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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...

Inpatient Settings and Bereavement Care Explored

in which care is provided for aging and dying adults in general. In addition, the researchers recognize that preparation for dyin...

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...

JCAHO's HF1 Core Measure and Hoshin Planning

* "HF-2 LVF assessment * "HF-3 ACEI for LVSD * "HF-4 Adult smoking cessation advice/counseling" (Overview, 2002). JCAHO e...

Impact of Nursing Models

within these models. Definition of nursing model Semantic confusion abounds in the relevant literature as to what--precisely--is...

Nursing and the Importance of Intensive Care and Critical Care Skills

the non-emergency sections of the hospital or when they are in the doctors office or the resident clinic! Heart attacks happen! ...

U.S. Foreign Educated Nurse Licensing

also point out that "developed countries may not be well served by international nurse recruitment if it prevents them from addres...

Student Interest in the Nursing Profession

just need a positive touch from another human being. The student investigating the relationship of nursing contribution to patien...

Nurse Practitioner's Role and Strategies

certification program (Policy statement, 1999). On the other hand, the additional education required to become a licensed NP may t...

Community Nursing Partnership Rewards and Threats

a partnership approach where the discipline work together can be increased cost effectiveness in the overall treatment of a patien...

Nursing and the Theory of Interpersonal Relations by Hildegard Peplau

the beginning of her career in the 1950s, Peplau indicated that she believed that the significance between the nurse and the patie...

Nursing and Reflective Thinking Development

as a solution to the problem of developing reflective skills, Ferrario defines reflective thinking as: a) analyzing, synthesizing,...

Psychiatric Nursing and Self Disclosure for Therapeutic Purposes

many had very definite opinions on the matter as a whole, "none of the participants articulated what the process consisted of or h...

Health Care and Interdisciplinary Teams

a list of advantages for patients, which include: * Greater coordination of services leads to higher quality care for the patient ...

Jean Watson's Nursing Theories

the word alone that Watsons ideology is based not just upon clinical actions but upon the implementation of emotional availability...

Philosophy of Nursing and Values

money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely would no...

Analyzing Universality and the Cultural Care Diversity Theories of Madeleine Leininger

patients life needs to change in response to the patients health care needs, then the nurse needs to be sensitive to that factor a...

Case Study on Nursing Leadership

accomplishing the task or objective rather than on people (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004). They make the policies and rules ...

Nursing Diagnosis and Body Image Disturbance Case Study

has focused on two corollary components: 1. the accuracy of body size estimations and 2. the attitudes and feelings individuals ...

Studies in Nursing Leadership

percent); * Management by walking around (15 percent); * Coaching/empowerment (11 percent); * Team (7 percent); * Transformational...

Shortage of Nurses and Its Global Implications

staff them (Ocala, Fla., Hospitals Tackle Nursing Shortage, 2002). The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizati...

Various methods of pain management

in acute care is sensitive about the use of drugs in recovering patients. Exposure of abuses of past years has raised awareness o...

Adaptation Nursing Model of Callista Roy

adaptation has a process in which individuals respond positively to environmental changes and described three types of stimuli: fo...

Nursing and Statistics

which both of those impacts are important. The question of what statistics should be collected in a medical facility, however, is...

Dementia Patients and Use of Restraint

with at least one individuals background in patient care in conjunction with the theorists higher awareness of the interaction of ...

Nursing Paradigm Concepts and Leininger's Theory

life needs to change in response to the patients health care needs, then the nurse needs to be sensitive to that factor as well. ...

Ireland's Nurse Practitioner Role

clinical nurse specialist and the advanced nurse practitioner is decidedly hazy. However, Wickham (2003) states that a nurse worki...