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The Continuing Evolution of Advanced Practice Nursing

absolute separation of duties and artificial formality intended to preserve hierarchy in attitude as well as fact. Physicians pro...

Hildegard Peplau: Applications in Advanced Practice Nursing

relations. Nurses must assess person and environment in relation to their impact on health. Both person and environment can vary...

Nursing Practice Improvement and Qualitative Research's Importance

on Nursing" in 1860 which not only documented basic concepts of nursing care but also included basic research strategies such as o...

Floating RN Practice

nurse refused and was subsequently fired. The court ruled in favor of the nurse and found that the Beloit Memorial had wrongfully...

Spirituality in Nursing Practice - Literature Review

significantly as ethnicity and can encompass many different forms of beliefs. Spirituality plays a major role in how individuals...

Summary of Nursing Articles

to reach the disease" (Colwell; 2). The author also examines aspects of surgical treatment, indicating that a particular type of s...

RN vs. BSN, Advantages for Nurses

ratio, the mortality rates are 44 percent lower (Degree-level nurses, 2005). Substantiating this research, a Canadian study cond...

Mental Health of Returning Soldiers

need of treatment following tours in Rwanda, the Balkans and Somalia" (Auld). Mental health problems in regards to soldiers retu...

Certifying an Older Driver

drivers" than do states that do not require test automatic testing (Murden and Unroe, 2005, p. 22). Most states do set standards f...

Caring and the Nurse Practitioner

now regarded as a crucial and defining component of nursing, as caring defines "nursings unique area of practice and provides dire...

Adding an Athletic Trainer to the Sports Medicine Clinic

increase; third-party payers strive to keep payments as low as possible; individuals seek to enhance performance or gain the great...

Impact of Professional Environment on Nursing Knowledge

(Bliss-Holtz, Winter and Scherer, 2004). In hospitals that have achieved magnet status, nurses routinely collect, analyze and us...

Newman's Theory & Applications for Practice

awareness of the self within the context of the environment grows in association with each other in a manner that allows the indiv...

Reduction of Infection Spread and Nursing

is still those are very disturbing numbers when one considers that the problem may be eliminated to some degree by the simple task...

Nursing Practice and Pain Management Research

a lingering distrust of the qualitative approach, one that often has not been done well and has resulted in works that cannot be c...

Goals and Mental Health Nursing

Frank seems reluctant to leave. Realizing that Frank needs to be met on a different level, Susan switches back to the "Be-with" mo...

Immobility and Nursing Practice

In six pages this paper examines nursing practice through a definition, literature review, and implications of immobility. Five s...

Critique of Nursing Articles

once again examines how nurses can be empowered, and learn those values in college. Finally, Ann Gallagher discusses dignity with ...

Medicare, Part D

to the medications needed to ensure their health. Beginning in 2004, Medicare began to offer aid, $600 a year, for covering the co...

Magnet Status and Evidence-Based Practice

official entity until 1993. Today it addresses an array of nursing issues. The goals of the program are: * "Promoting quality in...

Collaborative Practice

Additionally, at the completion of this study intervention, evaluation of results showed that the project also resulted in improve...

Article Critique/Cardiac Rehab Nursing

were contributing to the "toxic" work environment, which characterized this CSDU, as there was "evidence of a lack of meaningful c...

Nursing Practice and Atherosclerosis

1997). It is generally believed that atherosclerosis results from a combination of factors, which include: hemodynamic stress (hyp...

Healing Wounds and the Role of Nutrition

placement of polyvinyl alcohol sponges into subcutaneous pockets" (p. 7). Each of the rats were "given a nutritional solution con...

Practice Scope and Nursing Professionalism

(1999), research shows that the level of education reached by an RN contributes to a sense of professional autonomy and those nurs...

Book Report on Mark Sanborn’s The Fred Factor

of course, it only takes one person in any organization to "make a difference" (Sanborn, 2004, p. 8). The second principle, Succe...

Bipolar Disorder

there is very little information about predisposes people to these episodes (Swann, 2006). Therefore, for the most part, nursing a...

Practice, Knowledge, and Nursing Theory's Role

The metaparadigms of nursing represent common concepts that are accepted throughout the profession and across international bounda...

Nursing Self Care Deficit Theory of Dorothea Orem

operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). This is broken down into three basic categories: 1) wholly compen...

Integration of the Hierarchy of Needs by Abraham Maslow and Self Care of Dorothea Orem

activities" (Orems Self-Care Model Concepts) that patients need to undertake to meet their own health care needs on a routine basi...