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Efficacy of Acupuncture

This research paper discusses studies that prove the effectiveness of acupuncture. This includes a review of the study conducted b...

Mentoring a Student Nurse

as relating information to patients families. Pugh relates that just thinking about this task made her anxious; however, the staff...

Need for Cultural Competent Care

quite frequently, they are seldom defined specifically, yet both terms hold significant importance in terms of their relevance to ...

Comparison of Two longitudinal Research Studies

ensure that any data given is not capable of identifying any of the respondents, although this is unlikely, there is also the way ...

Mandatory Nurse-to-Patient Ratios

the American healthcare system, the debate concerning whether or not states should implement mandated nurse-to-patient ratios rema...

Nursing-Sensitive Outcome Indicators

nursing quality of care" (Hart, et al, 2006, p. 256). These indicators specifically indicate that complications, such as pressure ...

Comparing Mission and Philosophy Statements in regards to Nursing

from those of education- focused institutions, when the institution in question is a nursing school, there are similarities, as we...

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, ...

Chain of Command in Nursing

risk. For example, Mahlmeister (1996) relates a pediatric situation in which a night nurse in a small hospital was expected to wor...

Patient Advocacy, A Concept Analysis

as a central tenet to professional practice (Hanks, 2010). Both the American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics and the Code ...

Political Activism/Nursing Staffing Ratios

group of health care providers," which means that based on their sheer numbers, nurses have the power to reform the way that healt...

Nursing Staff and Significance of Diversity

the context of severe nursing shortage, it is imperative that employment strategies are designed to persuade older nurses to remai...

Farming, An Occupational Health Assessment

population" (Nyman, Butterfield and Shreffler-Grant, 2009, p. 282). Description of farming: Farming is "more than a business; i...

Issues Pertaining to Hospital Facilities

and how this equipment should differ for this population: Bariatric patients are typically defined as those who are extremely obe...

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...

Significance of Information Literacy

found on the Internet is accurate. As researching a topic using a Web browser is simply a matter of using a handful of keywords, t...

Violence at Work: A Problem for Nurses

In a paper of six pages, the author writes about research on the problem of workplace violence against nurses. The studies used i...

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...

Transactional and Transformational Nursing Leadership

of the department and the achievement of goals by motivating staff through the offer of rewards (Sellgren, Ekvall and Tomson, 2006...

Reviewing the Literature on OBRA 87 and Care Quality

to increase the quality of care given in long term care facilities in the country, in order to ultimate reduce health care costs t...

Orem, Watson/Caring in their Theories

prompts nurses to cultivate the "conscious intent to preserve wholeness; potentiate healing; and preserve dignity, integrity and l...

Significance of Nursing Informatics

the Internet and also the availability of a patients electronic health record (HER) facilitate nurses providing the highest level ...

An Article Review on Community Acquired Pneumonia

utilized 184 consecutive patients. All of the patients who were admitted were provided with informed consent. The researche...

Stroke Victim/Assessment and Nursing Diagnoses

This research paper discusses the assessment and determination of four nursing diagnoses that pertain to a 68-year-old stroke vict...

Medication Communication/Concept Analysis using Orem's Theory

between a patient and a doctor in a community practice setting" (Manias, 2010, p. 934). However, this scenario is no longer the mo...

Nursing Care for Elderly Patient

By addressing this need, which includes rehabilitation designed to aid her mobility, nursing intervention can also have a positive...

Nursing Interventions for a Stroke Case Study

This research paper offers four nursing diagnoses and their relevant goals and interventions, which are applicable to a case study...

Diabetic Case Study/Art of Nursing

entails addressing the emotional, psychological and spiritual needs of the patient, as well as medical and physical needs, entails...

Dyspnea, Family Caregiving and Quality of Life

primary symptoms of COPD are "wheezing, cough, dyspnea on exertion and increased phlegm production" (Touhy and Jett, 2012, p. 289)...

Diabetes in New Mexico and Community Health Nursing

of Health (NMDH) indicates that, as of 2007, it was estimated that 157,930 New Mexico adults, 18 years of age and older, had diabe...