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Patient Safety Issues, Nursing

This paper offers discussion of several aspects of patient safety. Three pages in length, five sources re cited. ...

Mandated Nurse-to-Patient Ratios, The Debate

to the passage of the California law (Tevington, 2011). Currently, Connecticut, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Texas an...

Mandatory Nurse-to-Patient Ratios

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

Management of Diabetic Patients and Nurse Practitioner Practice

risen in the US population, there has been corresponding increase in the incidence of diabetes mellitus, which is associated with ...

Arguing Against Nurses Participating in the Death of Patients and the Christine Busalacchi Case

Rural Nurses, represented by registered nurse and practicing attorney Jacqulyn Hall, filed an amici curiae (friends of the court) ...

Mandated Nurse-to-Patient Ratios

nursing skill levels and patient mix" (Minimum staff levels, 2004, p. 33). However, the researchers found that a "greater total nu...

Quality Indicators and Nurse/Patient Ratios

literature and also "analysis of ICD-9-CM codes," which were reviewed by a "clinician panel," offering specific IQs that address i...

Patient Outcome and Defining the Contribution of Nursing

authors have explored the importance of the holistic approach in positively impacting patient outcome. As early as the 1970s rese...

Patient Outcomes, Organizational Factors, and Nursing Competency

to insure that nurses continually perform their duties in the most competent and constructive manner (Cain, 2001). The establishm...

Patient Autonomy and Nursing Concept Analysis

be in agreement with a working definition of autonomy. Thus, the following attributes should be seen: self-determination, in...

Nursing Models and Stress of Patients

In ten pages this paper discusses patient stress in an application of the Orlando and Newman stress models and the development of ...

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...

Geriatric Mentally Ill Patients and Nursing

characteristics of metal disorders may include abnormalities in cognition, mood or emotions; it may include abnormalities in integ...

Nurse/Patient Ratios/Not One Size Fits All

assisting registered nurses (RNs) in order to meet legislated requirements (Schaefer 9). This means that while RNs have fewer pati...

Nursing Home Patients And Their Vulnerabilities During Disasters

food, clean water and - most important for some people who did not survive - electricity to keep their life-sustaining equipment r...

Elder Abuse In Community Facilities

treatment, rendering them victims in the ongoing breakdown of Americas health care system. According to Marks (1996), there are -...

Article Critique/Nursing Home Patients

there is no cure either for Alzheimers disease or the various forms of dementia on the horizon, healthcare practitioners should "i...

Nursing and Patient Records

In ten pages this paper examines the increased visibility of a nurse's role and also considers the enhancement of nursing document...

Facing a Family Health Challenge

frequently the needs of terminal patients are not addressed properly and that multiple problems exist in this regard. Practitioner...

Aiding Patients with Chronic Conditions, A Reflection

support of a nurse that can keep these patients inspired to continue the positive health behaviors that ensure their continued goo...

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)...

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...

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...

Medical Doctors and Nurse Practitioners Conflict Management

the elderly. The Nurse Practitioner announced in its July 2000 issue that reports of the AMAs petition had been received as...

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...

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...

4 Nursing Metaparadigms Defined

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

Learning to Care for Children/A Study Critique

critique of this study will both summarize and analyze the various sections of Coetzees article, which describes this research, a...