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Dyspnea, Family Caregiving and Quality of Life

primary symptoms of COPD are "wheezing, cough, dyspnea on exertion and increased phlegm production" (Touhy and Jett, 2012, p. 289)...

Aiding Patients with Chronic Conditions, A Reflection

support of a nurse that can keep these patients inspired to continue the positive health behaviors that ensure their continued goo...

Nursing Practicum Goals

populations and fall prevention strategies. 1b. Review the home care records to identify precipitating situations leading to fal...

Diabetes in New Mexico and Community Health Nursing

of Health (NMDH) indicates that, as of 2007, it was estimated that 157,930 New Mexico adults, 18 years of age and older, had diabe...

The Cost Consequences of the New York Ban on Nurse Overtime

for example, a terrorist attack. iii. Where a nurse is involved in a ongoing medical or surgical procedure which takes the hours i...

Advocacy and Nursing

to the patient conflicts with the nurses duty to his or her employer (Hanks, 2007). Specifically, barriers to nursing advocacy inc...

Implementing Patient to Nurse Ratios in the Healthcare Environment

was a patient protection initiative which incorporated a requirement for there to be set nasty patient ratios in healthcare system...

Nursing Informatics in the Modern Health Care Organization

Outline of Professional Portfolio In order to attain such an ideal position, however, it is essential to communicate the value o...

Nursing Interventions for a Stroke Case Study

This research paper offers four nursing diagnoses and their relevant goals and interventions, which are applicable to a case study...

Nursing Home Injuries: A Review of the Literature

number of patients, in other words) and the incidence of injury at nursing homes, making this correlation a worthwhile problem to ...

Diabetic Case Study/Art of Nursing

entails addressing the emotional, psychological and spiritual needs of the patient, as well as medical and physical needs, entails...

Facing a Family Health Challenge

frequently the needs of terminal patients are not addressed properly and that multiple problems exist in this regard. Practitioner...

The Master's Prepared Nurse: Competencies in Health Care

"benefits and burdens of... treatment", helping patients to "understand their prognosis", and emphasizing the importance of patien...

Statement of Purpose for Nursing School

Nigeria is a country that has gone through significant economic struggles that has impacted the ability to sustain a healthy popul...

Nursing Home Falls - A Literature Review

of falls in nursing homes, it was essential to collect information from as wide a variety of credible sources as possible. Title s...

Strategies for Student Nursing Assessment

student offer a description that relates the students personal assessment of the strategy. For example, in regards to rubrics, the...

Stroke Victim/Assessment and Nursing Diagnoses

This research paper discusses the assessment and determination of four nursing diagnoses that pertain to a 68-year-old stroke vict...

Mission and Philosophies of Two Service Organizations

of an existing organization wide statement, The first sentence places this in the context of the 1650 organizational charter and t...

Medication Communication/Concept Analysis using Orem's Theory

between a patient and a doctor in a community practice setting" (Manias, 2010, p. 934). However, this scenario is no longer the mo...

Significance of Nursing Informatics

the Internet and also the availability of a patients electronic health record (HER) facilitate nurses providing the highest level ...

Nursing Care for Elderly Patient

By addressing this need, which includes rehabilitation designed to aid her mobility, nursing intervention can also have a positive...

Emergency Department Nursing/Informatics

to undertake shortcuts. Factors such as the urgent care required by ED patients and the fact that many patients are unable to comm...

Orem, Watson/Caring in their Theories

prompts nurses to cultivate the "conscious intent to preserve wholeness; potentiate healing; and preserve dignity, integrity and l...

Exercise as Self Help

care deficit theory and The transtheroretical model of exercise behaviour as well as allowing for the characteristics of those wit...

Nursing Case Management: A Power Point

2000). Slide: Orems Self-Care Theory Self-care and the Role of the Practitioner Diabetes Self-Management Training Empowering I...

Historical Development of Nursing Theory

bringing awareness of the impact of environmental factors. Nightingale may be argued as held back by her gender due to a social st...

THE PROFESIONAL MENTAL HEALTH NURSE AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS

No matter what the specialty, nurses are on the front line of healthcare - theyre the individuals who interact directly with the p...

Aggressive Behaviors Against Nurses

essential to being able to maintain the necessary nursing workforce and ensuring the delivery of care. These researchers maintain...

Nursing Research Critique

more information on using this paper properly! Loiselle and Dubois (2009) created a research study entitled The Impact of a Multi...

Health Care and Interdisciplinary Teams

a list of advantages for patients, which include: * Greater coordination of services leads to higher quality care for the patient ...