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This paper presents an outline for a student's Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) project. The paper describes the project title, pr...

ratio, the mortality rates are 44 percent lower (Degree-level nurses, 2005). Substantiating this research, a Canadian study cond...

significantly as ethnicity and can encompass many different forms of beliefs. Spirituality plays a major role in how individuals...

to reach the disease" (Colwell; 2). The author also examines aspects of surgical treatment, indicating that a particular type of s...

Plus Program, that was implemented in the study performed by Resnick and colleagues was found, among other benefits, to improve af...

(Bliss-Holtz, Winter and Scherer, 2004). In hospitals that have achieved magnet status, nurses routinely collect, analyze and us...

in the overall quality of care delivered by community health nurses (CHNs) is providing end-of-life care that is holistic and cong...

that hospital nurse staffing levels are inadequate to provide safe and effective care" (DPE Research Department, 2003). Physicians...

once again examines how nurses can be empowered, and learn those values in college. Finally, Ann Gallagher discusses dignity with ...

were contributing to the "toxic" work environment, which characterized this CSDU, as there was "evidence of a lack of meaningful c...

include not only the emotional impact of being experienced by the patient and the relatives involved, but research has also relate...

there is no cure either for Alzheimers disease or the various forms of dementia on the horizon, healthcare practitioners should "i...

need of treatment following tours in Rwanda, the Balkans and Somalia" (Auld). Mental health problems in regards to soldiers retu...

Additionally, at the completion of this study intervention, evaluation of results showed that the project also resulted in improve...

official entity until 1993. Today it addresses an array of nursing issues. The goals of the program are: * "Promoting quality in...

to the medications needed to ensure their health. Beginning in 2004, Medicare began to offer aid, $600 a year, for covering the co...

and religious background and beliefs, as well as how the health/illness continuum works within the framework of their life. "Env...

(Wichowski, 2004). This certainly appeared to be the case for Elvis, as he complained about the "Croatian people" in his head who ...

with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to support a level of pro...

professionals has come into view as an element of this discourse. Nurse professionals, who once worked directly under the wing ...

According to one research study, the top five reasons why nurses employ restraints are "disruption of therapies, confusion, fall p...

of ear infection (Chronic otitis media, 2003). OM is a serious childhood illness because, if not properly treated, it can lead to ...

is simply to require that their nursing staff make up for understaffing by working mandatory overtime on a more or less permanent ...

Have you had any experience in helping a friend or family member manage diabetes? The patient replied that she was not aware of...

ensuring that a significant proportion of stroke victims survive and retain their independence. This is important not only from th...

The metaparadigms of nursing represent common concepts that are accepted throughout the profession and across international bounda...

(1999), research shows that the level of education reached by an RN contributes to a sense of professional autonomy and those nurs...

activities" (Orems Self-Care Model Concepts) that patients need to undertake to meet their own health care needs on a routine basi...

food, clean water and - most important for some people who did not survive - electricity to keep their life-sustaining equipment r...

(2005), in which samples of patients or patients families were enrolled. In a study in which the sample participants had lost a lo...