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Dorothea Dix, Pioneer of Nursing

Dixs problems with mental health may have inspired her passion for aiding those who were diagnosed as being mentally unstable or i...

Nursing Delegation

fact that an individual "can be called to account for ones actions in regard to a duty" (Cornock, 2008, p. 64). While responsibi...

Assessing Research

in the home and individuals suffering from dementia. The background literature review sites a wide range of sources, including res...

Assessing Research

The writer looks at a research article by Lach and Chang (2007) entitled Caregiver Perspectives on Safety in Home Dementia Care" p...

Overview of Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome

the signs of illness in order to maintain prolonged contact with healthcare providers (Criddle, 2010). History and Statistics Ph...

Modern Developments within Organizational Theory

are significant limitations, and the most common approaches appear to be building on existing theories in order to better than, as...

Exercises to Support Continued Professional Development

in the International Journal of Nursing Studies, looking at the effectiveness of nurses delivering health promotion activities to ...

Nursing Leadership Environment Assessment Survey

survey. Encouraging nurses to cultivate an inquiring attitude The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) indicates ...

Advanced Practice Nursing Roles

the various roles and responsibilities that the specialty involves, they share the common quality that the nursing process is inhe...

Communications and Consistency Theory

Austrian psychologist Fritz Heider developed one of the earliest consistency theories, balance theory, which focused on the relati...

Dividend Policies and the Interpretation of Dividend Signaling

the firms performance (Lintner, 1956, p98). The basic hypothesis, based in research with a sample of 28 firms and interviews with ...

Summary and Analysis of a Nursing Practicum

catheterization provides an effective method for evaluating the effectiveness of medications while also assessing cardiac function...

Overview of Jean Watson's Theory of Transpersonal Caring

a noun and a verb, is inextricably intertwined with nursing. Nurses provide care, that is, the actions necessary to attend to pati...

Political Activism and Nursing

The manner in which professional organizations can be used to keep nursing leaders aware of political issues that are relevant to ...

Smoking az a Nursing Advocacy Issue

This research paper pertains to smoking as a nursing advocacy issue, and describes how nurses are addressing this issue. Three pag...

Review of Nurses Experiences Care for Patients with Prehypertension

The writer reviews a research article provided by the student, which uses a narrative methodology in order to examine the experien...

Comparison of Novice vs. Expert Clinician Skills

This research paper focuses on the development of novice nurses' skills and the ways in which they differ from those of an expert....

State of Science, Nursing Ethics

Background/Review of Literature The eight articles/studies that constitute this literature review encompasses several key concept...

Limited Nursing Advocacy

report, admissions, and emergency situations" (Griffin, 2003, p. 135). The rationale for this policy is that it protects the confi...

Management of Hypertension Among African Americans

to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...

Schools of Philosophy as Used in Nursing

(Allmark, 2003, p. 4). Poststructuralism: This perspective takes a deconstructive view of structuralism and "sees inquiry as ine...

Creating a Sexual Health Clinic

serve to mentor teens and provide socially positive guidance and support. Diagnostic and screening exams will also be available, b...

Coping with Being Understaffed

the ability of an institution to deliver quality, error-free care. At the Six Sigma level, there are roughly "3.4 errors per one m...

Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP)

factors that have been identified include "diabetes, alcoholism, malnutrition, history of antibiotic or corticosteroid use, decrea...

Nursing Wages/New Jersey

in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas in every State" (Occupational, 2006). Annual wages were determined by "multiplying the ...

Value of Joining a Nurses’ Organization

of nursing and by lobbying" both Congress and regulatory agencies in regards to healthcare issues that affect nursing (ANA, 2008)....

Discharge Instructions, Heart Patients

planning evaluation to those patients, conducted or overseen by a registered nurse, social worker or other appropriately qualified...

Hand Washing Project

proven to be the principal reason for nosocomial infections, that is, infections that are acquired after hospital admittance. Impo...

Nursing Profession and Managed Care

In twenty pages this research paper examines how the field of nursing has been impacted by managed care in a consideration of its ...

Nursing Aide Certification

Certification is important in many fields as it is in nursing. The CNA position is discussed in depth. The nursing care industry i...