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Magnet Status and Evidence-Based Practice

official entity until 1993. Today it addresses an array of nursing issues. The goals of the program are: * "Promoting quality in...

Adding an Athletic Trainer to the Sports Medicine Clinic

increase; third-party payers strive to keep payments as low as possible; individuals seek to enhance performance or gain the great...

Spirituality in Nursing Practice - Literature Review

significantly as ethnicity and can encompass many different forms of beliefs. Spirituality plays a major role in how individuals...

Summary of Nursing Articles

to reach the disease" (Colwell; 2). The author also examines aspects of surgical treatment, indicating that a particular type of s...

RN vs. BSN, Advantages for Nurses

ratio, the mortality rates are 44 percent lower (Degree-level nurses, 2005). Substantiating this research, a Canadian study cond...

Mental Health of Returning Soldiers

need of treatment following tours in Rwanda, the Balkans and Somalia" (Auld). Mental health problems in regards to soldiers retu...

Critique of Nursing Articles

once again examines how nurses can be empowered, and learn those values in college. Finally, Ann Gallagher discusses dignity with ...

Article Critique/Cardiac Rehab Nursing

were contributing to the "toxic" work environment, which characterized this CSDU, as there was "evidence of a lack of meaningful c...

Family Presence at Resuscitation

(2005), in which samples of patients or patients families were enrolled. In a study in which the sample participants had lost a lo...

Women's Health Nurse Practitioner

"infertility, cardiovascular health, oncology, geriatrics, endocrinology, uro-gynecology, bone health and high-risk pregnancy" (Ke...

Women's Mental Health/Depression

minority groups. They are frequently poor and have little education. Scrandis, Fauchald and Radsma describe a "Charlottes Web of C...

Dehydration & Older Patient

dehydrated? Has literature simply made you aware of this potential problem? You might say something like: "Considering the dire co...

Use of Restraints in Healthcare

indicates, restraint places health practitioners between the proverbial rock and a hard place. However, there are practice standar...

Nursing/Entry into Practice

inpatient facility (Entry-Level). There are advantages and disadvantages to having three entry levels into nursing. An advantage...

Homelessness & Advocacy

the research, which includes finding a definitive measure for the health status of the homeless. This is a reasoned, extensive rev...

Ethical Dilemma/Canadian Nursing Practice

individual, the eight values of the CNA Code provide a framework for guidance regarding nursing behavior. The Code states that the...

Aging Nursing Population/Healthcare

the question of what effect an aging nursing work force has on American healthcare in general. First and foremost, the aging of ...

Negative Effect of Anesthesia Assistants on Nursing

generations. Though Nightingale promoted a professional demeanor, nursing was not something that most well-bred women would even ...

NANDA

imply, a standardized nursing language provides a "uniform nomenclature for the diagnosis, intervention, and evaluation components...

Retention/Recruitment & Canadian Nursing Shortage

30 months, as this is when between 13 and 28 percent of senior nurses are due to retire (Sibbald, 2003). Currently, close to a thi...

Nursing Education Bill

quality and care" of health services that offered to rural areas throughout the US (Clinton, 2007). In addition to providing fun...

Improving Pediatric Care in the ED

graduate nursing hires (Truman, 2004, p. 45). The novice nurses participate in six hours of classroom instruction, plus thirty hou...

Continuing Education

the "5 As," the steps are: 1) ask the patient if he or she smokes, 2) advise him or her to quit, 3) assess the willingness to...

Economic Indicators 2006

Budget Office forecasts that gross domestic product will grow by 3.6 percent after inflation (in "real" terms) this year and by 3....

Organizational Structure and Patient Care

Statement, 2006). It is also a goal of HHC to "join with other health workers and with communities in a partnership" (Mission Sta...

Utilization of Research/Nursing Shortage

Kanters position that the situational aspects of a working environment have the ability to influence worker attitudes and behavior...

The Interprofessional Approach to Nursing

records and kept him and his family informed about his progress to date and what he could expect along the path to recovery. Nurs...

Personal Narrative: Becoming a Nurse

we had a helper who came in during the day and a nurse at night. Both of them were kind, experienced and very caring, and I could ...

CC vs. Med-Surg Units/Job Satisfaction

(Domrose, 2001). However, current trends have developed that have greatly expanded the scope of med-surg nursing, which includes a...

Philosophy of Nursing

Nightingale as power-crazed and iron-willed. Salvage (2001) tends to believe that these criticisms of Nightingale reflect lingerin...