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Patient Education Assessment

to take insulin only when his blood glucose level was above the value established by his physician. The nurse laid out all ...

Mandated Nurse-to-Patient Ratios

nursing skill levels and patient mix" (Minimum staff levels, 2004, p. 33). However, the researchers found that a "greater total nu...

Proposed Legislation Patient Safety Act of 2004

legal errors (Fackelmann, 2002). Furthermore, the AMA study demonstrated that there is a direct statistical connection between th...

Nursing Models and Theories of Erickson and Orem

and can be applied in a variety of clinical settings, as well as in educational programs and research. Orems theory is bas...

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...

Nursing Theory

viewpoints that articulate their own unvoiced feelings toward their profession. For example, in a discussion in an online nursin...

Function and Role of Nurse Practitioners

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

The Importance of Care In Nursing

the mountains in California, ride a horse in the Grand Canyon, volunteer in a cancer center, finish painting his house, attend his...

Professional Nursing Burnout

This left Mee with little opportunity to connect with these patients as human beings and she started "to feel like a machine," whi...

Nursing Diagnosis and Body Image Disturbance Case Study

has focused on two corollary components: 1. the accuracy of body size estimations and 2. the attitudes and feelings individuals ...

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...

Nursing Self Care Deficit Theory of Dorothea Orem

operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). This is broken down into three basic categories: 1) wholly compen...

Qualitative Study 'Occupational Stress and Job Satisfaction in Mental Health Nursing: Focussed (sic) Interventions via Evidence-based Assessment' Reviewed

has been with us for several years, and it is widely publicized. The result is that the nursing shortage not only affects the qua...

Ireland's Nurse Practitioner Role

clinical nurse specialist and the advanced nurse practitioner is decidedly hazy. However, Wickham (2003) states that a nurse worki...

Overview of Home Health Nursing Field

as business practices, documentation systems, process flows and lines of communication can differ (Blevins, 2001) Home health nur...

Objectives Regarding Professional Development as a Nurse Educator

In the meantime, I plan to study teaching strategies and rationale, and also expand my personal travel experiences. Today as neve...

Nurse Practitioner's Role and Strategies

certification program (Policy statement, 1999). On the other hand, the additional education required to become a licensed NP may t...

Nursing Personal Values' Development

caring as the very definition of what constitutes personal values from a nursing perspective (2003). Koerner (1996), likewise, e...

Two Articles on Ethics in Nursing Reviewed

ethics are a part of the concern. The hospital should not accept a patient load that it cannot handle. Another example of an issue...

Impact of Nursing Models

within these models. Definition of nursing model Semantic confusion abounds in the relevant literature as to what--precisely--is...

Dementia Patients and Use of Restraint

with at least one individuals background in patient care in conjunction with the theorists higher awareness of the interaction of ...

Adaptation Nursing Model of Callista Roy

adaptation has a process in which individuals respond positively to environmental changes and described three types of stimuli: fo...

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 ...

Nursing and Adolescent Pregnancy

their infants, and this factor is associated with increased morbidity and mortality, as well as significant financial expenditures...

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...

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...

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...

Nightingale's Theory, Case Study of Elderly Woman

client who is the focus of this case study is an 86-year-old woman who has been living at home with her husband. Her medical histo...

Middle Range Nursing Theories, An Overview

a profession, nursing theory has responded to meet the needs of nurses. For example, from the mid-1970s through the 1980s, the foc...

Coping Nursing Concept Analysis

includes strategies that are designed to make the individual feel better, such as "exercise, spirituality, support groups and humo...