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Nursing Home Falls and Best Practices

-3.14 2.83 6.05 As the numbers indicate, in all but Q3 2009, the number of falls experienced exceeded the target. This suggests t...

Nursing and Social Ecology

& Kantor-Kaufmann, 2002). The meso level of the ecological model looks at the role of institutions and organizations in shaping ...

Improper Nursing Delegation in NJ/Legal Ramifications

law stipulates that an RN is allowed to delegate specific nursing tasks individuals who are unlicensed if they have been adequatel...

A Nursing Case

Both of these individuals have limited education. Ms. A. graduated from high school but Mr. B. did not, and dropped out at the en...

Uncertainty in Illness Theory/Merle H. Mishel

Intervention using Mishels theory facilitates the process of patients accepting the inevitability of uncertainty as a factor in th...

Integrating Evidence-Based Practice/Professional Nursing

Among the challenges facing the integration of EBP into nursing behaviors is the idea that staff, which is clinically competent, a...

Preceptorship in Nursing

to do with how a person feels about him- or herself. Those with a high sense of self-efficacy believe that they can master even di...

Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing: An Annotated Bibliography

staff that can result in moral stress or stress of conscience (Fry, Hurly & Foley, 2002). Because unresolved ethical issues can ...

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 ...

Nurse's Knowledge of Breast Cancer Screening

out care. Though there is a need for health care providers as a whole to have a greater awareness of the diagnostic process for b...

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, ...

Oral Hygiene Protocol and Nursing Practice

Hanson (2004) recommends a toothbrush, but specifies that it should be soft and that non-abrasive toothpaste should be selected. P...

Nursing Practice and the Opposition of Euthanasia

lethal drug is given with the intent to bring about death, thus ending suffering" (28). Of course, there is a difference between ...

National League of Nursing and the American Nurses Association

follow-up full medical treatment and counseling. 5. Bargain for violence-prevention provisions. 6. Make violence-prevention progra...

Nurse's Role and Bowel Elimination Influential Factors

post-surgical patients. Normal Bowel Elimination Allison (1995) recognized that maintaining bowel elimination is a substantial ...

Prescribing Medications and Practice Nursing

In five pages this paper discusses the medication prescribing of practical nurses in Europe. Ten sources are cited in the bibliog...

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...

Registered Nurse's Work and Objectives

of patients that not only speak about the medical problem, but also monopolize the staffs time by discussing volumes of informatio...

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...

Nursing Practice and Medication Errors

MEDMARX is thought to be the most comprehensive reporting of medication error information in the nation (Morantz & Torrey, 2003). ...

Psychiatric Nursing Training and Reflective Practice

Irelands influence in reflective practice is now beginning to be felt around the country. Among other developments, the English N...

Costs of Skilled Nursing Facilities and the Impact of the Shortage of Registered Nurses

Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that it is no longer only added stress and long hours for those ...

Nursing and Male Nurses

In fifteen pages male nursing is examined in an overview that includes history, the increasing role of men in the profession in th...

Associate Nursing Degree Graduates and the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses

In seven pages the NCLEX RN testing and its associated issues are examined in this topical overview. Nine sources are cited in th...

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...

Nursing Programs and Reflective Practice and Critical Thinking Connection

Developing Clinical Guidelines by Allen et al (1997) set out to determine the disparities that exist within the resolution process...

Retention in Nursing and the Role of a Nursing Manager

support for the concept that effective leadership style is directly related to nursing job satisfaction (Kleinman, 2004a). These s...

OR Nursing Practice Scope

2006). The activities of UAPs, unlike those of nurses and other licensed caregivers, is defined through job description and not re...

Surgical ICU Clinical Practice and Theoretical Nursing Models

this scenario, the question to be explored now is how each of above named nursing models addresses these patient needs. The Syste...