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Presentation for the Implementation of a Fall Prevention Strategy

The paper is a presentation designed to introduce and explain a new fall prevention policy for a home care nursing agency. The pr...

Issues Pertaining to Hospital Facilities

and how this equipment should differ for this population: Bariatric patients are typically defined as those who are extremely obe...

Article Analysis/Urinary Incontinence Study

the prevalence of UI was high in this region of the country and particularly high among African Americans in two of the states, wh...

Recent Economic Effects on Home Health

In 2001, health care spending as a percentage of GDP was 14.1 percent, or $5,035 per capita (Levit, Smith, Cowan, Lazenby, Senseni...

Reducing Absenteeism/Nursing Home

have "little or no training in fundamental management skills" (Baer, 2006, p. 60). As well as absenteeism, problems with managemen...

Overview of Respiratory Therapy

regards to lung function. If patients cannot breath on their own, RTs are trained on how to intubate patients and connect them to ...

Home Health and Hospice Company Business Requirement Analysis

critical matters, employee requests for information often go unanswered for too long. Results can and have been employee frustrat...

HHH Strategic Plan

reporting and administrative reporting so that the owner can have confidence that HHH is providing superlative patient care and me...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Advanced Practice Nursing/Legal Requirements in Tennessee

recognized categories for APNs within this state (TBoN, 2006). The scope of practice for Tennessee APNs includes the legal abili...

California Nurse-Patient Ratios

(Cunningham, 2008). Observed Results Cortez (2008) states that in the past, patients had been known to call 911 from their ...

Caring in Nursing Theory

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

Philosophy of Nursing and Future Plans

for my patients. Personal philosophy of nursing: Tourville and Ingalls (2003) offer a fascinating and very apt analogy to descri...

Families Should Decide Own Health Goals

to individuals connected by a blood tie. However, to be a "family," members must "live in close contact, care for one another, an...

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. ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Nursing Shortage & Patient Safety

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