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Lillian D. Wald: Life and Works

one else to do them and she saw a need (Krain, 2002). "She recruited another nurse and began working out of a fifth floor apartmen...

Online Education/Professional Development

by trying things out)...reflective learners (learn by thinking things through, working alone) 5. sequential learners (linear, orde...

Stem Cell Research: Societal Implications

in a laboratory situation (Licking, 1998; Brownlee and Schrof, 1998). Many of these cells, in fact, have the capability of develo...

Reaction Essay to Treating the Poor/Matthew Dumont

announcing that shes "fine" and then another year or two will pass before the next outburst of psychosis. There is resignation an...

Homelessness & Advocacy

the research, which includes finding a definitive measure for the health status of the homeless. This is a reasoned, extensive rev...

Assisting in Grief Counseling

left to deny anything connected with the loss, either before or after the fact. Those left behind also need to acknowledge the me...

Ambulation

individual is walking, the thorax rotates in "clockwise and counter-clockwise directions," which are "opposite the pelvic rotation...

Study Critique/Nursing Children

of the study by stating it explicitly: "The purpose of this study was to explore how undergraduate nursing students learn to care ...

Hypovolemic Shock and Perioperative Nursing

for patient survival" (Kelley, 2005, p. 2). When the blood volume in the body is too low, it activates "compensatory mechanisms" t...

Medication Errors & Their Prevention

are able to make error reports without fear of reprisal. Nevertheless, the consequence of possible disciplinary action and repris...

NPs Prescribing/Alberta

In 1999, Albertas Nursing Profession Act Extended Practice Roster Regulation provided province authorities with the legal capacity...

Study Critique/Coetzee (2004)

be discussed relative to both previous research and the studies that have come after it. This research tends to substantiate the s...

Learning to Care for Children/A Study Critique

critique of this study will both summarize and analyze the various sections of Coetzees article, which describes this research, a...

Artificial Nutrition/hydration & Terminal Pediatric Patient

the insertion of a central line, threaded through a vein, and it was once believed that it would aid cancer patients, restoring ap...

Role of Charge Nurse

the situation, the charge nurse might take a number of different actions in response to this information. For example, the charge ...

Gibbs Cycle Analysis of Constipation in the Elderly

First seen as an occasional point of minor and temporary discomfort, there seemed to be other, more "important" issues to assess. ...

Nursing Case Study & Critical Thinking Styles

familys emotional state through observation and empathic listening. They can explore their own emotions through self-examination a...

Dorothea Orem - Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory

own studies in numerous areas, such as formal logic, metaphysics, action theories, and to her readings of Aristotle, Aquinas and m...

Delegation Example in a Health Care Setting

feel as if they are not being given proper treatment if a CNA is assigned to their case instead of an RN (Sullivan, 1998). Thus, t...

Colby/Deaths of Nancy Cruzan

that the legal struggle took on her family was immense. Her father never recovered emotionally and committed suicide (Colby, 2002)...

Nursing Theories Core Concepts

2005, p. 4). She incorporated the environment into the theory along with numerous other factors and variables, all of which would ...

Impact of Professional Environment on Nursing Knowledge

(Bliss-Holtz, Winter and Scherer, 2004). In hospitals that have achieved magnet status, nurses routinely collect, analyze and us...

Article Analysis: Nursing Shortage

to others, at least not as frequently as would seem reasonable if they liked it as well as the general public does. The reason mo...

Autonomy of Nurse Practitioners

In five pages this paper examines the controversy involving the autonomy of nurse practitioners. Eight sources are cited in the b...

Continuing Learning Plan and Nursing

In five pages this paper discusses the importance of continuing learning in the nursing profession in a consideration of the impor...

Nursing Home Environment and Pet Therapy Programs

In five pages this paper examines the benefits of pet therapy in a nursing home setting in terms of memory stimulation and positiv...

Nursing Unionization and Effects on Employers and the Care of Patients

In eight pages this paper assesses the benefits and detriments of nursing unionization from patient and employer perspectives. Sev...

RN Shortages

In eight pages this paper discusses the reasons why there are fewer registered nurses everywhere. Nine sources are cited in the b...

Supreme Court Ruling on Cedar Rapids Community School District v. Garret F.

In five pages the case in which the Supreme Court ruled that a school provided nurse should attend to a student dependent upon a v...

Terminating Life Support and Issues of Nursing Ethics

In sixteen pages this paper discusses withdrawal of life support from a perspective of nursing ethics. Twelve sources are cited i...