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Nurse Staffing Issues

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

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 ...

HIPAA Rights And Their Impact Upon Medical Errors In The Emergency Room

further harm; instead of deferring to this individuals personhood, she wholly disregarded what his physician considered to be the ...

Ethics in Palliative Care

regarded as creating obligations on others to help her exercise her rights. An inherent theme that is implied in all of the questi...

NEED 2009

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

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...

The Theory of Human Caring

al, 2009). The theory came from "the results of studies accomplished by the author along her Doctorate in Clinic and Social Psycho...

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...

Recent Economic Effects on Home Health

In 2001, health care spending as a percentage of GDP was 14.1 percent, or $5,035 per capita (Levit, Smith, Cowan, Lazenby, Senseni...

Wit & Palliative Care

also a former student of Vivians is now in the rather awkward position of also being one of her doctors, as he is an intern and re...

Use of Restraints in Healthcare

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

Weight Study Proposal

feel lethargic, further disinclining the individual to exercise, which escalates the problem. In regards to population, all age gr...

Dehydration & Older Patient

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

Confidentiality and Three Nursing Models

nurse seeks to preserve any culture-specific aspect of the patients life everywhere possible. When some culturally-linked aspect ...

An Article on Childbirth and Nursing Presence Reviewed

for the birth" (MacKinnon, McIntyre and Quance, 2005, p. 29). As this suggests, intrapartum nurses spend the most time with labor...

Euthanasia's Pros and Cons

and antibiotics" (Ersek, 2005, p. 48). Upon first glance, it would appear that euthanasia is an application that is in direct con...

Nursing Profession and Men

degree (CBS News). Where 4.1 percent of new female nurses leave the profession after four years, 7.5 percent of new male nurses lo...

Appraisal of Team Performance

of every single employee. If youre not thinking all the time about making every person more valuable, you dont have a chance. Wh...

Quality Assurance and Nursing Management

In five pages this research paper discusses quality care standard maintenance and the role played by nurse managers in sustaining ...

Preventing Medication Error Change Project

for the precise coding of medication and, thereby, helps nurses avoid the common errors listed above (Woods and Doan-Johnson, 2002...

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...

Nursing and Kangaroo Care

article, "Mother-Infant Skin-to-Skin Contact (Kangaroo Care)," kangaroo care offers the parents the only opportunity to engage in ...

Overview of Family Health Nursing

says that families have been sorely neglected as a great deal of nursing practice continues to focus on individuals (Denham, 2003)...

Nursing and Distance Education

a video that presents the patients symptoms and are presented with the question "What is the most likely differential diagnosis ba...

Profession of Nursing

their profession to be their career and it definitely requires career-long continuous professional development. Why then, does a...

2 Topics Involving Health Care Management

among all team members (DC Area Health Education Center, 2005). Well-functioning effective teams do not happen by chance. It requ...