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make a real difference. In helping professions, such leadership is desirable. The health care industry today is fraught with probl...

that the doctrine of informed consent is "hopelessly flawed--or at least misguided," as it is often not possible to truly inform ...

the importance of taking assessment from a number of different, relevant perspectives. For example, mentors who are conscious that...

Although the nursing professions is just now beginning to become more aware of the need for this type of approach it was first int...

on the following (Nursingworld.org, 2004). * Human dignity * Commitment to the patient * Protection of the patients privacy and co...

on diabetes into categories and addresses these topics on separate web pages, as does the first site. The homepage explains that t...

This essay presents a discussion on mental health practice and the elderly, focusing on the biases of the student as a mental heal...

This research paper focuses on Betsy, a 79-year-old woman who has lost interest in normal activities and lost close to 20 pounds o...

The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010. It is a progressive, sequential act with different parts mandat...

This essay addresses five issues. The first section is a brief description of one of the recommendations from the IOM for nursing ...

This research paper pertains to a nursing education classroom scenario in which the students are experiencing learning problems. T...

A scenario of disaster plan at a hospital is used as the basis for this essay. The scenario is described briefly, including commen...

2003, p. 50). Comments went on to say that it is disheartening when they arent acknowledged in any way for the hard work they do (...

had to have gone through surgery (orthopedic, gynecological, urological, vascular) of at least twenty minutes in duration. They ha...

addressing specific phenomena or concepts and reflecting practice (Liehr and Smith, 1999). The grand theories of nursing, that is,...

the important concepts involved in the field, and then refine and develop those concepts after they are challenged by or merge wit...

be developed within a practical environment. Case studies may provide a controlled approach to developing the skills, but real wor...

vision, removing obstacles to the change and empowering employees to undertake a change, creating short term wins, build on change...

This essay describes five medications that a healthcare practitioner might choose to meet first-aid needs as a castaway on a deser...

documentation towards the use of electronic medical records (EMRs). This frequently, however, causes conflict among nursing staff,...

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

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

for competency, the use do surveys to assess standards and the evaluation of clients as well as the provision of a complaints hotl...

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

This research paper points out that, historically, practitioners have worked independently within their particular "silo" of care ...

This essay discusses different issues related to nursing education program evaluation. These include: influences, regulatory and a...

This research paper pertains to the standards published by the Joint Commission on the issue of bullying in the hospital workplace...

This paper is divided into related sections and includes a case scenario to which Leininger's transcultural nursing theory is appl...

This research paper employs a nursing case study in order to discuss issues associated with understaffing and its negative impact ...

In four pages a hypothetical situation is considered in which a conflict commences in an ICU between a healthcare assistant and a ...