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Terminally Ill Patients and Nursing Care

the needs of the dying and her work indicates that there are times when the most meaningful communication that a nurse can offer i...

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 ...

U.S. Civil War and Northern Women Historiography

records how she inquired about one young man who was brought into the ward crying, "I cant die. I cant die" (Livermore 174). She w...

Nursing Personnel Performance Appraisals

least useful in nursing. The purpose here is to review the state of performance evaluation in nursing. Literature Review A...

Whistleblowing and Nursing

unethical, or illegal practice of any person" (Erlen 67). But while it is a nurses duty to be a patient advocate, Beth should real...

Energy Conservation and Nursing

From this perspective, individuals can be viewed as open systems, in which energy is transformed within the body, gaining or losin...

Elderly Citizens and Considerations for Community Health Care

the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the economics of elder care. The stakeholders in this...

Stem Cell Research and Nursing

ethics and value of this research. Ethically and scientifically responsible nurses must realize that from a deontologic perspecti...

Philosophy of Nursing and How It Has Evolved

or render physical care - she ministers to the whole person. The existence of suffering, whether physical, mental or spiritual is ...

Family Violence and Nursing Intervention

positive effect in preventing future incidence of violence (Willson, McFarlane, Lemmey and Malecha, 2001), even when other referra...

Increased Quality While Decreasing Costs in Nursing

in higher costs and reduced perceived quality of care. Hypotheses The purpose of the proposed study is to determine the eff...

Reflection, Experience, and Training Competence Building

and was told not to consider having children for fear of passing on defective genes (Sheldon, 1997; p. 34). This occurred d...

Emergency Room and Making Ethical Decisions

the ability to learn nursings technical complexities and already have full command of ethical values to the point that the can act...

Burnout of Nurses

profession" and so individuals are susceptible, the current structure in medicine has exacerbated the stress. Cutbacks at hospital...

Data Collection Questions from Week Four

if they are simple and straightforward. These patient data records will be replaced weekly, and each will contain a weeks worth o...

Patient Outcome and Defining the Contribution of Nursing

authors have explored the importance of the holistic approach in positively impacting patient outcome. As early as the 1970s rese...

Postsurgical Patient Care

indwelling foley and compression boot. Her dressing is dry and intact. She was discharged with Percocet 5mg q6. Analysis and Out...

Hospitals and Nursing

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

Hamot Medical Center Organizational Analysis

northeastern Ohio. It is not only a general care facility but maintains many patient-oriented programs and services. Some of the...

Role of Nurse Administrator

role has changed in nursing home facilities. Long gone are the days when a modern amount of nursing care and dietary supervision w...

QA, Clinical Pathways, and Nursing Effectiveness

the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has had a definitive impact on the quality of care being provided within the country...

Value of Mentoring in the Nursing Profession

term. The rationale is that the experienced nurse will guide the new graduate into the active and applied portion of the pr...

Six Questions on Nursing Theory Models

general systems model serves as an example. Nursing research formerly was purely quantitative in design, and any qualitativ...

Causes and Solutions Regarding Shortage of Nurses

since the survey was initiated in 1977, for example, between 1992 and 1996, the number of nurses grew by 14.2 percent (Mee, 2001)....

Healing Wounds and the Role of Nutrition

placement of polyvinyl alcohol sponges into subcutaneous pockets" (p. 7). Each of the rats were "given a nutritional solution con...

Field of Nursing and Education Importance

employment in places such as large corporations, schools and doctors offices so they have an ordinary schedule. Registered nurses ...

Literature Review on Turnovers in Nursing

In five pages this research paper examines the problems of nursing turnover in a consideration of a literature review on solutions...

Pressure Ulcers and Nursing Research

Of course it is not only the unacceptable nursing home that has escaped the attention of regulatory agencies in which pressure ulc...

Nursing Practice, Research, and Theory

In five pages this research paper discusses the nursing profession in a consideration of the connection between research, practice...

Nursing Homes and the Financial Crisis Confronting Them

nursing home chains. As a result, there have been a number of highly publicized defaults such as that of Integrated Health Service...