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Hospital Utilization Management

information brochure that described the standard course of care for CHF patients (About Virtua, 2004). The team modified the flow ...

2 Perspectives on Nursing Theory

addressing specific phenomena or concepts and reflecting practice (Liehr and Smith, 1999). The grand theories of nursing, that is,...

Shared Governance and Collective Bargaining Issues in Nursing

associated with a considerable change in the traditional locus-of-control can be safely confronted, and professional practice can ...

Five Questions on Public Health Nursing

the term public health nurses" (JWA - Lillian Wald, n.d.). The public health nurses at the turn of the 20th century visited...

Essay for Nursing Ph.D. Program Admission

basic assumptions surrounding specific topics. My short-term goals include developing Consultants in Complex Neurodisability, a h...

Australia Focus on Breast Cancer

carcinoma in situ (DCIS). This is also known as "intraductal carcinoma or non-invasive breast cancer" (Breast Cancer, 2004; p. PG...

Future Trends in Managed Care

that MCOs develop their capacity to handle changes that are driven legislatively by congressional response to public reactions to ...

4 Nursing Metaparadigms Defined

how change can be effectively managed and challenges in the transformation of nursing and health care delivery. Clearly, Roys mod...

Metaparadigms and Nursing

and with others interacting with the patient. Mezirow (1991) promotes the use of critical reflection in building new knowle...

Attitudes of Social Workers and Nurses About Working with Alcoholic Clients

criminal and social repercussions, creating a punitive response to alcoholism that can impact the views of service providers. Cha...

Health Promotion Rationale and Coronary Heart Disease

(Link and Tanner, 2001). Research has found that some clients may be suffering from myocardial infarction (MI) even when they have...

Terminal Care Patients, Families, Nursing Staff, and Effective Communication

Understanding that there is a step by step progression, both physically and psychologically, can be part of the nurses role in thi...

Description and Diagnostics of Diabetes Mellitus

"a heterogeneous disorder characterized by 2 pathogenic defects, impaired insulin secretion and insulin resistance. The resultant ...

Student Ethics and Nursing

for nurses who come into intimate contact with clients from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. Ott, Al-Khadhuri and Al-Junaibi...

Providing Comfort in the Emergency Room

charted component of my daily patient interaction. However, to remind myself of the other responsibilities during busy per...

Nursing and Motivation

2003, p. 50). Comments went on to say that it is disheartening when they arent acknowledged in any way for the hard work they do (...

Concept Analysis of Condom Use

the order be filled. They specified one minor change, however. That was that each of the condoms that were manufactured include ...

Function and Role of Nurse Practitioners

the most frequently reported intervention classifications for NPs were patient education, drug management, nutrition support, risk...

Nursing Values and Beliefs Defined

a process that assumes that a persons own subjective construction of reality is more accessible than anything else. The process o...

Burnout and Stress in Nursing

are working, for example, in pediatrics(Sherman 2004). Therefore, she suggests, as many have, that the nursing professional learn ...

Shared Governance v. Collective Bargaining in Nursing Labor Relations

for protocol and for adhering to standard practice. There are many aspects of the job for which the nurse is best suited to addre...

Health Care and Interdisciplinary Teams

a list of advantages for patients, which include: * Greater coordination of services leads to higher quality care for the patient ...

Comfort Theory and Kolcaba

MEANING AND CONCEPTS Jones & Krysa (1998) describe the three essential comfort interventions as listening (to...

Adverse Effects to Antipsychotic Drugs

a fever, and a variety of other symptoms (Boyd, 2008). It is the variety of symptoms associated with NMS that become a significant...

Leadership Evolves Over Time

network that includes a hospital, reference laboratory, and home care agency. Numerous primary care and specialty physicians pract...

Suggestions for a Clinical Journal Entry

to answer Mary or look at her. Mary continued to talk soothingly, rubbing Angelas back lightly as she did so. She talked about how...

Organizational Commitment in the Nursing Field

all intimately connected. The function of a leader, in part, is to ensure that an organization achieves its goals by means of meth...

Nursing: A Review of Agency-Driven Support

health care depends not just upon knowledge of health care practices, but upon the successful business administration of clinics a...

Patient Advocacy, A Concept Analysis

as a central tenet to professional practice (Hanks, 2010). Both the American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics and the Code ...

A Project for Nursing Administration

Introduction When patients experience cardiac arrest, the response of healthcare workers can have a significant impact on patient...