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Health Among the Homeless

They are in the community and spreading bacterial infections to the general public. Appropriate health care could greatly improve ...

A Comparison, Novice vs. Expert

for an expert mentor, which are "being an authority in the field, an educator, a counselor, a sponsor, and having personal commitm...

Electronic Documentation, Making the Switch

documentation towards the use of electronic medical records (EMRs). This frequently, however, causes conflict among nursing staff,...

Jokinen's Family Life-Path Theory

also possess knowledge concerning a particular family as a whole, including the intricacies of its family system, the position of ...

Theory of Caring, Kristen M. Swanson

nursing from the time when Florence Nightingale founded modern nursing in the nineteenth century. Since Nightingale, a variety of ...

The Problem of Alcohol Abuse - Impact in Abusers and Families

Alcohol poses a direct risk as a result of the physical impact it has on the body. The use of alcohol is often seen as a social ...

Explaining DNRs

agent, such as an adult child or another proxy. In recent years, the DNR has been included in the Physicians Orders for Life Susta...

Needs Assessment and Simulation

evaluated stated that they are predominantly "hands-on learners." Eight of the 10 nurses evaluated stated they were hands-on lear...

Fall Prevention in the Elderly in Home Care

percent of that total population lose their ability to walk (Tonarelli, 2010). Hip injuries and falls of any kind can reduce the ...

Mandated Nurse-to-Patient Ratios, The Debate

to the passage of the California law (Tevington, 2011). Currently, Connecticut, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Texas an...

Benefits of Lesson Derived from Mentoring

in emergency nursing, as the my mentor expressed obtaining this certification would enhance my professional development. The Ped...

Nightingale's Theoretical Perspective

rate at the hospital soon declined by two-thirds (Garofalo and Fee, 2010). This emphasis is immediately evident in Nightingales No...

The Mentor's Role

derives from Greek mythology, as it was the character of Mentor in Homers great epic poem who served Odysseus as a faithful adviso...

Customer Satisfaction, Responding to Call Lights

environment is highly competitive and consumers have high expectations in regards to the quality and effectiveness of the services...

Overview of NMAS and its HIV/AIDS Intervention Program

housing, case management, nutritional guidance and vocational rehabilitation, as well as the development of new approaches to prev...

Responses to Two Nursing Posts

a statement made early-on in the post, which is that nursing has the potential to make a huge contribution to the transformation o...

Phenomenology and Addressing Elderly Depression

the staff endeavors not only to care for our residents physical needs, but also for their psychological, social, and emotional nee...

Diabetes in New Mexico and Community Health Nursing

of Health (NMDH) indicates that, as of 2007, it was estimated that 157,930 New Mexico adults, 18 years of age and older, had diabe...

Overview of Sepsis

and symptoms, such as edema and positive fluid balance (Weiss, et al, 2009). Additional criteria include inflammatory variables su...

Dyspnea, Family Caregiving and Quality of Life

primary symptoms of COPD are "wheezing, cough, dyspnea on exertion and increased phlegm production" (Touhy and Jett, 2012, p. 289)...

Facing a Family Health Challenge

frequently the needs of terminal patients are not addressed properly and that multiple problems exist in this regard. Practitioner...

Code of Ethics for Nurses/The ANA Guide

evolved through various versions of the ANA Code. In addition to describing the duties and obligations that provision 1 entails, T...

Advocacy and Nursing

to the patient conflicts with the nurses duty to his or her employer (Hanks, 2007). Specifically, barriers to nursing advocacy inc...

Various Nursing Questions

and fatigue, abdominal pain, vomiting, constipation and learning difficulties" ("Lead"). These physiological effects are caused by...

Strategies for Student Nursing Assessment

student offer a description that relates the students personal assessment of the strategy. For example, in regards to rubrics, the...

Diabetic Case Study/Art of Nursing

entails addressing the emotional, psychological and spiritual needs of the patient, as well as medical and physical needs, entails...

Nursing Outcomes and Classification Systems

is commonly utilized in other discourse in relation to the management of energy resources not related to human physical function. ...

Nursing Interventions for a Stroke Case Study

This research paper offers four nursing diagnoses and their relevant goals and interventions, which are applicable to a case study...

Orem, Watson/Caring in their Theories

prompts nurses to cultivate the "conscious intent to preserve wholeness; potentiate healing; and preserve dignity, integrity and l...

Educating Nurses on the Importance of Clean Scissors

and cleaning as a subject for education the need goes beyond the common sense approach. The recognition of the importance indicate...