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This research paper describes a patient with congestive heart failure, giving a case study overview of nursing care. Six pages in ...

This research paper investigates development of advanced practice nurses (APNs) within the scope of contemporary health care, both...

This paper considers the role of patients' religion and how it should impact nursing care. The writer focuses on the way in whic...

This research paper pertains to a nursing education classroom scenario in which the students are experiencing learning problems. T...

activities" (Orems Self-Care Model Concepts) that patients need to undertake to meet their own health care needs on a routine basi...

declined as "educators, employers and others recognize the need for educational changes in nursing" (Bednash, 2000, p. 2985). Asso...

departments (Courson, 2004). It isnt that nurses have not been serving in these roles, they have but today, nurses receive speci...

only one group, no control group. Group exposed to treatment and then measure (Creswell, 2003). Measured participants blood gluco...

on an evidenced based evidence based practice and the development of increased individual accountability in the area of clinical g...

over their blood glucose levels; and (3) encouraging continuous improvement in nursing knowledge and patient education. The progr...

the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

increase; third-party payers strive to keep payments as low as possible; individuals seek to enhance performance or gain the great...

balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...

learned long ago the value of yet another Deming (1986) exhortation, that of continuous improvement. By definition, the concept i...

a list of advantages for patients, which include: * Greater coordination of services leads to higher quality care for the patient ...

operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). This is broken down into three basic categories: 1) wholly compen...

the most frequently reported intervention classifications for NPs were patient education, drug management, nutrition support, risk...

charted component of my daily patient interaction. However, to remind myself of the other responsibilities during busy per...

moment to moment as the changing patterns of shifting perspectives weave the fabric of life through the human-universe interconnec...

caring as the very definition of what constitutes personal values from a nursing perspective (2003). Koerner (1996), likewise, e...

Critically-Care nurses, 1989 in Nursing Management, 1999, p. 38). This abbreviated version of AACN nursing standards was located...

in order so that it can be determined if all of the childs educational needs are being met. Aiding disabled children in reaching t...

classifies the stroke patients needs in four domains: 1) medical/surgical issues; 2) mental status/emotion/coping behaviors; 3) ph...

which both of those impacts are important. The question of what statistics should be collected in a medical facility, however, is...

importance in the immediate nature of the patients problems, however. In critical care, theory can wait. Nurses need to be focus...

several problems with recent immigrants, however. These include language barriers, not having completed a GED, limited healthcare...

to the bill as did many nursing executives, arguing that there was sufficient legislation already on the books that dealt with sta...

and the patient are often unproductive (Roberson and Kelly, 1996; Hanna, 1997). Understanding the basis for this cultural percept...

on nurses increase (Cullen, 2003). Nevertheless, nurse educators and scholars stress that it is through recognition of caring as a...

is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...