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Hand Washing and the Care of Patients

preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...

Geriatric Care Quality

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

'Military Industrial Complex' Warning of Outgoing President Dwight Eisenhower

to physicians. Increasingly, "evidence-based guidelines are becoming codes of medical practice" (Healy, 2005; p. 54). Superficia...

Hospital Innovation Program Education Proposal

over their blood glucose levels; and (3) encouraging continuous improvement in nursing knowledge and patient education. The progr...

The Decision Aspect of the Stetler Model of Research Analysis

train sufficient numbers of new nurses. Turnover is high among those who remain in the profession, and those so dissatisfied - an...

Nurse as an Agent of Change in Data Base Management

a nurses role as a change agent in data base management. Fonville, Killian, and Tranbarger (1998) note that successful nurses of ...

A Review of the Article 'Parent behavior and child distress during urethral catherization'

is a very important consideration in nursing. Indeed, some four thousand of so documents were published annually about pain in th...

Work Environment and Communication

and allows the receiver to observe non-verbal cues as to the messages meaning. Feedback "reports back to the sender that the recei...

Nursing Profession and English Instruction Benefits

be more enlightening and convey a more precise meaning than an extended descriptive passage. At this point, the student researchin...

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...

Holistic Nursing and Migraine Headaches

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

Article on Bypass Surgery Critiqued

which resulted in 47 practices taking part and two of these having two patients. The sample : 98 (75 male) consecutive patients w...

Dependency and Physical Changes of the Elderly

In five pages this research paper takes a nursing perspecitve regarding the elderly's physical changes and increased dependence th...

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...

Pharmaceutical Sales and the Entrance of Nurses

greater demand on health care services as more of them cross that line from employed to retired. Projections are just that,...

Nurse Consultants and Their Role

on an evidenced based evidence based practice and the development of increased individual accountability in the area of clinical g...

A Summary and Analysis of the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics

and safety" (ANA, 2005). After all, if a nurse does not take steps to preserve her or his own safety, the nurse cannot adequately ...

Method Analysis in 'Analyzing Hospital Readmissions Using Statewide Discharge Databases'

the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

Nursing Shortage in Canada

considering this economic downturn, the numbers of undergraduates pursuing nursing careers began to also decline. In 1991, Canada ...

Training of Nursing Staff and Its Rationale

learned long ago the value of yet another Deming (1986) exhortation, that of continuous improvement. By definition, the concept i...

Overview of the NYSNA

Working for the well-staffed working environment in itself is no small task, given the fact of the ongoing nursing shortage. The ...

Kolcaba and Holistic Care

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

Social Policy Statement of Nursing

the basic paradigms of nursing professional theory are considered within a social context. For example, health is defined as a "dy...

Community and Patient Nursing Care and Meningococcal Meningitis

the disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...

Proposed Nursing Communication Project

suggestions for future action in regards to this problem. Section A: Problem identification The Problem and its importance The G...

'Con' Argument on Quotas in Nursing

Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...

Nursing and Secondhand Smoke

In ten pages this research paper discusses nursing educational intervention regarding information about secondhand smoke's dangers...

Holistic Nursing and the Role of Jean Watson

In five pages this paper discusses the holistic nursing model and the role played by Jean Watson in its development. Four sources...

Historical Theories on Health, Education, Society and the Individual

In twelve pages this paper discusses how the nursing profession's health care workers can benefit from the educational theories of...

Nursing Contributions of Virginia Henderson

In three pages this paper discusses how the nursing profession was impacted by Virginia Henderson's many contributions. Four sour...