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Nursing Personal Leadership Development Plan

and how discharge instructions should cover these contingencies. "Health" has historically been used to describe the "absence of d...

A Child’s Voice/Holistic Perspective

and the spirit says, "Ahhh, everything feels much better now" (Wooten, 2005, p. 510). Another factor in her relationships with c...

The Nursing Shortage

This PowerPoint presentation includes 9 slides plus a bibliography. The topic is the nursing shortage. Bibliography lists 1 sourc...

School Nursing and Disaster Planning

any incident that requires an increased level of response beyond the routine operating procedures" (NASN, 2006). Natural disasters...

Obesity Community Health Intervention

factor in childhood obesity is the fact that television viewing tends to be accompanied by the consumption of high-calorie, high s...

Non-Clinical Director Functions

properly, nursing staff is highly aware of this lack. Research into nursing staff retention has found that the quality of housekee...

Emergency Nurses Association

trends. This peer-reviewed journal also offers its readership a forum for sharing their experiences with their peers, as well as l...

Czech Immigrants & Nursing

2001, p. 24). While the ancestors of many Americans of Czech extraction came to the US in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries...

Article Critique/Nursing Home Patients

there is no cure either for Alzheimers disease or the various forms of dementia on the horizon, healthcare practitioners should "i...

Pediatric Asthma Case Management

an obstruction of the airway and can involved any or all of the following factors: "smooth muscle bronchoconstriction, mucous secr...

Wellness & Nutrition for Healthy Aging

p. 364). Due to the fact that eating behaviors tend to be established by early experience, it is important for healthy eating habi...

The Impact of Bioterrorism on the Future of Health Care

to current medicines, or to increase their ability to be spread into the environment" (Miller-Boyle, 2006, p. 6). Miller-Boyle wri...

Nurses & Liability Insurance

to a patient over the phone and trying to convey the urgency of that patient coming in for a consultation. The patient resists, so...

Culturally Competent Nursing Strategies

care is to formulate a health care system and workforce that possesses the skill and understanding required to deliver quality hea...

Low Anterior Sigmoid Resection

and Cox, 2001; p. 375). The ascending colon, which is approximately six inches long, extends upward to the hepatic flexure....

The Increase In Cesarean Procedures

and one must wonder - Why? This article suggested the reasons have to do with physician fears of having a malpractice lawsuit file...

Nursing Economics/ Fiscal Realities

harms the healthcare systems of the home countries of these nurses, which ethically and morally limits its use. Another method t...

Ethics, Blood Transfusions & Jehovah's Witnesses

be immensely helpful in gaining insight into the specific issues involved and subsequent perspective on what course of action to t...

Community Nursing/Jackson Heights, NY

(CNY, 2007). Talk to an informant; problems and strengths : Naturally this writer/tutor was not in a position to find an inform...

Nursing Case Mgmt./Asthma

this condition. If the student does not have asthma, the student may feel motivated to help this population because of he/she rea...

Vets with PTSD

with sudden flashbacks intruding on thoughts (Fagan and Freme, 2004). Other symptoms include: an exaggerated startle reflex, sleep...

Skills Needed by a Forensic Nurse

McAndrew, 2006). With communication skills there are includes skills of listening as well as tact as essential to facilitate effec...

Clinical Nurse Leaders/Are They Needed?

(Webber). This does sound extremely similar to the way in which the AACN defines the CNL role. In some hospitals, nurse practiti...

Case Scenario/Alcohol Abuse

"chronic, heavy drinking" (Enoch and Goldman, 2002, p. 192). According to government standards, a woman is at-risk for heavy drink...

Teaching About STIs to Young Teens

discuss and name the various methods for preventing the transmissions of STIs; and also, they will demonstrate ability to resist p...

Nurse/Patient Ratios/Not One Size Fits All

assisting registered nurses (RNs) in order to meet legislated requirements (Schaefer 9). This means that while RNs have fewer pati...

Cultural Influences on Medical Care; Indian Hindus

is in charge of all domestic affairs. Younger newly wed couples will often live with one set of parents, even if they are going to...

Nurse Education: Lesson Plan for Navigating a User Crisis

completing the ranges of study required to attain the licensing level each holds. Aides are not licensed individuals and may or m...

Substance Abuse in Nursing

Not only are the direct health impacts to the nurse deleterious, impaired nurses cannot meet their responsibility to provide top q...

Case Study/ICU Wound Mgmt

(Cardozo, 2003, p. S35). Within a few hours of being admitted to the ICU, Jacks condition was evaluated using the Waterlow risk as...