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Literature on PDAs in Nursing Practice and Education

This research paper presents summaries of two studies that focus on PDA efficacy in nursing education and practice. The paper also...

Role of Nurse Practitioners and Reimbursement

Prospective Payment System (PPS), reimbursement rates going to both hospitals and physicians have declined significantly. In react...

Community Health Nursing and Palliative Care

in the overall quality of care delivered by community health nurses (CHNs) is providing end-of-life care that is holistic and cong...

Reimbursing NPs at 100 Percent

nurse practitioners how they could join the movement and help. The Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1989 included minimal reimbursem...

Improper Nursing Delegation in NJ/Legal Ramifications

law stipulates that an RN is allowed to delegate specific nursing tasks individuals who are unlicensed if they have been adequatel...

Nursing Home Falls and Best Practices

-3.14 2.83 6.05 As the numbers indicate, in all but Q3 2009, the number of falls experienced exceeded the target. This suggests t...

Nursing and Social Ecology

& Kantor-Kaufmann, 2002). The meso level of the ecological model looks at the role of institutions and organizations in shaping ...

Advanced Practice Nursing Roles

This research paper discusses various aspects of the roles addressed by advanced practice nurses. Five pages in length, seven sour...

Therapies and Health Care, Genetic Research,

This research paper pertains to aspects of genetic research and genetic therapies that are relevant to nursing practice. Eight pag...

Nursing Director, Hospital Hiring Practices

This research paper discusses hospital hiring practices and policies and specifically focuses on the position of nursing director...

Technology Helps Health Care

a drivable distance. This rural population currently exceeds 35 million in the country (America Telemedicine Association, 2007). ...

Self-Care Deficit Theory, Dorothea Orem

The SCDNT regards the meta-paradigm of "Nursing" as an art, that is, a "helping service," but also as a technology ("Dorothea," 20...

LEADERSHIP AND THE FIVE BASES OF POWER

This 3-page paper discusses the five bases of power and how it works with leadership and dependency. ...

Delaware County Community College, An Overview

County Community College (DCCC) located near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, serves the educational needs of 28,000 students annually ...

Management of Diabetic Patients and Nurse Practitioner Practice

risen in the US population, there has been corresponding increase in the incidence of diabetes mellitus, which is associated with ...

Diabetes Articles, Reflection, Synthesis

of literature pertaining to type 2 diabetes mellitus, begins by describing, summarizing and analyzing the study conducted by Barko...

APN Leadership

nurses. These were all key people in leading the change (Stetler et al., 2009). These same people were not identified in the begin...

Preceptorship in Nursing

to do with how a person feels about him- or herself. Those with a high sense of self-efficacy believe that they can master even di...

Uncertainty in Illness Theory/Merle H. Mishel

Intervention using Mishels theory facilitates the process of patients accepting the inevitability of uncertainty as a factor in th...

Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing: An Annotated Bibliography

staff that can result in moral stress or stress of conscience (Fry, Hurly & Foley, 2002). Because unresolved ethical issues can ...

Value-based Accounting Still Relevant in the 21st Century

elements such as the direct materials and the direct labor (Chadwick, 2007). By deducting the variable costs from the revenues it ...

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...

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...

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...

Standards-Based Assessment

that it gives teachers an assessment tool that goes beyond the simplistic orientation of traditional methods of grading. For examp...

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...

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...

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...

Family Presence at Resuscitation

(2005), in which samples of patients or patients families were enrolled. In a study in which the sample participants had lost a lo...