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Postoperative Management of Pain and Nurses' Role

In twelve pages this literature review considers the changes in nursing roles as they involve the postoperative management of pain...

Nurses' Gossip Research Article Assessment

In five pages this paper discusses nurse socialization and gossip's role in this research article evaluation. Three sources are l...

Home Healthcare Nursing Application in Critical Care Nursing

In ten pages a home healthcare case study is employed to examine what nursing approaches would best be used in this scenario and a...

Temporary Agency Nurses' Accountability and Competence in a Hospital Setting

not only better oriented overall to do the job but who also would be paid enough to have an incentive to stay in the job or put ma...

Family Nurse Practitioner's Advanced Nursing Role

This research paper describes two research articles and one opinion piece that pertain to the practice of master's degree prepared...

Nursing Theory and Nursing Philosophy at Montefiore

This research paper pertains to the Montefiore Medical Center's Mission, Values and Philosophy statement. The writer compares thes...

Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners and Clinical Nurse Specialists

This paper considers the distinctions between non-physician practitioners and how these distinctions might affect Medicare reimbur...

Nurse’s Role in Healthy People 2010 Agenda

indicates that 51 percent of patients who are older than 65 received no medication information at the time of hospital discharge H...

Nurses Educating Other Nurses

This 4 page paper covers the pursuit of a masters degree in nurse education. This paper explains how the student would like to use...

Nurse Practitioners and Advanced Practice Nursing

(Walsh, 2003; p. 22). The intended role is that of partner with an MD in providing direct patient care in terms of serving in rol...

Psychiatric Nursing and Nursing Theory

nursing. Forchuk and Dorsay (1995) and Barker, Reynolds and Stevenson (1997) identify Hildegard Peplau as the first to apply nurs...

School Nurses and the Usefulness of Jean Watson's Nursing Paradigm

no education. Children were left to their own devices to discover the intimacies of one of the most personal activities of human ...

Nurses' Use of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication

nurses regarding physical touch, found that these study participants used touch as a therapeutic form of nonverbal communication, ...

Nursing Shortage

higher nurse-to-patient ratios suffer an increased rate of burnout and experience greater dissatisfaction with their jobs. In resp...

The Problem of High Staff Turnover Rates of Nurses in Primary Healthcare in Saudi Arabia

great importance placed on issues such as maternity services, which are seen as lower priorities in most developing countries (WHO...

Economic Indicators 2006

Budget Office forecasts that gross domestic product will grow by 3.6 percent after inflation (in "real" terms) this year and by 3....

Healthy Work Environments: Decision Making In Nursing

volumes regarding the vastness of the human mind. Moreover, it is virtually impossible to have critical thinking present without ...

Theories of Leadership and Nursing

"organization does not need transforming" (Transformational leadership, 2007). Transactional leadership is much in keeping with ...

Nursing Community Services, Asthma & Diabetes

do not have their inhaler with them or it is "forgotten, lost or empty when needed" (Bryne, Schreibr and Nguyen 335). Without this...

Continuing Education

the "5 As," the steps are: 1) ask the patient if he or she smokes, 2) advise him or her to quit, 3) assess the willingness to...

New Performance Measure for Hospitals

There is a new method of assessment for the performance of hospitals. It is national and standardized which will allow consumers a...

DVT and Evidence-Based Practice

breath (King, 2003, p. 24). The factors comprising the triad are "venous stasis, vessel wall damage and coagulation changes" (Van ...

Focused Clinical Inquiry of Hip Replacement Patient

someone who was less than one of the "real nurses," in his estimation, he found that the young nursing assistant accomplished the...

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Data

Post-traumatic stress disorder or what is more commonly referred to as PTSD has only been diagnosed using these terms since the la...

Medical Error Disclosure: Is It Safe To Say You're Sorry?

Appropriate treatment decisions and planning require this level of honest communication. The decision to disclose shouldnt revolv...

Group Therapy/Heart Patients with Depression

Heart disease is known to have a significant relationship with depression, which can greatly complicate the processes inherent in ...

Faith-Based Counseling

anxiety or address a family problem, they may prefer faith-based counseling simply because its in a language that fits them and th...

Assistive Devices & The Elderly/Maintaining Independence

This study employed a prospective pre-test and a post-test randomized control trial design and a sample group of 53 senior adults ...

Using Utilization Management to Determine Courses of Action in a Canadian Hospital

MIS Guidelines? Certainly the publication addresses resource utilization, but does it specifically address creation of a new unit...

"Psychosocial Treatments For Bipolar Depression" - Analysis

the combined efforts of intense psychotherapy and standard bipolar medications. Achieving optimum health represents the primary g...