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Essays 1921 - 1950

DSM IV Diagnostic Criteria and Treatment of PTSD

after the exposure to the initiating traumatic event (Stein, 2002). If PTSD-like symptoms become evidence and are intense prior to...

Overview on the Shortage of Nurses

for registered nurses by 2010 (Feeg 8). While statistics such as these have received a great deal of press, what is less well kno...

Nursing, Cultural Understanding, and the Cultural Care Diversity and Universality Theory of Madeleine Leininger

19th and early 20th centuries. Hughes and Romeo (1999) question the usefulness of education that does not address the growing div...

Nursing Shortage in Canada

US shortage has caused many healthcare institutions to look for nurses outside their countrys borders and many nurses are leaving ...

Nursing Assessment and Elderly Woman Interview

individual, this woman does reflect on the past and has some regrets, but some optimistic comments are made as well. In evaluat...

Development of Nursing Theory

While these definitions are extremely similar, a differences in emphasis can reflect a differing philosophical stance. The manner ...

Nursing Education Reflections

lives, especially the course of their daily professional lives. We tend to get stuck in ruts where we rely on the same patterns an...

Ethical Dilemma Pertaining to a Do Not Resuscitate Order

disagree with his wife could disrupt their marital relationship at a time when he needs this support, which is undoubtedly one of ...

Shortage of Nursing Faculty

educators in the past, are lured away from academia by better-paying positions in clinical and private practice (Mee, 2003). Furth...

Nursing Evolution

the religious fervor generated by the teachings of "love and mercy" by Jesus Christ resulted in a dramatic increase in charitable ...

Adolescents and Pediatric Perioperative Nursing Interventions

an adolescent client (Wallis, 2004, p. 59). Data on the development of abstract reasoning skills, as well as of the "recognition o...

Pain Management and Nursing

appears a simple enough way in which to establish the particular approach toward pain management for a given patient. However, re...

Aiding Patients with Chronic Conditions, A Reflection

support of a nurse that can keep these patients inspired to continue the positive health behaviors that ensure their continued goo...

Nursing Practicum Goals

populations and fall prevention strategies. 1b. Review the home care records to identify precipitating situations leading to fal...

Diabetes in New Mexico and Community Health Nursing

of Health (NMDH) indicates that, as of 2007, it was estimated that 157,930 New Mexico adults, 18 years of age and older, had diabe...

Nursing Informatics in the Modern Health Care Organization

Outline of Professional Portfolio In order to attain such an ideal position, however, it is essential to communicate the value o...

Overview of Sepsis

and symptoms, such as edema and positive fluid balance (Weiss, et al, 2009). Additional criteria include inflammatory variables su...

Practicum Outline

computerized or electronic patient records. 1c. To discuss these findings with supervisor/mentor to consider how the information...

Dyspnea, Family Caregiving and Quality of Life

primary symptoms of COPD are "wheezing, cough, dyspnea on exertion and increased phlegm production" (Touhy and Jett, 2012, p. 289)...

Various Nursing Questions

and fatigue, abdominal pain, vomiting, constipation and learning difficulties" ("Lead"). These physiological effects are caused by...

The Master's Prepared Nurse: Competencies in Health Care

"benefits and burdens of... treatment", helping patients to "understand their prognosis", and emphasizing the importance of patien...

Facing a Family Health Challenge

frequently the needs of terminal patients are not addressed properly and that multiple problems exist in this regard. Practitioner...

Statement of Purpose for Nursing School

Nigeria is a country that has gone through significant economic struggles that has impacted the ability to sustain a healthy popul...

Nursing Home Falls - A Literature Review

of falls in nursing homes, it was essential to collect information from as wide a variety of credible sources as possible. Title s...

Strategies for Student Nursing Assessment

student offer a description that relates the students personal assessment of the strategy. For example, in regards to rubrics, the...

Implementing Patient to Nurse Ratios in the Healthcare Environment

was a patient protection initiative which incorporated a requirement for there to be set nasty patient ratios in healthcare system...

A Leaflet Explaining the Impact of Mandated Nurse to Patient Ratios in the Health Industry

nurse to patient ratio in California. In 1992 and 1993 the California Nurses Association has sponsored the Democratic Senator Jack...

The Cost Consequences of the New York Ban on Nurse Overtime

for example, a terrorist attack. iii. Where a nurse is involved in a ongoing medical or surgical procedure which takes the hours i...

Advocacy and Nursing

to the patient conflicts with the nurses duty to his or her employer (Hanks, 2007). Specifically, barriers to nursing advocacy inc...

Improper Nursing Delegation in NJ/Legal Ramifications

law stipulates that an RN is allowed to delegate specific nursing tasks individuals who are unlicensed if they have been adequatel...