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Preceptorship in Nursing

required qualified, competent staff. This resulted in the establishment of training schools for nurses (Formal training, 2005). Un...

Overview of Critical Care Nurse Practitioner

a specialized body of knowledge, skills and experience that enables these nurses to offer a high standard of care to critically il...

Pain Management and Nursing Involvement Increases

a long period, have the opportunity to build relationships with them and are able to come to know the individual patients response...

Fundamental Theories/Nursing Faculty Shortage

in nursing educators aged 36 to 45 (Lewallen, et al, 2003). To complicate matters further, recent statistics show that nurses wh...

Hypovolemic Shock and the Evolution of Nursing

are necessary for patient survival" (Kelley, 2005, p. 2). When the blood volume in the body is too low, it activates "compensatory...

Nursing/Personal Reflection Paper

of the patient experience" (Engebretson 20). The background provided by a large, close-knit family means that, from childhood, I h...

Nursing: Article Reviews

some determining the study was inconclusive, others saying certain interventions should be made universal and still others stating...

Organizational Change in St. Vincent's ICU

Hospital. The purpose here is to describe and evaluate the restructuring of St. Vincents ICU to gain one-on-one nursing and so im...

The Australian Health Care System: A Comparison with the U.S. System

government reimburses thirty percent of the insurance premiums paid by the patient. In addition to those noted above, the...

Nursing and Self-Care

and respond to patient authentically as individuals in the here-and-now moment may be the best way to prepare safe and effective c...

Skin Cancer Literature Review

when Coco Chanel made the look desirable. Since that time, legions of youth and adults have sought to possess the "perfect" tan, ...

Nursing and Patient Dignity

the inclination is to treat the dying patient with as little emotion as possible, so as not to suffer emotionally as well, many nu...

Contemporary Australian Politics and the Opposition's Role

depend on any statutory law. The position has no formal powers or functions. The Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) ...

Stroke Patients and Caring Assistance

have different concerns and worries which will need to be addressed prior to the tackling of the practical issues. The plan will...

Florence Nightingale's Work

the incidence of the deaths that were preventable, and also developed the polar-area diagram as a way of demonstrating the impact ...

Developments In Forensic Nursing

scientific investigation and treatment of trauma and/or death of victims of abuse, violence, criminal activity, and traumatic acci...

NJ's Advanced Practice Nurses

from an advanced practice nurse. Patients value the nurse practitioner (NP) as a trustworthy source of medical information that a...

Is There a Relationship Between Nursing Burnout and Shortage of Nurses?

and settings. Individuals reactions to the same stressors can be quite different, with one stressor creating significant stress r...

Lifestyle Choices, American vs. Australian

education by American society." This indicates that the educational institutions of Australia are different, and that the life aft...

Organ Procurement and the Role of Nursing

the medical profession as a whole. Nurses themselves face a number of concerns in the performance of their jobs in organ transpla...

Quitting Smoking and Hospitalized Patients Educational Obstacles

In five pages this paper examines literature regarding the nurse's role in educating hospitalized patients on smoking cessation. ...

Topics in Community Health Nursing

definitions of community have emerged, with the consequence that, concurrently, definitions of health promotions have also evolved...

Nursing, Mental Health, and Spirituality

In eight pages this paper discusses holistic practice in terms of nursing's role, spirituality, and what mental health means. Sev...

Three Nursing Questions

This paper offers answers to three nursing questions that address the role of nurse practitioners, the Consensus Model for APRN Re...

APN Posts, Definition and Roles

This essay pertains to how the International Council of Nurses defines advanced nursing practice and it also discusses the confusi...

Personal Nursing Ambition

This paper presents a hypothetical example of how a student might wish to express her nursing ambition. The principal focuses of t...

Student Nurses Assessment Strategies

the personal growth and learning of second year student nurses working within two surgical units. The clinical logs produced by th...

Why Nurses Leave Clinical Practice?

change the position before completing three years of clinical practice (MacKusick and Minick, 2010). This research article is very...

Responses to Two Nursing Posts

a statement made early-on in the post, which is that nursing has the potential to make a huge contribution to the transformation o...

Issues in Advanced Practice Nursing

This research paper discusses ten different topics that pertain to advanced practice nursing. The topics discussed include Watson'...