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Professional Dilemmas and Nursing Ethics

decisions. It is through our status as health care professionals that such a role is not only valued but critical. Nursing...

Nurses, Patients, and Managed Care

as HMO, PPO, POS, EPO, PHO, IDS and AHP (IHA, 2002). This is creating a service that can be seen as dividing...

5 Articles Summarized

method in Assisted Suicide: Is There A Future? Ethical And Nursing Considerations employed the use of hypothetical euthanasia case...

Patient Harassment of Nurses

had even been stalked by patients (Global Forum for Health Research, 2000). A major study in Australia found that there is a sign...

Patient Care, Team Approaches, Evaluations, and the Process of Nursing

call for compliance with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to su...

Patient Autonomy and Nursing Concept Analysis

be in agreement with a working definition of autonomy. Thus, the following attributes should be seen: self-determination, in...

Complaints and Nursing

that time. What might be needed, then, would be some plan of action that the staff could follow, or possibly some type of polite s...

Nursing Home Autonomy and Concept Development

That freedom and responsibility can improve the nursing home experience for all involved. Definition and Clarification...

Nursing and Physical Restraints Usage

the restrained person and others. This implies that the force used in restraining the person is less injurious to all concerned th...

Patient Care and Individual Differences

and sustaining without yielding, they contend that bearing is a reaction which is more passive than coping but an activity which p...

Nursing in Great Britain, Clinical Supervision

patient care" (p. 438). Prior to 1970, nursing training in the UK could be described as rigid and highly structured. After...

Overview of Stress in Patients

In nine pages this paper examines causes, symptoms, and results of patient stress in a nursing overview that includes the servant ...

Quality Assurance and Nursing Management

In five pages this research paper discusses quality care standard maintenance and the role played by nurse managers in sustaining ...

Healing Wounds and the Role of Nutrition

placement of polyvinyl alcohol sponges into subcutaneous pockets" (p. 7). Each of the rats were "given a nutritional solution con...

The Terminal Patient: A Case Study

paradigm but without the fantasy that acceptance is the ultimate outcome. In treating this patient, a student writing on the subje...

Chronic Pain Management and Nursing Philosophy

stronger. The authors make no comment on whether any of the individuals were concerned about becoming dependent on their pa...

Alcoholic Patients and Nursing

abuse despite interpersonal problems or social caused brought about by drinking (Dawson, 2000). Repeated drinking of alcohol on da...

Acute Renal Failure and Dialysis Patients, Nutrition, and Nursing

infinitely more to the aspect of nursing than administering medicine; in fact, the myriad components that ultimately comprise the ...

Confidentiality Issues and Nursing Ethics

he could use public transportation to visit his parents nearby town. In short, the argument that Mr. Paul depends on his dr...

Nursing Ethics/A Diabetic Patient

2010). The first provision of the ANA code specifies that nurses should show "compassion and respect" in regards to the "dignity, ...

Australian Patient with Unstable Angina and Nursing Actions

a specific number or percentage of Australian citizens who have or may be suffering from unstable angina. Part of the reason for ...

Schizophrenic Patients and Therapeutic Nursing Relationship

(Wichowski, 2004). This certainly appeared to be the case for Elvis, as he complained about the "Croatian people" in his head who ...

2005's Safe Nursing and Patient Act, Legal and Ethical Concerns

is simply to require that their nursing staff make up for understaffing by working mandatory overtime on a more or less permanent ...

Arguing Against Nurses Participating in the Death of Patients and the Christine Busalacchi Case

Rural Nurses, represented by registered nurse and practicing attorney Jacqulyn Hall, filed an amici curiae (friends of the court) ...

Type and Incidence of Falls in Patients of a Home Care Nursing Agency

only injuries in 53% of the falls recorded. It should be noted that for other types of injury there were some cross overs, for exa...

Nursing Models and Stress of Patients

In ten pages this paper discusses patient stress in an application of the Orlando and Newman stress models and the development of ...

Nursing and Patient Records

In ten pages this paper examines the increased visibility of a nurse's role and also considers the enhancement of nursing document...

Conversion Disorder

such as tragedies, deaths, serious injuries or threatening situations, require the human being to respond in a way that intensifie...

Safe Nursing and Patient Care Act

"study and report to Congress on standards for the maximum number of hours that a nurse may work without compromising the safety o...

Pregnant Patients Smoking Cessation Through Nurse Intervention Programs

in a general form that not only is not useful, but also can lend the appearance of the issue being of less importance than it trul...