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Comparative Analysis of Erickson's and Orem's Theories

and patient. Orems theory is central to much of nursing philosophy and methodology. This theory is one of three theories...

Beyond Caring by DF Chambliss

parameters of his perspective and goals, and, specifically, refers to the unique orientation of nursing. "Nurses encounter patient...

Nursing as an Art

In twelve pages this paper presents the argument that nursing should be regarded not as a science but as an art. Ten sources are ...

Nursing Interventions and the Confusion of Mrs. Galena

undergoes surgery for a hip arthroplasty 24 hours after admission. Twenty-four hours after surgery the nurses note that Mrs. Gale...

The Field of Nursing and Issues of Aggregate Introduction and Diagnoses in Health Promotion

already has been diagnosed as having some form of heart disease. In that sense, primary prevention is not possible. The goals of...

Nursing and the Management of Time

reveal a steady growth in the number of nurses joining unions due to discontent" (Blankenheim 2001, p. 13). They are doing so to l...

Time Management and Critical Care Nursing

achieved that the critical care nurse may address the bio-psycho-social implications of the event (Alfafara and Hedges, 1996). Fur...

BSN Advantages and the Selection of Nursing as a Career

At the heart of nursing is the nurse-patient relationship, which provides the foundation for nursing care (Patusky, 2003). This r...

Using Adrenaline to Treat Anaphylatic Shock

(called IgE) (ONeill, 1990). This then sticks to other cells such as the mast cells or the basophils, this is a chain reaction as ...

Roy Model and Infection Control

the medical team with which these patients have surrounded themselves. It is the patients responsibility to cooperate and do ever...

Early Educational Programs Within Public Hospitals

completing the ranges of study required to attain the licensing level each holds. Aides are not licensed individuals and may or m...

Nursing Delegation and Shared Governance

Bell (2000) reports that when an Australian hospital instituted shared governance, nurse managers responded "by developing a teamw...

Legal And Ethical Delivery Of E-Health Applications

disclose any record which is contained in a system of records by any means of communication to any person, or to another agency, e...

Case Study/ICU Wound Mgmt

(Cardozo, 2003, p. S35). Within a few hours of being admitted to the ICU, Jacks condition was evaluated using the Waterlow risk as...

Public Health/Then & Now

and three stores," which served as "stock rooms, milk stations, clinics," etc. (Lillian Wald). Roughly 3,000 people typically were...

Article Critique/Nurses & Tobacco

a summation of how addiction occurs. They then address the scope of the problem, which relates the issue under investigation dir...

Nursing at the End of Life

by the caring physical presence of this nurse in her last remaining hours. However, the way in which this case turned out saw the ...

Reaction Essay to Treating the Poor/Matthew Dumont

announcing that shes "fine" and then another year or two will pass before the next outburst of psychosis. There is resignation an...

Nursing Philosophy and Occupational Focus

theorist Jean Watson, who developed her Theory of Human Caring in the late 1970s. As a result of Watsons efforts to bring greater...

Federal And Connecticut Resident Rights: Nursing Homes And Assisted Living Facilities

?19a-490, Connecticut Department of Public Health Code ?19-13-D105 and Residential care homes ?19-13-D-6 (National Academy for Sta...

Online Education/Professional Development

by trying things out)...reflective learners (learn by thinking things through, working alone) 5. sequential learners (linear, orde...

Lillian D. Wald: Life and Works

one else to do them and she saw a need (Krain, 2002). "She recruited another nurse and began working out of a fifth floor apartmen...

Client Profile

A 7 page client profile that discusses nursing care for an elderly client with degenerative brain disease and offers a research su...

Reducing Absenteeism/Nursing Home

have "little or no training in fundamental management skills" (Baer, 2006, p. 60). As well as absenteeism, problems with managemen...

Nursing Dilemma/Elder Abuse

a nurse to determine which elderly patients are being abused because a sense of shame or a desire to protect the family member who...

U.S. Nursing Shortage

Roughly 50 percent of the current working nursing population will retire within the next 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). Adding...

Nursing and Scientific Paradigms

In twelve pages this paper examines nursing in terms of various rationalistic and naturalistic paradigms. Seventeen sources are c...

Mentors and Nurses

In six pages this paper argues that time issues do not allow nurses to become mentors. Seven sources are cited in the bibliograph...

Pressure Ulcers/Changing Care

change and its rationale (which was based on the results of empirical research), implemented the change and then "supported the c...

Substance Abuse in Nursing

Not only are the direct health impacts to the nurse deleterious, impaired nurses cannot meet their responsibility to provide top q...