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Childhood Obesity

2005, p.165). In obese children, the number of fat cells present in the body can be as much as three times higher than in normal w...

Practicing Nursing in Pennsylvania

For example, in regards to nurse practitioners from other state, the law states, "The Board (meaning the Board of Nursing) may iss...

Toddler Development

sensory experience psychologically changes with age. He referred to the specific structures involved as "schemes" (Berk, 2004, p 2...

Nursing & ED Overcrowding

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

Burnout

concepts dominated the field of stress research beginning in the 1950s; however, by the 1970s, there was opposition to Selyes stre...

Importance of Nursing Theory

many of the findings of nursing research have little or no relevance to their daily practice. Im and Meleis (1999) cite several re...

Depression and Anxiety in Women With Breast Cancer and Their Partners

with their illness decreases and their partners ability to help them with the process is impeded as well. Decreased communication...

Democratic Nursing Leadership

ability to empower and grow people" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). Over the past decade, there have been numerous studies that have fou...

Article Critique/Effects of Remembering/Nursing Home Residents

the study intervention. Also, as yet, Cook is not clear about the purposes, aims or goals of the study. Literature Review While ...

Role of Culture/Mental Health Nursing

to work efficiently and effectively across cultural boundaries. This concept also encompasses not only the assumption that nurses,...

Violating Nursing Protocol

illustrates how she ignored the potential for causing harm when she increased the patients drugs; only after the medication had be...

Health Care Quality, Nursing Job Satisfaction, and a Review of a Nursing Journal Article VI

In two pages an article featured in a nursing journal is reviewed that considers the correlation between patient health care quali...

Martha E. Rogers and Holistic Nursing

In five pages the nursing perspectives of Martha E. Rogers are examined in a consideration of holistic nursing and its development...

Jean Watson's and Martha Rogers' Nursing Theories

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares these two approaches to nursing theory that are based upon the concepts of nursing,...

Nurse Practitioner Perceptions

In five pages this paper examines nurse practitioners in a discussion of differing perceptions between nurses and physicians regar...

Role of Duties in the Burnout Problem of Nurses

job experience, type A behavior patterns, and fear of negative evaluation, combined with frequency of stressful events" (Dugan et ...

Nursing Profession and Managed Care

In twenty pages this research paper examines how the field of nursing has been impacted by managed care in a consideration of its ...

Death and Dying Interview

In five pages a nursing services' director for a long term health care facility for senior citizens is interviewed regarding the p...

Terminally Ill Patient, a Nurse's choice Not to Resuscitate, and the Resulting Lawsuit

In six pages this nurse's job loss is examined in terms of the reasons behind it after her failure to save a terminally ill patien...

Coping Strategies and Breast Cancer

In a paper consisting of twelve pages the field of nursing is discussed in terms of breast cancer, coping strategies, and how nurs...

Nursing and U.S. Government Immigration Facilitation

In five pages this paper examines how the nursing profession has been affected by the U.S. government's immigrant facilitation in ...

Nursing and Altruism

In seven pages the nursing profession with regards to five altruism examples are contrasted and compared and includes a detailed n...

Hypothetical Recovery Group and Psychosocial Nurse Administration

In six pages this psychosocial nursing consideration assesses a nurse administered fictitious recovery group in a discussion of gr...

Conflicting Ethics, Euthanasia, and Nursing

In eight pages this essay discusses the ethical conflict between a patient's 'right to die' and the Nurse's Code. Five sources ar...

Collective Bargaining, Representation, and Concerns of Nursing Professionals

and Begun, 1996). The American Nurses Association has embraced an ambitious platform consisting of issuing formal policy statem...

Nursing and Issues of Confidentiality

In seven pages the confidentiality issues nurses must contend with are discussed within the weighty context of the trust between p...

A Consideraiton of the ANA Code for Nursing

In eight pages the concerns that have recently developed regarding the 1976 ANA Code for Nursing are considered including nursing ...

Transcultural Approaches and Holistic Nursing

In five pages this paper examines the model for holistic nursing in a consideration of its need for nursing approaches that are tr...

Homeless Patients and a Nurse's Role

In five pages this paper discusses the plight of the homeless and health care access in a consideration of a nurse's role. Six so...

Nursing Home Care and the Effects of Mandatory Continuation of Nursing Education

nursing care over the past decade and how do they support the argument for a continuum of educational practices for nursing profes...