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Mandatory Overtime for Nurses

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

Antibiotic Prophylaxis, Surgery & Accountability

in resistant strains of bacteria (Plonczynski, 2005). This situation suggests that changes in antibiotic prophylactic procedures ...

Mandatory Overtime for Nurses

quality of the provided care (ANA, 2008). Empirical research studies have confirmed that the risk for medical error increase subst...

Colby/Deaths of Nancy Cruzan

that the legal struggle took on her family was immense. Her father never recovered emotionally and committed suicide (Colby, 2002)...

Health Care - Studies on Governance

Developing New Nurse Leaders also considers the issue of shifts in leadership and governance, with a focus on the role of nurses a...

A Leaflet Explaining the Impact of Mandated Nurse to Patient Ratios in the Health Industry

nurse to patient ratio in California. In 1992 and 1993 the California Nurses Association has sponsored the Democratic Senator Jack...

Nursing Home Falls and Best Practices

-3.14 2.83 6.05 As the numbers indicate, in all but Q3 2009, the number of falls experienced exceeded the target. This suggests t...

Nursing and Social Ecology

& Kantor-Kaufmann, 2002). The meso level of the ecological model looks at the role of institutions and organizations in shaping ...

Improper Nursing Delegation in NJ/Legal Ramifications

law stipulates that an RN is allowed to delegate specific nursing tasks individuals who are unlicensed if they have been adequatel...

Integrating Evidence-Based Practice/Professional Nursing

Among the challenges facing the integration of EBP into nursing behaviors is the idea that staff, which is clinically competent, a...

Uncertainty in Illness Theory/Merle H. Mishel

Intervention using Mishels theory facilitates the process of patients accepting the inevitability of uncertainty as a factor in th...

Coronary Artery Disease Prevention and Exercise

risk factor, but is of less consequence among those diabetics who pay close attention to their blood sugar levels, test often and ...

Qualitative Study Death Sentence' to 'Good Cancer' Couples' Transformation of a Prostate Cancer Reviewed

objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and their wives,...

Impediments to the Utilization of Nurse Wives

particular certified nurse-midwives-- continues to increase, these impediments linger to a certain extent, and may continue to aff...

Qualitative vs. Quantitative Nursing Articles

specifically state that their objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with pr...

Theorist and Martha Rogers a Science of Unitary Human Beings Application

of this perspective for modern nursing practices. The Theory of Unitary Human Beings Rogers theory described as the "Science of...

Homelessness & Advocacy

the research, which includes finding a definitive measure for the health status of the homeless. This is a reasoned, extensive rev...

Dehydration & Older Patient

dehydrated? Has literature simply made you aware of this potential problem? You might say something like: "Considering the dire co...

Use of Restraints in Healthcare

indicates, restraint places health practitioners between the proverbial rock and a hard place. However, there are practice standar...

Nursing Perspective on the Issue of Living Organ Donation

however, Jones requested an ethics consult on the case due to the fact that Johns psychosocial evaluation had caused Jones to have...

Nursing and the Interaction Between Theory, Research, and Practice

authors state that research "and theory are key underpinnings that guide safe, effective, and comprehensive" (p. 35) practice. As...

Management Practices in Nursing Homes

In twenty pages this research paper discusses management practices as they pertain to nursing homes in a consideration of ideologi...

Floating RN Practice

nurse refused and was subsequently fired. The court ruled in favor of the nurse and found that the Beloit Memorial had wrongfully...

Nursing Practice Improvement and Qualitative Research's Importance

on Nursing" in 1860 which not only documented basic concepts of nursing care but also included basic research strategies such as o...

Immobility and Nursing Practice

In six pages this paper examines nursing practice through a definition, literature review, and implications of immobility. Five s...

Goals and Mental Health Nursing

Frank seems reluctant to leave. Realizing that Frank needs to be met on a different level, Susan switches back to the "Be-with" mo...

Nursing Practice and Atherosclerosis

1997). It is generally believed that atherosclerosis results from a combination of factors, which include: hemodynamic stress (hyp...

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...

Nursing Administration Unit and Hospital Mergers

In ten pages this paper examines the increasing health care industry practice of hospital mergers and the problems with them and s...

Bipolar Disorder

there is very little information about predisposes people to these episodes (Swann, 2006). Therefore, for the most part, nursing a...