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Use of Restraints in Healthcare

indicates, restraint places health practitioners between the proverbial rock and a hard place. However, there are practice standar...

Dehydration & Older Patient

dehydrated? Has literature simply made you aware of this potential problem? You might say something like: "Considering the dire co...

Nursing Perspective on the Issue of Living Organ Donation

however, Jones requested an ethics consult on the case due to the fact that Johns psychosocial evaluation had caused Jones to have...

Nursing and the Interaction Between Theory, Research, and Practice

authors state that research "and theory are key underpinnings that guide safe, effective, and comprehensive" (p. 35) practice. As...

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 ...

Nursing & Mandatory Overtime

expectancy is increasing and more people are surviving serious illness and living longer with chronic illness. At the same time, t...

Improving Pediatric Care in the ED

graduate nursing hires (Truman, 2004, p. 45). The novice nurses participate in six hours of classroom instruction, plus thirty hou...

Residencies for Registered Nurses

It is well known that there is a significant shortage of registered nurses that will continue to grow. There is a difference of op...

NANDA

imply, a standardized nursing language provides a "uniform nomenclature for the diagnosis, intervention, and evaluation components...

Negative Effect of Anesthesia Assistants on Nursing

generations. Though Nightingale promoted a professional demeanor, nursing was not something that most well-bred women would even ...

Forensic Psychiatric Nursing

endeavor. Nursing in any context requires a detailed knowledge of individual patients. Specifically, a forensic nurse will have a...

Continuing Education

the "5 As," the steps are: 1) ask the patient if he or she smokes, 2) advise him or her to quit, 3) assess the willingness to...

Economic Indicators 2006

Budget Office forecasts that gross domestic product will grow by 3.6 percent after inflation (in "real" terms) this year and by 3....

Research Evaluation on Nursing Home Costs of Utilizing MDS/PPS RUG III Systems

(p. 835) among Medicaid residents of Massachusetts nursing homes between 1991 and 1994. This mixed method (i.e., quantitative as ...

SNF Costs and the Impact of Primary Nursing

to changes which in turn can result in higher costs and reduced perceived quality of care. Primary nursing is not a new con...

Research Proposal on SNFs and the RN Shortage

well. This study also appears to be sound scientifically. Its primary means of data analysis is statistical; the methods b...

Prescribing Nurses and the Treatment of Wounds

in which nurses had to request perceptions for certain types of dressing was a waste of time and resources, which in turn impacted...

Psychiatric Nursing Training and Reflective Practice

Irelands influence in reflective practice is now beginning to be felt around the country. Among other developments, the English N...

Nursing Practice and Medication Errors

MEDMARX is thought to be the most comprehensive reporting of medication error information in the nation (Morantz & Torrey, 2003). ...

Different Careers in Nursing

nurses which makes job searching easier. Registered nurses are in great demand and it is thought that there will be a significa...

4 Traditional Metaparadigms in Nursing

Under her wing, Nightingale took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to health. ...

Theoretical Perspectives on Nursing

and Ingalls (2003) describe the four metaparadigms allegorically as the "roots" of a living tree, emphasizing that the metaparadig...

Are All Nursing Degrees Created Equal?

the associates course of study to address the very things that can make the greatest difference in patient outcomes and satisfacti...

Patient Autonomy and Nursing Student Ethics Article

are under our care. By promoting healthy and better communication between us and the patient, we do not need to involve the famil...

Basic Nursing Metaparadigm

In four pages this research paper examines nursing's metaparadigm in a consideration of concepts including nursing, health, enviro...

Oral Hygiene Protocol and Nursing Practice

Hanson (2004) recommends a toothbrush, but specifies that it should be soft and that non-abrasive toothpaste should be selected. P...

Nursing Practice and the Opposition of Euthanasia

lethal drug is given with the intent to bring about death, thus ending suffering" (28). Of course, there is a difference between ...

Role of Nursing and 4 Metaparadigms

The concept of health also has undergone change over the years. It formerly referred to absence of disease, but now it generally ...

Problems of Retaining Nurses

and Robinson, 2003). Another element complicating the problem is the fact that in the early 1990s, many hospitals restructured a...

The Impact of the Kentucky Trilogy and Generational Cohorts on Nursing

example charge nurses may make assignments in terms of patients to different style for the shift, there will not necessarily be in...