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ICU Delirium

hospital stays (Cole and Soucy, 2003). While all ICU patients have serious and potentially life-threatening conditions, those ov...

Contemporary Nursing Ethics

this development and left orders for both analgesia and sedation, which helped at first, but became less effective as the hours pa...

Herbal Medicine/What Nurses Should Know

not as drugs, which means that these remedies do not undergo the rigorous testing that is required for prescription medicines (He...

Health Care: Ethical Dilemma

HIV-positive nurses being a threat to patients and other health care workers. Research clearly supports the reality of the situat...

Being an Advocate for an Injured Client

actions. It has been over a decade since the passage of the American with Disabilities Act (ADA), which means that the 5 and 10 ye...

Article Critique//Charge Nurse Competencies

does not address the topic of specific competencies. In other words, the most recent literature that is even remotely related to t...

Diabetic Education for Continuing Education for Nurses

methods with measurable outcomes, creating a link between existing research and nursing process, define the role of nurse educator...

Code Green: Addressing the Problems in Money-Based Hospital Decision-Making

period of restructuring in many industries, including healthcare. Managed care organizations and changes in reimbursement rates f...

Patients’ Bill of Rights

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

Mandatory Overtime for Nurses

of hospital environments is driving many nurses away from hospital nursing and some are leaving the profession entirely. In 2000, ...

Case Study of a Boy with Acne

of use) of sunscreen at the beach are important considerations. Other factors that should be assessed relative to subjective data...

Becoming a Nurse Manager

FTE RN Demand Projected Growth Setting 2000 2010 2020 2000 to 2010 2000 to 2020 Total 49,200 59,900 69,600 22%...

Family Systems/The Postpartum Mother

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

Aveyard/Believing and Doubting

explained the process further and made it clear that he would perform the catheterization, the man approved. As this indicates, fr...

Health Care Center Case Study: PQRST

inflamed, tender to the touch and evident of a small amount of pus (DAlessandro et al, 2004), becoming more painful as time progre...

Evolution of Personal Philosophy of Nursing

the "inability to determine the meaning of illness-related events" (McCormick, 2002, p. 127). Furthermore, Chinn and Kramer (1999)...

The Impact of Bioterrorism on the Future of Health Care

to current medicines, or to increase their ability to be spread into the environment" (Miller-Boyle, 2006, p. 6). Miller-Boyle wri...

The Nursing Shortage

This PowerPoint presentation includes 9 slides plus a bibliography. The topic is the nursing shortage. Bibliography lists 1 sourc...

Nursing Personal Leadership Development Plan

and how discharge instructions should cover these contingencies. "Health" has historically been used to describe the "absence of d...

School Nursing and Disaster Planning

any incident that requires an increased level of response beyond the routine operating procedures" (NASN, 2006). Natural disasters...

A Child’s Voice/Holistic Perspective

and the spirit says, "Ahhh, everything feels much better now" (Wooten, 2005, p. 510). Another factor in her relationships with c...

Improving Management at Shannondale

economic positions (McGinn and Murr, 2006). All of this development in the past several years has led to a restatement of Shannon...

Low Anterior Sigmoid Resection

and Cox, 2001; p. 375). The ascending colon, which is approximately six inches long, extends upward to the hepatic flexure....

Pets in the Nursing Home: A Program Proposal

The following are research questions that could be asked of staff members regarding whether the program is needed: * Are there pat...

Erikson Stage 8 : Integrity Vs Despair

Integrity in this sense is about wholeness as opposed to how we often use the term (to mean honesty) (Johansson, 2002). It is abou...

Roy’s Adaptation Model: A Case Study

particular condition because he at least is aware of his condition. About one-half of those with this disease are not as fortunat...

Ladies & Gentlemen of the Jury, I Present…the Nursing Documentation

was breached," the third is to prove that there was an injury incurred by the patient and the fourth must prove that this "injury ...

The Kidneys and Renal Failure

"three important hormones: erythropoietin ... or EPO, which stimulates the bone marrow to make red blood cells; renin, which regul...

Culturally Competent Nursing Strategies

care is to formulate a health care system and workforce that possesses the skill and understanding required to deliver quality hea...

Article Critique/Nursing Home Patients

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