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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 ...

A Comparison, Novice vs. Expert

for an expert mentor, which are "being an authority in the field, an educator, a counselor, a sponsor, and having personal commitm...

Electronic Documentation, Making the Switch

documentation towards the use of electronic medical records (EMRs). This frequently, however, causes conflict among nursing staff,...

Nursing Project - Learning Review

being examined from the physical perspective it was also necessary to look at the falls from a practical, social and a psychologic...

Nursing Home Falls and Performance Improvement

falls. Of course, performance measures must utilize meaningful metrics if the performance they measure is to be of any use to the ...

Nursing Leadership, A Reflective Essay

regards to aiding nursing managers in achieving improved patient outcomes focuses on the current leadership style of the student r...

The Influence of Environmental Factors on Falls

This paper is an annotated bibliography written in support of a nursing paper examining environmental factors which may influence...

Patient’s Possessions & Cultural Competency

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

Non-punitive Nursing Culture/Medical Errors

2004). As errors are inevitable, in order to significantly reduce the rate at which they occur, it is imperative that mistakes sho...

JCAHO's Core Measure Heart Failure Process Implementation

They are: 1. "activity level 2. "diet 3. "discharge medications 4. "follow-up appointment 5. "weight monitoring 6. "what to do if ...

Nursing Personal Values' Development

caring as the very definition of what constitutes personal values from a nursing perspective (2003). Koerner (1996), likewise, e...

Standards of Critical Care Nursing

Critically-Care nurses, 1989 in Nursing Management, 1999, p. 38). This abbreviated version of AACN nursing standards was located...

Asthma Medication/Xolair

events (Owen, 2007). This action includes "presentation of antigen by dendritic cells" as well as the "degranulation of mast cells...

Impact of Nursing Models

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

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...

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...

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 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 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...

Qualitative Study 'Occupational Stress and Job Satisfaction in Mental Health Nursing: Focussed (sic) Interventions via Evidence-based Assessment' Reviewed

has been with us for several years, and it is widely publicized. The result is that the nursing shortage not only affects the qua...

Ireland's Nurse Practitioner Role

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

Medication Error Reduction Lesson Plan

deaths each year are related to medications" (Meadows, 2003). The actual number is estimated to be much higher because these kinds...

Overview of Home Health Nursing Field

as business practices, documentation systems, process flows and lines of communication can differ (Blevins, 2001) Home health nur...

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...