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Nursing and the Impact of 1996's Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

in 2000, allowing a long comment period before the final rule was issued in February 2003. Five rules were published in 199...

Antibiotic Resistance and Nursing Implications

is understandable given that MRSA is one of the primary threats in terms of diseases encountered in ICUs in the US. Over fifty pe...

A Nursing Student's Plan for Personal Development

are often called upon to provide comfort where there seems to be none, patience in the face of adversity, and grace under fire. Th...

Behavior Impropriety and Nursing Ethics

states, "The nurse promotes, advocates for, and strives to protect the health, safety and rights of the patient" (Code of Ethics f...

Becoming a Nurse

improve it, then nursing can truly be an invaluable profession to choose. This leads us to the reality of helping people. Perha...

Academic Planning and Nursing Assessment

should all be considered (OConnor and Walker, 2003). Traditionally, societys influence on educational planning has meant that the...

Registered Nurse First Assistant Programs and RNs During the Korean War

military personnel and other non-combatants. While McConnell was seeing her charges safely to Japan, General Douglas MacArthur was...

Current Nursing Shortage and its Impact

a little less than a third of them were under the age of 40 (Meadows, 2002, p. 46). This offered conclusive proof that number 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...

Nursing Practice and Medication Errors

MEDMARX is thought to be the most comprehensive reporting of medication error information in the nation (Morantz & Torrey, 2003). ...

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...

Qualitative versus Quantitative Approaches to Nursing Research

and statistics. This approach works well for in physics and math, but less well when applied to people. Moloney (2002) offers thre...

Medical Doctors and Nurse Practitioners Conflict Management

the elderly. The Nurse Practitioner announced in its July 2000 issue that reports of the AMAs petition had been received as...

Qualitative Study Death Sentence' to 'Good Cancer' Couples' Transformation of a Prostate Cancer Reviewed

objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and their wives,...

Terminal Illness and Counseling

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses how psychologists, clerics, physicians and nurses can counsel patients who are term...

Withholding Treatment and Ethical Issues Pertaining to Nursing

In four pages this paper examines the ethics of withholding treatment in the form of hydration and nutrition from patients who are...

Assisted Suicide, Ethics, and Nursing

way, before his mind too, was gone." As a nurse, this presented me with what I felt were two conflicting goals. On the one hand, ...

Nursing Issues and Euthanasia

In nine pages nursing is discussed in terms of various legal, personal, and medical euthanasia issues which includes its various t...

Standard Coronary Bypass and MIDCAB Benefits

In eight pages this literature review emphasizes the benefits of the minimally invasive MIDCAB direct coronary bypass surgical pro...

Journal of Advanced Nursing Article 'Heparin and Haematoma Does Ice Make A Difference?' I

In three pages a quantitative research study published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing is reviewed. There is included a comple...

Issues of Reimbursement and Nurse Practitioners

nurses and other health care givers to provide many primary care services such as family planning and physical exams and to be pai...

Nursing Burnout

In five pages burnout is defined with its causes and reduction strategies discused in terms of recent research and its impact on n...

Nursing Contributions of Virginia Henderson

In three pages this paper discusses how the nursing profession was impacted by Virginia Henderson's many contributions. Four sour...

Carol Wells Federman's Article 'Awakening the Nurse Healer Within' Reviewed

In four pages this paper examines various nursing approaches and their similarities. One source is cited in the bibliography....

Review of Nursing Article VII

In two pages this paper discusses a college health nurse and issues of codependence as it is addressed in an article review with e...

Holistic Nursing and the Role of Jean Watson

In five pages this paper discusses the holistic nursing model and the role played by Jean Watson in its development. Four sources...

Goal Attainment Theory of Imogene King

In three pages this paper examines community based nursing and its associated issues within the context of Imogene King's theories...

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...

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...