SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Nurses Health Care Policy

2005's Safe Nursing and Patient Act, Legal and Ethical Concerns

is simply to require that their nursing staff make up for understaffing by working mandatory overtime on a more or less permanent ...

Legislation on Nursing Overtime

the risk of medical errors, such as dispensing the wrong medication or the wrong dose (Nursing overtime, 2004). The study, which w...

Literacy Standards Within Nursing Education Programs

thinks is, to a certain extent, a result of genetic influences; however, this capacity is also highly influenced by the process o...

Society and What Salaries Reflect

10 years ago, the Christian Science Monitor, in covering an article about child care workers and the poverty-level wages they rece...

Errors in Medication and Nursing Prevention

for the precise coding of medication in order to avoid the errors listed above (Woods and Doan-Johnson, 2002). Cohen, Robinson and...

Informed Consent and Nursing

that the doctrine of informed consent is "hopelessly flawed--or at least misguided," as it is often not possible to truly inform ...

Nursing Shortage in Canada

considering this economic downturn, the numbers of undergraduates pursuing nursing careers began to also decline. In 1991, Canada ...

Overview of the NYSNA

Working for the well-staffed working environment in itself is no small task, given the fact of the ongoing nursing shortage. The ...

Australian Nursing Council and Meningococcal Meningitis

The ANCI Competency Unit 4 demands that nurses accept accountability and responsibility for their actions in nursing. To do so we...

Pharmaceutical Sales and the Entrance of Nurses

greater demand on health care services as more of them cross that line from employed to retired. Projections are just that,...

Nursing's Servant Leadership Principle

In five pages this paper discusses the servant leadership principle and its impact upon treatment from the perspective of nursing ...

Terminating Life Support and Issues of Nursing Ethics

In sixteen pages this paper discusses withdrawal of life support from a perspective of nursing ethics. Twelve sources are cited i...

Nursing Diabetes Patient Education Internet Websites

on diabetes into categories and addresses these topics on separate web pages, as does the first site. The homepage explains that t...

A Family Practice Model for Advanced Nursing Practice and Grieving Parents

define what other mechanisms are brought into the healing process. For example, Gordon et al (2002) argue that depending on the v...

Dependency and Physical Changes of the Elderly

In five pages this research paper takes a nursing perspecitve regarding the elderly's physical changes and increased dependence th...

Practice, Knowledge, and Nursing Theory's Role

The metaparadigms of nursing represent common concepts that are accepted throughout the profession and across international bounda...

Article on Bypass Surgery Critiqued

which resulted in 47 practices taking part and two of these having two patients. The sample : 98 (75 male) consecutive patients w...

'Con' Argument on Quotas in Nursing

Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...

Childhood Diabetes and Nursing

represents a major public health concern. It has been estimated that 1 of every 7 health care dollars is spent on complications re...

Promotion of Health and Fitness in the United States

This paper addresses ways to promote fitness and healthy lifestyles in the US. The author includes a brief history of physical fit...

Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Conflict and Power

the micro and macrocosm of the "healthy" American Society. Power conflicts Indictment against the mental health institution begi...

Medical Missionary Work and Nurses

addition, there were 614 national physicians serving in mission hospitals. Most of these were trained at one of the 19 Christian m...

Second World War and American Women's Roles

Iin eight pages this paper examines US women's roles during the war effort with factory workers and nurses among the topics explor...

Choosing Physician's Assistant as an Occupation

In four pages this paper examines the career of being a physician's assistant in a consideration of licensing certification and an...

Pharmaceutical Manufacturers, Developing Countries, and the World Health Organization

In fifteen pages this paper examines how developing nations are affected by the partnership between global pharmaceutical manufact...

Quitting Smoking Through Nursing Intervention

In thirteen pages this paper presents a current literature review involving quitting smoking and the significance of nursing inter...

Everyday Life and Nutrition for Health, Fitness and Sport by Melvin H. Williams

In eleven pages this paper discusses the importance of exercise and nutrition in daily life. Twelve sources are cited in the bibl...

Prevention of HIV and AIDS and the Importance of Health Education for the Public

In five pages this report examines the importance of education regarding prevention of HIV and AIDS viruses and in the promotion o...

Advanced Nursing and the Theory of Rosemarie Parse

In eight pages this paper examines advanced nursing practices through an application of the theory by Rosemarie Parse. Five sourc...

Medical Missionaries and Nursing

In five pages this paper discusses the ethics and expenses involved in nurses serving as medical missionaries. Seven sources are ...