Essays 1981 - 2010
phenomenological, existential, and qualitative components (Cohen, 1991). These combine to create a theory that addresses the pers...
Systems (HCAHPS) is a patient satisfaction survey and assessment of the level of quality care provided by hospitals and healthcare...
nursing from the time when Florence Nightingale founded modern nursing in the nineteenth century. Since Nightingale, a variety of ...
The SCDNT regards the meta-paradigm of "Nursing" as an art, that is, a "helping service," but also as a technology ("Dorothea," 20...
of literature pertaining to type 2 diabetes mellitus, begins by describing, summarizing and analyzing the study conducted by Barko...
prevent the potential of incidences of sudden cardiac death in young athletes. The authors maintained that pre-participation card...
2010). In addition, Moniques behaviors, including drinking to the point where she blacks out and being unable to participate in w...
client who is the focus of this case study is an 86-year-old woman who has been living at home with her husband. Her medical histo...
also need to be training of clinical staff to run the program along with an alert system so that the healthcare workers of the ind...
It also is clear that readily accessible primary care services are essential to achieving effective health care reform. The World ...
implemented. The initial implementation will be for a three month period with a pilot area, which will be used to optimise the f...
The paper is a presentation made up 12 slides and notes for the speaker. The presentation outlines a protocol for a new multifact...
proposes a commission that would develop a recommendation for the State Legislature to create such an office. It further describes...
For example, the Addictive Personality theory maintains that addiction is not due to the chemical effect of the drug, but rather i...
increased; the incidence rate has risen from 15% to 35%. The problem is the increase in the rate of falls and a need to reduce the...
that the concept of family that is most helpful to nursing practice is one that considers not only members of the immediate nuclea...
This research paper presents a discussion of nursing care and pain management. Five pages in length, five sources are cited. ...
achieved that the critical care nurse may address the bio-psycho-social implications of the event (Alfafara and Hedges, 1996). Fur...
Erie, Pennsylvania (Minnis, 2002). As is the case here, the aggregate for which this tool was developed is that of persons over t...
relationships ; however, many young children now enter foster care and remain for long periods of time (Downs, Costin, & McFadden,...
undergoes surgery for a hip arthroplasty 24 hours after admission. Twenty-four hours after surgery the nurses note that Mrs. Gale...
Nursing homes have changed for the better over the years, but they still carry a negative connotation and generally only those who...
This research paper offers a case study of J.H., a 38-year-old father of 3, who has suffered a myocardial infarction. The case stu...
This research paper describes the professional development plan of a nursing manager who is about to assume the position of Direct...
This research paper begins by discussing the roles and core competencies of various advanced practice nursing specialties. The wri...
This research paper pertains to the positions held by those who oppose and those who support the Patient Protection and Affordable...
This research paper discusses how nursing managers establish a workplace culture that supports the delivery of quality patient car...
In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on the views in existing studies on the best approaches for asthma care. There are ...
This research paper employs a nursing case study in order to discuss issues associated with understaffing and its negative impact ...
Purchasing long-term care insurance is something that is promoted by insurance companies but there are many alternatives. This pap...