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This paper discusses conflict, especially in health care organizations. The paper uses an example of a conflict between two nurses...

This research paper investigates development of advanced practice nurses (APNs) within the scope of contemporary health care, both...

This research paper presents a discussion of nursing care and pain management. Five pages in length, five sources are cited. ...

This research paper describes the professional development plan of a nursing manager who is about to assume the position of Direct...

This research paper offers a case study of J.H., a 38-year-old father of 3, who has suffered a myocardial infarction. The case stu...

caring; 2. every human culture has lay (generic, folk or indigenous) care knowledge and practices and usually some professional ca...

with sudden flashbacks intruding on thoughts (Fagan and Freme, 2004). Other symptoms include: an exaggerated startle reflex, sleep...

the nurse is uncertain of which tasks are appropriate to delegation, as well as the skill level of UAPs, their reluctance becomes ...

which a person demonstrates fundamental functioning in their life environment (Jones and Kilpatrick, 1996). In other words, the c...

runs $127 on average (Cummings, 2002). The goal of the ALF is to help senior citizens maintain as much independence as possible wi...

the needs of the dying and her work indicates that there are times when the most meaningful communication that a nurse can offer i...

to the wide-ranging aspect of nursing than merely administering medicine; in fact, the myriad components that ultimately comprise ...

regards to lung function. If patients cannot breath on their own, RTs are trained on how to intubate patients and connect them to ...

issue of regulatory interest when attached to direct patient care (Nursing, 2004). As few nurses with no patient responsibilities...

and typically occurs by the time a person reaches their 70s. In the U.S., roughly 1.5 million fractures are caused by osteoporosis...

and specific therapy" (Newswanger and Warren, 2004, p. 2405). As patients advance through the acute phase of the illness, supporti...

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

of family such as the one cited above. In many instances hospitals adhere to the traditional definition, which means that the poli...

nurses should understand these patients thoroughly, "who they are, where they live and with whom, their current health status and ...

now regarded as a crucial and defining component of nursing, as caring defines "nursings unique area of practice and provides dire...

Beginning in the early 1990s, managed care targeted nursing as an expenditure where hospitals could cut costs. Managed care consul...

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

and continues to do so, over the past two decades, as it was first published in 1979 (Falk-Rafael, 2000). In formulating her theor...

a "collaborative quality improvement project" that focuses on PUs in nursing homes as its primary focus (Lynn, et al, 2007). QIOs,...

9.Surg: Patients recovering from some form of surgery. 10. Med: Patients recovering from some form of illness. 11. ICU-Intensive C...

this indicates, family is incorporated into and valued within the realm of pediatric nursing practice as a factor that is crucial ...

This research paper discusses how nursing managers establish a workplace culture that supports the delivery of quality patient car...

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

client who is the focus of this case study is an 86-year-old woman who has been living at home with her husband. Her medical histo...

nursing from the time when Florence Nightingale founded modern nursing in the nineteenth century. Since Nightingale, a variety of ...