Essays 181 - 210
This paper is basically about nurse leadership. A scenario was presented in which a nurse director needed to present a new annual ...
based on a research study that surveyed over 2,000 RNs who provide direct nursing care in three mid-western hospitals. This result...
that they are often asked to take care of more patients with higher acuity levels than they have in the past (Hassmiller and Cozin...
to nursing practice in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), as the welfare of each high-needs baby is intrinsically tied to fami...
whoever the client might be, that is, an individual, family, group or community. The third provision indicates that nurses are als...
between those who supported mandatory staffing ratios, based on research such as the study conducted by Linda Aiken, and the stanc...
the changes that have occurred since she founded modern nursing. "Florence Nightingale provided us with a framework, relevant tod...
2003). Most international nurses coming to the US come from the Philippines, but many also come from Canada and India with addit...
of a unified health care organization that included both Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH...
recognition of cultural and social influences on health care outcomes. As a result, advanced practice nurses have also become int...
could be called human biological life; or(2) human personal life that includes biological life but goes beyond it to include other...
either ill or injured, and therefore requires the aid of health care professionals. One might also feel that "person" underscores ...
nursing care over the past decade and how do they support the argument for a continuum of educational practices for nursing profes...
support for the concept that effective leadership style is directly related to nursing job satisfaction (Kleinman, 2004a). These s...
considered one of a number of high stress jobs, and stress is problematic, causing inefficiencies, high staffing turnover rates an...
the central problem is often the inappropriate use of unlicensed personnel in the workplace setting. Though nurse mangers are ins...
of patients that not only speak about the medical problem, but also monopolize the staffs time by discussing volumes of informatio...
doctoral degree in Psychology and Education in 1969" (Pender, n.d.a). She found psychological research to be rigorous and methodo...
follow-up full medical treatment and counseling. 5. Bargain for violence-prevention provisions. 6. Make violence-prevention progra...
on the following (Nursingworld.org, 2004). * Human dignity * Commitment to the patient * Protection of the patients privacy and co...
in young people (age 15-24) and 40% include women ? Newborns comprise 600,000 of the newly infected people ? More than 500,000...
as a therapeutic relationship between patient and nurse (Frisch and Kelley, 2002). Other theorists since that time have examined t...
course of action is often jumbled. Is the patient cognizant enough to make the correct choices? Many issues come into play when a...
(Walsh, 2003; p. 22). The intended role is that of partner with an MD in providing direct patient care in terms of serving in rol...
issues of spirituality. In essence, the parish nurse has the ability to treat the whole patient, rather than only addressing symp...
nursing. Forchuk and Dorsay (1995) and Barker, Reynolds and Stevenson (1997) identify Hildegard Peplau as the first to apply nurs...
Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that it is no longer only added stress and long hours for those ...
as how the profession has been viewed for at least a century. It was an honorable and respected position for a woman and one that ...
Replicatability is one hallmark of valid quantitative research. In past years, qualitative research in nursing has been ass...
several years. Psychologically, it has been found that individuals more actively involved with their own health care often fare m...