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Shared Governance and Collective Bargaining Issues in Nursing

associated with a considerable change in the traditional locus-of-control can be safely confronted, and professional practice can ...

Research on Nursing Leadership

in those nursing homes that maintained adequate staffing, but beyond that, the administrative climate of the nursing home facility...

Terminal Care Patients, Families, Nursing Staff, and Effective Communication

Understanding that there is a step by step progression, both physically and psychologically, can be part of the nurses role in thi...

'Applying Airline Safety Practices to Medication Administration' Article Review

establish policy guidelines. In the administration of medication, "processes have been virtually ignored in the search for EBP" (...

Nursing and Knowledge

led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...

Australia Focus on Breast Cancer

carcinoma in situ (DCIS). This is also known as "intraductal carcinoma or non-invasive breast cancer" (Breast Cancer, 2004; p. PG...

Health Promotion Rationale and Coronary Heart Disease

(Link and Tanner, 2001). Research has found that some clients may be suffering from myocardial infarction (MI) even when they have...

Five Questions on Public Health Nursing

the term public health nurses" (JWA - Lillian Wald, n.d.). The public health nurses at the turn of the 20th century visited...

Essay for Nursing Ph.D. Program Admission

basic assumptions surrounding specific topics. My short-term goals include developing Consultants in Complex Neurodisability, a h...

ER Application of the Self Care Deficit Theory Developed by Dorothea Orem

Emergency rooms are, at least in many cases, the primary health care provider to the underinsured and uninsured patient (Isenstein...

Synchronous and Dichotomous Concepts of Empowerment and Advocacy

and empowerment must be mutually exclusive. Falk (1995) describes empowerment as a more contemporary concept than advocacy, and...

Overview of Stress in Patients

In nine pages this paper examines causes, symptoms, and results of patient stress in a nursing overview that includes the servant ...

Nursing Intervention and Munchausen by Proxy

the condition. More frequently it is the healthcare system which is both exposed to the condition and thus responsible for detect...

Nursing Philosophies of Betty Newman and Jean Watson

their roles. As a result, there is a need to temper the actions of the nurse in the carative environment with a recognition of th...

A Nursing Ethical Dilemma Case Study

and the directives of the medical environment. For over two decades, for example, the health care industry has recognized a decli...

Nursing and Congestive Heart Failure

In addition, among hospitalized patients over 65, CHF is the leading hospital admission diagnosis. In 1988 alone, it accounted fo...

Article on Nurse Staffing

In five pages a 2001 article by Sarah Jo Brown on the relationship between patient outcomes and nurse staffing according to a stud...

Nurse Educator's Involvement in International Normalized Ratio Stability

laboratory specialists to obtain the appropriate level of anticoagulation independent of related laboratory reagents. Because the...

Patient Outcomes, Organizational Factors, and Nursing Competency

to insure that nurses continually perform their duties in the most competent and constructive manner (Cain, 2001). The establishm...

Advance Practice Nursing and Postgraduate Degrees

current literature, which includes existing nursing journals and the WEB sites conducted by the American Association of Nurses and...

Nurses and Violence in the Workplace

Review Before focusing specifically on the impact of workplace violence on nurses, there are certain basic facts that should be u...

Nursing and Ethics

quality of a patients life, (4) implementing managed care policies that threaten quality of care, and (5) working with unethical/i...

Nursing Degrees and Associate versus Bachelor

In a paper consisting of six pages the argument is presented that nurses should be paid not on their level of education but rather...

2 Journal Articles on Hypertension Reviewed

insight regarding the details of their normal everyday life and health concerns. Boutain sets the stage by reporting that one in...

Possible Barriers for MSN Pursuit by Registered Nurses

nurses considering returning to school for a Masters of Science in Nursing (MSN), the perceived barriers include issues directly r...

Nursing and Self Care Wound Instruction

In six pages this tutorial presents information on how to create a nursing instruction plan for how wounds can be self treated. F...

FVSNs and School Nurses

time is spent in the nurses office. While nurses do not want to send away a student who could be suffering from a...

Holistic Approach to the Philosophy of Nursing

In five pages this paper discusses how nursing philosophy can be holistically applied. Five sources are cited in the bibliography...

Prenatal and Postnatal Care Intervention

In six pages this paper examines community nursing intervention as a way of increasing the birth weights and to decrease the numbe...

Health Care and Communication

to miscommunication. For example, in a busy hospital where there is a high degree of activity patients may be distracted and not e...