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An Article on Nursing Education Critiqued

(p. 1617). This suggests that the subject for this study is so under-researched that there are no previous studies to cite, which ...

Nursing Perspectives on the Case of Terri Schiavo

Although she lived, she suffered extensive brain damage, leaving her in what is described as a "persistent vegetative state" (Jero...

'Health as Expanding Consciousness' Nursing Philosophy of Margaret Newman

from disease to non-disease to health. She argues that "This synthesized view incorporates disease as meaningful aspect of health...

Nursing Theories of Dorothy E. Johnson

model of nursing is predicated upon the call for an interdisciplinary approach in the creation and establishment of appropriate an...

Nursing Profession and Medication Errors

that nurse is guilty of doing something unethical. Nurses must impose a high standard of care in the office, hospital or home sett...

Community Mental Health Practice and Communication

to three days more than 20 years ago. We ruefully joke that some managed care plans only allow new mothers to be hospitalized on ...

Canadian Hospital Nursing Setting and Conflict Resolution

using this paper properly! I. INTRODUCTION Janet (an RN) and Carol (her manager) had been working together in the same Can...

Nursing and Technology

a much greater burden of responsibility and knowledge than was previously the case. Even nurses in highly specialised fields are o...

Theory and Nurse Leadership

leadership of the nursing department with another individual at the VP level. Maras has full leadership of the department o...

Issues and Ramifications of Shortages in Nursing

causing in increase in health services. Furthermore, the US workforce of Registered Nurses (RNs) are aging as well. The ironic fac...

4 Questions Pertaining to Nursing

large perspective world view. Summing up, three differences between paradigms and models are that paradigms take a broader view of...

Nursing Theory and Pain Management

deal of pain likely will occur during the first 24 hours after surgery (Drakeford, Pettine, Brookshire and Ebert, 1991). Preventi...

Nursing Profession and Mohandas K. Gandhi's 5 Positive Attitudes

effective leader was his ability to build bridges between communities, between upper and lower caste Hindus and among Hindus, Musl...

Role of Nurse Administrator

role has changed in nursing home facilities. Long gone are the days when a modern amount of nursing care and dietary supervision w...

Questions on Nursing Theory

to health care. Many of the same questions that can apply to assessing the validity of qualitative research can be used to ...

Nursing Methods of Research and Validity Questions

practitioners that do not hold an MSN degree, and the resulting population would be too homogeneous to be of any real benefit. ...

Nurse Practitioner Profession and Risks of Musculoskeletal Injuries

and other health care workers cope with musculoskeletal problems even in the primary care setting. A Wausau Insurance Company rep...

Nursing and Professionalism

present-day nurse, he notes, this can be construed to mean a caring about the well-being of those the nurse serves which, in this ...

Value of Mentoring in the Nursing Profession

term. The rationale is that the experienced nurse will guide the new graduate into the active and applied portion of the pr...

Nursing Management Change Theory

incremental. It occurs in small steps, each of which are interspersed with a period of adjustment. This can be useful in staffin...

Hypertension Caused by Pregnancy

of pregnancies, pending on the population and the definitions used (Walker, 2000). Hypertension in pregnancy is typically classi...

Six Questions on Nursing Theory Models

general systems model serves as an example. Nursing research formerly was purely quantitative in design, and any qualitativ...

Arthritis Clinic Led by Nurse Practitioners

Primary Care Act, a feature of both practices is that the patients have the option of seeing a GP or a NP as their first point of ...

Hospitals and Nursing

Issues pertinent to these five elements include conceptual framework, scope of practice, policy implications and support of social...

Quality of Life, Nursing, and Concept Analysis

of happiness, contentment or relief, or something above ordinary existence. The patient should do more than subsist. 4. Care shoul...

Nursing Participant Observation Controversy and Qualitative Research

who choose to use qualitative methods tend to seek a deeper reality, inasmuch as their aim is to "study things in their natural se...

Overview of Haddon's Matrix

"Many changes in health care yesterday, have major unforeseen consequences today. While it is easy to predict results with the be...

Nursing and Global Perspectives

on a global scale. Therefore, for nurses to succeed in the complex world of the twenty-first century, many authorities feel th...

Synchronous and Dichotomous Concepts of Empowerment and Advocacy

and empowerment must be mutually exclusive. Falk (1995) describes empowerment as a more contemporary concept than advocacy, and...

Nursing Philosophies of Betty Newman and Jean Watson

their roles. As a result, there is a need to temper the actions of the nurse in the carative environment with a recognition of th...