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Oncology and Coping with an Annotated Bibliography

parents of children with cancer regarding the needs of siblings and on the support that was offered by hospital staff. The results...

Patient Outcomes and the Collaboration Between Physicians and Nurses

often a factor in nurse/doctor communication. Nurses can bring power to nurse/doctor interchange by harnessing the power of lang...

Nursing Korean and Russian Patients and Cultural Competence

the KA familys ability to utilize US healthcare systems (Donnelly, 2005). KA parents experience with schizophrenia in their chil...

Teams and Patient Satisfaction

In ten pages this research paper presents a literature review on team nursing as a way of increasing patient satisfaction. Thirte...

Bipolar Disorder

there is very little information about predisposes people to these episodes (Swann, 2006). Therefore, for the most part, nursing a...

ADHD and the Role of the Psychiatric Nurse

motor vehicle crashes, substance abuse, and illegal behavior" (Visser, Lesesne and Perou, 2007, S99). Symptoms include irritabili...

ADHD: A Critique of the Research

and Perou (2007) report that an estimated five to eighteen percent of youth in the US are diagnosed with ADHD and most receive so...

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...

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...

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...

Pediatric Asthma Case Management

an obstruction of the airway and can involved any or all of the following factors: "smooth muscle bronchoconstriction, mucous secr...

BNP Assays (Article Summary)

predicting mortality and morbidity. Authors provide a section to explain and explore the existence of natriuretic peptides. Anoth...

Antibiotic Prophylaxis, Surgery & Accountability

in resistant strains of bacteria (Plonczynski, 2005). This situation suggests that changes in antibiotic prophylactic procedures ...

Roy’s Adaptation Model & Cardiac Care

As described by Araich (2001), four nursing strategies effectively summarize how a critical care nurse can use the RAM to aid a ca...

'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...

Kolcaba and Holistic Care

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

Geriatric Care Quality

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

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 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...

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...

Nursing While Impaired

Johns Hopkins University and member of the IOM research team that authored the report, said that "fatigue was a major cause of mis...

Treating Osteoporosis

and typically occurs by the time a person reaches their 70s. In the U.S., roughly 1.5 million fractures are caused by osteoporosis...

Quality of Life and the Role of Nursing

Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...

Nursing Care and Patient Diagnosis

is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...

A Lesson Plan For Diabetes Education

routine activities necessary to their own care. The purpose is that with a nurses direction, encouragement and initial supervisio...

The Parish Nurse and Advanced Practice Nursing

issues of spirituality. In essence, the parish nurse has the ability to treat the whole patient, rather than only addressing symp...

Comparative Analysis of Erickson's and Orem's Theories

and patient. Orems theory is central to much of nursing philosophy and methodology. This theory is one of three theories...

Australia Focus on Breast Cancer

carcinoma in situ (DCIS). This is also known as "intraductal carcinoma or non-invasive breast cancer" (Breast Cancer, 2004; p. PG...

Terminal Care Patients, Families, Nursing Staff, and Effective Communication

Understanding that there is a step by step progression, both physically and psychologically, can be part of the nurses role in thi...

4 Nursing Metaparadigms Defined

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