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EBP Barriers

the following: In my practice setting, a major barrier against using EBP is that it takes an inordinate amount of time. This is...

Comfort/A Nursing Concept Analysis

sorrow; (b) relief from distress; (c) a person or thing that comforts; (d) a state of ease and quiet enjoyment, free from worry; (...

Cunningham's The Hours/Implications for Healthcare

not only relates to the societal restrictions with which women had to contend in regards to their expected societal roles, but it ...

Christian Beliefs in Nursing

beliefs and worldview of the nurse. Salladay (2006) in her review of A Christian Vision of Nursing Practice by Mary M. Doornbos,...

Chain of Command in Nursing

risk. For example, Mahlmeister (1996) relates a pediatric situation in which a night nurse in a small hospital was expected to wor...

Computerized System in the Prevention of Medication Errors

care (OMalley, 2007). The aim of this essay is to offer an overview of this problem, focusing on how it applies to a specific ho...

Nursing Administration Unit and Hospital Mergers

In ten pages this paper examines the increasing health care industry practice of hospital mergers and the problems with them and s...

Theorist and Martha Rogers a Science of Unitary Human Beings Application

of this perspective for modern nursing practices. The Theory of Unitary Human Beings Rogers theory described as the "Science of...

Article Critique/Cardiac Rehab Nursing

were contributing to the "toxic" work environment, which characterized this CSDU, as there was "evidence of a lack of meaningful c...

Critique of Nursing Articles

once again examines how nurses can be empowered, and learn those values in college. Finally, Ann Gallagher discusses dignity with ...

Family Presence at Resuscitation

(2005), in which samples of patients or patients families were enrolled. In a study in which the sample participants had lost a lo...

Women's Health Nurse Practitioner

"infertility, cardiovascular health, oncology, geriatrics, endocrinology, uro-gynecology, bone health and high-risk pregnancy" (Ke...

Nursing/Entry into Practice

inpatient facility (Entry-Level). There are advantages and disadvantages to having three entry levels into nursing. An advantage...

Use of Restraints in Healthcare

indicates, restraint places health practitioners between the proverbial rock and a hard place. However, there are practice standar...

Women's Mental Health/Depression

minority groups. They are frequently poor and have little education. Scrandis, Fauchald and Radsma describe a "Charlottes Web of C...

Dehydration & Older Patient

dehydrated? Has literature simply made you aware of this potential problem? You might say something like: "Considering the dire co...

Homelessness & Advocacy

the research, which includes finding a definitive measure for the health status of the homeless. This is a reasoned, extensive rev...

Nursing Perspective on the Issue of Living Organ Donation

however, Jones requested an ethics consult on the case due to the fact that Johns psychosocial evaluation had caused Jones to have...

Nursing and the Interaction Between Theory, Research, and Practice

authors state that research "and theory are key underpinnings that guide safe, effective, and comprehensive" (p. 35) practice. As...

Device-Associated Nosocomial Infection in an ICU

This paper gives an overview of a study that took place in a Polish ICU and pertained to the rate of device-associated nosocomial ...

Importance of EBP

This essay presents an example of how the student might chose to write a personal essay on the importance that research and EBP wi...

Moving to Evidence Based Practices

This paper reports one change that was made in a hospital. An announcement was made that nursing staff would be required to use ev...

The Three Major Religions and Healthcare

This 7 page paper gives an overview of the basics of the major religions and why nurses should study them. This paper includes Jew...

Certification and Roles, APNs

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

EBP, Overcoming Barriers

This research paper pertains to overcoming the barriers that exist in nursing to evidence-based practice and solutions are discuss...

Competing Professionals and Primary Healthcare

This paper considers the raging conflict between advanced practice nurses and physicians. Is there an identity crisis? There are...

An Ethical Dilemma: Abortion

This research paper pertains to the ethical dilemma confronting nurse practitioners concerning whether or not to offer abortion pr...

NP Advertisement and CPA

This paper begins by offering ten questions that a nurse practitioner might pose when applying for a position with Optum health. T...

Essential III, Insulin Administration Project

This paper asserts that the nursing student's project is appropriate to the requirements for Essential III, which indicates schola...

Jean Watson's Theory of Caring: Clinical Application

This research paper concerns Jean Watson's theory of human caring and its use within nursing clinical practice. Eleven pages in le...