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Nursing Value of Shared Governance and its Implementation

does know is what is involved in the job, and many of the permutations that one simple standard can take. There is protocol, then...

Self Care Model of Dorothea Orem

Today, the theories of Orem, Roy, Neuman, Rogers, King, and others seem to be more popular than older theories such as those of Fl...

Community and Corrections Nursing

does not receive (or seek) health care outside of prison. The literal captive audience allows health care professionals to offer ...

Adult Critical Care and Benefits of the Neuman Model

importance in the immediate nature of the patients problems, however. In critical care, theory can wait. Nurses need to be focus...

Nursing Assistants and Multicultural Education

several problems with recent immigrants, however. These include language barriers, not having completed a GED, limited healthcare...

Ratio of Patients to Nurses

to the bill as did many nursing executives, arguing that there was sufficient legislation already on the books that dealt with sta...

Values and Professionalism in Nursing

that "People choose nursing for love, not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and...

Encouraging Continuation of Breast Feeding

for the infant for the first six months" (Moore et al., 1998; p. 36). Bearing this in mind we address those women who are perhaps ...

Developing a Plan for Nursing Education

other people. Whereas simulation is rehearsed, however, role playing is not. It requests that the learners take on the character...

Politics and Nurses

(Political Power, 2002). The profession of nursing is no different from any other in this regard (Political Power, 2002). Qualit...

Professional Dilemmas and Nursing Ethics

decisions. It is through our status as health care professionals that such a role is not only valued but critical. Nursing...

Refugee Camps and the Application of Florence Nightingale's Environmental Theory

was well educated (Le Vasseur, 1998), from a family of wealth and yet held an unusual compassion for those less fortunate. She wa...

Truddi Chase's When Rabbit Howls

the abuse shed suffered - child molestation at the hands of a brutal stepfather, witnessing equally-brutal bestiality (they lived ...

Nurse Leadership, Clinical Pathways, Discharge Planning, and Quality Management

synopsis will be provided for each of these articles and one article will selected for a more detailed discussion of how its findi...

Elderly Citizens and Considerations for Community Health Care

the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the economics of elder care. The stakeholders in this...

Nursing and Critical Thinking

should be emphasized that some nurses see their function in a more spiritual manner. They take their role as a calling to help tho...

Energy Conservation and Nursing

From this perspective, individuals can be viewed as open systems, in which energy is transformed within the body, gaining or losin...

ICU Nursing Ratio Restructuring and Change Management

will the organization finance those costs? How will current and future employees view the planned changes? Once senior man...

Neonatal Circumcision and Pain Management and Assessment

still exists as to the necessity and long-term benefits of circumcision. Virtually all agree that if circumcision is to be done, ...

Ethics and Legalities of Health Care

to believe that his strategy for paying the hospitals bill for treatment to be a sound one. He had sued the local trolley line (a...

Patient and Family Challenges of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury

be on the alert for any changes in blood pressure, urinary tract, and body temperature (Jackson, 2000). Muscles must be exercised ...

An Analysis of Nursing Care Concepts

individuals belief, values, and membership in family and social groups. Brodie (2001) asserts that it is the hallmark of professio...

Analysis of Sr. Callister Roy's Adaptation Model Theory

and environment integral relationships" (Carey, 2003). One way in which to determine the usefulness of the theory and how p...

Terminal Condition and Informing Patients 2

Acquiescing to the constraints imposed by organizational and professional structure does not mean that the nurse has no alternativ...

Theory and Nurse Leadership

leadership of the nursing department with another individual at the VP level. Maras has full leadership of the department o...

Issues and Ramifications of Shortages in Nursing

causing in increase in health services. Furthermore, the US workforce of Registered Nurses (RNs) are aging as well. The ironic fac...

4 Questions Pertaining to Nursing

large perspective world view. Summing up, three differences between paradigms and models are that paradigms take a broader view of...

Nursing Homes and the Financial Crisis Confronting Them

nursing home chains. As a result, there have been a number of highly publicized defaults such as that of Integrated Health Service...

Hospital Standard Care and Manual Handling Policy

long been an integral component to the standard of care provided at hospitals, nursing homes, home care and other situations where...

Senior Citizens Care and the Impact of Local Policies and Global Health Issues

In thirty pages this paper discusses elderly care in a discussion of nursing, holistic care, communications, and local policies, a...