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Patient Outcomes, Organizational Factors, and Nursing Competency

to insure that nurses continually perform their duties in the most competent and constructive manner (Cain, 2001). The establishm...

Nursing and Congestive Heart Failure

In addition, among hospitalized patients over 65, CHF is the leading hospital admission diagnosis. In 1988 alone, it accounted fo...

Nursing Philosophies of Betty Newman and Jean Watson

their roles. As a result, there is a need to temper the actions of the nurse in the carative environment with a recognition of th...

A Nursing Ethical Dilemma Case Study

and the directives of the medical environment. For over two decades, for example, the health care industry has recognized a decli...

Nursing and Ethics

quality of a patients life, (4) implementing managed care policies that threaten quality of care, and (5) working with unethical/i...

Nursing Degrees and Associate versus Bachelor

In a paper consisting of six pages the argument is presented that nurses should be paid not on their level of education but rather...

2 Journal Articles on Hypertension Reviewed

insight regarding the details of their normal everyday life and health concerns. Boutain sets the stage by reporting that one in...

Possible Barriers for MSN Pursuit by Registered Nurses

nurses considering returning to school for a Masters of Science in Nursing (MSN), the perceived barriers include issues directly r...

Nursing Intervention and Munchausen by Proxy

the condition. More frequently it is the healthcare system which is both exposed to the condition and thus responsible for detect...

Nursing and Self Care Wound Instruction

In six pages this tutorial presents information on how to create a nursing instruction plan for how wounds can be self treated. F...

ER Application of the Self Care Deficit Theory Developed by Dorothea Orem

Emergency rooms are, at least in many cases, the primary health care provider to the underinsured and uninsured patient (Isenstein...

Synchronous and Dichotomous Concepts of Empowerment and Advocacy

and empowerment must be mutually exclusive. Falk (1995) describes empowerment as a more contemporary concept than advocacy, and...

Overview of Stress in Patients

In nine pages this paper examines causes, symptoms, and results of patient stress in a nursing overview that includes the servant ...

Overview of Haddon's Matrix

"Many changes in health care yesterday, have major unforeseen consequences today. While it is easy to predict results with the be...

Hospitals and Nursing

Issues pertinent to these five elements include conceptual framework, scope of practice, policy implications and support of social...

New Jersey's Health Care Delivery System and Its Problems

governor should strive to at least make a dent in the problem in the next four years. It seems that the most pertinent problems ar...

Nursing and Global Perspectives

on a global scale. Therefore, for nurses to succeed in the complex world of the twenty-first century, many authorities feel th...

Nursing in Great Britain, Clinical Supervision

patient care" (p. 438). Prior to 1970, nursing training in the UK could be described as rigid and highly structured. After...

Arthritis Clinic Led by Nurse Practitioners

Primary Care Act, a feature of both practices is that the patients have the option of seeing a GP or a NP as their first point of ...

Long Term Care Environments and Nursing Care Plans

their wishes for the patients care. Every nursing home resident has a right to such a plan by law (Stern), and it does not only p...

Patient Care, Team Approaches, Evaluations, and the Process of Nursing

call for compliance with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to su...

Nursing Theory and Pain Management

deal of pain likely will occur during the first 24 hours after surgery (Drakeford, Pettine, Brookshire and Ebert, 1991). Preventi...

Quality of Life, Nursing, and Concept Analysis

of happiness, contentment or relief, or something above ordinary existence. The patient should do more than subsist. 4. Care shoul...

Nursing Participant Observation Controversy and Qualitative Research

who choose to use qualitative methods tend to seek a deeper reality, inasmuch as their aim is to "study things in their natural se...

Patient Autonomy and Nursing Concept Analysis

be in agreement with a working definition of autonomy. Thus, the following attributes should be seen: self-determination, in...

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...

Issues in Health Care

to focus more upon running smooth production rather than customer needs. By skewing the focus in this way, health care organizati...

Community-Based Case Management Journal Article Critiqued

Carondelet St. Mary's model of community-based case management was the source of an article titled Community-Based Case Management...

Euthanasia and the Law

In five pages this paper discusses the legal aspects of euthanasia as it affects the legal community, the nurse or caregiver, and ...

Vulnerable Populations and Nursing Involvement

In six pages this paper discusses ethical dilemmas as they pertain to vulnerable populations and the involvement of nursing. Five...