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Kolcaba and Holistic Care

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

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...

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...

Children And Literature: Learning About Themselves In A Book

are learning that every living being sometime, somehow, some way ultimately dies. Fairy tales have long utilized this concept as ...

Kolcaba's Comfort Theory Of Nursing

the plan may be objective where the actual healing can be measured or it may be subjective according to what the patient says (Dup...

Preventing Nursing Injury in the Workplace

such as "human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus" (Shelton and Rosenthal, 2004, p. 25). The gr...

Pamela G. Reed

(Tomey and Alligood, 2006, p. 645). Meaning There are two major assumptions upon which Reeds theoretical conclusions are based. ...

Quality Improvement/Pressure Ulcers

a "collaborative quality improvement project" that focuses on PUs in nursing homes as its primary focus (Lynn, et al, 2007). QIOs,...

Evaluating 2 Nursing Web Sites on EBP

researchers (JBI, 2008). This section of the site also addresses the topic of "Research Training" and the availability of scholars...

Nursing Theory Sites

unitary human beings (Newman). This theory is appealing because it acknowledges how each person is unique and, therefore, must be ...

Nurse Training and Retention Act of 2007

wages and benefits to its nurses that are competitive for its market or that have been collectively bargained with a labor organiz...

Ethical Issues/Living Wills

precisely the same as for other patients. Legal responsibility for care decisions in cases where there is a living will: does the...

Nursing Management Issue/Medication Error

systems. The following examination of the problem of medication errors focuses on the context of mental health nursing within the ...

ADHD: A Critique of the Research

and Perou (2007) report that an estimated five to eighteen percent of youth in the US are diagnosed with ADHD and most receive so...

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...

3 Nursing Diagnoses for an Elderly Patient

the case study, is important for planning a safe and effective rehabilitation program (Craven and Hirnle, 2007). People who experi...

Holistic Nursing Journal

discourse that I find confusing. Philosophy has often struck me as an amorphous subject. Its slippery and refuses to be categoriz...

Observing a Religious Service

the listeners would occasional offer comments and observations, to which the rabbi would generally respond. Occasionally, this pro...

Hypertension Education for African American Patients

in response to cognitive and physiological challenge" (Covelli, 2007, p. 323). Diet: Both the intake of dietary sodium and potas...

Effective Nursing Leadership, Management

power, found that where nurses report that power when is shared, there are corresponding improvements in the nursing/physician rel...

Continuous Quality of Care

patients with certain injuries and missed diagnoses of certain conditions such as appendicitis or meningitis (Dansby, Kavaler & Sp...

Nursing Assessment and Elderly Woman Interview

individual, this woman does reflect on the past and has some regrets, but some optimistic comments are made as well. In evaluat...

DSM IV Diagnostic Criteria and Treatment of PTSD

after the exposure to the initiating traumatic event (Stein, 2002). If PTSD-like symptoms become evidence and are intense prior to...

Overview on the Shortage of Nurses

for registered nurses by 2010 (Feeg 8). While statistics such as these have received a great deal of press, what is less well kno...

Nursing, Cultural Understanding, and the Cultural Care Diversity and Universality Theory of Madeleine Leininger

19th and early 20th centuries. Hughes and Romeo (1999) question the usefulness of education that does not address the growing div...

Nursing Shortage in Canada

US shortage has caused many healthcare institutions to look for nurses outside their countrys borders and many nurses are leaving ...

Japanese Wives Role Annotated Bibliography

4. Izuhara, M. (2000). Family Change and Housing in Post-War Japanese Society. Burlington, VT: Ashegate Publishing. This analy...

Nursing/Medical Vocabulary

9.Surg: Patients recovering from some form of surgery. 10. Med: Patients recovering from some form of illness. 11. ICU-Intensive C...