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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) ...

Patient Safety Issues, Nursing

This paper offers discussion of several aspects of patient safety. Three pages in length, five sources re cited. ...

Multidisciplinary Teach Back Intervention

More than 25 percent of patients with heart failure are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge and half are readmi...

Horizontal Violence In Nursing: Critical Essay

individuals who collectively utilize this approach to humiliate as a show of solidarity, which is often hidden in the form of goss...

Nursing's Contribution to Quality of Life

could be called human biological life; or(2) human personal life that includes biological life but goes beyond it to include other...

Nursing Shortage And Access To Quality Care

that hospital nurse staffing levels are inadequate to provide safe and effective care" (DPE Research Department, 2003). Physicians...

Article Critique/Handling Difficult Situations/Daily Care

include not only the emotional impact of being experienced by the patient and the relatives involved, but research has also relate...

Margaret Sanger

hold a great deal of authority when it comes to changing the attitudes and perspectives of young girls who may believe living off ...

Negative Effect of Anesthesia Assistants on Nursing

generations. Though Nightingale promoted a professional demeanor, nursing was not something that most well-bred women would even ...

Retention/Recruitment & Canadian Nursing Shortage

30 months, as this is when between 13 and 28 percent of senior nurses are due to retire (Sibbald, 2003). Currently, close to a thi...

Aging Nursing Population/Healthcare

the question of what effect an aging nursing work force has on American healthcare in general. First and foremost, the aging of ...

Nursing Leadership & Groups

socially isolating, as outside opinion is discounted. The team adopts a "defensive posture," which is evidenced by "derogatory, de...

Wellness & Nutrition for Healthy Aging

nurses facilitate the "recognition and communication" of these concepts, permitting "thoughts to be shared through language" (Davi...

Nursing Education Bill

quality and care" of health services that offered to rural areas throughout the US (Clinton, 2007). In addition to providing fun...

Improving Pediatric Care in the ED

graduate nursing hires (Truman, 2004, p. 45). The novice nurses participate in six hours of classroom instruction, plus thirty hou...

Examination of Beneficence/For the Patient's Good

long after all signs of consciousness have ceased. Is this "good"? Is this beneficent? The news tells us of parents confronting me...

Health Care Providers, the Patient, and the Patient Self Determination Act

policies in regard to the PSDA. I have been fortunate in that I was chosen to be a member of that team. Consequently, I have at ...

Treatment to Sustain Life and Patient's Refusal

best way to appease both the law and the public; its dynamic decision about whether to include doctor-assisted suicide and volunta...

Patient Falls, Patient Safety and Communication

This paper is made up of three sections, with each section pertaining to a significant hospital administration issue. These topics...

An Article on Cancer Patients' Psychological Interventions Examined

and retention" (Andersen, 2002, p. 603). This then should be the first priority: to design a study that will accrue and retain ...

Literature Review on a Cancer Patient's Emotional Needs

It seems that within the context of the work, there is little compassion shown for the protagonist with the exception of one oncol...

Legal and Medical Issues Associated with a Patient's 'Right to Die'

providers and also provide a well-balanced outline about the issues involved in a patients "right to die" (Hendin, Foley and White...

Literature Review on Operating Room Patients' Identification

operating room to recovery, the tracking of patient information becomes an imperative part of this process (Beyea, Hicks and Becke...

SNF Costs and the Impact of Primary Nursing

to changes which in turn can result in higher costs and reduced perceived quality of care. Primary nursing is not a new con...

Different Careers in Nursing

nurses which makes job searching easier. Registered nurses are in great demand and it is thought that there will be a significa...

Overview of Roy Adaptation Model

Model (RAM) is one of the most highly utilized theoretical frameworks in contemporary nursing (Bakan and Akyol, 2008). The RAM pro...

Research and Nursing Practice

eventually revert to many of the methods formerly used in patient care. She makes clear distinction between research in nursing t...

Issues in Nursing

This research paper discusses three nursing topics, which are: the interrelationship between core competencies; preparing nurses t...

Ethical, Legal Issues and Registered Nurses

Outlook Handbook, which is published by the U.S. Department of Labors Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), registered nurses (RNs), a...