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Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP)

factors that have been identified include "diabetes, alcoholism, malnutrition, history of antibiotic or corticosteroid use, decrea...

Conflicting Ethics, Euthanasia, and Nursing

In eight pages this essay discusses the ethical conflict between a patient's 'right to die' and the Nurse's Code. Five sources ar...

Healthcare Communication

Asynchronous communication is that which does not require the simultaneous direct attention of all involved. It can take the form...

Health Care: Ethical Dilemma

HIV-positive nurses being a threat to patients and other health care workers. Research clearly supports the reality of the situat...

Personal Philosophy of Nursing

individual is an "open system," which includes "distinct, but integrated physiological, psychological and socio-cultural systems" ...

Nursing Shortage In The United States: Causes, Effects And Solutions

Budget cutbacks, burnout and lack of student enrollment have precluded sufficient staffing in many critical areas of healthcare. ...

Intergenerational Family Relationships

elderly population is finding it difficult to meet their own financial needs and have few choices but to pool resources with other...

Health Care Interdisciplinary Teams

patient, the attending nurse is seldom in the room at the same time. The attending physician may refer the patient to a cardiologi...

Theoretical Comparison of Hildgard Peplau and Dorothea Orem on Self Care Deficit

In seven pages this paper compares the self care deficit health care theories of Peplau and Orem in terms of similarities regardin...

Elderly and Community Care

of many elderly patients. The failure of the policy to realise real benefits was seen in many areas. This is not to say...

Medicare and the Elderly

can no longer follow this model is because medical technology can now greatly prolong life-perhaps make it too long. People now ro...

Caring in Nursing Theory

paternalistic approach that has been favored by physicians. Watsons theory stresses nurses should "honor anothers becoming, autono...

Informed Consent and British Medical Law

upper house has, in fact, been in a state of suspended reform for almost a century - ever since the unelected Tory landowners who...

The Importance of Care In Nursing

the mountains in California, ride a horse in the Grand Canyon, volunteer in a cancer center, finish painting his house, attend his...

Avoiding Restraint and Seclusion

design. It is "not grounded in research that supports the therapeutic efficacy of this intervention, but upon the observation tha...

Meeting a Patient’s Spiritual Needs

caregiver can also ask if they belong to a spiritual, community or religious group (involvement); if the children attend religious...

Overview of Critical Care Nurse Practitioner

a specialized body of knowledge, skills and experience that enables these nurses to offer a high standard of care to critically il...

Nursing Home Care and the Effects of Mandatory Continuation of Nursing Education

nursing care over the past decade and how do they support the argument for a continuum of educational practices for nursing profes...

Nursing Homes Centered on Clients

The most recent trend in nursing home care is client-centered treatment. This paper examines statistics in elder care, with almost...

An Analysis on an Article About Caring and Science

lawyers, uncaring nurses and pedophile clergy is to cut back on scientific research--a tenuous conclusion at best. Where the art...

Truth in Patient Care

"become a universal law" (Kant, 1993, p. 30). In other words, Kants main criteria for action is that the individual should conside...

Nursing & Spiritual Care

much broader in its application. It is this broadness that allows nurses to reach across religious lines and distinctions. In a su...

Article Summary on High Blood Pressure

differences between these two classifications are then described and three factors that are believe to influence the formation of ...

Feedback from a Mentor on Presentation Proposing a Fall Prevention Program

The writer provides some feedback that may have been provided by a mentor, looking at a presentation given by the student. The pr...

Nursing Error and Understaffing

This research paper employs a nursing case study in order to discuss issues associated with understaffing and its negative impact ...

Tone and Expectations of Nursing Managers' Role

This research paper discusses how nursing managers establish a workplace culture that supports the delivery of quality patient car...

Patient’s Possessions & Cultural Competency

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

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...

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...

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...