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Providing Comfort in the Emergency Room

charted component of my daily patient interaction. However, to remind myself of the other responsibilities during busy per...

Description and Diagnostics of Diabetes Mellitus

"a heterogeneous disorder characterized by 2 pathogenic defects, impaired insulin secretion and insulin resistance. The resultant ...

Student Ethics and Nursing

for nurses who come into intimate contact with clients from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. Ott, Al-Khadhuri and Al-Junaibi...

Burnout and Stress in Nursing

are working, for example, in pediatrics(Sherman 2004). Therefore, she suggests, as many have, that the nursing professional learn ...

Shared Governance v. Collective Bargaining in Nursing Labor Relations

for protocol and for adhering to standard practice. There are many aspects of the job for which the nurse is best suited to addre...

Health Care and Interdisciplinary Teams

a list of advantages for patients, which include: * Greater coordination of services leads to higher quality care for the patient ...

Comfort Theory and Kolcaba

MEANING AND CONCEPTS Jones & Krysa (1998) describe the three essential comfort interventions as listening (to...

Case Study on Nursing Leadership

accomplishing the task or objective rather than on people (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004). They make the policies and rules ...

Nursing Diagnosis and Body Image Disturbance Case Study

has focused on two corollary components: 1. the accuracy of body size estimations and 2. the attitudes and feelings individuals ...

Jean Watson's Nursing Theories

the word alone that Watsons ideology is based not just upon clinical actions but upon the implementation of emotional availability...

Philosophy of Nursing and Values

money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely would no...

Analyzing Universality and the Cultural Care Diversity Theories of Madeleine Leininger

patients life needs to change in response to the patients health care needs, then the nurse needs to be sensitive to that factor a...

Studies in Nursing Leadership

percent); * Management by walking around (15 percent); * Coaching/empowerment (11 percent); * Team (7 percent); * Transformational...

Qualitative Study 'Occupational Stress and Job Satisfaction in Mental Health Nursing: Focussed (sic) Interventions via Evidence-based Assessment' Reviewed

has been with us for several years, and it is widely publicized. The result is that the nursing shortage not only affects the qua...

Nursing Paradigm Concepts and Leininger's Theory

life needs to change in response to the patients health care needs, then the nurse needs to be sensitive to that factor as well. ...

Philosophy of Nursing and How It Has Evolved

or render physical care - she ministers to the whole person. The existence of suffering, whether physical, mental or spiritual is ...

Meningitis and Africans in a Cultural Competency Case Study

right? Not as visible a cause as AIDS, nor as prevalent in the news as Cancer, Meningitis will be a difficult sell to this segmen...

Nursing Homes and Abuse of the Elderly

over the age of 60 years in 1995, and that number will probably increase to about 1.2 billion (2002, p.1094) in 2025. Informatio...

Brief Nursing History

Peplau addressed the inherent relationship between nursing and counseling, contending that nurses uphold the important responsibil...

Stem Cell Research and Nursing

ethics and value of this research. Ethically and scientifically responsible nurses must realize that from a deontologic perspecti...

Overview of Nurse Mentors

roles of nursing is direct patient care, and one of the seven essential AACN values is that of human dignity. In years past, dire...

Communication and Palliative Care

the patient prior to his death. The nurse clearly felt the need to encourage the family to stay and spend as much time as possibl...

Leadership and Nurse Management

become stressed and this lowers morale. A nurse manager writes that at her hospital, her job has become overwhelming, but when dis...

Nursing Diagnoses After Surgery

indwelling foley and compression boot. Her dressing is dry and intact. She was discharged with Percocet 5mg q6. Analysis and Out...

Three Discussion Questions from Week Two

therefore more attractive to those very human individuals filling its nursing positions. A mentoring program can help support tho...

Nursing, Diabetes, and 3 Research Articles

with a study sample of six female diabetes nurse specialists, who worked with a multidisciplinary team offering comprehensive diab...

Dreaming of Becoming a Nurse

four-year Bachelor of Science degree to become a registered nurse. But to a fourteen-year-old, college still seems like a distant...

Katie Eriksson's Nursing Theory

grounds that it is not caring at all but rather reduces the patient to a process component that needs medical attention. While tr...

Lungs and Manual Hyperinflation

turn affects the shape and space allotted for the heart to function. In domino fashion one system affects the other. Interesti...

Postsurgical Patient Care

indwelling foley and compression boot. Her dressing is dry and intact. She was discharged with Percocet 5mg q6. Analysis and Out...