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of a break in the skin (a cut, a crack in dry skin) becomes infected by bacteria or fungi (Monroe, 2003). Cellulitis can also occ...

In addition to their roles in the carative environment, RNs may also take on educational roles, providing important instruction, e...

for registered nurses by 2010 (Feeg 8). While statistics such as these have received a great deal of press, what is less well kno...

19th and early 20th centuries. Hughes and Romeo (1999) question the usefulness of education that does not address the growing div...

US shortage has caused many healthcare institutions to look for nurses outside their countrys borders and many nurses are leaving ...

individual, this woman does reflect on the past and has some regrets, but some optimistic comments are made as well. In evaluat...

According to one research study, the top five reasons why nurses employ restraints are "disruption of therapies, confusion, fall p...

1999). Elderly patients who are alert, and not declared incompetent, have the right to refuse treatment, which includes turning or...

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

ability has improved considerably, inasmuch as the decisions I now make are more analytical and based upon a broader and more dive...

education for nurses in the US followed the model established by modern nursings founder Florence Nightingale (Fitzpatrick 63). Th...

all areas of professional nursing. Provisions 1 through 3 address the principal obligations of nursing, which are to the patient/c...

but fully 60 percent of charts of reporting skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) make no mention of any behavioral interventions prio...

CP/M, which was shortly to be succeeded by MS/DOS (Alsop 188). The Macintosh operating system offered an icon-driven system that a...

expected to develop some form of cancer "or another rapidly debilitating condition and well be dead within a year of getting the d...

the needs of the dying and her work indicates that there are times when the most meaningful communication that a nurse can offer i...

of ear infection (Chronic otitis media, 2003). OM is a serious childhood illness because, if not properly treated, it can lead to ...

act as integral members of healthcare teams, provide direct and indirect patient care, and address central issues for patients, in...

factors as culture and even spiritualism in patient care delivery. While at one time nursing was a discipline which concentrated ...

first started to administer to the injured and the sick, the notion that nurses should be women has prevailed (Odendaul, 2004). T...

individuals personal integrity, which is defined as a "sense of worth which can be conserved through consideration of cultural, et...

II. Population The target population for this inquiry are children of the world. However, the population needs to be narrowed as...

what was said in the first sentence of this essay - nurse shortages results in nurses being given unrealistic workloads (DPE Resea...

showing that they graduated from a nursing education program approved by the Georgia Board of Nursing or from a nursing education ...

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

This research paper describes a patient with congestive heart failure, giving a case study overview of nursing care. Six pages in ...

This research paper pertains to overcoming the barriers that exist in nursing to evidence-based practice and solutions are discuss...

This paper details the speaker notes associated with khaspectsnur.ppt. The topics covered are alignment of values between nurses a...

This essay discusses a journal article that focuses on the assessment of pain and pain management by nurses. The essay analyzes an...

This paper critiques the 2008 nursing journal article Randomized Control Trial of a Psychoeducation Program for the Self Managemen...