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Overview of Intensive Care Nursing

a good nurse ... Id spend more time with their families. If I were a good nurse, I would ..." (Williams, 2001; p. 24ac2)....

Nursing Injuries' Problem Resolution

provided. A nurse who has back pain will likely reduce the care he or she could otherwise administer. When people have back or m...

Psychiatric Nursing Training and Reflective Practice

Irelands influence in reflective practice is now beginning to be felt around the country. Among other developments, the English N...

Review of an Article on Nursing Home Residents and Hospitalization

field of nursing and in particular for nursing home facilities. Valid data could put pressure on nursing homes to hire an adequate...

Malpractice and the Nursing Profession

in the profession. As long ago as 1990, at least one author was addressing in print the problems that hospitals were having not o...

Nursing Practice and Classical Virtues

various formal, stated ethics codes of nursing associations; nurse education programs; health care organizations; and certainly he...

Reminiscence Therapy Research and Reflection

in her favorite chair alone with her memories is something that those remaining behind will never know. Chosen Issue: Reminiscenc...

Review of an Article on Nursing Research

to examine whether womens social roles mediate the impact of heart surgery on their psychological well-being" (Plach and Heidrich,...

Family Violence and Nursing Intervention

positive effect in preventing future incidence of violence (Willson, McFarlane, Lemmey and Malecha, 2001), even when other referra...

Marketing the Visiting Nurse Association

even through government agencies (Visiting Nurse Association-Omaha/Southeast Nebraska, 2002). Various programs and services are sp...

Issues of Managed Care and Patient Rights

and more nurses are standing at the front lines of managed care, acting somewhat as liaison between the patient and managed care o...

Increased Quality While Decreasing Costs in Nursing

in higher costs and reduced perceived quality of care. Hypotheses The purpose of the proposed study is to determine the eff...

Reflection, Experience, and Training Competence Building

and was told not to consider having children for fear of passing on defective genes (Sheldon, 1997; p. 34). This occurred d...

Reduction of Elderly Depression Through Reminiscence Therapy Intervention

chemistry and another in biochemistry. I recognized the wonder of chemistry, but what I failed to recognize at the time was the s...

Analysis of an Article on Women Suffering from Rheumatoid Arthritis, Transformation, and Transcendence

rheumatoid arthritis with the need to fortify ones mental and emotional status in order to deal with the chronic systemic illness....

Whistleblowing and Nursing

unethical, or illegal practice of any person" (Erlen 67). But while it is a nurses duty to be a patient advocate, Beth should real...

Antibiotic Resistance and Nursing Implications

is understandable given that MRSA is one of the primary threats in terms of diseases encountered in ICUs in the US. Over fifty pe...

Jean Watson's Human Caring Theory

is they do, when they change their actions, then the image of nursing will change" (Watson, 1996, p. 142). Watson has recognized ...

Long Term Healthcare Evolution

and their insurers by operating under two distinct fee schedules. Medicare requires that care providers fees be "normal and custo...

The U.S. Air Force and Advanced Practice Nursing

between states and federal regulation. The purpose here is to determine whether the USAF advanced nurse practitioners are "functi...

Registered Nurse First Assistant Programs and RNs During the Korean War

military personnel and other non-combatants. While McConnell was seeing her charges safely to Japan, General Douglas MacArthur was...

Current Nursing Shortage and its Impact

a little less than a third of them were under the age of 40 (Meadows, 2002, p. 46). This offered conclusive proof that number of ...

Behavior Impropriety and Nursing Ethics

states, "The nurse promotes, advocates for, and strives to protect the health, safety and rights of the patient" (Code of Ethics f...

Becoming a Nurse

improve it, then nursing can truly be an invaluable profession to choose. This leads us to the reality of helping people. Perha...

Nursing and Family's Role

caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...

Contrasts Between Culture and Medical Science in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...

Medical Doctors and Nurse Practitioners Conflict Management

the elderly. The Nurse Practitioner announced in its July 2000 issue that reports of the AMAs petition had been received as...

Qualitative versus Quantitative Approaches to Nursing Research

and statistics. This approach works well for in physics and math, but less well when applied to people. Moloney (2002) offers thre...

Quality of Life and the Role of Nursing

Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...

Coronary Artery Disease Prevention and Exercise

risk factor, but is of less consequence among those diabetics who pay close attention to their blood sugar levels, test often and ...