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Nursing Practice Theories

This 2 page paper gives an overview of using middle range theory on regards to the nursing practice. This paper explains how evalu...

Nursing Theory, Self-Care Deficits

This research paper pertains to actions that nurses undertake to aid heart failure patients in regards to self-care management. Th...

Nurse’s Role in Healthy People 2010 Agenda

indicates that 51 percent of patients who are older than 65 received no medication information at the time of hospital discharge H...

Depression In Elderly Women

aforementioned variables are unsatisfactory, depression can occur in a number of different ways. Major depressive disorder ...

Elderly Privacy In An Institutionalized Setting: Ethical Issues And Social Work Involvement

need to be less oriented to rules and dilemmas, and more attuned to practical matters of everyday social experience" (pp. 19-22); ...

Nurse's Knowledge of Breast Cancer Screening

out care. Though there is a need for health care providers as a whole to have a greater awareness of the diagnostic process for b...

Nursing's Core Values

the changes that have occurred since she founded modern nursing. "Florence Nightingale provided us with a framework, relevant tod...

Incontinence and the Elderly

was that the method was based on the assumption that all the relevant information would be obtained by these experts (National Gui...

School Nurses and the Usefulness of Jean Watson's Nursing Paradigm

no education. Children were left to their own devices to discover the intimacies of one of the most personal activities of human ...

Nurses' Use of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication

nurses regarding physical touch, found that these study participants used touch as a therapeutic form of nonverbal communication, ...

Journal Review Article on Sex and the Elderly

a very important profession to address the issues, problems, or concerns of the elderly. The authors illustrate that, according to...

National League of Nursing and the American Nurses Association

follow-up full medical treatment and counseling. 5. Bargain for violence-prevention provisions. 6. Make violence-prevention progra...

Nursing's Personal Code of Ethics

on the following (Nursingworld.org, 2004). * Human dignity * Commitment to the patient * Protection of the patients privacy and co...

Mixed Economy of Care Improves Quality of Life For the Elderly

there were no caregiver present to assist the elderly individual during the day and evening, the frail older person frequently fou...

Psychiatric Nursing and Nursing Theory

nursing. Forchuk and Dorsay (1995) and Barker, Reynolds and Stevenson (1997) identify Hildegard Peplau as the first to apply nurs...

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...

Nurse Practitioners and Advanced Practice Nursing

(Walsh, 2003; p. 22). The intended role is that of partner with an MD in providing direct patient care in terms of serving in rol...

Heath Care and Nursing's Pender Promotion Model

doctoral degree in Psychology and Education in 1969" (Pender, n.d.a). She found psychological research to be rigorous and methodo...

Assistive Devices & The Elderly/Maintaining Independence

This study employed a prospective pre-test and a post-test randomized control trial design and a sample group of 53 senior adults ...

Depression And Diabetes: Dietary Choices Of The Elderly And Young Adults

compromised health. Whether diabetes incites depression or is brought about by already-existing depression is a concern that Brow...

Adverse Drug Reaction Among Elderly Patients: Impact Upon Costs And Length Of Hospital Stay

population want to be able to take care of themselves, yet they are rarely given the tools with which to accomplish this objective...

Elderly: Depression And Suicide

With millions of Americans in all age groups suffering from clinical depression (Alexopoulos), it can no longer be looked upon as ...

Development in the Lifespan/Preschool & Elderly

to determine how scholarly sources perceive the generations, as ascertaining what the differences and the common features that can...

Article Critique/Elderly Exercise

were aged 55 to 75 years at recruitment in 1989. The active group attended 30 to 45 minute exercise sessions three times per of su...

Depression in Elderly

low energy; 7. feelings of worthlessness; 8. poor concentration, and 9. recurrent suicidal ideation or suicide attempt (Lapid and ...

Mentally Ill Elderly/Syphilis Screening

A 5 page research paper that offers a summary of evidence relating STD incidence in older populations and how whether nor this con...

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...

Retention in Nursing and the Role of a Nursing Manager

support for the concept that effective leadership style is directly related to nursing job satisfaction (Kleinman, 2004a). These s...

Temporary Agency Nurses' Accountability and Competence in a Hospital Setting

not only better oriented overall to do the job but who also would be paid enough to have an incentive to stay in the job or put ma...

Nursing's Philosophical Issues

course of action is often jumbled. Is the patient cognizant enough to make the correct choices? Many issues come into play when a...