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Alcoholic Patients and Nursing

abuse despite interpersonal problems or social caused brought about by drinking (Dawson, 2000). Repeated drinking of alcohol on da...

Patient Stress Reduction According to Theories King, Johnson, and Neuman

on education and prevention, and on how individual and social systems work together in the "society" of the health care industry. ...

Politics and Nurses

(Political Power, 2002). The profession of nursing is no different from any other in this regard (Political Power, 2002). Qualit...

Refugee Camps and the Application of Florence Nightingale's Environmental Theory

was well educated (Le Vasseur, 1998), from a family of wealth and yet held an unusual compassion for those less fortunate. She wa...

Values and Professionalism in Nursing

that "People choose nursing for love, not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and...

Encouraging Continuation of Breast Feeding

for the infant for the first six months" (Moore et al., 1998; p. 36). Bearing this in mind we address those women who are perhaps ...

Developing a Plan for Nursing Education

other people. Whereas simulation is rehearsed, however, role playing is not. It requests that the learners take on the character...

Ratio of Patients to Nurses

to the bill as did many nursing executives, arguing that there was sufficient legislation already on the books that dealt with sta...

Community and Corrections Nursing

does not receive (or seek) health care outside of prison. The literal captive audience allows health care professionals to offer ...

Adult Critical Care and Benefits of the Neuman Model

importance in the immediate nature of the patients problems, however. In critical care, theory can wait. Nurses need to be focus...

Nursing Assistants and Multicultural Education

several problems with recent immigrants, however. These include language barriers, not having completed a GED, limited healthcare...

Emergency Nurse Triage and Education

being the most complete. Education in triage generally has not been complete at all, however (Crafter, Little and Ritchie, 2000)....

Nursing and the Holism Concept

nursing practice and nurses are formally authorized from the society to touch their clients in the course of nursing activities. ...

Nursing Value of Shared Governance and its Implementation

does know is what is involved in the job, and many of the permutations that one simple standard can take. There is protocol, then...

Professional Dilemmas and Nursing Ethics

decisions. It is through our status as health care professionals that such a role is not only valued but critical. Nursing...

Acute Renal Failure and Dialysis Patients, Nutrition, and Nursing

infinitely more to the aspect of nursing than administering medicine; in fact, the myriad components that ultimately comprise the ...

Nursing Liability and Access to Health Care by the Poor in Texas

goes way beyond the paradigm of nursing as simply a "handmaiden" to physicians. The nursing professional is required to know virtu...

Professional Nurse Classification

manual (Tullmann, 2002). The way ion which there was the absence of a common culture from which power bases were built (Tullmann, ...

Nursing and Diversity

"understanding the fit," Beyea and Nicoll (2000) point out that: "A clinical expert continually questions knowledge, constantly le...

Human Caring Philosophy of Jean Watson

cosmic forces: they comprise the primal and universal psychic energy yet are overlooked * We have to treat our "self" with gentlen...

Nursing and Ethical Values

who consistently place the needs of others above their own. The individuals who do this seemingly so naturally often can be diffi...

Community Health Nursing Considerations

making a critical separation between their medical and social responsibilities within the short time allowed in an office visit. ...

Hospital Workplace, Communication, and Nursing

In seven pages this report examines the importance of workplace communication between nurses in a hospital environment. Six sourc...

Canada's Immigrant Women, Prenatal and Postnatal Health Care

issues along a continuum of health and good health is defined as a "state of complete physical, mental and social well-being" (Ada...

Decision Making and Nursing

on the other hand, is much faster than analysis in that it is based on "immediate recognition of the key elements of a situation a...

Nursing, Immobility, and its Consequences

(2002). The purpose of this investigation is to provide an overview of the concept of immobility in medicine, with an emphasis on...

Pain Management and Music Therapy

a role, as well as the elements of the music itself. Studies show that slow rhythms tend to be calming, while faster tempos tend t...

Informed Consent and British Medical Law

upper house has, in fact, been in a state of suspended reform for almost a century - ever since the unelected Tory landowners who...

Nursing Profession and Teamwork

(LPNs) and aides all worked together. The RNs traditionally were delegated to decide upon the division of labor between members of...

Case Scenario on Nursing Care

In seven pages this paper presents a case scenario featuring a nursing care situation and possible change of employment environmen...