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Nursing Intervention and TT

York University School of Nursing and became an advocate of the practice through her teaching of therapeutic touch techniques and ...

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...

Ontario, Canada, and Telehealth Nursing

Registered Nurse. The service is meant to be used as a first step for residents in regards to assessment of their symptoms and if ...

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...

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...

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...

Diabetic Education and Nursing

best standards of care (Whittemore, et al, 2002). The goal of nursing education in regards to diabetes treatment is to aid the ind...

Defining and Treating Schizophrenia

prevention. Today, researchers are not disregarding the genetic component, but see this component as working in conjunction with o...

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...

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...

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...

Jean Watson's Human Caring Theory

is they do, when they change their actions, then the image of nursing will change" (Watson, 1996, p. 142). Watson has recognized ...

Long Term Healthcare Evolution

and their insurers by operating under two distinct fee schedules. Medicare requires that care providers fees be "normal and custo...

Shannondale Nursing Home and Its Historical Development

been in operation for some time, and it currently is building a retirement community of duplexes for those over 55 who do not yet ...

Single Mother's Economic Struggles

my divorce are better understood in relation the traditional concept of a nuclear family. The term "nuclear family" brings to min...

Nursing and the Caring Phenomena

on nurses increase (Cullen, 2003). Nevertheless, nurse educators and scholars stress that it is through recognition of caring as a...

Assessment of HIV Prison Population Plan for Nursing Management

in terms of the diagnosis and the aggregate. Discussion of Nursing Diagnosis The nursing diagnosis for this study, kno...

An Overview of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

etiology of the disease is not well understood, but substantive research suggests that individuals who suffer from ALS have mutati...

Depression, Pain, and Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy

with "depression, sleep disturbance, fatigue, and decreased overall physical and mental functioning" (Hearn, 2001). Problem Stat...

Nursing Home Admissions' Perception versus Reality

to a nursing facility, it should also be understood that each situation is unique. When both the family members and the staff of t...

Healthcare and Continuous Quality Improvement

to produce better outcomes for patients and improve the conduct and performance of nurses and other health care employees on a dai...

Analysis of Costs of Decubitus Ulcers in Elder Care Facilities

Furthermore, if the ulcers end up in hospitalization, the nursing home is responsible for those costs as well. Even if the patient...

Brief Nursing History

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

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...