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Jean Watson's and Joyce Travelbee's Nursing Theories

These theories emphasize the fact that the concept of holism is integrally linked with the goals and objectives of nursing. Holis...

Patient Autonomy and Nursing Concept Analysis

are ideally suited to assist patient and their families in clarifying their needs and desires, enhancing patient autonomy (Breier-...

Reform and Ethics As They Relate to Nursing Home Care

or state agencies may seek and implement studies. II. Nursing Home Care for the Elderly Whenever nursing home care is an...

Nursing Theory Selection and Implementation

are, meaning that their immediate physical conditions affect the likelihood of success of the procedures they are about to undergo...

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. ...

Family Assessment and Health Care

new heart patient may need to learn to radically alter its diet, or the family of a new cancer patient may have to learn to cope w...

Contract Proposal for a Nursing Program

expenses, the learning contract is a device used by those involved - the student, the school and any other interested parties - to...

Patient Welfare, Health, and the Family Nurse Practitioner

so often work today. The first issue which will be discussed for the purposes of this paper is that of environment. This...

The Cost Consequences of the New York Ban on Nurse Overtime

for example, a terrorist attack. iii. Where a nurse is involved in a ongoing medical or surgical procedure which takes the hours i...

Advocacy and Nursing

to the patient conflicts with the nurses duty to his or her employer (Hanks, 2007). Specifically, barriers to nursing advocacy inc...

Overview of Sepsis

and symptoms, such as edema and positive fluid balance (Weiss, et al, 2009). Additional criteria include inflammatory variables su...

Practicum Outline

computerized or electronic patient records. 1c. To discuss these findings with supervisor/mentor to consider how the information...

Dyspnea, Family Caregiving and Quality of Life

primary symptoms of COPD are "wheezing, cough, dyspnea on exertion and increased phlegm production" (Touhy and Jett, 2012, p. 289)...

Aiding Patients with Chronic Conditions, A Reflection

support of a nurse that can keep these patients inspired to continue the positive health behaviors that ensure their continued goo...

Nursing Practicum Goals

populations and fall prevention strategies. 1b. Review the home care records to identify precipitating situations leading to fal...

3rd Army Speech of Gen. George Patton Applied to Vietnam

Rhoads essay on the life and experiences of a nurse in Vietnam gives a chilling clarity of the realities with which medical person...

Fictional Family Unit and Application of Family Theory

brief excursion into heterosexuality twenty years earlier, who Armand and Albert raised. Son Val (Dan Futterman) does not share A...

Mr. V and a Nursing Ethics Case Study

is on a morphine drip to which there is attached only one instruction: decrease the drip when respirations reach four per minute....

Second World War and Nursing

as the "Angel of Mercy" during the late 19th century; the "Gal Friday" during the 1920s and the "Heroine" during World War II (Bro...

Nursing and Conflict Resolution

a deleterious impact to patient welfare. With appropriate conflict resolution skills, however, most conflict can be either avoide...

Nursing Applications and the Ethics of Stem Cell Research

of stem cell research far outweigh the negativities. Because of these benefits stem cell research can be ethically defended utili...

An Analysis of a Journal Article on Nursing

out the parameters of the problem and review previous the results of research in this area. She discusses how patients older than ...

RN Nurses in Canada and Impact of Health Care Reforms

services. It was a clear presumption that womens contributions -- no matter how physically or mentally trying -- did not carry an...

Clinical Nursing Ladder System Development

process variation, foster awareness of the impact of different clinical decisions, and encourage reduction in undesirable practice...

Cultural Assessment of Family Nursing

in education and work experience. 2. Boyfriends work sporadically. 3. Neither appears to consider the possibility of breaking the ...

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 Competency and the Use of Technology

(Hodges, Satkowski, and Ganchorre, 1998). Despite the hospital closings and the restructuring of our national health care system ...

Cultural Mores and Nursing

view of medicine in order to better help the indigenous population on which she is called to serve. Before launching any p...