The nurses must understand the benefits and challenges of using social media. Thus, before utilizing social media as a teaching tool, the nurses must carry out a thorough analysis of the pros and cons associated with social media use. The prime action that a nurse must take is the analysis of the security and privacy features embedded in social media channels (O’connor et al., 2018, p. 2273). This will give them a broad idea regarding the ill effects of social media if the data is not safeguarded properly.
Healthcare providers can use social media to develop interactive patient strategies. This may involve direct patient engagement. It can be through Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram as the healthcare professionals can reach out to a wide patient base, thereby, sharing information related to private practice and medical facilities (Kotsenas et al., 2018, p. 155). Social media helps in developing online communities that are beneficial for healthcare practitioners. The patients are benefitted from a wide range of information available online regarding physicians’ timing, the latest medical equipment installed in healthcare facilities, and similar others.
A significant challenge associated with the use of social media is accuracy (Thomas et al., 2018, p. 1513). Analyzing and identifying accurate public health information in such channels are difficult for individuals who are highly interested in examining medical conditions, treatment, and others. Additionally, breaching of patient privacy is also noted in the use of social media. Time constraints are evident to be another challenge associated with the use of social media by healthcare experts. Physicians are typically booked within 15-30 minutes each day.
DQ2:
Yirlem:
Q1: Six sigma failures are a crucial factor for reevaluating health care organizations. Health facilities operate at reduced costs to provide quality services that meet patient needs. Health projects hinged on the six-sigma rate have a higher chance of success since they drive management to embrace quality (Prasad et al., 2020).
Q2: Health facilities should not accept high error rates since the mistakes can result in physical injuries to patients. Mistakes in health facilities associated with complex health problems can also lead to death. Additionally, health facilities focused on reducing high rates of error resulting in psychological, financial, and emotional distress to the victim.
Q3: facilities do not report most errors since most mistakes remain undocumented. For instance, some facilities can recognize several errors. However, the clinicians may decide to register a single incidence meaning the others remain unrecognized. Additionally, some health facilities fail to report the defects due to a lack of practical statistical analysis (Huston, 2021).
DQ3:
Tatiana:
Pain assessment and management remains a broad and speculative area because of the lack of effective methods and interventions. Several guidelines exist for medical practitioners to use and most of the guidelines are broad. Nurses have guidelines that they can follow and tools that they can use to determine pain in older adults (Booker & Herr, 2016. The American Medical Directors Association and American Geriatrics Society have published clinical practice guidelines that focus on assessing and managing pain for older persons. Nurses also have access to various pain assessment tools, including the self-report intensity tools, pain interview, McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ), Visual Analogue Scale, Verbal Descriptor Scale, Numeric rating scales, among others. Each of these tools is essential in determining pain. As a nurse, I have to determine the assessment tool with the highest probability of providing accurate outcomes.
Pain is highly prevalent among older adults and it goes unaddressed in most cases because of failed self-reporting and inability of care providers to identify pain (Eliopoulos, 2018). Self-reporting of pain is crucial in care provision because it helps nurses and physicians to address the pain immediately. However, self-reporting of pain experiences barriers, which exacerbates the prevalence of pain among adults. The barriers include lack of knowledge and experience of pain by healthcare providers, concerns over cost of treating the pain among older adults, reluctance to report pain, and failure to take pain medications (Schofield, 2018).
Knowledge and experience of pain is essential in encouraging adults to report pain immediately they experience it. It also helps with identifying and addressing the pain. However, the biggest barrier comes from the patient because they need to report pain. Addressing barriers like reluctance to address pain and avoiding to take analgesics can help reduce pain. Cost reduction of pain medication and care cost is also essential.
DQ4:
Marta:
Prevalence Of Pain In Older Adults: Pain prevalence in adults increases as years go on, with persistent pain statics on adults indicating a range of 20% to 80% (Eliopolus, 2018). The pain prevalence reports vary depending on home origin and the nursing facilities of adults. An increase in the high impacts of chronic pain leads to a higher prevalence of chronic pain in adults mostly living in poverty lives. Pain is a most common problem to people of older age, affecting more than 50% of the aging population. The prevalence results show that chronic pain increases with age, so from childhood to adulthood, making the elderly suffer from pain. Pain in older adults is mainly caused by musculoskeletal issues such as arthritic and degenerative conditions. Other causes of pain may be cancer treatment and ischemic pain.