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The Dorothy Johnson Behavioral System Model of Nursing

the environment" (Reynolds and Cormack, 1991, p. 1123). Within this main system are eight subsystems: the "ingestive, eliminative,...

Community Nursing: Positive Impacts on Nutrition and Lifestyle

Social Services they have complained that that funding is insufficient to provide for even their most basic dietary needs. Part o...

Mandatory Overtime for Nurses

quality of the provided care (ANA, 2008). Empirical research studies have confirmed that the risk for medical error increase subst...

Community Nursing Problem/Yeadon, PA

avoidance, such as creating a buddy system, which pairs elderly neighbors with each other. Buddies check on one another and accomp...

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...

Nursing Personal Leadership Development Plan

and how discharge instructions should cover these contingencies. "Health" has historically been used to describe the "absence of d...

Code Green: Addressing the Problems in Money-Based Hospital Decision-Making

period of restructuring in many industries, including healthcare. Managed care organizations and changes in reimbursement rates f...

Patients’ Bill of Rights

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

Hospital Utilization Management

information brochure that described the standard course of care for CHF patients (About Virtua, 2004). The team modified the flow ...

Shared Governance and Collective Bargaining Issues in Nursing

associated with a considerable change in the traditional locus-of-control can be safely confronted, and professional practice can ...

Research on Nursing Leadership

in those nursing homes that maintained adequate staffing, but beyond that, the administrative climate of the nursing home facility...

Different Literature Presentations of Asthma

and the effect on the occupational arena. Both articles, however, emphasize that asthma takes a tremendous economic toll in the U...

Article on Mothers' Depression and Infants Critiqued

American Psychiatric Association. The authors indicate that postpartum depression has received a great deal of research att...

Proposed Legislation Patient Safety Act of 2004

legal errors (Fackelmann, 2002). Furthermore, the AMA study demonstrated that there is a direct statistical connection between th...

Comparative Analysis of Erickson's and Orem's Theories

and patient. Orems theory is central to much of nursing philosophy and methodology. This theory is one of three theories...

Beyond Caring by DF Chambliss

parameters of his perspective and goals, and, specifically, refers to the unique orientation of nursing. "Nurses encounter patient...

Nursing as an Art

In twelve pages this paper presents the argument that nursing should be regarded not as a science but as an art. Ten sources are ...

Using Learning Contracts Within Patient Education

only the teaching of adult learners, but also the teaching of those who will be teaching them. Learning Theory It has been ...

Profession of Nursing

not unusual given that there is a common perception that the higher a persons educational attainment the greater level of employme...

Five Questions About the Role of Nurse Manager

and consumable supplies. Capital expense and information technology (IT) items are included, but the nurse manager has no direct ...

MEDITECH Hospital Information System

or reject MEDITECHs suggestions as they see fit. Whether users accept or reject the suggestions made by MEDITECH, care prov...

2 Perspectives on Nursing Theory

addressing specific phenomena or concepts and reflecting practice (Liehr and Smith, 1999). The grand theories of nursing, that is,...

Australian Patient with Unstable Angina and Nursing Actions

a specific number or percentage of Australian citizens who have or may be suffering from unstable angina. Part of the reason for ...

Science and Art of Nursing

process that requires "interpretation, sensitivity, imagination and active participation" (Jenner, 1997). Scientific knowledge, o...

Case Study of a Boy with Acne

of use) of sunscreen at the beach are important considerations. Other factors that should be assessed relative to subjective data...

Becoming a Nurse Manager

FTE RN Demand Projected Growth Setting 2000 2010 2020 2000 to 2010 2000 to 2020 Total 49,200 59,900 69,600 22%...

Health Care Center Case Study: PQRST

inflamed, tender to the touch and evident of a small amount of pus (DAlessandro et al, 2004), becoming more painful as time progre...

Evolution of Personal Philosophy of Nursing

the "inability to determine the meaning of illness-related events" (McCormick, 2002, p. 127). Furthermore, Chinn and Kramer (1999)...

Family Systems/The Postpartum Mother

of family such as the one cited above. In many instances hospitals adhere to the traditional definition, which means that the poli...