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Euthanasia's Pros and Cons

and antibiotics" (Ersek, 2005, p. 48). Upon first glance, it would appear that euthanasia is an application that is in direct con...

Nursing Profession and Men

degree (CBS News). Where 4.1 percent of new female nurses leave the profession after four years, 7.5 percent of new male nurses lo...

Appraisal of Team Performance

of every single employee. If youre not thinking all the time about making every person more valuable, you dont have a chance. Wh...

Quality Assurance and Nursing Management

In five pages this research paper discusses quality care standard maintenance and the role played by nurse managers in sustaining ...

Preventing Medication Error Change Project

for the precise coding of medication and, thereby, helps nurses avoid the common errors listed above (Woods and Doan-Johnson, 2002...

Nursing and Distance Education

a video that presents the patients symptoms and are presented with the question "What is the most likely differential diagnosis ba...

Profession of Nursing

their profession to be their career and it definitely requires career-long continuous professional development. Why then, does a...

Overview of Family Health Nursing

says that families have been sorely neglected as a great deal of nursing practice continues to focus on individuals (Denham, 2003)...

An Article on Childbirth and Nursing Presence Reviewed

for the birth" (MacKinnon, McIntyre and Quance, 2005, p. 29). As this suggests, intrapartum nurses spend the most time with labor...

Nursing and Kangaroo Care

article, "Mother-Infant Skin-to-Skin Contact (Kangaroo Care)," kangaroo care offers the parents the only opportunity to engage in ...

Medication Administration, Risk Management, and Nursing Responsibilities

to reason, therefore, that if nurses are experiencing higher rates of stress, the inevitable consequences of such can only lead to...

Users of Drugs and Alcohol and Quitting Smoking

et al, 2005). However, smokers are not limited in their addition, those who are addicted to other substances, such as alcohol. For...

Australia's Shortages of Nurses

budget restraints. Nurses leave the profession because they are "distressed by being unable to provide quality nursing care, disgr...

Nursing Research Developments

notable historic key developments in nursing research are: 1859 Nightingales Notes on Nursing published 1900 American Nursing Jou...

2 Topics Involving Health Care Management

among all team members (DC Area Health Education Center, 2005). Well-functioning effective teams do not happen by chance. It requ...

Women in the Canadian Military Forces

this aspect. Before 1939, the Canadian military women would serve as nurses during the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 as well as in t...

Hypovolemic Shock and Perioperative Nursing

for patient survival" (Kelley, 2005, p. 2). When the blood volume in the body is too low, it activates "compensatory mechanisms" t...

Medication Errors & Their Prevention

are able to make error reports without fear of reprisal. Nevertheless, the consequence of possible disciplinary action and repris...

NPs Prescribing/Alberta

In 1999, Albertas Nursing Profession Act Extended Practice Roster Regulation provided province authorities with the legal capacity...

Study Critique/Coetzee (2004)

be discussed relative to both previous research and the studies that have come after it. This research tends to substantiate the s...

Learning to Care for Children/A Study Critique

critique of this study will both summarize and analyze the various sections of Coetzees article, which describes this research, a...

Study Critique/Nursing Children

of the study by stating it explicitly: "The purpose of this study was to explore how undergraduate nursing students learn to care ...

Recent Economic Effects on Home Health

In 2001, health care spending as a percentage of GDP was 14.1 percent, or $5,035 per capita (Levit, Smith, Cowan, Lazenby, Senseni...

Assisting in Grief Counseling

left to deny anything connected with the loss, either before or after the fact. Those left behind also need to acknowledge the me...

Ambulation

individual is walking, the thorax rotates in "clockwise and counter-clockwise directions," which are "opposite the pelvic rotation...

Article Critique//Charge Nurse Competencies

does not address the topic of specific competencies. In other words, the most recent literature that is even remotely related to t...

Diabetic Education for Continuing Education for Nurses

methods with measurable outcomes, creating a link between existing research and nursing process, define the role of nurse educator...

Circulating Nurse Surgery Case Study

ventilation. This included placing hip pads with egg crate foam under the patients iliac crest to prevent hyperextension of the lo...

HIV Positive Nurses Should Still Be Allowed to Work

much closer look at the unwise choice to allow HIV-positive nurses to continue their practice. Britain provides statistics that i...

Ethical Implications of Shortages in Nursing

Beginning in the early 1990s, managed care targeted nursing as an expenditure where hospitals could cut costs. Managed care consul...