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School Nursing and Disaster Planning

any incident that requires an increased level of response beyond the routine operating procedures" (NASN, 2006). Natural disasters...

Nursing Personal Leadership Development Plan

and how discharge instructions should cover these contingencies. "Health" has historically been used to describe the "absence of d...

Article Critique//Charge Nurse Competencies

does not address the topic of specific competencies. In other words, the most recent literature that is even remotely related to t...

Diabetic Education for Continuing Education for Nurses

methods with measurable outcomes, creating a link between existing research and nursing process, define the role of nurse educator...

A Child’s Voice/Holistic Perspective

and the spirit says, "Ahhh, everything feels much better now" (Wooten, 2005, p. 510). Another factor in her relationships with c...

The Impact of Bioterrorism on the Future of Health Care

to current medicines, or to increase their ability to be spread into the environment" (Miller-Boyle, 2006, p. 6). Miller-Boyle wri...

Mandatory Overtime for Nurses

of hospital environments is driving many nurses away from hospital nursing and some are leaving the profession entirely. In 2000, ...

Case Study of a Boy with Acne

of use) of sunscreen at the beach are important considerations. Other factors that should be assessed relative to subjective data...

Becoming a Nurse Manager

FTE RN Demand Projected Growth Setting 2000 2010 2020 2000 to 2010 2000 to 2020 Total 49,200 59,900 69,600 22%...

Code Green: Addressing the Problems in Money-Based Hospital Decision-Making

period of restructuring in many industries, including healthcare. Managed care organizations and changes in reimbursement rates f...

Patients’ Bill of Rights

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

Family Systems/The Postpartum Mother

of family such as the one cited above. In many instances hospitals adhere to the traditional definition, which means that the poli...

Aveyard/Believing and Doubting

explained the process further and made it clear that he would perform the catheterization, the man approved. As this indicates, fr...

Health Care Center Case Study: PQRST

inflamed, tender to the touch and evident of a small amount of pus (DAlessandro et al, 2004), becoming more painful as time progre...

Past and Present Nursing

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

Overview of Respiratory Therapy

regards to lung function. If patients cannot breath on their own, RTs are trained on how to intubate patients and connect them to ...

Nursing Regulations and Laws of Georgia

showing that they graduated from a nursing education program approved by the Georgia Board of Nursing or from a nursing education ...

Africa and Promoting the Immunization of Children

II. Population The target population for this inquiry are children of the world. However, the population needs to be narrowed as...

Staffing Ratios and Outcomes in Nursing

what was said in the first sentence of this essay - nurse shortages results in nurses being given unrealistic workloads (DPE Resea...

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...

Social Work and Nursing Similarities

factors as culture and even spiritualism in patient care delivery. While at one time nursing was a discipline which concentrated ...

Levine's Conservation Theory of Nursing

individuals personal integrity, which is defined as a "sense of worth which can be conserved through consideration of cultural, et...

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...

Oncology and Coping with an Annotated Bibliography

parents of children with cancer regarding the needs of siblings and on the support that was offered by hospital staff. The results...

Overview of Health Promotion and Health

absence of disease and infirmity" ("Definitions of Health and Fitness," 2006). Health promotion, on the other hand, " is the combi...

Stroke Patients and Nursing Case Management

Partially as a result of improved heath care practices which result in longer life and partially as the result of the movement aw...

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...

Teams and Patient Satisfaction

In ten pages this research paper presents a literature review on team nursing as a way of increasing patient satisfaction. Thirte...