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Doctorate of Nursing Goals A

12-21, live relatively sedentary lives, as they are not active enough to successfully maintain good health (Covelli, 2007). The in...

Management of Hypertension Among African Americans

to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...

Coping with Being Understaffed

the ability of an institution to deliver quality, error-free care. At the Six Sigma level, there are roughly "3.4 errors per one m...

The Lasting Legacy of Nursing Theorist Virginia Henderson

college degree is now a requirement for all registered nurses. A nursing major is comprised of a diverse and challenging liberal ...

Schools of Philosophy as Used in Nursing

(Allmark, 2003, p. 4). Poststructuralism: This perspective takes a deconstructive view of structuralism and "sees inquiry as ine...

Creating a Sexual Health Clinic

serve to mentor teens and provide socially positive guidance and support. Diagnostic and screening exams will also be available, b...

Limited Nursing Advocacy

report, admissions, and emergency situations" (Griffin, 2003, p. 135). The rationale for this policy is that it protects the confi...

State of Science, Nursing Ethics

Background/Review of Literature The eight articles/studies that constitute this literature review encompasses several key concept...

Geriatric Clinical Nurse Specialist/State of CA

in any other state must, as of January 1, 2008, have a masters or another advanced graduate degree in nursing (Phillips, 2005). Wi...

Putting Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort in Practice

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

Pain Requirements of Cognitive-Impasired Nursing Home Residents

expressing his or her misery. Such caregivers may have experienced patients who are as likely to cry out, thrash around, or simply...

Neuman and Rogers Systems Model Application

the realization of the "dehumanizing" of patients that led to them being referred to as "Bed x," "Case x" or some other nameless, ...

Perspectives on Shortage of Nurses

2002 and allowed for a National Nurse Service Corps program to provide funding for tuition, expenses and a stipend to those nursin...

Policy Statements and Nursing Standards

gives the appearance of increased attention to theory and evidenced-based nursing in an atmosphere of caring for the individual. ...

Professional Practice and Research Interview Summary

techniques or theories as they pertain to the medical world, and it is as if the prison setting is the last place where these tech...

Nursing Home Costs and the Impact of MDS/PPS/RUG III System Utilization

Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that it is no longer only added stress and long hours for those...

SNF Costs and the Impact of the Shortage of Registered Nurses

of the patients in a single unit will be assigned to one RN; the other half will be assigned to another. Another will be availabl...

Using Critical Thinking in the Field of Nursing

or understanding when the staff or the doctors have to move on to the next client. Many patients complain that their healthcare pr...

Emergency Room and Intensive Care Unit Nursing Retention

the chaos," she said (Serafini 1490). This nurse further stated that sometimes ER nurses are called to the intensive care unit for...

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...

Developments In Forensic Nursing

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

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 ...

'Don't Call Me Sweetie!' Australia Nursing Study Reviewed

In six pages this paper examines nursing care from the perspectives of nurses and patients as reported by this Australian study. ...

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...

Nurse Practitioner Cost Analysis

In a paper consisting of twenty five pages that includes an annotated bibliography of nine pages the addition of a staff nurse pra...

Nursing and the Structural Functionalist Sociological Model

family as it enables the family system to be regarded in a myriad of ways (1998). Here, the family may be evaluated holistically, ...

Critical Concepts in the Hospital Environment

Decision-making, critical thinking and advocacy are all important in the modern hospital experience. This paper examines a patient...

Malpractice Lawsuits and Nursing

In eleven pages this paper discusses legal issues of which nurses should be aware, lawsuit avoidance, and the importance of malpra...

Advanced Practice Nurses and Their Significance

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the health care setting in an examination of the advanced practice nurse or nurse practition...

Epidural Analgesia and Nursing Practice

In seven pages this research paper discusses epidural analgesia in an overview that examines nursing practice and considers the Ce...