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Need for Advanced Directives

is considerable "uncertainty, confusion and a general lack of knowledge" concerning advance directives (Payne, 2007, p. 545). Th...

The Medicine of the Ancient Greeks

to promote schools, schools where medical pursuits were blended with the ecclesiastical (Draper, 1992). These schools would ultima...

Nurse Manager Responsibilities

This research paper presents a comprehensive discussion of nurse manager responsibilities, which includes addressing nurse empower...

Smoking az a Nursing Advocacy Issue

This research paper pertains to smoking as a nursing advocacy issue, and describes how nurses are addressing this issue. Three pag...

Impact of Persistent Diseases

As we live longer, we are subject to acquiring one or more chronic illnesses, some of which come with advancing age. Older age ran...

Nursing Questions

with other organizations in order to achieve health objectives. For example, community-based resources may be used in conjunction...

Should a Nurse Assist in the Suicide of a Suffering Patient

looking at a potential scenario where a patient seeks the provision of narcotics with the intention of ending their life the nurse...

Elder Neglect in Nursing Homes

be vulnerable to abuse or neglect for a variety of reasons and in a variety of situations, which range from home care to care in r...

Nursing Shortage Critical Issue

today will reach retirement age within 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). At the same time, fewer people are entering nursing, as ...

Case Study/Death of a Client

2001). Toms condition remained so precarious that personal care for him had to be done very tentatively. For example, brushing his...

Personal Definition of Nursing

upholding the human dignity of the people involved, as well as their "unique biopsychosocial, cultural, (and) spiritual being" (LM...

Political Issues in Nursing

nurses can become political active, as these organizations frequently play an active role in establishing public policy by publica...

Perspectives on Community Nursing

In eight pages a community nursing issue in which an educational interaction between a student nurse and a patient did not go well...

Information on Nursing Homes

This paper consists of five pages and considers three issues as they pertain to nursing homes including nursing rates of pay betwe...

Health and Alcohol as Perceived by a GP Nurse

those under stress or who are unhappy with their lives. For this reason there has been a higher use in poorer social classes where...

Nurse Practitioner

collaborating physicians name. Authority to prescribe controlled substances includes Schedule II-V as outlined in the prescribers ...

Utilization of Research/Nursing Shortage

Kanters position that the situational aspects of a working environment have the ability to influence worker attitudes and behavior...

Nurse Anesthetist Issues

naturally create a prime source of psychic conflict for nurses, which would facilitate the development of burnout. Jenkins, Ellio...

Nurses Job Satisfaction

in the U.S. stands at 8.5 percent to over 14 percent, depending on the specific area of specialty (Letvak and Buck, 2008), by 2020...

Diabetes Self-Management - Hispanic Patients

has always been about the development of autonomy, equality, social justice and democracy" (Mezirow, 1999). The transformative app...

The Value of the Family

individual family member are considered within this context (Friedman, Bowden and Jones 37). In analyzing the various theories th...

Impact of a BSN on Nursing Role

background of hospital RNs is a significant factor in providing quality nursing care, as this study showed that the level of educa...

Healthcare Solutions From Clinical Practice

in scientific reasoning that she changed the face of nursing. She made use of statistical analysis in order to demonstrate the way...

Nursing Shortage

higher nurse-to-patient ratios suffer an increased rate of burnout and experience greater dissatisfaction with their jobs. In resp...

Formulating Nursing Theory

verifies old knowledge (Wilkerson, 1998). As this suggests, the continuation of scholarly advances in the development of nursing t...

Importance of Evidence-Based Practice

makes the point that EBP involves more than simply utilize research evidence; and Penz and Bassendowski emphasize this point by s...

MSN and ANP Degrees

importance of clinical or practice experts who can help to identify specific roles, expectations and the ways in which best-practi...

Nursing Theory

viewpoints that articulate their own unvoiced feelings toward their profession. For example, in a discussion in an online nursin...

Interpersonal Relations Model, Peplau

describe the utility of Peplaus model in working with a 62-year-old man, Jason, who was suffering from depression and anxiety resu...

An Annotated Bibliography of Nurse Research

prevent the potential of incidences of sudden cardiac death in young athletes. The authors maintained that pre-participation card...