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Medication Errors & Their Prevention

are able to make error reports without fear of reprisal. Nevertheless, the consequence of possible disciplinary action and repris...

Nursing/Entry into Practice

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

Assisting in Grief Counseling

left to deny anything connected with the loss, either before or after the fact. Those left behind also need to acknowledge the me...

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...

Qualitative Studies/What are they good for?

Baumann, et al, in 1995, which was purely qualitative. The point is that through qualitative research, data was provided that can ...

Comfort/A Nursing Concept Analysis

sorrow; (b) relief from distress; (c) a person or thing that comforts; (d) a state of ease and quiet enjoyment, free from worry; (...

Hospital Accreditation from the Point of View of the Nursing Supervisor

and each staff member were knowledgeable of hospital standards and policies in preparation for TJC or DHS inspection. We always ha...

Professional Development And The Use Of Knowledge In Nursing

support increased motivation (Huczynski and Buchanan, 2007). Slide 4 Undertaking professional development will also support the...

Community Nursing and the Concepts of Community and Aggregates

"population," which is then further defined as "a collection of individuals who share one or more personal or environmental charac...

NEED 2009

members to students, as state registered nurse practice acts typically mandate a ratio 1:10 (AACN, 2009). Individually, students,...

Chain of Command in Nursing

risk. For example, Mahlmeister (1996) relates a pediatric situation in which a night nurse in a small hospital was expected to wor...

TURNING POINT AND NURSING PROGRAMS MISSION STATEMENTS

nurses that can serve the healthy care needs of southern New Jerseys culturally diverse community (Philosophy and Mission Statemen...

THE NEED FOR LEADERSHIP TRAINING AMONG NURSES

focus primarily on a nurses education. The goal of Turning Point is to direct care to the underserved population of New Jersey. Wh...

Merger Leads to Redsigning Jobs

Many of the physicians on staff had graduated from Harvard Medical School and tended to think themselves superior to everyone and ...

Nursing Perspective on the Issue of Living Organ Donation

however, Jones requested an ethics consult on the case due to the fact that Johns psychosocial evaluation had caused Jones to have...

Medication Administration, Risk Management, and Nursing Responsibilities

to reason, therefore, that if nurses are experiencing higher rates of stress, the inevitable consequences of such can only lead to...

Cunningham's The Hours/Implications for Healthcare

not only relates to the societal restrictions with which women had to contend in regards to their expected societal roles, but it ...

Establishing Community Partnerships

is pooled together with the expertise and experience of others (Mutsambi, 2009). For example, a community health program for preve...

Nurse Staffing Issues

staffing plans need to include "planned family medical leaves, nurse retirements and other types of turnover" (Morgan and Tobin, 2...

EBP Barriers

the following: In my practice setting, a major barrier against using EBP is that it takes an inordinate amount of time. This is...

Transcultural Model of Nursing

the attitudes, behaviors, values, etc. that are accepted and not accepted. Culture is historical with all aspects of life being ta...

Websites on Nursing Theorists Margaret A. Newman, Betty Neuman, and Virginia Henderson

are not listed on this introductory website. This theory remains relevant to contemporary nursing practice because it is client-c...

Shortcomings and Suggestions for Improvement in the ANA Code of Ethics

those that do not receive another. Nurses, however, (and rightfully so) are expected to perform their duties irrespective of such...

Quality Indicators and Nurse/Patient Ratios

literature and also "analysis of ICD-9-CM codes," which were reviewed by a "clinician panel," offering specific IQs that address i...

Personal Essays

career involved his presence in the Civil Rights Movement. He was a President who seemed concerned about injustice in the nation. ...

Florence Nightingale

disciplined and well-organized care. On returning to England, she visited the Institute of Protestant Deaconesses at Kaiserwerth, ...

Ethics in Nursing Discerning Child Abuse

a decision of having to decide on the basis of what is best for all concerned rather than what the patients family might think tha...

Australia's Shortages of Nurses

budget restraints. Nurses leave the profession because they are "distressed by being unable to provide quality nursing care, disgr...

Nursing Research Developments

notable historic key developments in nursing research are: 1859 Nightingales Notes on Nursing published 1900 American Nursing Jou...

Adverse Effects to Antipsychotic Drugs

a fever, and a variety of other symptoms (Boyd, 2008). It is the variety of symptoms associated with NMS that become a significant...