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Restraints Usage and Issues of Nursing Practice

According to one research study, the top five reasons why nurses employ restraints are "disruption of therapies, confusion, fall p...

Decubitus Ulcers and Nursing Shortage

1999). Elderly patients who are alert, and not declared incompetent, have the right to refuse treatment, which includes turning or...

Nursing Regulations and Laws of Georgia

showing that they graduated from a nursing education program approved by the Georgia Board of Nursing or from a nursing education ...

Social Work and Nursing Similarities

factors as culture and even spiritualism in patient care delivery. While at one time nursing was a discipline which concentrated ...

Personal Influences on Nursing Philosophy

ability has improved considerably, inasmuch as the decisions I now make are more analytical and based upon a broader and more dive...

Past and Present Nursing

education for nurses in the US followed the model established by modern nursings founder Florence Nightingale (Fitzpatrick 63). Th...

Nursing and Cultural Diversity

a strategic factor in a broader movement toward social transformation that stresses social equity (Downey 249). This transformatio...

Levine's Conservation Theory of Nursing

individuals personal integrity, which is defined as a "sense of worth which can be conserved through consideration of cultural, et...

Africa and Promoting the Immunization of Children

II. Population The target population for this inquiry are children of the world. However, the population needs to be narrowed as...

Nursing Practice and Otitis Media

of ear infection (Chronic otitis media, 2003). OM is a serious childhood illness because, if not properly treated, it can lead to ...

Process of Becoming a Nurse Practitioner

act as integral members of healthcare teams, provide direct and indirect patient care, and address central issues for patients, in...

Johnson and Johnson Marketing Communications

and in 2001 unofficially took over daily operations of Johnson & Johnson as he was being trained to succeed Ralph Larsen upon his ...

Ethics of Nursing Code

all areas of professional nursing. Provisions 1 through 3 address the principal obligations of nursing, which are to the patient/c...

Overview of Respiratory Therapy

regards to lung function. If patients cannot breath on their own, RTs are trained on how to intubate patients and connect them to ...

Literature Review on Dementia and Healthcare Employee Attitudes

but fully 60 percent of charts of reporting skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) make no mention of any behavioral interventions prio...

American Leadership as Personified by Steve Jobs and Virginia Henderson

CP/M, which was shortly to be succeeded by MS/DOS (Alsop 188). The Macintosh operating system offered an icon-driven system that a...

Nursing Ethics

expected to develop some form of cancer "or another rapidly debilitating condition and well be dead within a year of getting the d...

Overview of Health Promotion and Health

absence of disease and infirmity" ("Definitions of Health and Fitness," 2006). Health promotion, on the other hand, " is the combi...

HIV Positive Nurses Should Still Be Allowed to Work

much closer look at the unwise choice to allow HIV-positive nurses to continue their practice. Britain provides statistics that i...

Vancouver, British Columbia and Homelessness

which means that the homeless population in Vancouver encompasses roughly 1800 people (The Americas, 2004). They are virtually all...

Theory and Nursing

discipline of nursing (Wilkerson, 1998). Examination of nursing theory shows that, on a fundamental level, nursing theories provid...

Nursing Theory and Self Agency

is defined as the needs of that individual to meet "Universal self-care requisites associated with life processes and maintenance ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Confidentiality and Three Nursing Models

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

Nursing Research Developments

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

Australia's Shortages of Nurses

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