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Nursing and the Caring Phenomena

on nurses increase (Cullen, 2003). Nevertheless, nurse educators and scholars stress that it is through recognition of caring as a...

The School Nurse and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

the educational setting, and considers the role of school nurses. At a time when an increasing number of students are receiving s...

Health Care Governance - Three Studies

All of these studies reflect empirical studies of hospital populations in an effort to determine how changes in the healthcare env...

Depression, Pain, and Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy

with "depression, sleep disturbance, fatigue, and decreased overall physical and mental functioning" (Hearn, 2001). Problem Stat...

Jean Watson's Human Caring Theory

is they do, when they change their actions, then the image of nursing will change" (Watson, 1996, p. 142). Watson has recognized ...

Long Term Healthcare Evolution

and their insurers by operating under two distinct fee schedules. Medicare requires that care providers fees be "normal and custo...

The U.S. Air Force and Advanced Practice Nursing

between states and federal regulation. The purpose here is to determine whether the USAF advanced nurse practitioners are "functi...

Shannondale Nursing Home and Its Historical Development

been in operation for some time, and it currently is building a retirement community of duplexes for those over 55 who do not yet ...

Difficult Decision Making

as sadness. My Dad quickly smiled and patted me on the back, but in my heart I knew that my decision would forever change the cou...

Analysis of Costs of Decubitus Ulcers in Elder Care Facilities

Furthermore, if the ulcers end up in hospitalization, the nursing home is responsible for those costs as well. Even if the patient...

Healthcare and Continuous Quality Improvement

to produce better outcomes for patients and improve the conduct and performance of nurses and other health care employees on a dai...

Nursing Environmental Stress and Back Injuries

of a holistic approach to team management, and the integration of efforts to improve the overall function of nursing teams to redu...

Conceptual Analysis of Powerlessness

until they become powerless in terms of their own personal care that nursing care should take over. There are essentially 3 typ...

Nursing Model of Dorothea Orem Evaluated

and the patient are often unproductive (Roberson and Kelly, 1996; Hanna, 1997). Understanding the basis for this cultural percept...

Evaluation of a Nursing Management Plan for Women with HIV

efforts and prevention methods (Erickson, 1997). Ericksons (1997) study considered the impacts of psychology and specific attit...

Advanced Practice Nursing, the Self Care Deficit Model of Dorothea Orem, and Urinary Incontinence

development of nurse-operated continence centers, which provide conservative management for UI (Bernier, 2002). Continence nurses...

Midwives, Pregnant Women, and Quitting Smoking

more likely to give birth prematurely, have children with low-birthweights, and experience pregnancy problems like eclampsia. Fur...

Nursing Model of King

There are many settings in which nursing can occur within this framework. The most obvious is...

An Article on Nursing Education Critiqued

(p. 1617). This suggests that the subject for this study is so under-researched that there are no previous studies to cite, which ...

Human Care Nursing and the Theoretical Contributions of Jean Watson

She has promoted her theory of human caring throughout the world from various positions including lecturer at several universities...

Nursing as a Profession and its Distinguishing Features

exist for generations. Though Nightingale promoted a professional demeanor, nursing was not something that most well-bred women w...

Nursing's Philosophical Issues

course of action is often jumbled. Is the patient cognizant enough to make the correct choices? Many issues come into play when a...

Beyond Caring by DF Chambliss

parameters of his perspective and goals, and, specifically, refers to the unique orientation of nursing. "Nurses encounter patient...

A Review of an Article on Hypothermia

had to have gone through surgery (orthopedic, gynecological, urological, vascular) of at least twenty minutes in duration. They ha...

Profession of Nursing

not unusual given that there is a common perception that the higher a persons educational attainment the greater level of employme...

Article Review and Discussion of Nursing Mentoring

interactions with their patients and with each other have. Kurt Lewins change theory holds that change is incremental. It occurs...

Nursing as an Art

In twelve pages this paper presents the argument that nursing should be regarded not as a science but as an art. Ten sources are ...

Impediments to the Utilization of Nurse Wives

particular certified nurse-midwives-- continues to increase, these impediments linger to a certain extent, and may continue to aff...

Hospital Utilization Management

information brochure that described the standard course of care for CHF patients (About Virtua, 2004). The team modified the flow ...

2 Perspectives on Nursing Theory

addressing specific phenomena or concepts and reflecting practice (Liehr and Smith, 1999). The grand theories of nursing, that is,...