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Families and the Nursing Theory of Dorothea Orem

of fulfilling desires of order. Orem also sees the family as a relational concept (Taylor, 2001, p. 7). It only exists because o...

Ethical Implications of Shortages in Nursing

Beginning in the early 1990s, managed care targeted nursing as an expenditure where hospitals could cut costs. Managed care consul...

Health and Nursing Article Reviewed

impact the treatment process. Research underscores the connection between a "fighting" attitude and the capacity of individuals t...

Nursing Ethics

expected to develop some form of cancer "or another rapidly debilitating condition and well be dead within a year of getting the d...

HIV Positive Nurses Should Still Be Allowed to Work

much closer look at the unwise choice to allow HIV-positive nurses to continue their practice. Britain provides statistics that i...

Leadership in Nursing

change, understand the reasons for this change and hare a vision of the future" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). The catch is that these g...

Geriatric Mentally Ill Patients and Nursing

characteristics of metal disorders may include abnormalities in cognition, mood or emotions; it may include abnormalities in integ...

Personal Influences on Nursing Philosophy

ability has improved considerably, inasmuch as the decisions I now make are more analytical and based upon a broader and more dive...

Past and Present Nursing

education for nurses in the US followed the model established by modern nursings founder Florence Nightingale (Fitzpatrick 63). Th...

Ethics of Nursing Code

all areas of professional nursing. Provisions 1 through 3 address the principal obligations of nursing, which are to the patient/c...

Restraints Usage and Issues of Nursing Practice

According to one research study, the top five reasons why nurses employ restraints are "disruption of therapies, confusion, fall p...

Decubitus Ulcers and Nursing Shortage

1999). Elderly patients who are alert, and not declared incompetent, have the right to refuse treatment, which includes turning or...

Patient Outcomes and the Collaboration Between Physicians and Nurses

often a factor in nurse/doctor communication. Nurses can bring power to nurse/doctor interchange by harnessing the power of lang...

Nursing Theory and Self Agency

is defined as the needs of that individual to meet "Universal self-care requisites associated with life processes and maintenance ...

Nursing Korean and Russian Patients and Cultural Competence

the KA familys ability to utilize US healthcare systems (Donnelly, 2005). KA parents experience with schizophrenia in their chil...

Theory and Nursing

discipline of nursing (Wilkerson, 1998). Examination of nursing theory shows that, on a fundamental level, nursing theories provid...

Reduction of ICU's Nursing Ratio and Change Management

The reason is that the hospital has been unsuccessful in recruiting an adequate number of qualified nurses. Ultimately, the blame...

Role of Nurses in Knee Replacement Surgery

degrees of restricted motion (Swank and Lehnert 631). Computer-assisted systems (CAS) have been developed to aid surgeons in obtai...

Role of a Legal Nursing Consultant

(Yost and Burke, 2006). The forensic LNC testified that the doctor in the case was negligent by allowing the patient to be air tra...

Nursing and Ethical Issues

the extent to which terminally ill individuals can be alleviated of languishing in such an inhumane state without involvement of l...

OR Nursing Practice Scope

2006). The activities of UAPs, unlike those of nurses and other licensed caregivers, is defined through job description and not re...

Nursing Field and the Growing Number of Unlicensed Workers

with the reconfiguration of practice settings, delivery sites and staff composition. Professional guidelines must be established ...

Nursing and 2 Qualitative Research Articles Critiqued

including critical attributes, communication processes, and the overall benefits of school-based support groups in addressing the ...

Additional Nursing Schools Needed by Pennsylvania

currently has 9 major nursing schools, which include the University of Pennsylvania (one of the most renowned facilities in the Un...

Change Theory and Shortages in Nursing

the new paradigm becomes the new standard. Lewin once commented, "If you want to truly understand something, try to change it" (Go...

Domestic Violence and Community Health Nursing

domestic violence is to, first of all, screen for domestic violence with all injured patients. When screening for abuse, Flitcraft...

Cultural Mores and Nursing

view of medicine in order to better help the indigenous population on which she is called to serve. Before launching any p...

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...

Nursing Homes and Ethical Issues

blatant display of irreverence, with some of the worst infractions found within the health care industry. The cramped, dark and u...

Nursing Competency and the Use of Technology

(Hodges, Satkowski, and Ganchorre, 1998). Despite the hospital closings and the restructuring of our national health care system ...