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Dorothea Dix, Pioneer of Nursing

Dixs problems with mental health may have inspired her passion for aiding those who were diagnosed as being mentally unstable or i...

Lateral Violence in a Nursing Workforce

backstabbing, failure to respect privacy and broken confidences" (Stanley, et al, 2007, p. 1248). Ferrell notes the importance of ...

Nursing and Self-Care

and respond to patient authentically as individuals in the here-and-now moment may be the best way to prepare safe and effective c...

Economics and Nursing

(Nellis and Parker, 2000). Elasticity Elasticity of a good is the measure that assess the impact that a change in price will have...

Atrial Fibrillation

percent of al cardiac surgery patients (Brantman and Howie, 2006). While this postoperative condition is typically well-tolerated ...

Nursing Wages

in this case for a variety of reasons (Chaguturu and Vallabhaneni, 2005). First of all, despite any financial incentives, it has b...

Management of Hypertension Among African Americans

to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...

Nursing Student Evaluation/Social Issues and Ethics

and * Student presentations (50.6 percent" (Burkemper, et al, 2007, p. 14). Less than one third of the courses surveyed indicat...

Coping with Being Understaffed

the ability of an institution to deliver quality, error-free care. At the Six Sigma level, there are roughly "3.4 errors per one m...

The Lasting Legacy of Nursing Theorist Virginia Henderson

college degree is now a requirement for all registered nurses. A nursing major is comprised of a diverse and challenging liberal ...

Schools of Philosophy as Used in Nursing

(Allmark, 2003, p. 4). Poststructuralism: This perspective takes a deconstructive view of structuralism and "sees inquiry as ine...

Creating a Sexual Health Clinic

serve to mentor teens and provide socially positive guidance and support. Diagnostic and screening exams will also be available, b...

Information Systems Technology Projects Fail

all projects falls between 66 percent and 90 percent depending on which survey data one relies on. Engle (2007) reported that 90 ...

Doctorate of Nursing Goals A

12-21, live relatively sedentary lives, as they are not active enough to successfully maintain good health (Covelli, 2007). The in...

Study Proposal/Will Placing an NP in EDs Help Overcrowding?

concerns the how NP practice has been implemented in countries other than the US. The majority of research articles available in v...

Limited Nursing Advocacy

report, admissions, and emergency situations" (Griffin, 2003, p. 135). The rationale for this policy is that it protects the confi...

Sharing Grief

did you wonder about your stepfather being alive or dead? What you write may resemble the following: I was considered too young to...

Addressing the Nursing Shortage

be increased substantially, of course, by those immigrants families who would likely be admitted to the country as well. The inte...

Nurses Job Satisfaction

in the U.S. stands at 8.5 percent to over 14 percent, depending on the specific area of specialty (Letvak and Buck, 2008), by 2020...

Orem, Mid-range & Grand Theories

relationships between self-care agency and the self-care demand" (Kumar, 2007, p. 106). Within the context of Self-Care Deficit ...

Value of Joining a Nurses’ Organization

of nursing and by lobbying" both Congress and regulatory agencies in regards to healthcare issues that affect nursing (ANA, 2008)....

Hand Washing Project

proven to be the principal reason for nosocomial infections, that is, infections that are acquired after hospital admittance. Impo...

Learning Diabetes Self-care

of diabetes care, including blood/glucose monitoring, food intake monitoring, exercise monitoring, and insulin administration. Be...

Dealing with Change/Miami Valley Hospital

patient care (Hassmiller and Cozine, 2006). Some strategies proposed by RWJF for helping to decrease the tremendous workload on nu...

Leddy’s Human Energy Model of Nursing

are possess "awareness and intention," and can construct a sense of self-identity and meaning," which includes the ability to choo...

Middle Range Nursing Theories, Medication Error

This paper pertains to two middle range nursing theories, Kolcaba's comfort theory and nursing intellectual capital theory, and th...

Nursing Philosophy and Practice, Their Relationship

This research paper discusses nursing theory and nursing practice, as well as the theories of Watson and Orem. Seven pages in leng...

Nursing Staff Selection and Retention

This paper discusses the problem of the nursing shortage and its impact on nursing recruitment and retention. Six pages in length,...

Three Nursing Articles, Summaries

This paper presents three summaries of nursing articles, as well as commentary on how one of these articles helps the student's nu...

Nursing Faculty Shortage

nurses are part of this generation and a large majority of nurses are retiring. It has been estimated that 50 percent of the count...