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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 and the Caring Phenomena

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

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...

Nursing Ethics and Operations Management

1999). Lee and his family owned a small business and had no health or medical insurance. The family was urged to begin the process...

Holistic Nursing and Migraine Headaches

"significant anxiety, particularly before they discover the most effective symptom management" (Moloney, et al, 2001, p. 19). In o...

Causes and Symptoms of Burnout in Nursing

their own condition. Judkins and Ingram (2002) designed a self-paced learning module in order to determine whether knowledge relat...

Geriatric Care Quality

balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...

Australian Nursing Council and Meningococcal Meningitis

The ANCI Competency Unit 4 demands that nurses accept accountability and responsibility for their actions in nursing. To do so we...

Medication Administration, Risk Management, and Nursing Responsibilities

to reason, therefore, that if nurses are experiencing higher rates of stress, the inevitable consequences of such can only lead to...

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...

Nursing and Kangaroo Care

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

Use of Restraints in Healthcare

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

Nursing Philosophy and Parse's Theory of Human Becoming

draw on the fundamental concepts espoused by the metaparadigms. Nevertheless, each branch of nursing theory approaches the subjec...

Types of Specialization in Pediatric Nursing

evaluate nursing care and use research findings in clinical practice" (Barnsteiner, Wyatt and Richardson 165). This survey reveal...

MEDITECH Hospital Information System

or reject MEDITECHs suggestions as they see fit. Whether users accept or reject the suggestions made by MEDITECH, care prov...

2 Perspectives on Nursing Theory

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

Australian Patient with Unstable Angina and Nursing Actions

a specific number or percentage of Australian citizens who have or may be suffering from unstable angina. Part of the reason for ...

Psychiatric Nursing and Nursing Theory

nursing. Forchuk and Dorsay (1995) and Barker, Reynolds and Stevenson (1997) identify Hildegard Peplau as the first to apply nurs...

JCAHO's HF1 Core Measure and Hoshin Planning

* "HF-2 LVF assessment * "HF-3 ACEI for LVSD * "HF-4 Adult smoking cessation advice/counseling" (Overview, 2002). JCAHO e...

Nurse Practitioner's Role and Strategies

certification program (Policy statement, 1999). On the other hand, the additional education required to become a licensed NP may t...

Integration of the Hierarchy of Needs by Abraham Maslow and Self Care of Dorothea Orem

activities" (Orems Self-Care Model Concepts) that patients need to undertake to meet their own health care needs on a routine basi...

JCAHO's Core Measure Heart Failure Process Implementation

They are: 1. "activity level 2. "diet 3. "discharge medications 4. "follow-up appointment 5. "weight monitoring 6. "what to do if ...

Nursing Theory and the Importance of Domestic Violence Screening and Intervention

Although the nursing professions is just now beginning to become more aware of the need for this type of approach it was first int...

Nursing's Personal Code of Ethics

on the following (Nursingworld.org, 2004). * Human dignity * Commitment to the patient * Protection of the patients privacy and co...

Philosophy of Nursing and Values

money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely would no...

Nursing and Motivation

2003, p. 50). Comments went on to say that it is disheartening when they arent acknowledged in any way for the hard work they do (...

Shared Governance v. Collective Bargaining in Nursing Labor Relations

for protocol and for adhering to standard practice. There are many aspects of the job for which the nurse is best suited to addre...

Metaparadigm of Nursing, Parse's Totality and Simultaneity, and Madeleine Leininger's Cultural Care Diversity

today, but health care delivery appears to be more of a team project than the responsibility of one doctor. In earlier days, a nu...

Empirical Evaluation

healing. Respondents who reported moderate stress before group (56.3%) experienced a decrease (43.8%) after group that dropped th...

Conflicting Ethics, Euthanasia, and Nursing

In eight pages this essay discusses the ethical conflict between a patient's 'right to die' and the Nurse's Code. Five sources ar...