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The Importance of Communication in Long-term Healthcare

Celayix

According to the American Hospital Association , “good communication among patients, families, and caregivers is becoming increasingly difficult to establish in today’s healthcare system.” As technology advances, healthcare providers may use new communication methods to become influential field leaders.

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Nursing Care Plan: Guide with Example & Writing Tips

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Care plans are a way to strategically approach and streamline the nursing process. They also facilitate effective communication in a nursing team. Lets review the fundamentals of a nursing care plan and how to create one, step by step. Table of Contents What Is a Nursing Care Plan? What Are the Components of a Care Plan?

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Understanding Nurses Experiencing Moral Injury

Nurse.com

The term describes the challenges of simultaneously knowing what care patients need but being unable to provide it due to constraints beyond a caregiver’s control. Nurses enter the healthcare industry with an internal yearning to care for others. Self-blame. How nurses experience moral injury. Inadequacy. Withdrawal.

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Physical Therapist Skills: 12 Qualities to Career Success

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Working on a team with others is a great way to learn and grow the skills to be a physical therapist, and interprofessional collaboration improves patient satisfaction ratings and health outcomes. Be Compassionate To work in patient care, you need compassion, as patients might feel anxious about their treatment.

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A researcher’s prescription for better health care: A dose of humility for doctors, nurses and clinicians

American Nurse

Better health care for patients begins with humility – a term not often associated with medicine. Instead, they openly communicated with each other, respected each other’s roles, trusted each other and worked as a team. What we have here is a failure to communicate. Neither tried to assert dominance over the other.

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Understanding Nurses Experiencing Moral Injury

Nurse.com

The term describes the challenges of simultaneously knowing what care patients need but being unable to provide it due to constraints beyond a caregiver’s control. Nurses enter the healthcare industry with an internal yearning to care for others. Self-blame. How nurses experience moral injury. Inadequacy. Withdrawal.

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The human cost of war: A nurse’s reflection on the tragedy of forced migration from the Zaatari Camp

American Nurse

In this post, I reflect on my experience as a nurse caring for Syrian refugees at the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan. This will facilitate access to necessary care and reduce the burden of time required for refugees to reach these facilities. What happened to the Syrian people?