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Essays 1981 - 2010

Practice Scope and Nursing Professionalism

(1999), research shows that the level of education reached by an RN contributes to a sense of professional autonomy and those nurs...

Nurse as an Agent of Change in Data Base Management

a nurses role as a change agent in data base management. Fonville, Killian, and Tranbarger (1998) note that successful nurses of ...

JCAHO's Core Measure Heart Failure Process Implementation

They are: 1. "activity level 2. "diet 3. "discharge medications 4. "follow-up appointment 5. "weight monitoring 6. "what to do if ...

Nursing Personal Values' Development

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

Standards of Critical Care Nursing

Critically-Care nurses, 1989 in Nursing Management, 1999, p. 38). This abbreviated version of AACN nursing standards was located...

The Case Study of a Child in Need

in order so that it can be determined if all of the childs educational needs are being met. Aiding disabled children in reaching t...

Proper Care for Stroke Victims, a Case Study

classifies the stroke patients needs in four domains: 1) medical/surgical issues; 2) mental status/emotion/coping behaviors; 3) ph...

Case Study on Depression

nonverbal and behavioural signals and information relating to the clients support system. Objective data could include observation...

Nursing and the Impact of Electronic Data Security

The act of faxing patient information to another care-providing organization or third-party payer comes under privacy regulations ...

Nurse Retention and Teams Effects

in decision making (Thomas Group, 2004). The leadership team appointed a steering committee to develop a plan for empowering nur...

Nursing as a Profession and its Distinguishing Features

exist for generations. Though Nightingale promoted a professional demeanor, nursing was not something that most well-bred women w...

Midwives, Pregnant Women, and Quitting Smoking

more likely to give birth prematurely, have children with low-birthweights, and experience pregnancy problems like eclampsia. Fur...

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...

Community Nursing Partnership Rewards and Threats

a partnership approach where the discipline work together can be increased cost effectiveness in the overall treatment of a patien...

JCAHO's HF1 Core Measure and Hoshin Planning

* "HF-2 LVF assessment * "HF-3 ACEI for LVSD * "HF-4 Adult smoking cessation advice/counseling" (Overview, 2002). JCAHO e...

Nursing and Reflective Thinking Development

as a solution to the problem of developing reflective skills, Ferrario defines reflective thinking as: a) analyzing, synthesizing,...

Psychiatric Nursing and Self Disclosure for Therapeutic Purposes

many had very definite opinions on the matter as a whole, "none of the participants articulated what the process consisted of or h...

Nursing and the Importance of Intensive Care and Critical Care Skills

the non-emergency sections of the hospital or when they are in the doctors office or the resident clinic! Heart attacks happen! ...

U.S. Foreign Educated Nurse Licensing

also point out that "developed countries may not be well served by international nurse recruitment if it prevents them from addres...

Student Interest in the Nursing Profession

just need a positive touch from another human being. The student investigating the relationship of nursing contribution to patien...

Impact of Nursing Models

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

Nursing Reflections

biochemistry. I recognized the wonder of chemistry, but what I failed to recognize at the time was the solid practice it gave me ...

Nursing and Technology

a much greater burden of responsibility and knowledge than was previously the case. Even nurses in highly specialised fields are o...

Community Mental Health Practice and Communication

to three days more than 20 years ago. We ruefully joke that some managed care plans only allow new mothers to be hospitalized on ...

Canadian Hospital Nursing Setting and Conflict Resolution

using this paper properly! I. INTRODUCTION Janet (an RN) and Carol (her manager) had been working together in the same Can...

Multiple Sclerosis Client Case Study Patient Assessment

of anxiety due to the diagnosis. She is single but hoped to one day get married and have children. The sudden onset of symptoms an...

Nursing Model of King

There are many settings in which nursing can occur within this framework. The most obvious is...

An Article on Nursing Education Critiqued

(p. 1617). This suggests that the subject for this study is so under-researched that there are no previous studies to cite, which ...

Nursing Profession and Medication Errors

that nurse is guilty of doing something unethical. Nurses must impose a high standard of care in the office, hospital or home sett...

Health Care Assistant and Nurse in a Situation Regarding Conflict Resolution

In four pages a hypothetical situation is considered in which a conflict commences in an ICU between a healthcare assistant and a ...