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QA, Clinical Pathways, and Nursing Effectiveness

the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has had a definitive impact on the quality of care being provided within the country...

Nursing and Stress

the issue of work stress, noting that it is often difficult to strike a balance between beneficial and detrimental stress. Writin...

Field of Nursing

exist for generations. Though Nightingale promoted a professional demeanor, nursing was not something that most well-bred women w...

4 Nursing Metaparadigms Defined

how change can be effectively managed and challenges in the transformation of nursing and health care delivery. Clearly, Roys mod...

Metaparadigms and Nursing

and with others interacting with the patient. Mezirow (1991) promotes the use of critical reflection in building new knowle...

Attitudes of Social Workers and Nurses About Working with Alcoholic Clients

criminal and social repercussions, creating a punitive response to alcoholism that can impact the views of service providers. Cha...

6 Questions on Nursing Professionalism

was perceived as merely the "handmaiden" of medicine, that is, a service that was there to facilitate the practice of the physicia...

Sections D and E of an Insulin IV Therapy Plan Development

rather than requiring patient transfer to ICU. This plan is consistent with the principles of planned change in that it focuses o...

Code of Ethics and Canadian Nursing Values

have had ethical reservations about taking a patient off of life support, but she did not add to Lynns burden by interfering with ...

Changing Image in the Nursing Profession

A nurses dedication and selflessness recall a mothers sacrifice and care (Dworkin, 2002). Furthermore, Dworking (2002) points out ...

Levels of Nursing Education

declined as "educators, employers and others recognize the need for educational changes in nursing" (Bednash, 2000, p. 2985). Asso...

New Nursing Theory Formulation

An effective and valuable nurse is one who has sound technical knowledge and experience in applying it, but who also is a superlat...

Coping Nursing Concept Analysis

includes strategies that are designed to make the individual feel better, such as "exercise, spirituality, support groups and humo...

Nursing Application Degree Essay

many people have these factors in common within their personal value sets, but I believe that the nurse possesses them in specific...

Program Proposal for Diabetes Education

proposed method of resolution is to design, develop and evaluate a clinical, evidence-based "diabetic education program to increas...

Nursing Philosophy and Parse's Theory of Human Becoming

draw on the fundamental concepts espoused by the metaparadigms. Nevertheless, each branch of nursing theory approaches the subjec...

Types of Specialization in Pediatric Nursing

evaluate nursing care and use research findings in clinical practice" (Barnsteiner, Wyatt and Richardson 165). This survey reveal...

The Importance of Forensic Nursing

departments (Courson, 2004). It isnt that nurses have not been serving in these roles, they have but today, nurses receive speci...

Assessment of Mentoring in the Nursing Profession

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

Nursing and Teaching Patients

also as a result of the environment in which they are cared for, where smoking is banned. Teaching patients may be seen as a funct...

Community Nursing Issue Regarding HIV in Black Males and 2010 Objectives

in African American communities in though it has level off and is falling in other US populations (Dyer, 2003). Adolescents are am...

Reviews of 8 Diabetes Education Articles

only one group, no control group. Group exposed to treatment and then measure (Creswell, 2003). Measured participants blood gluco...

Pediatric Setting and Margaret Newman's Nursing Theory

transformative perspective because Newman argues that rather than being diametrically opposed, disease and health are merely facto...

Hand Washing and the Care of Patients

preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...

Nursing Diagnosis and Body Image Disturbance Case Study

has focused on two corollary components: 1. the accuracy of body size estimations and 2. the attitudes and feelings individuals ...

Nurse Mentoring Issues

There are different studies that have made a partial examination of the developmental models of clinical mentorship and supervisio...

Geriatric Care Quality

balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...

Method Analysis in 'Analyzing Hospital Readmissions Using Statewide Discharge Databases'

the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

Nursing Issues and the Health Issues of the West Family

her, per se, but rather with her expectations of Madeline, which are not age appropriate. The scenario says that Madeline knows be...

A Summary and Analysis of the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics

and safety" (ANA, 2005). After all, if a nurse does not take steps to preserve her or his own safety, the nurse cannot adequately ...