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Politics and Nurses

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

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...

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...

U.S. Civil War and Northern Women Historiography

records how she inquired about one young man who was brought into the ward crying, "I cant die. I cant die" (Livermore 174). She w...

Nursing Interventions for Clients Suffering from Depression

frequently use mental health nurses as a means for expanding services (Winefield and Chur-Hansen, 2004). The following examination...

Terminally Ill Love One and Styles of Coping

In light of all the possibilities coping styles as it relates to the nature and scope of the issue are quite diverse....

Nursing and the Culture of Japan

and individuality as young children, they begin to assimilate their role in Japanese culture via such conventions as school unifor...

Literature Review on Retaining Psychiatric Nurses

2000). Though one might think that nursing professionals with higher education degrees might be able to address their own stress,...

Circulating Nurse Surgery Case Study

ventilation. This included placing hip pads with egg crate foam under the patients iliac crest to prevent hyperextension of the lo...

HIV Positive Nurses Should Still Be Allowed to Work

much closer look at the unwise choice to allow HIV-positive nurses to continue their practice. Britain provides statistics that i...

Vancouver, British Columbia and Homelessness

which means that the homeless population in Vancouver encompasses roughly 1800 people (The Americas, 2004). They are virtually all...

Geriatric Mentally Ill Patients and Nursing

characteristics of metal disorders may include abnormalities in cognition, mood or emotions; it may include abnormalities in integ...

An Overview of the Research Titled Collaborative Breast Health Intervention for African American Women of Lower Socioeconomic Status

that all women, regardless of their socioeconomic status, greatly benefit from annual screening. Diagnosis if the first s...

Symptom Management Utilizing Behavioral Modification Techniques for Cancer Patients

fighting the more personal types of cancer in particular necessitates careful attention to ethical conduct. Informed consent, for ...

Article Summary on High Blood Pressure

differences between these two classifications are then described and three factors that are believe to influence the formation of ...

Type 2 Diabetes

Kolatkar, 2005). For instance, a lack of exercise and obesity are believed to contribute to diabetes (American Diabetes Associatio...

Discusison of Dementia

p. 1). Multi-infarct dementia (MID) is caused by a series of strokes, which are frequently small (MID, n.d.). Patients with MID ...

Assessment of a Woman with Menopause Case Study

the nGMS as an assessment instrument. This computer program provides a check list that the nurse can use to cover all pertinent in...

Leadership in Nursing

change, understand the reasons for this change and hare a vision of the future" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). The catch is that these g...

British Columbia and the Problems of Substance Abuse Among Canadian Youth

take to the streets rather than cope with abuse, violence or parental drug addiction. Also, as indicated above in regards to alcoh...

Change Theory and Shortages in Nursing

the new paradigm becomes the new standard. Lewin once commented, "If you want to truly understand something, try to change it" (Go...

Role of Nurses in Knee Replacement Surgery

degrees of restricted motion (Swank and Lehnert 631). Computer-assisted systems (CAS) have been developed to aid surgeons in obtai...

HHH Strategic Plan

reporting and administrative reporting so that the owner can have confidence that HHH is providing superlative patient care and me...

Nursing Theories and Paradigms

Olsen, 2006). The authors recognized that within the scope of nursing theory, the paradigms can relate to either the practical nu...

Role of a Legal Nursing Consultant

(Yost and Burke, 2006). The forensic LNC testified that the doctor in the case was negligent by allowing the patient to be air tra...

Nursing and Ethical Issues

the extent to which terminally ill individuals can be alleviated of languishing in such an inhumane state without involvement of l...

HMOs and Metaparadigms of Nursing

the situation in which the health care is offered, that is, a clinic, a hospital or a physicians office. "Health" refers to a st...