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Strategies for Student Nursing Assessment

student offer a description that relates the students personal assessment of the strategy. For example, in regards to rubrics, the...

Facing a Family Health Challenge

frequently the needs of terminal patients are not addressed properly and that multiple problems exist in this regard. Practitioner...

Various Nursing Questions

and fatigue, abdominal pain, vomiting, constipation and learning difficulties" ("Lead"). These physiological effects are caused by...

The Master's Prepared Nurse: Competencies in Health Care

"benefits and burdens of... treatment", helping patients to "understand their prognosis", and emphasizing the importance of patien...

The Cost Consequences of the New York Ban on Nurse Overtime

for example, a terrorist attack. iii. Where a nurse is involved in a ongoing medical or surgical procedure which takes the hours i...

A Leaflet Explaining the Impact of Mandated Nurse to Patient Ratios in the Health Industry

nurse to patient ratio in California. In 1992 and 1993 the California Nurses Association has sponsored the Democratic Senator Jack...

Nursing Informatics in the Modern Health Care Organization

Outline of Professional Portfolio In order to attain such an ideal position, however, it is essential to communicate the value o...

Improper Nursing Delegation in NJ/Legal Ramifications

law stipulates that an RN is allowed to delegate specific nursing tasks individuals who are unlicensed if they have been adequatel...

Implementing Patient to Nurse Ratios in the Healthcare Environment

was a patient protection initiative which incorporated a requirement for there to be set nasty patient ratios in healthcare system...

Advocacy and Nursing

to the patient conflicts with the nurses duty to his or her employer (Hanks, 2007). Specifically, barriers to nursing advocacy inc...

Overview of Sepsis

and symptoms, such as edema and positive fluid balance (Weiss, et al, 2009). Additional criteria include inflammatory variables su...

Diabetes in New Mexico and Community Health Nursing

of Health (NMDH) indicates that, as of 2007, it was estimated that 157,930 New Mexico adults, 18 years of age and older, had diabe...

Aiding Patients with Chronic Conditions, A Reflection

support of a nurse that can keep these patients inspired to continue the positive health behaviors that ensure their continued goo...

Nursing Practicum Goals

populations and fall prevention strategies. 1b. Review the home care records to identify precipitating situations leading to fal...

Practicum Outline

computerized or electronic patient records. 1c. To discuss these findings with supervisor/mentor to consider how the information...

Dyspnea, Family Caregiving and Quality of Life

primary symptoms of COPD are "wheezing, cough, dyspnea on exertion and increased phlegm production" (Touhy and Jett, 2012, p. 289)...

79 Year Old Woman with Multiple Diseass

the age 65 have hypertension (Sirkin and Rosner 2009, p. 402). Hypertension leads to a lesser quality of life for the patient and ...

APNs and Cardiology

registered nurse (RN) who has obtained a graduate degree, at least a masters. There are four basic APN categories: clinical nurse ...

Reimbursing NPs at 100 Percent

nurse practitioners how they could join the movement and help. The Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1989 included minimal reimbursem...

Assessing Research

in the home and individuals suffering from dementia. The background literature review sites a wide range of sources, including res...

Assessing Research

The writer looks at a research article by Lach and Chang (2007) entitled Caregiver Perspectives on Safety in Home Dementia Care" p...

Role of Nurse Practitioners and Reimbursement

Prospective Payment System (PPS), reimbursement rates going to both hospitals and physicians have declined significantly. In react...

Mandated Nurse-to-Patient Ratios, The Debate

to the passage of the California law (Tevington, 2011). Currently, Connecticut, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Texas an...

Nursing a Muslim Patient

different ways, In communication a starting point is the presence of verbal and non verbal communication. Different cultures may h...

Marketing for Nurse Practitioners

place to be bought by customers" (Ehmke, Fulton, & Lusk, 2012). Marketing ones abilities in the right networks is essential for an...

Influences on Patient Healthcare Service Provider Communication

information being given to the patient by the doctor. Anecdotal evidence from those who were patients at the time remember importa...

Phenomenology and Addressing Elderly Depression

the staff endeavors not only to care for our residents physical needs, but also for their psychological, social, and emotional nee...

Casuistry Ethics and Nursing

the team to make a decision. The advantage of the casuistry approach to ethical decisions is that the team finds some sort of co...

Overview of NMAS and its HIV/AIDS Intervention Program

housing, case management, nutritional guidance and vocational rehabilitation, as well as the development of new approaches to prev...

Reflection on Community/Public Health Nursing

the provision of nursing services for early diagnosis and preventive services, the progress made over the course of the last centu...