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Device-Associated Nosocomial Infection in an ICU

This paper gives an overview of a study that took place in a Polish ICU and pertained to the rate of device-associated nosocomial ...

Moving to Evidence Based Practices

This paper reports one change that was made in a hospital. An announcement was made that nursing staff would be required to use ev...

Patient Compliance & CHF Nursing Care

While CHF has a mortality rate that ten times that of AIDS and is also responsible for far more hospitalizations than cancer, even...

Coronary Artery Disease Prevention and Exercise

risk factor, but is of less consequence among those diabetics who pay close attention to their blood sugar levels, test often and ...

Qualitative Study Death Sentence' to 'Good Cancer' Couples' Transformation of a Prostate Cancer Reviewed

objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and their wives,...

Advance Practice Nursing and Postgraduate Degrees

current literature, which includes existing nursing journals and the WEB sites conducted by the American Association of Nurses and...

Urban Children and Asthma Care Barriers

In five pages an article is summarized and discussed in terms of knowledge contained within within the perspective of personal nur...

Health Care Delivery Trends

In five pages the effects of various health care practices and trends upon the nursing field are examined. Five sources are cited...

Spirituality in Nursing Practice - Literature Review

significantly as ethnicity and can encompass many different forms of beliefs. Spirituality plays a major role in how individuals...

Summary of Nursing Articles

to reach the disease" (Colwell; 2). The author also examines aspects of surgical treatment, indicating that a particular type of s...

Reduction of Infection Spread and Nursing

is still those are very disturbing numbers when one considers that the problem may be eliminated to some degree by the simple task...

Nursing and Elderly Pain Management Strategy

In eleven pages this paper examines such strategic pain management for senior citizens as guided imagery, meditation, and massage ...

A Review of an Article on Hypothermia

had to have gone through surgery (orthopedic, gynecological, urological, vascular) of at least twenty minutes in duration. They ha...

The Continuing Evolution of Advanced Practice Nursing

absolute separation of duties and artificial formality intended to preserve hierarchy in attitude as well as fact. Physicians pro...

Floating RN Practice

nurse refused and was subsequently fired. The court ruled in favor of the nurse and found that the Beloit Memorial had wrongfully...

Nursing Practice and Classical Virtues

various formal, stated ethics codes of nursing associations; nurse education programs; health care organizations; and certainly he...

Community Mental Health Practice and Communication

to three days more than 20 years ago. We ruefully joke that some managed care plans only allow new mothers to be hospitalized on ...

Adding an Athletic Trainer to the Sports Medicine Clinic

increase; third-party payers strive to keep payments as low as possible; individuals seek to enhance performance or gain the great...

Theorist and Martha Rogers a Science of Unitary Human Beings Application

of this perspective for modern nursing practices. The Theory of Unitary Human Beings Rogers theory described as the "Science of...

Home Healthcare Nursing Application in Critical Care Nursing

In ten pages a home healthcare case study is employed to examine what nursing approaches would best be used in this scenario and a...

The Olinkan Tribe and Female Circumcision

Tashi first came into the clinic, she could barely walk due to complications from her circumcision. A pelvic examination revealed...

Nursing Administration Unit and Hospital Mergers

In ten pages this paper examines the increasing health care industry practice of hospital mergers and the problems with them and s...

Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing: An Annotated Bibliography

staff that can result in moral stress or stress of conscience (Fry, Hurly & Foley, 2002). Because unresolved ethical issues can ...

Improving Human Resources in Health Care

The vision is to be a leader in providing high quality health care services. Their values include a customer-focus and to exceed t...

Reimbursing NPs at 100 Percent

nurse practitioners how they could join the movement and help. The Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1989 included minimal reimbursem...

APN Leadership

nurses. These were all key people in leading the change (Stetler et al., 2009). These same people were not identified in the begin...

A Nursing Case

Both of these individuals have limited education. Ms. A. graduated from high school but Mr. B. did not, and dropped out at the en...

NP Advertisement and CPA

This paper begins by offering ten questions that a nurse practitioner might pose when applying for a position with Optum health. T...

Competing Professionals and Primary Healthcare

This paper considers the raging conflict between advanced practice nurses and physicians. Is there an identity crisis? There are...

Nursing Home Falls and Best Practices

-3.14 2.83 6.05 As the numbers indicate, in all but Q3 2009, the number of falls experienced exceeded the target. This suggests t...