Health & Medicine Assignment

Assignment Instructions

Prompt #1. Is health care a privilege or a right? (300 words). Based on the following article Health Care Issues.pdf  (ATTACHED) and your personal experiences, respond to Prompt #1

Prompt #2. After reading Martha Mendoza’s “Between a Woman and her Doctor,” (GOOGLE IT) respond to the following question: What role should government policy play in doctor-patient decisions? (300 words)

Requirements:

· Respond to two prompts with a minimum 300 word each

· Graphic, photo, hyperlink or other visual (required).

· Cite any sources used or quoted material.

Health & Medicine Assignment

Examples of Nursing Research Questions:

· How effective is pressurized irrigation, compared to a swabbing method, in cleansing wounds, in terms of time to wound healing, pain, patients’ satisfaction with comfort, and costs? (Mak et al., 2015)

· What are the experiences of women in Zimbabwe who are living with advanced HIV infection? (Gona & DeMarco, 2015)

The Importance of Research in Nursing

Research findings from rigorous studies provide especially strong evidence for informing nurses’ decisions and actions. Nurses are accepting the need to base specific nursing actions on research evidence indicating that the actions are clinically appropriate, cost-effective, and result in positive outcomes for clients.

In the United States, research plays an important role in nursing in terms of credentialing and status. The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)—an arm of the American Nurses Association and the largest and most prestigious credentialing organization in the United States—developed a Magnet Recognition Program to acknowledge health care organizations that provide high-quality nursing care. As Reigle and her colleagues (2008) noted, “the road to Magnet Recognition is paved with EBP” (p. 102) and the 2014 Magnet application manual incorporated revisions that strengthened evidence-based requirements (Drenkard, 2013).

The good news is that there is growing confirmation that the focus on research and evidence-based practice may have important payoffs. For example, McHugh and co-researchers (2013) found that Magnet hospitals have lower risk-adjusted mortality and failure to rescue than non-Magnet hospitals, even when differences among the hospitals in nursing credentials and patient characteristics are taken into account.