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Essays 1921 - 1950

A Nursing Student's Plan for Personal Development

are often called upon to provide comfort where there seems to be none, patience in the face of adversity, and grace under fire. Th...

The School Nurse and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

the educational setting, and considers the role of school nurses. At a time when an increasing number of students are receiving s...

Assessment of HIV Prison Population Plan for Nursing Management

in terms of the diagnosis and the aggregate. Discussion of Nursing Diagnosis The nursing diagnosis for this study, kno...

An Overview of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

etiology of the disease is not well understood, but substantive research suggests that individuals who suffer from ALS have mutati...

Critical Incident Analysis in Nurse Management

and certainly health care facilities. In essence, the minimum requirements of nursing dictate that: * the nurse remain cognizant ...

Single Mother's Economic Struggles

my divorce are better understood in relation the traditional concept of a nuclear family. The term "nuclear family" brings to min...

Nursing and the Caring Phenomena

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

Depression, Pain, and Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy

with "depression, sleep disturbance, fatigue, and decreased overall physical and mental functioning" (Hearn, 2001). Problem Stat...

Jean Watson's Human Caring Theory

is they do, when they change their actions, then the image of nursing will change" (Watson, 1996, p. 142). Watson has recognized ...

Long Term Healthcare Evolution

and their insurers by operating under two distinct fee schedules. Medicare requires that care providers fees be "normal and custo...

Nursing Home Admissions' Perception versus Reality

to a nursing facility, it should also be understood that each situation is unique. When both the family members and the staff of t...

Healthcare and Continuous Quality Improvement

to produce better outcomes for patients and improve the conduct and performance of nurses and other health care employees on a dai...

Evaluation of a Nursing Management Plan for Women with HIV

efforts and prevention methods (Erickson, 1997). Ericksons (1997) study considered the impacts of psychology and specific attit...

Health Care Governance - Three Studies

All of these studies reflect empirical studies of hospital populations in an effort to determine how changes in the healthcare env...

Difficult Decision Making

as sadness. My Dad quickly smiled and patted me on the back, but in my heart I knew that my decision would forever change the cou...

Analysis of Costs of Decubitus Ulcers in Elder Care Facilities

Furthermore, if the ulcers end up in hospitalization, the nursing home is responsible for those costs as well. Even if the patient...

Advanced Practice Nursing, the Self Care Deficit Model of Dorothea Orem, and Urinary Incontinence

development of nurse-operated continence centers, which provide conservative management for UI (Bernier, 2002). Continence nurses...

Conceptual Analysis of Powerlessness

until they become powerless in terms of their own personal care that nursing care should take over. There are essentially 3 typ...

Nursing Model of Dorothea Orem Evaluated

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

Midwives, Pregnant Women, and Quitting Smoking

more likely to give birth prematurely, have children with low-birthweights, and experience pregnancy problems like eclampsia. Fur...

Brief Nursing History

Peplau addressed the inherent relationship between nursing and counseling, contending that nurses uphold the important responsibil...

Communication and Palliative Care

the patient prior to his death. The nurse clearly felt the need to encourage the family to stay and spend as much time as possibl...

Overview of Nurse Mentors

roles of nursing is direct patient care, and one of the seven essential AACN values is that of human dignity. In years past, dire...

Nursing Homes and Abuse of the Elderly

over the age of 60 years in 1995, and that number will probably increase to about 1.2 billion (2002, p.1094) in 2025. Informatio...

Philosophy of Nursing and How It Has Evolved

or render physical care - she ministers to the whole person. The existence of suffering, whether physical, mental or spiritual is ...

Meningitis and Africans in a Cultural Competency Case Study

right? Not as visible a cause as AIDS, nor as prevalent in the news as Cancer, Meningitis will be a difficult sell to this segmen...

Contemporary Applications of the Deliberative Nursing Theory of Jean Orlando

therefore, not only an extensive history but it can be contended to be just as applicable in todays nursing practice as it was whe...

Nursing and Health Care Policy

health of the individual and to their success in recuperation. The Association for Spirit at Work is comprised of medical profess...

Patient Care Perception and Nurse Uniform Color

that make use of color, but even these efforts have not typically met with good response by patients or hospital administrators (S...

Nursing Leadership Examined

and case management. Maras shares the leadership of the nursing department with another individual at the VP level, L. McChesney....