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Decubitus Ulcers and Nursing Shortage

1999). Elderly patients who are alert, and not declared incompetent, have the right to refuse treatment, which includes turning or...

Ethics of Nursing Code

all areas of professional nursing. Provisions 1 through 3 address the principal obligations of nursing, which are to the patient/c...

Terminally Ill Patients and Nursing Care

the needs of the dying and her work indicates that there are times when the most meaningful communication that a nurse can offer i...

Nursing Practice and Otitis Media

of ear infection (Chronic otitis media, 2003). OM is a serious childhood illness because, if not properly treated, it can lead to ...

Personal Influences on Nursing Philosophy

ability has improved considerably, inasmuch as the decisions I now make are more analytical and based upon a broader and more dive...

Past and Present Nursing

education for nurses in the US followed the model established by modern nursings founder Florence Nightingale (Fitzpatrick 63). Th...

Nursing and Cultural Diversity

a strategic factor in a broader movement toward social transformation that stresses social equity (Downey 249). This transformatio...

PTSD Caused by Childhood Incest and Peplau Intervention Theory

In fourteen pages this research paper considers how a nursing intervention can be designed to assist adults with PTSD resulting fr...

Case Study on Workplace Drug Abuse

a patient to keep her own supply steady? Will she make a mistake and do something wrong as a result of substance abuse? So many th...

Overview of the Federal Civil False Claims Act

in 1999 alone "returned almost $500 million to the federal government." (Butler, 2000, 1). The first question to consider...

Historical Significance of Scarlet Fever

face and chest that it causes, and it is characterized by chills, fever, headache, vomiting, rapid pulse, red rash and an inflame...

Questioning Health Policy

who suffer from cancer, arthritis, AIDS, multiple sclerosis or acute back pain are known to frequently turn to alternative medicin...

Heath Benefits of Aged Garlic Extract

point that relatively few paid attention to it at all. In many respects, the same has occurred in the discussion of anythin...

Article Review and Discussion of Nursing Mentoring

interactions with their patients and with each other have. Kurt Lewins change theory holds that change is incremental. It occurs...

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 ...

Impediments to the Utilization of Nurse Wives

particular certified nurse-midwives-- continues to increase, these impediments linger to a certain extent, and may continue to aff...

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...

Development of Nursing Theory

While these definitions are extremely similar, a differences in emphasis can reflect a differing philosophical stance. The manner ...

Nursing Education Reflections

lives, especially the course of their daily professional lives. We tend to get stuck in ruts where we rely on the same patterns an...

Ethical Dilemma Pertaining to a Do Not Resuscitate Order

disagree with his wife could disrupt their marital relationship at a time when he needs this support, which is undoubtedly one of ...

Shortage of Nursing Faculty

educators in the past, are lured away from academia by better-paying positions in clinical and private practice (Mee, 2003). Furth...

Nursing Evolution

the religious fervor generated by the teachings of "love and mercy" by Jesus Christ resulted in a dramatic increase in charitable ...

Adolescents and Pediatric Perioperative Nursing Interventions

an adolescent client (Wallis, 2004, p. 59). Data on the development of abstract reasoning skills, as well as of the "recognition o...

Pain Management and Nursing

appears a simple enough way in which to establish the particular approach toward pain management for a given patient. However, re...

BSN Advantages and the Selection of Nursing as a Career

At the heart of nursing is the nurse-patient relationship, which provides the foundation for nursing care (Patusky, 2003). This r...

Time Management and Critical Care Nursing

achieved that the critical care nurse may address the bio-psycho-social implications of the event (Alfafara and Hedges, 1996). Fur...

Nursing and the Management of Time

reveal a steady growth in the number of nurses joining unions due to discontent" (Blankenheim 2001, p. 13). They are doing so to l...

Nursing Practice and Medication Errors

MEDMARX is thought to be the most comprehensive reporting of medication error information in the nation (Morantz & Torrey, 2003). ...

Qualitative Study Death Sentence' to 'Good Cancer' Couples' Transformation of a Prostate Cancer Reviewed

objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and their wives,...

Nursing Care and Patient Diagnosis

is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...