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Essays 1921 - 1950

Comfort Theory and Kolcaba

MEANING AND CONCEPTS Jones & Krysa (1998) describe the three essential comfort interventions as listening (to...

Health Care and Interdisciplinary Teams

a list of advantages for patients, which include: * Greater coordination of services leads to higher quality care for the patient ...

Jean Watson's Nursing Theories

the word alone that Watsons ideology is based not just upon clinical actions but upon the implementation of emotional availability...

Philosophy of Nursing and Values

money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely would no...

Analyzing Universality and the Cultural Care Diversity Theories of Madeleine Leininger

patients life needs to change in response to the patients health care needs, then the nurse needs to be sensitive to that factor a...

Case Study on Nursing Leadership

accomplishing the task or objective rather than on people (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004). They make the policies and rules ...

Providing Comfort in the Emergency Room

charted component of my daily patient interaction. However, to remind myself of the other responsibilities during busy per...

Research on Nursing Leadership

in those nursing homes that maintained adequate staffing, but beyond that, the administrative climate of the nursing home facility...

Different Literature Presentations of Asthma

and the effect on the occupational arena. Both articles, however, emphasize that asthma takes a tremendous economic toll in the U...

Shared Governance and Collective Bargaining Issues in Nursing

associated with a considerable change in the traditional locus-of-control can be safely confronted, and professional practice can ...

Five Questions on Public Health Nursing

the term public health nurses" (JWA - Lillian Wald, n.d.). The public health nurses at the turn of the 20th century visited...

Essay for Nursing Ph.D. Program Admission

basic assumptions surrounding specific topics. My short-term goals include developing Consultants in Complex Neurodisability, a h...

Nursing Values and Beliefs Defined

a process that assumes that a persons own subjective construction of reality is more accessible than anything else. The process o...

Nursing and Knowledge

led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...

Australia Focus on Breast Cancer

carcinoma in situ (DCIS). This is also known as "intraductal carcinoma or non-invasive breast cancer" (Breast Cancer, 2004; p. PG...

Health Promotion Rationale and Coronary Heart Disease

(Link and Tanner, 2001). Research has found that some clients may be suffering from myocardial infarction (MI) even when they have...

Terminal Care Patients, Families, Nursing Staff, and Effective Communication

Understanding that there is a step by step progression, both physically and psychologically, can be part of the nurses role in thi...

'Applying Airline Safety Practices to Medication Administration' Article Review

establish policy guidelines. In the administration of medication, "processes have been virtually ignored in the search for EBP" (...

Future Trends in Managed Care

that MCOs develop their capacity to handle changes that are driven legislatively by congressional response to public reactions to ...

4 Nursing Metaparadigms Defined

how change can be effectively managed and challenges in the transformation of nursing and health care delivery. Clearly, Roys mod...

Metaparadigms and Nursing

and with others interacting with the patient. Mezirow (1991) promotes the use of critical reflection in building new knowle...

Attitudes of Social Workers and Nurses About Working with Alcoholic Clients

criminal and social repercussions, creating a punitive response to alcoholism that can impact the views of service providers. Cha...

Human Becoming Nursing Theory of Parse

moment to moment as the changing patterns of shifting perspectives weave the fabric of life through the human-universe interconnec...

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...

Nursing Theory and the Importance of Domestic Violence Screening and Intervention

Although the nursing professions is just now beginning to become more aware of the need for this type of approach it was first int...

The Case Study of a Child in Need

in order so that it can be determined if all of the childs educational needs are being met. Aiding disabled children in reaching t...

Proper Care for Stroke Victims, a Case Study

classifies the stroke patients needs in four domains: 1) medical/surgical issues; 2) mental status/emotion/coping behaviors; 3) ph...

Nursing and the Impact of Electronic Data Security

The act of faxing patient information to another care-providing organization or third-party payer comes under privacy regulations ...