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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...

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 ...

Holistic Nursing and Migraine Headaches

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

A Family Practice Model for Advanced Nursing Practice and Grieving Parents

define what other mechanisms are brought into the healing process. For example, Gordon et al (2002) argue that depending on the v...

Nursing Diabetes Patient Education Internet Websites

on diabetes into categories and addresses these topics on separate web pages, as does the first site. The homepage explains that t...

Nursing and the Impact of 1996's Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

in 2000, allowing a long comment period before the final rule was issued in February 2003. Five rules were published in 199...

Family Nurse Practitioner's Role

or chronic illness; however, nurse practitioners also have additional intensive education that involves risk reduction and prevent...

Modalities of Self Care and Holistic Nursing

help each other by merely listening and offering words of encouragement. My psychologist friend firmly believed that lifestyle ch...

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...

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...

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...

Critical Modality of Humor

In three pages this research paper discusses how humor can be a modality that assists nurses in patient care as well as self care....

Informed Consent and Nursing

that the doctrine of informed consent is "hopelessly flawed--or at least misguided," as it is often not possible to truly inform ...

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...

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...

Nursing Shortage in Canada

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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, Diabetes, and 3 Research Articles

with a study sample of six female diabetes nurse specialists, who worked with a multidisciplinary team offering comprehensive diab...

Postsurgical Patient Care

indwelling foley and compression boot. Her dressing is dry and intact. She was discharged with Percocet 5mg q6. Analysis and Out...

Communication and Palliative Care

the patient prior to his death. The nurse clearly felt the need to encourage the family to stay and spend as much time as possibl...

Three Discussion Questions from Week Two

therefore more attractive to those very human individuals filling its nursing positions. A mentoring program can help support tho...

Stem Cell Research and Nursing

ethics and value of this research. Ethically and scientifically responsible nurses must realize that from a deontologic perspecti...

Overview of Nurse Mentors

roles of nursing is direct patient care, and one of the seven essential AACN values is that of human dignity. In years past, dire...

Nursing Diagnoses After Surgery

indwelling foley and compression boot. Her dressing is dry and intact. She was discharged with Percocet 5mg q6. Analysis and Out...

Urinary Tract Infections and Nursing Diagnosis

disappear and remain at bay for a long while. The symptoms that the patient exhibits as well as physical examination are consiste...