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Effective Nursing Leadership, Management

power, found that where nurses report that power when is shared, there are corresponding improvements in the nursing/physician rel...

Interview with An Executive Leader

it is appropriate, such as when a novice nurse is faced with a crisis. There are times, and stages in a career, when employees can...

Nursing as a Profession

of ethics; 5. is composed of individuals who consider this occupation as their lifework, contributing to the good of society throu...

Staff Shortages and UAPs

Literature on this topic indicates that RNs are hesitant in delegating tasks primarily because they are uncertain of the qualific...

Stem Cell Research: Societal Implications

in a laboratory situation (Licking, 1998; Brownlee and Schrof, 1998). Many of these cells, in fact, have the capability of develo...

Nursing/Entry into Practice

inpatient facility (Entry-Level). There are advantages and disadvantages to having three entry levels into nursing. An advantage...

Lillian D. Wald: Life and Works

one else to do them and she saw a need (Krain, 2002). "She recruited another nurse and began working out of a fifth floor apartmen...

Wynd's "Guided Health Imagery For Smoking Cessation And Long-Term Abstinence" - Critique

as "a highly focused form of concentration that creates an alteration of sensations, awareness, and perceptions with the same biop...

Online Education/Professional Development

by trying things out)...reflective learners (learn by thinking things through, working alone) 5. sequential learners (linear, orde...

Ethical Dilemma/Canadian Nursing Practice

individual, the eight values of the CNA Code provide a framework for guidance regarding nursing behavior. The Code states that the...

Homelessness & Advocacy

the research, which includes finding a definitive measure for the health status of the homeless. This is a reasoned, extensive rev...

Ambulation

individual is walking, the thorax rotates in "clockwise and counter-clockwise directions," which are "opposite the pelvic rotation...

Assisting in Grief Counseling

left to deny anything connected with the loss, either before or after the fact. Those left behind also need to acknowledge the me...

Nursing Philosophy and Occupational Focus

theorist Jean Watson, who developed her Theory of Human Caring in the late 1970s. As a result of Watsons efforts to bring greater...

Reducing Absenteeism/Nursing Home

have "little or no training in fundamental management skills" (Baer, 2006, p. 60). As well as absenteeism, problems with managemen...

Nursing Dilemma/Elder Abuse

a nurse to determine which elderly patients are being abused because a sense of shame or a desire to protect the family member who...

U.S. Nursing Shortage

Roughly 50 percent of the current working nursing population will retire within the next 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). Adding...

Case Study/ICU Wound Mgmt

(Cardozo, 2003, p. S35). Within a few hours of being admitted to the ICU, Jacks condition was evaluated using the Waterlow risk as...

Article Critique/Nurses & Tobacco

a summation of how addiction occurs. They then address the scope of the problem, which relates the issue under investigation dir...

The Crimean War and Florence Nightingale

that by instituting improved sanitation and nutrition, there was a corresponding decrease in morality (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003...

Changing a Dangerous Situation

accomplish beneficial behavioral change. As Kurt Lewins pioneering work with change theory points out, any change initiative ent...

Nursing Theory: Hildegard Peplau

of her theory is the "improvement of nurses relationships with patients," which is a goal that she proposed can be accomplished by...

ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses

owes the same duties of care to herself or himself as is owed to patients. A nurse cannot adequately attend to patients if that nu...

Mayo Clinic/Educational Needs Assessment

(Masters and Doctoral degree) (Career overview, 2009). Summary of Results of the Need Assessment For the purposes of the needs a...

Advanced Nursing Program: Assessment and Recommendations

in pursuit of their advanced standing certification. Moreover, active RNs, LPNs and CNAs understand that these advanced practice ...

Teenage Pregnancy

various roles" (Meadows-Oliver, et al, 2007, p. 116). The stress involved in a teenage pregnancy and the associated pressure tha...

Literature Review/Complexity Compression

the factors that made up the CC situation. Analysis of the data identified 147 factors related to CC that could be classified into...

Impact of Professional Development

and the values and preferences of the individuals, families and communities who are served"(Reavy and Tavernier, 2008, p. 166). Nu...

Homeless Veterans with PTSD

to a Veterans Administration (VA) inpatient program for the treatment of substance abuse. Research has definitively established ...

Learning Theories-Nursing Education: Annotated Bibliography

Based on their results, the authors suggested nurse educators add more critical thinking exercises to their classroom curriculum. ...