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Putting Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort in Practice

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

Geriatric Clinical Nurse Specialist/State of CA

in any other state must, as of January 1, 2008, have a masters or another advanced graduate degree in nursing (Phillips, 2005). Wi...

State of Science, Nursing Ethics

Background/Review of Literature The eight articles/studies that constitute this literature review encompasses several key concept...

Study Proposal/Will Placing an NP in EDs Help Overcrowding?

concerns the how NP practice has been implemented in countries other than the US. The majority of research articles available in v...

Management of Hypertension Among African Americans

to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...

Schools of Philosophy as Used in Nursing

(Allmark, 2003, p. 4). Poststructuralism: This perspective takes a deconstructive view of structuralism and "sees inquiry as ine...

Creating a Sexual Health Clinic

serve to mentor teens and provide socially positive guidance and support. Diagnostic and screening exams will also be available, b...

Coping with Being Understaffed

the ability of an institution to deliver quality, error-free care. At the Six Sigma level, there are roughly "3.4 errors per one m...

The Lasting Legacy of Nursing Theorist Virginia Henderson

college degree is now a requirement for all registered nurses. A nursing major is comprised of a diverse and challenging liberal ...

Doctorate of Nursing Goals A

12-21, live relatively sedentary lives, as they are not active enough to successfully maintain good health (Covelli, 2007). The in...

Information Needs Of Doctors And Nurses

it comes to orders, medications, tests, transfers and so on. Another problem for both physicians and nurses is identifying all p...

Nursing/Personal Reflection Paper

of the patient experience" (Engebretson 20). The background provided by a large, close-knit family means that, from childhood, I h...

Article Critique/Learning to Nurse Children

as well as those studies that have suggested broadening students exposure to families and children with special needs. This discus...

Conflict & Resolution in Nursing

all aspects of nursing. While the prime relationship in nursing is the one between the nurse and patient, relationships between nu...

Hypovolemic Shock and the Evolution of Nursing

are necessary for patient survival" (Kelley, 2005, p. 2). When the blood volume in the body is too low, it activates "compensatory...

Nursing & Spiritual Care

much broader in its application. It is this broadness that allows nurses to reach across religious lines and distinctions. In a su...

Fundamental Theories/Nursing Faculty Shortage

in nursing educators aged 36 to 45 (Lewallen, et al, 2003). To complicate matters further, recent statistics show that nurses wh...

Interview/Diabetic Nurse Educator

perceived self-efficacy (Capik, 1998). JJ explained how Penders theory guides her priorities in establishing educational goals, ...

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...

Counseling a Dysfunctional Family with Obesity

Family crisis). However, society itself is made up of smaller units, of which the family is one, and therefore structural function...

Jean Watson, Nursing Theorist

move in concentric circles of caring--from individuals, to others, to community, to (the) world" (Vance, 2003). Caring science inv...

Nursing Burnout/A Literature Review

p. 311). Specifically, this study focused on discerning how indicators of the "psychosocial work climate" affected the frequency w...

Med-Surge Nursing

nurse working on a medical unit at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. According to Kodet, the only thing ...

Personal Narraive/2 Year RN to 4 Year RN

partners in the healthcare process. Through training and education, nurses learn to make decisions on multiple issues of patient c...

Virginia Henderson

the nursing theorists that have come after her (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). The interactive model focuses on the significant of ...

Nursing Mentoring & Burn-out

a mentor and/or a preceptor. Mentoring is the "process through which a relationship is established between an experienced indivi...

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...

Nursing Recommendation

This 3 page paper provides an overview of a nursing recommendation. This paper gives a number of reasons why the student would be...

Nursing Practice/Texas

(BNE:NPA, 2006). To investigate for heart disease was clearly indicated by physicians orders and, furthermore, Eddie failed to not...

Nursing Leadership Attributes

secretary, should leave the ward when there were fewer than three children on the unit and work a second adult unit as well. He wa...