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Reviewing the Literature on OBRA 87 and Care Quality

to increase the quality of care given in long term care facilities in the country, in order to ultimate reduce health care costs t...

Political Activism/Nursing Staffing Ratios

group of health care providers," which means that based on their sheer numbers, nurses have the power to reform the way that healt...

Issues Pertaining to Hospital Facilities

and how this equipment should differ for this population: Bariatric patients are typically defined as those who are extremely obe...

Impact of Diabetes Mellitus

due to the fact that these medications lack the flexibility to provide fast hyperglycemic control (Seelandt, 2007). A diagnosis ...

Florence Nightingale

disciplined and well-organized care. On returning to England, she visited the Institute of Protestant Deaconesses at Kaiserwerth, ...

Health Care: Challenges in Caring for a Diverse Population, and Dealing with Colleagues of Different Ages

to proper interaction with culturally diverse patients: "These standards provide comprehensive definitions of culture, competence,...

Technlogy in Nursing

Advances in technology have changed everything from how patients are diagnosed to acute care to managing chronic illnesses. Techno...

Nurses' Use of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication

nurses regarding physical touch, found that these study participants used touch as a therapeutic form of nonverbal communication, ...

Mentoring a Student Nurse

as relating information to patients families. Pugh relates that just thinking about this task made her anxious; however, the staff...

Need for Cultural Competent Care

quite frequently, they are seldom defined specifically, yet both terms hold significant importance in terms of their relevance to ...

Comparison of Two longitudinal Research Studies

ensure that any data given is not capable of identifying any of the respondents, although this is unlikely, there is also the way ...

Mandatory Nurse-to-Patient Ratios

the American healthcare system, the debate concerning whether or not states should implement mandated nurse-to-patient ratios rema...

Annotated Bibliography/Effects of Nursing Shortage

This research paper presents an annotated bibliography pertaining to the effects of the nursing shortage on the delivery of health...

Mandatory Overtime, An Issue that Endangers Patients

This essay gives an overview of why mandatory overtime for nursing staff is a significant issue that as the potential to harm pati...

The Future of Nursing, Overview of The IOM Report

This research paper offers an overview of the "Future of Nursing", which was developed by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF...

Nursing Informatics, Meaningful Use

This research paper discusses the Medicaid and Medicare incentive program within the context of meaningful use and nursing informa...

Lone Star College System Analyasis

The crisis of a nursing shortage will continue for at least another three years. Some colleges have added additional programs in a...

Noncompliant Patients Due to Culture

The United States has become more and more diverse over the last four decades and that diversity continues to expand. Different cu...

Recent Encounter with a Patient with Chest Pain

This research paper pertains to a nursing encounter in which a patient presented with chest pain. The writer discusses NIC, NOC an...

Congestive Heart Failure, A Case Study

This research paper describes a patient with congestive heart failure, giving a case study overview of nursing care. Six pages in ...

EBP, Overcoming Barriers

This research paper pertains to overcoming the barriers that exist in nursing to evidence-based practice and solutions are discuss...

Application of Benner's Theory to a Classroom

This paper describes the Patricia Benner's Novice to Expert Theory of nursing and Malcolm Knowles' theory of adult education. The...

Team Communication. Making It Effective

This research paper/essay discusses various aspect of team communication, drawing on the perspective of a nursing manager. Three p...

Importance of EBP

This essay presents an example of how the student might chose to write a personal essay on the importance that research and EBP wi...

Uncertainty in Illness Theory/Merle H. Mishel

Intervention using Mishels theory facilitates the process of patients accepting the inevitability of uncertainty as a factor in th...

Transactional and Transformational Nursing Leadership

of the department and the achievement of goals by motivating staff through the offer of rewards (Sellgren, Ekvall and Tomson, 2006...

Significance of Information Literacy

found on the Internet is accurate. As researching a topic using a Web browser is simply a matter of using a handful of keywords, t...

Violence at Work: A Problem for Nurses

In a paper of six pages, the author writes about research on the problem of workplace violence against nurses. The studies used i...

Applications of the Social Ecology Model

Social Ecology Model that have appeared in scholarly literature; however, the original and most highly utilized version of this mo...

Nursing Leadership

their coworkers and their employees, because the leader creates a foundation from which the organizational goals can be achieved. ...