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Past and Present Nursing

education for nurses in the US followed the model established by modern nursings founder Florence Nightingale (Fitzpatrick 63). Th...

Decubitus Ulcers and Nursing Shortage

1999). Elderly patients who are alert, and not declared incompetent, have the right to refuse treatment, which includes turning or...

Nursing and Mandatory Overtime

issue of regulatory interest when attached to direct patient care (Nursing, 2004). As few nurses with no patient responsibilities...

Oncology and Coping with an Annotated Bibliography

parents of children with cancer regarding the needs of siblings and on the support that was offered by hospital staff. The results...

Patient Outcomes and the Collaboration Between Physicians and Nurses

often a factor in nurse/doctor communication. Nurses can bring power to nurse/doctor interchange by harnessing the power of lang...

Terminally Ill Patients and Nursing Care

the needs of the dying and her work indicates that there are times when the most meaningful communication that a nurse can offer i...

Ethics of Nursing Code

all areas of professional nursing. Provisions 1 through 3 address the principal obligations of nursing, which are to the patient/c...

Concepts of Self Care

to the wide-ranging aspect of nursing than merely administering medicine; in fact, the myriad components that ultimately comprise ...

Nursing Theory and Self Agency

is defined as the needs of that individual to meet "Universal self-care requisites associated with life processes and maintenance ...

Teams and Patient Satisfaction

In ten pages this research paper presents a literature review on team nursing as a way of increasing patient satisfaction. Thirte...

Community Health and the Nursing Care Theory of Jean Watson

and continues to do so, over the past two decades, as it was first published in 1979 (Falk-Rafael, 2000). In formulating her theor...

Certifying an Older Driver

drivers" than do states that do not require test automatic testing (Murden and Unroe, 2005, p. 22). Most states do set standards f...

Learning Diabetes Self-care

of diabetes care, including blood/glucose monitoring, food intake monitoring, exercise monitoring, and insulin administration. Be...

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...

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...

Mental Health of Returning Soldiers

need of treatment following tours in Rwanda, the Balkans and Somalia" (Auld). Mental health problems in regards to soldiers retu...

Homeless & Mental Illness/A Vulnerable Population

necessary health-related behaviors" required for meeting "ones therapeutic self-care demand (needs)" (Hurst, et al 2005, p. 11). U...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Studies and Recommendations on Burnout of Nurses in Oman and Other Countries

of the nurses and the nurse population ratio is considered higher than most in the region (MoH, 2002). Recent advances in nursing ...

Nursing Perspectives on the Case of Terri Schiavo

Although she lived, she suffered extensive brain damage, leaving her in what is described as a "persistent vegetative state" (Jero...

'Health as Expanding Consciousness' Nursing Philosophy of Margaret Newman

from disease to non-disease to health. She argues that "This synthesized view incorporates disease as meaningful aspect of health...

Energy Conservation and Nursing

From this perspective, individuals can be viewed as open systems, in which energy is transformed within the body, gaining or losin...

Issues and Ramifications of Shortages in Nursing

causing in increase in health services. Furthermore, the US workforce of Registered Nurses (RNs) are aging as well. The ironic fac...

Career Objectives and Philosophy of Nursing

nursing is based significantly more within the psychological components of the patient/caregiver relationship than most people rea...

Nursing and Chronicity

particular, resilience is also crucial because each instance is completely unique and may require a different response. In other ...