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The Crimean War and Florence Nightingale

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

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Teenage Pregnancy

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

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...

Advanced Nursing Program: Assessment and Recommendations

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

Deontological and Teleological Ethical Theories

even if the consequences of an action are good, if the motives behind the action were wrong, it will still be wrong (Some fundamen...

Quality Improvement/Pressure Ulcers

a "collaborative quality improvement project" that focuses on PUs in nursing homes as its primary focus (Lynn, et al, 2007). QIOs,...

Evaluating 2 Nursing Web Sites on EBP

researchers (JBI, 2008). This section of the site also addresses the topic of "Research Training" and the availability of scholars...

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...

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...

Motivation In The Workplace

the very same types of activities as primary drives, i.e., the individual needs to meet that need (Encyclopedia of Psychology, 200...

Business Psychology; Team Work For Effective Organizations

the way that individuals will operate within teams. There are nine roles that are seen within balanced teams, with individuals nat...

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...

IOM Ecological Model/Bioterrorism

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

Mandatory Overtime for Nurses

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

Nurse's Knowledge of Breast Cancer Screening

out care. Though there is a need for health care providers as a whole to have a greater awareness of the diagnostic process for b...

Strategies to Retain Employees

in Abrams (2004) article, as the author noted, have been successful in different organizations to recruit and retain talented empl...

HOLES IN MODERN PORTFOLIO THEORY

In his 1952 article, in which he used the mathematics of diversification, he pointed out, through a variety of formulas, that inve...

Theories Moral and Social-Cognitive Development

bridge from behavior theorists to social theorists (Davis, 2006). It encompasses some of the foundations of each field. Bandura wa...

NEED 2009

members to students, as state registered nurse practice acts typically mandate a ratio 1:10 (AACN, 2009). Individually, students,...

Health Care Staff Shortages

nurses by 2012 to eliminate the shortage (Rosseter, 2009). By 2020, the District of Columbia along with at least 44 states will ha...

Sports Training and Expectancy Theory

forthcoming if s/he performs as the manager expects (Expectancy Theory, n.d.). "Vroom suggests that an employees beliefs ab...

Hospital Administration

as a facilitator of human resources, but also encompasses consideration of financial resources. These two roles were selected as m...

Ethics in Palliative Care

regarded as creating obligations on others to help her exercise her rights. An inherent theme that is implied in all of the questi...

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...

Pediatric Obesity/Overweight

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