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Reducing Absenteeism/Nursing Home

have "little or no training in fundamental management skills" (Baer, 2006, p. 60). As well as absenteeism, problems with managemen...

U.S. Nursing Shortage

Roughly 50 percent of the current working nursing population will retire within the next 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). Adding...

Public Health/Then & Now

and three stores," which served as "stock rooms, milk stations, clinics," etc. (Lillian Wald). Roughly 3,000 people typically were...

Client Profile

A 7 page client profile that discusses nursing care for an elderly client with degenerative brain disease and offers a research su...

Nursing Program Mgmt. Case Scenario Questions

fact that Ross, who is associated with an established clinic, recommends this procedure and offers her an example of how this can ...

Nursing Theory: Hildegard Peplau

of her theory is the "improvement of nurses relationships with patients," which is a goal that she proposed can be accomplished by...

Bipolar Disorder

there is very little information about predisposes people to these episodes (Swann, 2006). Therefore, for the most part, nursing a...

Changing a Dangerous Situation

accomplish beneficial behavioral change. As Kurt Lewins pioneering work with change theory points out, any change initiative ent...

Woodpecker Research: A Summary of Three Research Projects

found many species of animals actually reuse woodpecker cavities when the woodpeckers themselves are not using them. The specific...

Community Nursing Problem/Yeadon, PA

avoidance, such as creating a buddy system, which pairs elderly neighbors with each other. Buddies check on one another and accomp...

Impact of Professional Development

and the values and preferences of the individuals, families and communities who are served"(Reavy and Tavernier, 2008, p. 166). Nu...

Homeless Veterans with PTSD

to a Veterans Administration (VA) inpatient program for the treatment of substance abuse. Research has definitively established ...

The Crimean War and Florence Nightingale

that by instituting improved sanitation and nutrition, there was a corresponding decrease in morality (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003...

Advanced Nursing Program: Assessment and Recommendations

in pursuit of their advanced standing certification. Moreover, active RNs, LPNs and CNAs understand that these advanced practice ...

Mayo Clinic/Educational Needs Assessment

(Masters and Doctoral degree) (Career overview, 2009). Summary of Results of the Need Assessment For the purposes of the needs a...

IOM Ecological Model/Bioterrorism

On further examination, the cause of death is determined to be smallpox. As the World Health Organization (WHO) completely eradica...

Teenage Pregnancy

various roles" (Meadows-Oliver, et al, 2007, p. 116). The stress involved in a teenage pregnancy and the associated pressure tha...

Nursing Theory/Florence Nightingale

during an era that rationalized social inequalities. In regards to Environment, Nightingale was changed the course of nursing an...

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...

The Nursing Shortage

due to a number of reasons. First of all, the average age of the population is getting progressive older. As a people. America, an...

Pediatric Obesity/Overweight

for "population, intervention, comparison intervention and outcome" and therefore offers nurses a structure that prompts nurses t...

Grundy, Virginia/Helping an Elderly Patient

care home agencies also offer data on each service that is provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and acco...

Mandatory Overtime for Nurses

quality of the provided care (ANA, 2008). Empirical research studies have confirmed that the risk for medical error increase subst...

Ethical Issues/Living Wills

precisely the same as for other patients. Legal responsibility for care decisions in cases where there is a living will: does the...

Concept Analysis: Aging

identifying the uses of the concept and its defining attributes (Walker and Avant, 1995). The steps involved also include defining...

3 Nursing Diagnoses for an Elderly Patient

the case study, is important for planning a safe and effective rehabilitation program (Craven and Hirnle, 2007). People who experi...

The Lasting Legacy of Nursing Theorist Virginia Henderson

college degree is now a requirement for all registered nurses. A nursing major is comprised of a diverse and challenging liberal ...

Pain Management Literature Review

p. 29), as stated in its title. Mean age was 81; 218 participants completed the study. The researchers evaluated the differences...

Artificial Nutrition/hydration & Terminal Pediatric Patient

the insertion of a central line, threaded through a vein, and it was once believed that it would aid cancer patients, restoring ap...

Shift Work and Human Research Management: A Research Proposal

other health care organizations commonly require the use of shift workers in order to provide the necessary care for patients arou...