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Mandatory Overtime, An Issue that Endangers Patients

This essay gives an overview of why mandatory overtime for nursing staff is a significant issue that as the potential to harm pati...

Quitting Smoking and Hospitalized Patients Educational Obstacles

In five pages this paper examines literature regarding the nurse's role in educating hospitalized patients on smoking cessation. ...

Nurse's Role in Patient Assessments

of a unified health care organization that included both Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH...

Patient Depression and Nursing

influential resource and is a resource in which the patient will rely. Ethics Issues In this paper the treatment of a pati...

Elderly Patients and Medication for Asthma

medication are adequate, symptoms are controlled and most asthma-related problems are avoided (Francis, 2004). There are two maj...

Jean Watson's Theory Of Human Caring & Personal Reflection

it is like the concept of paying it forward. Praying forward is that act of doing something kind or helpful for someone else, they...

Dealing with Change/Miami Valley Hospital

patient care (Hassmiller and Cozine, 2006). Some strategies proposed by RWJF for helping to decrease the tremendous workload on nu...

Lesson Plan/Insulin Administration

include an understanding of how insulin functions to control glucose levels and the interaction between variables that can affect ...

Maslow And Nursing

Aesthetic, the need for beauty, order and symmetry (Huitt, 2004). 7. Self-actualization is a plateau not all people reach. At this...

Putting Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort in Practice

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

Hand Washing Project

proven to be the principal reason for nosocomial infections, that is, infections that are acquired after hospital admittance. Impo...

Nursing Questions

provide effective communication, the Band Aid song "Do They Know Its Christmas" a song which led to Live Aid was effective; this w...

Occupational Rehabilitation For A Nurse; A Case Study

workplace is a critical component of occupational rehabilitation (Morrison, 1993). In one study it was found that employees of inj...

Nurses Job Satisfaction

in the U.S. stands at 8.5 percent to over 14 percent, depending on the specific area of specialty (Letvak and Buck, 2008), by 2020...

Pressure Ulcers/Changing Care

change and its rationale (which was based on the results of empirical research), implemented the change and then "supported the c...

Horizontal Violence In Nursing: Critical Essay

individuals who collectively utilize this approach to humiliate as a show of solidarity, which is often hidden in the form of goss...

Looking at the Practical Aspects of Introducing a New Strategy for a Home Care Agency

legislation an the economic feasibility of the plan. A major role of the board will be to make the decision, to ensure that there ...

Public Guardianship

proposes a commission that would develop a recommendation for the State Legislature to create such an office. It further describes...

Assessing a Fall Prevention Implementation Plan

attitudes and motivation. However, in a criticism of the educational program, it has become apparent that certain aspects of these...

Moral Distress and Futile Care

This research paper investigates the relationship between the provision of futile care and the development of moral distress among...

Reed (2010), An Article Critique

This pair consists of the speaker notes for khapnpall.ppt, a six-slide Power Point presentation that critiques an article, Reed (2...

Interviewing Vulnerable Elders, MDS 3.0

This essay presents a summary and analysis of "Video on Interviewing Vulnerable Elders (VIVE)," which instructs nurses and long-te...

Aging Parents and the Responsibilities of Their Children

This paper places the responsibility for caring for the elderly parents on the shoulders of their adult children. There are four ...

Long Term Care Environments and Nursing Care Plans

their wishes for the patients care. Every nursing home resident has a right to such a plan by law (Stern), and it does not only p...

Nursing's Contribution to Quality of Life

could be called human biological life; or(2) human personal life that includes biological life but goes beyond it to include other...

Overview of Intensive Care Nursing

a good nurse ... Id spend more time with their families. If I were a good nurse, I would ..." (Williams, 2001; p. 24ac2)....

Adult Day Care Placement Benefits

not a socially accepted occurrence. In America, contempt and disrespect stem from the aspect of aging against ones will, with peo...

Health Care Policies, the Elderly, and Political Action Committees

In six pages this paper examines how PACs attempt to influence elderly health care policies with strategic recommendations offered...

Taking Care of the Elderly

The author considers the difficulties facing families who decide to care for elderly relatives with Alzheimer's. The author analyz...

The New Health Care and Columbia/HCA

Managed care has caused an upheaval in the way medical services are delivered in this country. This paper discusses the largest su...