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New Nursing Ward Manager/Challenges Involved

ward manager is responsible for the "24-hour delivery of care to patients within a designated care setting" (Peate, 2010, p. 7). T...

Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing

management dilemma" and is written by Orly Toren and Nurith Wagner. The authors discuss different ethical dilemmas nurse face dail...

ADVANCED NURSE PRACTITIONERS AND MDS: EQUAL WORK FOR EQUAL PAY

PhysicianSalary.net, MDs can earn $140,000 in base salary - and thats a starting salary for family medicine physicians. Specialtie...

Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services

Employing some 8,000 people, the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and...

Comparison of Two longitudinal Research Studies

ensure that any data given is not capable of identifying any of the respondents, although this is unlikely, there is also the way ...

Mandatory Nurse-to-Patient Ratios

the American healthcare system, the debate concerning whether or not states should implement mandated nurse-to-patient ratios rema...

Mentoring a Student Nurse

as relating information to patients families. Pugh relates that just thinking about this task made her anxious; however, the staff...

Street Science And Environmental Health

become involved in the all-out fight against environmental degradation by adding local voices to policymaking efforts historically...

Cunningham's The Hours/Implications for Healthcare

not only relates to the societal restrictions with which women had to contend in regards to their expected societal roles, but it ...

Psychology's Role in Managing Overall Health

of improved mental health, but it also often improves physical health as well. For example, at one time, any problems that a woma...

Nurse Staffing Issues

staffing plans need to include "planned family medical leaves, nurse retirements and other types of turnover" (Morgan and Tobin, 2...

Transcultural Model of Nursing

the attitudes, behaviors, values, etc. that are accepted and not accepted. Culture is historical with all aspects of life being ta...

Threats to American Health/Chronic Disease v. Contagion

people, also indicating that this flu pandemic killed between 40 to 50 million people worldwide (Zimmer and Burke (2009). Feldman ...

EBP Barriers

the following: In my practice setting, a major barrier against using EBP is that it takes an inordinate amount of time. This is...

Ethics in Nursing Discerning Child Abuse

a decision of having to decide on the basis of what is best for all concerned rather than what the patients family might think tha...

Florence Nightingale

disciplined and well-organized care. On returning to England, she visited the Institute of Protestant Deaconesses at Kaiserwerth, ...

Personal Essays

career involved his presence in the Civil Rights Movement. He was a President who seemed concerned about injustice in the nation. ...

Quality Indicators and Nurse/Patient Ratios

literature and also "analysis of ICD-9-CM codes," which were reviewed by a "clinician panel," offering specific IQs that address i...

Pediatric Asthma Case Management

an obstruction of the airway and can involved any or all of the following factors: "smooth muscle bronchoconstriction, mucous secr...

Health and Poverty/Incidence of Childhood Asthma

engine contains features that help to limit a search. The writer/tutor selected "scholarly" material published after 10/01/2002 an...

Czech Immigrants & Nursing

2001, p. 24). While the ancestors of many Americans of Czech extraction came to the US in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries...

Low Anterior Sigmoid Resection

and Cox, 2001; p. 375). The ascending colon, which is approximately six inches long, extends upward to the hepatic flexure....

Hospital Accreditation from the Point of View of the Nursing Supervisor

and each staff member were knowledgeable of hospital standards and policies in preparation for TJC or DHS inspection. We always ha...

Qualitative Studies/What are they good for?

Baumann, et al, in 1995, which was purely qualitative. The point is that through qualitative research, data was provided that can ...

Comfort/A Nursing Concept Analysis

sorrow; (b) relief from distress; (c) a person or thing that comforts; (d) a state of ease and quiet enjoyment, free from worry; (...

Organizational Health

at work at some point during their work, this has supported research by earlier studies by researcher such as Heinz Leyman and Sta...

The Effect of TRIPS on Public Health

pharmaceutical sector, and it will affect access the medications6. What is the TRIPS agreement and how long has it been in effect...

Admissions Essay to the FNP Program at UCLA

program will foster my highest level of achievement and help me focus on both the immediacy of my educational process and the deve...

The Political and Financial Impacts of Health Coverage

separation of Medicaid eligibility from assistance programs. In fact, this act was designed to increase the access for low-income...

Certifying an Older Driver

drivers" than do states that do not require test automatic testing (Murden and Unroe, 2005, p. 22). Most states do set standards f...