The Legal Nurse Consultant & Life Care Planner's Guide to Social Media presents practical how-to advice on social media networking tools, step by step guidelines for using common social media platforms, simple definitions to help you learn the basics and witty humor to wash it all down. Each section is organized by topic providing simple definitions with examples for use in your individual consulting practice. Studying the principles of social media and Web 2.0 will help consultants have a better online presence, market outside of their communities, network with other professionals, secure more subcontracting opportunities and find new revenue streams. All in all, this book will help turn an average practice into a remarkable one!
- NEW! Updated information on the Affordable Care Act keeps you in the know. - NEW! Information on care coordination prepares you to make more informed decisions about patient care. - NEW! Information on care transitions so you know what to expect upon entering the workforce. - NEW! Increased content on diversity in nursing, ethnocentrism, moral distress and moral courage, communication models (SBAR, CUS and others), and RN to BSN education. - NEW! Cognitive rehearsal prepares you for the unlikely threat of lateral violence - NEW! Tips on documentation include both electronic and paper types. - NEW! Social justice in nursing helps you to learn to advocate for patients who need your help.
Nurses: Have you been dreaming of ditching your scrubs for good? Do you fantasize about doing work that you love, from anywhere in the world, while setting your own hours, making great money, and designing a lifestyle that makes you excited to wake up every morning? Legal Nurse Consulting can offer all of this and more. However, switching from working in a hospital to becoming a full-time entrepreneur in a competitive industry is an accomplishment that requires mentorship, a solid plan, and tremendous hard work and dedication. Janice Dolnick, President and CEO of one of North America's most successful Legal Nurse Consulting firms, offers you the blueprint that you have been waiting for. Crush It! covers everything from training and organization, to finding and securing clients, and properly launching a sustainable business and an online presence. Crush It! delivers invaluable information and essential tips to making your entrepreneurial dreams a reality. ABOUT JANICE DOLNICK Janice Dolnick is the President and CEO of National Nurse Consulting. Prior to launching the business in 2009, Janice gained tremendous experience working in hospitals and as a travel nurse throughout the United States and Haiti. After spending a majority of her career in a variety of geographical locations and medical settings, she decided to lend her vast experience in nursing and her business acumen to the legal community. Janice's background includes critical care and emergency room nursing, home health, hospice and geriatric care, neonatal, and pediatric care. Janice's 15+ years of experience in the medical profession, along with her broad range of knowledge in medicine, makes her one of Southern California's leading experts in medical record review and consulting. Attorneys, contact Janice by visiting www.ntnlnurseconsulting.com. Registered nurses interested in starting their own home based business may reach Janice by visiting www.nnc-members.com.
For patients and their loved ones, no care decisions are more profound than those made near the end of life. Unfortunately, the experience of dying in the United States is often characterized by fragmented care, inadequate treatment of distressing symptoms, frequent transitions among care settings, and enormous care responsibilities for families. According to this report, the current health care system of rendering more intensive services than are necessary and desired by patients, and the lack of coordination among programs increases risks to patients and creates avoidable burdens on them and their families. Dying in America is a study of the current state of health care for persons of all ages who are nearing the end of life. Death is not a strictly medical event. Ideally, health care for those nearing the end of life harmonizes with social, psychological, and spiritual support. All people with advanced illnesses who may be approaching the end of life are entitled to access to high-quality, compassionate, evidence-based care, consistent with their wishes. Dying in America evaluates strategies to integrate care into a person- and family-centered, team-based framework, and makes recommendations to create a system that coordinates care and supports and respects the choices of patients and their families. The findings and recommendations of this report will address the needs of patients and their families and assist policy makers, clinicians and their educational and credentialing bodies, leaders of health care delivery and financing organizations, researchers, public and private funders, religious and community leaders, advocates of better care, journalists, and the public to provide the best care possible for people nearing the end of life.
Pamphlet is a succinct statement of the ethical obligations and duties of individuals who enter the nursing profession, the profession's nonnegotiable ethical standard, and an expression of nursing's own understanding of its commitment to society. Provides a framework for nurses to use in ethical analysis and decision-making.
The Future of Nursing explores how nurses' roles, responsibilities, and education should change significantly to meet the increased demand for care that will be created by health care reform and to advance improvements in America's increasingly complex health system. At more than 3 million in number, nurses make up the single largest segment of the health care work force. They also spend the greatest amount of time in delivering patient care as a profession. Nurses therefore have valuable insights and unique abilities to contribute as partners with other health care professionals in improving the quality and safety of care as envisioned in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted this year. Nurses should be fully engaged with other health professionals and assume leadership roles in redesigning care in the United States. To ensure its members are well-prepared, the profession should institute residency training for nurses, increase the percentage of nurses who attain a bachelor's degree to 80 percent by 2020, and double the number who pursue doctorates. Furthermore, regulatory and institutional obstacles-including limits on nurses' scope of practice-should be removed so that the health system can reap the full benefit of nurses' training, skills, and knowledge in patient care. In this book, the Institute of Medicine makes recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing.
Family caregiving affects millions of Americans every day, in all walks of life. At least 17.7 million individuals in the United States are caregivers of an older adult with a health or functional limitation. The nation's family caregivers provide the lion's share of long-term care for our older adult population. They are also central to older adults' access to and receipt of health care and community-based social services. Yet the need to recognize and support caregivers is among the least appreciated challenges facing the aging U.S. population. Families Caring for an Aging America examines the prevalence and nature of family caregiving of older adults and the available evidence on the effectiveness of programs, supports, and other interventions designed to support family caregivers. This report also assesses and recommends policies to address the needs of family caregivers and to minimize the barriers that they encounter in trying to meet the needs of older adults.
