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implementing the treatment regimen. 5. collaborating with other health care providers in determining the appropriate health care f...

issue of regulatory interest when attached to direct patient care (Nursing, 2004). As few nurses with no patient responsibilities...

time to actively conduct a research study, lack of time to read current research, nurses do not have time to read much of the rese...

paternalistic approach that has been favored by physicians. Watsons theory stresses nurses should "honor anothers becoming, autono...

reality of the profession. It needs a makeover much as it had in the 19th century in Brittan when nursing reformers struggled to h...

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

precisely the same as for other patients. Legal responsibility for care decisions in cases where there is a living will: does the...

owes the same duties of care to herself or himself as is owed to patients. A nurse cannot adequately attend to patients if that nu...

This research paper is written as a journal account that records the response of the writer, who has been assigned to handle a hos...

It also is clear that readily accessible primary care services are essential to achieving effective health care reform. The World ...

who consistently place the needs of others above their own. The individuals who do this seemingly so naturally often can be diffi...

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

Issues pertinent to these five elements include conceptual framework, scope of practice, policy implications and support of social...

who choose to use qualitative methods tend to seek a deeper reality, inasmuch as their aim is to "study things in their natural se...

In eight pages this paper discusses nursing management shortage in a consideration of patient care ethics. Six sources are cited ...

In four pages this paper examines the ethics of withholding treatment in the form of hydration and nutrition from patients who are...

In five pages this paper discusses the ethics and expenses involved in nurses serving as medical missionaries. Seven sources are ...

have had ethical reservations about taking a patient off of life support, but she did not add to Lynns burden by interfering with ...

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

states, "The nurse promotes, advocates for, and strives to protect the health, safety and rights of the patient" (Code of Ethics f...

and how discharge instructions should cover these contingencies. "Health" has historically been used to describe the "absence of d...

those that do not receive another. Nurses, however, (and rightfully so) are expected to perform their duties irrespective of such...

a decision of having to decide on the basis of what is best for all concerned rather than what the patients family might think tha...

This research paper offers an overview of the role that institutional review board approval has in regards to ethics and nursing r...

this development and left orders for both analgesia and sedation, which helped at first, but became less effective as the hours pa...

seek the same health goals for clients as in mainstream nursing, nurses in remote locations often cope with problems and obstacles...

potential need for treatment for impaired skin integrity due to immobility. Therefore, the nurse will begin precautions prior to a...

quality of the provided care (ANA, 2008). Empirical research studies have confirmed that the risk for medical error increase subst...

Developing New Nurse Leaders also considers the issue of shifts in leadership and governance, with a focus on the role of nurses a...

nurse to patient ratio in California. In 1992 and 1993 the California Nurses Association has sponsored the Democratic Senator Jack...