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Comparing Nursing Definitions of Virginia Henderson and Florence Nightingale

In seven pages this research paper examines how nursing was defined in the 19th century by Florence Nightingale and in the 20th ce...

Nursing Transcendence Relevance

In fifteen pages this research paper considers the relevance of the transcendence concept to the nursing profession and discusses ...

Concerns About Safety and the Shortage of Nurses

In five pages this paper discusses how the shortage of nurses compromises the safety of both patients and nurses alike. Six sourc...

Nursing and the Structural Functionalist Sociological Model

family as it enables the family system to be regarded in a myriad of ways (1998). Here, the family may be evaluated holistically, ...

Critical Concepts in the Hospital Environment

Decision-making, critical thinking and advocacy are all important in the modern hospital experience. This paper examines a patient...

A Nursing Continued Education Plan

Continuing education as it relates to the nursing profession is considered in this paper containing five pages and discusses nursi...

Overview of Family Nurse Practitioner

crosses over all these disciplines (Warda, 2001). Family is defined broadly to incorporate the diverse structures of family in to...

Nursing Theory of Imogene King Critiqued

time were better qualified to make such definitions. Baker had received her preliminary degree in nursing in 1945, a degree which...

Home Care Setting Nurses Groups' Research Proposal

In fifteen pages this paper focuses upon a diabetic home health care setting in a research proposal that studies and compares two ...

Nursing Images

In five pages this paper considers the perpetuated images of nurses in general and of the nursing profession overall. Three sourc...

Nurses and Stress

have more opportunity to encounter difficulties involved in nursing the critically ill. "How frequently a given stressor occurs d...

Community Nursing Advantages and Disadvantages

individual, regardless of that individuals station in or stage of life. Todays nurse has many duties and answers to people and ad...

Continuing Educaiton and the Application of Theory

they are working in the field now indicates that they understand the concepts and were successful in completing the ranges of stud...

Advanced Practice Nurses and Their Significance

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the health care setting in an examination of the advanced practice nurse or nurse practition...

Quitting Smoking and Hospitalized Patients Educational Obstacles

In five pages this paper examines literature regarding the nurse's role in educating hospitalized patients on smoking cessation. ...

Interdisciplinary Management Factors, Training, and Nursing Competency

There is, in fact, an ongoing shortage of well-trained, competent, nurses. This shortage could be expected to intensify beginning...

Nursing, Mental Health, and Spirituality

In eight pages this paper discusses holistic practice in terms of nursing's role, spirituality, and what mental health means. Sev...

Derived Theory of Smoking Relapse Analyzed

then transpose and restate it, in order to explain the phenomenon (1987). Then, the identification of content from the parent theo...

Nursing and Professionalism

PG). Society also tends to associates professionals with prestige (PG). According to Lysaught, characteristics of a profession i...

Nurse Practitioner Cost Analysis

In a paper consisting of twenty five pages that includes an annotated bibliography of nine pages the addition of a staff nurse pra...

Nursing, Management, and Stress

stress and exhaustion sets in (1992). Nurse managers are subject to continual stress as many of their tasks involve life an...

Nurse's Perspective on the Midwifery Profession

most often have a great deal of training and, in most mainstream settings, are also nurses or nurse-midwife practitioners. Many ar...

Pain Management and Long Term Care Residents' Rights

old signs of questionable care still apply, however. Unexplained injury or falls, the occurrence of pressure sores, and evidence ...

Florence Nightingale's Work

the incidence of the deaths that were preventable, and also developed the polar-area diagram as a way of demonstrating the impact ...

Emergency Room and Intensive Care Unit Nursing Retention

the chaos," she said (Serafini 1490). This nurse further stated that sometimes ER nurses are called to the intensive care unit for...

Nursing Home Costs and the Impact of MDS/PPS/RUG III System Utilization

Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that it is no longer only added stress and long hours for those...

Is There a Relationship Between Nursing Burnout and Shortage of Nurses?

and settings. Individuals reactions to the same stressors can be quite different, with one stressor creating significant stress r...

Nurse Role Definition

patients, cleaning patients up, changing the beds for patients, helping patients go to the bathroom, and many other simple, but ne...

NJ's Advanced Practice Nurses

from an advanced practice nurse. Patients value the nurse practitioner (NP) as a trustworthy source of medical information that a...

'Don't Call Me Sweetie!' Australia Nursing Study Reviewed

In six pages this paper examines nursing care from the perspectives of nurses and patients as reported by this Australian study. ...