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Patient Advocacy, A Concept Analysis

as a central tenet to professional practice (Hanks, 2010). Both the American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics and the Code ...

Addressing a PICO issue with a Hospice Patient

inflammation and improve appetite (Hawthorn, 2010). Mary was particularly disturbed by the malodor caused the malignant lesion,...

Electronic Medical Records: An Overview of Benefits

records, highlighting the capacity for such a change to have a sweeping impact throughout the industry. For example, in the 2009 "...

Applying Virginia Henderson's Nursing Theory

patient, to occupy thoughts, behaviors and other patterns that provide specific indicators of how to approach healing. In this pa...

Dynamics of A Group Meeting To Develop a Health Plan

to undertake this task in order to attain the desire goal, this needs input for all the members of the group. The goal is generall...

Elder Neglect in Nursing Homes

be vulnerable to abuse or neglect for a variety of reasons and in a variety of situations, which range from home care to care in r...

Statistics in Surgical ICU

within institutions where manual charting of ventilators settings is performed well, "automatic data collection can eliminate dela...

Addiction Transfer Disorder & Gastric Bypass Surgery

addicted to something else such as alcohol, gambling or compulsive shopping (Spencer, 2006). The realization that this is a proble...

Colostomy, Stoma and Peristoma Care

be optimized: "The whole patient, should be assessed and physical, mental and social factors taken...

Adverse Drug Reaction Among Elderly Patients: Impact Upon Costs And Length Of Hospital Stay

population want to be able to take care of themselves, yet they are rarely given the tools with which to accomplish this objective...

Concept Mapping Versus Care Plans/A Proposed Study

the fever? Was it related to an infection in the surgical wound? Was the patient developing atelectasis and pneumonia? Or, was the...

Implementing Care Following Leininger’s Theory

meals to all Orthodox Jewish patients should be investigated by hospital administrators if they are not already in place. Furtherm...

Ovulation Induction

in the study they had undergone three treatments using Clomiphene alone, with no results in relationship to a pregnancy (Ghafourza...

Spiritual Nursing

information. These guidelines are also based on this researchers finding that self-care promotes the pediatric patients spiritual ...

OpEd: Right of Refusal

on some theological idea that only God can end life. We wouldnt allow a dog or cat to suffer; why then do we force humans to do so...

Nursing: Article Reviews

some determining the study was inconclusive, others saying certain interventions should be made universal and still others stating...

Roy’s Adaptation Model & Cardiac Care

As described by Araich (2001), four nursing strategies effectively summarize how a critical care nurse can use the RAM to aid a ca...

Using PrOACT

moving onto the objectives, looking at the alternatives and considering the consequences and the trade offs. In this paper we will...

Refusal of Palliative Care/Bioethics

this incident may have contributed to her divorce. It is also true that her mother has had a problem with alcoholism for over twen...

Disease Management/Hypertension

management (DM) concept Disease management (DM) is defined as a "systematic clinical improvement process," which addresses both ...

Nurse Staffing Ratios

system," since the institution of mandated nursing ratios, and also that data shows California hospitals have not only been able t...

Maslow And Nursing

Aesthetic, the need for beauty, order and symmetry (Huitt, 2004). 7. Self-actualization is a plateau not all people reach. At this...

Music As Sedation for Children

was evaluated using the Beth Israel Medical Center flow sheet sedation scale (Loewy, et al, 2006). If, after 30 minutes, the patie...

Should New Drugs Be Labelled As ‘New’ To Indicate A Higher Risk Than Established Dugs?

funds used to ensure drug safety focused in the approval of new drugs. After a drug is approved there are few quality reports unde...

Bipolar Disorder II And Substance Abuse

that may trigger a Bipolar incident, many of these also trigger using substances. Oliver (2007) identified twelve different "Trigg...

Skills Needed by a Forensic Nurse

McAndrew, 2006). With communication skills there are includes skills of listening as well as tact as essential to facilitate effec...

Nursing & ED Overcrowding

York found that, in the past, ambulance diversions were a seasonal event. However, more recent research finds that diversional sta...

Nurse/Patient Ratios/Not One Size Fits All

assisting registered nurses (RNs) in order to meet legislated requirements (Schaefer 9). This means that while RNs have fewer pati...

Teaching Patients How to Use the Internet

look for the date that the page was last updated to ensure that the latest health information on that subject is offered. The last...

Nursing Case Mgmt./Asthma

this condition. If the student does not have asthma, the student may feel motivated to help this population because of he/she rea...