemporary ethical theory is of tremendous value to nursing, the extent to which such theory has been informed by the concerns and practices of nurses has been limited. PURPOSE: With a view to complementing extant ethical theory, a study was undertaken to explore, from the perspective of nurses, the meaning of ethics and the enactment of ethical practice in nursing. DESIGN AND METHODS: Located in the interpretive/constructivist paradigm, using an emergent design, this inquiry employed focus groups to collect the data. Eighty-seven nurses from a wide range of practice settings were interviewed in 19 focus groups of three to nine nurses each. FINDINGS: The nurses described ethics in their practice as both a way of being and a process of enactment. They described drawing on a wide range of sources of moral knowledge in a dynamic process of developing awareness of themselves as moral agents. Enacting moral agency involved working in a shifting moral context, and working in-between their own values and those of the organizations in which they worked, in-between their own values and those of others, and in-between competing values and interests. CONCLUSIONS: Analysis of the experiences and concerns of the nurses offered new understanding of ethics in nursing and direction for the development of ethical theory pertinent to nursing practice.     

Electronic Health Records: Patient Care and Ethical and Legal Implications for Nurse Practitioners

Electronic health records (EHRs), with their adoption incentivized as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, are now a ubiquitous part of the health care landscape. Although these systems promised to improve the quality of patient care, increase efficiency, and reduce costs, health care providers are finding that current EHRs instead require time-consuming data entry, can interfere with patient interactions, and cause medical errors. Nurse practitioners should implement practical tips and best practices for navigating and successfully using EHRs, as well as risk management strategies to ensure better patient care and avoid malpractice litigation or licensing issues.     

Quality in health care and ethical principles

Quality in health care and ethical principles The last three decades have seen rapid changes in the way United States of America (USA) health care has been delivered, financed and regulated. Four major stakeholders have emerged in the health care debate: patients, providers, payers and public regulatory agencies. These groups do not agree on a definition of quality health care. This paper suggests five ethical principles - autonomy, justice, beneficence, non-maleficence, and prudence - be included in the framework of quality health care. A framework that outlines possible relationships among these ethical attributes and four major stakeholders is presented.     

临床心理护理小组在患者心理健康管理中的实践

目的探讨和分析临床心理护理小组在患者心理健康管理中的作用。方法具有心理咨询师证书的护士组成临床心理护理小组,小组成员运用心理护理知识和技能对患者进行有效的心理护理和心理干预。结果成立临床心理护理小组,通过培训加强护士的心理护理意识和心理学知识水平,使患者对护理工作的满意度明显提高,体现了以人为本的整体护理观念。结论临床心理护理小组作为一种心理护理模式,可持续提高心理护理工作质量,深化整体护理。