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Best Practice in Ensuring Infected Wound Healing

potential for long term physiological complications as well as long-term emotional impacts. Not only does the type of care needed...

Legal Issues & Nursing

will--in all likelihood--result in a professional negligence suit, rather than criminal charges. Suits against nurses result from ...

National Association of Orthopedic Nurses

NAON recognizes that learning and developing professional is a life-long processes and it helps orthopedic nurses achieve the goal...

Review of "Outcomes of Therapeutic Massage for Hospitalized Cancer Patients"

Smith, et al. (2002) explain that their purpose "was to investigate the effects of therapeutic massage on selected outcomes relate...

Licensing Registered Nurses

legislation that authorizes a Nurse Licensure Compact (National Council of the State Boards of Nursing, Nurse Licensure Compact, 2...

The Roper, Logan and Tierney Model of Nursing

Additionally, the model also "incorporates a life span continuum, where the individual passes from fully dependent at birth, to fu...

Nursing Ethics Issues

in death is a wise safeguard. In the early part of the twentieth century, rationalizations abounded in medical literature that def...

Arguing Against Nurses Participating in the Death of Patients and the Christine Busalacchi Case

Rural Nurses, represented by registered nurse and practicing attorney Jacqulyn Hall, filed an amici curiae (friends of the court) ...

Pain Management and Nursing Involvement Increases

a long period, have the opportunity to build relationships with them and are able to come to know the individual patients response...

HMOs and Metaparadigms of Nursing

the situation in which the health care is offered, that is, a clinic, a hospital or a physicians office. "Health" refers to a st...

Angina Pectoris From a Nursing Perspective

risk factors that can be altered, with special attention to lowering cholesterol and blood pressure. B. Treatment of ischemia usua...

Nursing Home Care and the Effects of Mandatory Continuation of Nursing Education

nursing care over the past decade and how do they support the argument for a continuum of educational practices for nursing profes...

Health Assessment Models and the General Practice Nurse

such as medical history as well as their role in consultation and also in the way that preventative healthcare is delivered, the ...

Nursing Selection

member with a meaningful recovery experience? When did you first realize that you wanted to help others? Relating personal details...

Community Health and the Nursing Care Theory of Jean Watson

and continues to do so, over the past two decades, as it was first published in 1979 (Falk-Rafael, 2000). In formulating her theor...

Concepts of Self Care

to the wide-ranging aspect of nursing than merely administering medicine; in fact, the myriad components that ultimately comprise ...

Emergency Room and Intensive Care Unit Nursing Retention

the chaos," she said (Serafini 1490). This nurse further stated that sometimes ER nurses are called to the intensive care unit for...

Pediatric Burn Care and High Acuity Nursing

or other special attention to the wounds caused by burns. Each day s/he spends in the hospital is creating another reason for the...

Professional Practice and Research Interview Summary

techniques or theories as they pertain to the medical world, and it is as if the prison setting is the last place where these tech...

Nursing Home Costs and the Impact of MDS/PPS/RUG III System Utilization

Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that it is no longer only added stress and long hours for those...

Pain Requirements of Cognitive-Impasired Nursing Home Residents

expressing his or her misery. Such caregivers may have experienced patients who are as likely to cry out, thrash around, or simply...

SNF Costs and the Impact of the Shortage of Registered Nurses

of the patients in a single unit will be assigned to one RN; the other half will be assigned to another. Another will be availabl...

Using Critical Thinking in the Field of Nursing

or understanding when the staff or the doctors have to move on to the next client. Many patients complain that their healthcare pr...

Perspectives on Shortage of Nurses

2002 and allowed for a National Nurse Service Corps program to provide funding for tuition, expenses and a stipend to those nursin...

Policy Statements and Nursing Standards

gives the appearance of increased attention to theory and evidenced-based nursing in an atmosphere of caring for the individual. ...

Neuman and Rogers Systems Model Application

the realization of the "dehumanizing" of patients that led to them being referred to as "Bed x," "Case x" or some other nameless, ...

Theoretical Nursing Perspectives on Pain Management

from pain that began after radiation therapy that caused nerve damage (Fischman, 2000). After receiving therapy at a pain clinic, ...

Skin Cancer Literature Review

when Coco Chanel made the look desirable. Since that time, legions of youth and adults have sought to possess the "perfect" tan, ...

Registered Nurse's Hospital Role

several years. Psychologically, it has been found that individuals more actively involved with their own health care often fare m...

'Angel of the Battlefield' Clara Barton

in the 19th and early 20th century, the fact is even more remarkable. "Well and Strong and Young" Updike writes that in 1854 Bar...