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Complaints and Nursing

that time. What might be needed, then, would be some plan of action that the staff could follow, or possibly some type of polite s...

Arthritis Clinic Led by Nurse Practitioners

Primary Care Act, a feature of both practices is that the patients have the option of seeing a GP or a NP as their first point of ...

Long Term Care Environments and Nursing Care Plans

their wishes for the patients care. Every nursing home resident has a right to such a plan by law (Stern), and it does not only p...

Patient Care, Team Approaches, Evaluations, and the Process of Nursing

call for compliance with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to su...

Nursing in Great Britain, Clinical Supervision

patient care" (p. 438). Prior to 1970, nursing training in the UK could be described as rigid and highly structured. After...

Hospitals and Nursing

Issues pertinent to these five elements include conceptual framework, scope of practice, policy implications and support of social...

Patient Care and Individual Differences

and sustaining without yielding, they contend that bearing is a reaction which is more passive than coping but an activity which p...

Nursing Profession and Mohandas K. Gandhi's 5 Positive Attitudes

effective leader was his ability to build bridges between communities, between upper and lower caste Hindus and among Hindus, Musl...

Questions on Nursing Theory

to health care. Many of the same questions that can apply to assessing the validity of qualitative research can be used to ...

Geriatric Mentally Ill Patients and Nursing

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

5 Articles Summarized

method in Assisted Suicide: Is There A Future? Ethical And Nursing Considerations employed the use of hypothetical euthanasia case...

Vancouver, British Columbia and Homelessness

which means that the homeless population in Vancouver encompasses roughly 1800 people (The Americas, 2004). They are virtually all...

Nursing and Professionalism

present-day nurse, he notes, this can be construed to mean a caring about the well-being of those the nurse serves which, in this ...

Value of Mentoring in the Nursing Profession

term. The rationale is that the experienced nurse will guide the new graduate into the active and applied portion of the pr...

Nursing Methods of Research and Validity Questions

practitioners that do not hold an MSN degree, and the resulting population would be too homogeneous to be of any real benefit. ...

Nursing Home Autonomy and Concept Development

That freedom and responsibility can improve the nursing home experience for all involved. Definition and Clarification...

Nurse Practitioner Profession and Risks of Musculoskeletal Injuries

and other health care workers cope with musculoskeletal problems even in the primary care setting. A Wausau Insurance Company rep...

Role of Nurse Administrator

role has changed in nursing home facilities. Long gone are the days when a modern amount of nursing care and dietary supervision w...

Six Questions on Nursing Theory Models

general systems model serves as an example. Nursing research formerly was purely quantitative in design, and any qualitativ...

Nurses, Patients, and Managed Care

as HMO, PPO, POS, EPO, PHO, IDS and AHP (IHA, 2002). This is creating a service that can be seen as dividing...

Overview of Haddon's Matrix

"Many changes in health care yesterday, have major unforeseen consequences today. While it is easy to predict results with the be...

Quality of Life, Nursing, and Concept Analysis

of happiness, contentment or relief, or something above ordinary existence. The patient should do more than subsist. 4. Care shoul...

Nursing Participant Observation Controversy and Qualitative Research

who choose to use qualitative methods tend to seek a deeper reality, inasmuch as their aim is to "study things in their natural se...

New Jersey's Health Care Delivery System and Its Problems

governor should strive to at least make a dent in the problem in the next four years. It seems that the most pertinent problems ar...

Overview of Stress in Patients

In nine pages this paper examines causes, symptoms, and results of patient stress in a nursing overview that includes the servant ...

2 Journal Articles on Hypertension Reviewed

insight regarding the details of their normal everyday life and health concerns. Boutain sets the stage by reporting that one in...

Possible Barriers for MSN Pursuit by Registered Nurses

nurses considering returning to school for a Masters of Science in Nursing (MSN), the perceived barriers include issues directly r...

Nurse Educator's Involvement in International Normalized Ratio Stability

laboratory specialists to obtain the appropriate level of anticoagulation independent of related laboratory reagents. Because the...

Nursing Degrees and Associate versus Bachelor

In a paper consisting of six pages the argument is presented that nurses should be paid not on their level of education but rather...

Nursing and Ethics

quality of a patients life, (4) implementing managed care policies that threaten quality of care, and (5) working with unethical/i...