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Shannondale Nursing Home and Its Historical Development

been in operation for some time, and it currently is building a retirement community of duplexes for those over 55 who do not yet ...

Mental Health Industry Audit

significant changes to the existing system but have not yet covered too much ground where modifications are concerned. This is pa...

Orthopaedic Nursing Journal Article Reviewed

In ten pages a tutorial review on the article 'Discharge Teaching Work Strategies for Patients and Families for Care in the Home'...

Nursing Home Industry and the Effects of 1935's Social Security Act

Social Security Act of 1935. In simplest terms, the Social Security Act of 1935 designated nearly $50 million of federal funds to...

Carobeth Laird's Limbo A Memoir About Life in a Nursing Home by a Survivor

This book regarding the degrading treatment of senior citizens in nursing homes is reviewed in five pages. There are no other sou...

Nursing Home Industry Employee Issues

In five pages this paper considers issues of incompetence and incapacitation as they relate to nursing home industry workers in a ...

Long Term Nursing Home Care

In eight pages this paper discusses nursing homes for long term care in a consideration of choices, features, and transitional rec...

Management Practices in Nursing Homes

In twenty pages this research paper discusses management practices as they pertain to nursing homes in a consideration of ideologi...

The Case Study of a Child in Need

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

Nursing Dilemma/Elder Abuse

a nurse to determine which elderly patients are being abused because a sense of shame or a desire to protect the family member who...

Substance Abuse in Nursing

Not only are the direct health impacts to the nurse deleterious, impaired nurses cannot meet their responsibility to provide top q...

Case Scenario/Alcohol Abuse

"chronic, heavy drinking" (Enoch and Goldman, 2002, p. 192). According to government standards, a woman is at-risk for heavy drink...

Nurses and Drug Abuse

have access to a range of drugs. Bennett (et al, 2000) argues that the overall rate of substance abuse in the nursing popualtion r...

Complaints and Nursing

that time. What might be needed, then, would be some plan of action that the staff could follow, or possibly some type of polite s...

Community Health Care Nursing and Child Abuse Interventions

the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...

Balancing Patient Confidentiality and Other Ethical Principles

This paper outlines a dilemma that arises when a patient requests secrecy upon revealing physical abuse to a student nurse. There...

Leadership and Management in Nursing

management, in recent years, has been quite extensive. This body of empirical evidence and commentary largely supports the concept...

Nurses & Health Care Policy

the women who have traditionally filled nursing positions will undoubtedly continue to pursue other professional opportunities tha...

Nursing Knowledge: Development And Utilization

have otherwise been a lingering existence in private homes or disreputable hospitals. Inasmuch as the nurse is "temporarily the c...

Various Types of Nursing Roles

implementing the treatment regimen. 5. collaborating with other health care providers in determining the appropriate health care f...

Images of Nursing

when nurses are needed the most, which is when we are ill (line 12). This is when "Nurses come through, with their care and goodwi...

Web Assigns/Nursing

of the site is that it connects to numerous opportunities for continuing education and there is a page dedicated to this purpose. ...

Agency & Traveling RNs

(Green, 2004a). A travel nurse, on the other hand, is typically contracted to work a 13-week period, and this usually includes an ...

Nursing Shortage & Patient Safety

established that nurses are often involved in the "timely identification of complications," which, if acted upon swiftly, prevent ...

Annotated Bibliography/Nursing Shortage & Foreign Recruitment

A pertinent issue to foreign nurse recruitment, as a method for alleviating the shortage of nurses in US hospitals, is the number ...

Impact of HIV/AIDS on Nursing

noted that cases of a rare lung infection, pneumocystis carinni pneumonia, had occurred in Los Angeles and also that three young m...

Old Age Conceptual Understanding

In eight pages this paper attempts to understand the concept of 'old age' and the current lack of respect being accorded senior ci...

3 Specialties in Advanced Nursing Practice

an advanced practice nurse. The benefits that a nurse midwife can bring to a first-time mother include information that the mothe...

General Medical Services Contract, National Health Service, and Practice Nursing

practitioner surgeries are run by practice nurses, only making referrals to other members of the healthcare team when required, Th...

Advanced Nursing Practice Philosophy

therapeutic manner (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). This relationship may refer to a single individual, or the "person" may be a sma...