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Overview of Critical Care Nurse Practitioner

a specialized body of knowledge, skills and experience that enables these nurses to offer a high standard of care to critically il...

Nurse Managers and Their Role in Nursing Shortages

the central problem is often the inappropriate use of unlicensed personnel in the workplace setting. Though nurse mangers are ins...

An Overview of Critical Care Nursing

which a person demonstrates fundamental functioning in their life environment (Jones and Kilpatrick, 1996). In other words, the c...

Theoretical Nursing Perspectives on Pain Management

from pain that began after radiation therapy that caused nerve damage (Fischman, 2000). After receiving therapy at a pain clinic, ...

Perspectives on Shortage of Nurses

2002 and allowed for a National Nurse Service Corps program to provide funding for tuition, expenses and a stipend to those nursin...

Policy Statements and Nursing Standards

gives the appearance of increased attention to theory and evidenced-based nursing in an atmosphere of caring for the individual. ...

Skin Cancer Literature Review

when Coco Chanel made the look desirable. Since that time, legions of youth and adults have sought to possess the "perfect" tan, ...

'Angel of the Battlefield' Clara Barton

in the 19th and early 20th century, the fact is even more remarkable. "Well and Strong and Young" Updike writes that in 1854 Bar...

Registered Nurse's Hospital Role

several years. Psychologically, it has been found that individuals more actively involved with their own health care often fare m...

Nursing and Patient Dignity

the inclination is to treat the dying patient with as little emotion as possible, so as not to suffer emotionally as well, many nu...

Emergency Room and Intensive Care Unit Nursing Retention

the chaos," she said (Serafini 1490). This nurse further stated that sometimes ER nurses are called to the intensive care unit for...

Nursing Home Costs and the Impact of MDS/PPS/RUG III System Utilization

Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that it is no longer only added stress and long hours for those...

Professional Practice and Research Interview Summary

techniques or theories as they pertain to the medical world, and it is as if the prison setting is the last place where these tech...

Using Critical Thinking in the Field of Nursing

or understanding when the staff or the doctors have to move on to the next client. Many patients complain that their healthcare pr...

SNF Costs and the Impact of the Shortage of Registered Nurses

of the patients in a single unit will be assigned to one RN; the other half will be assigned to another. Another will be availabl...

Neuman and Rogers Systems Model Application

the realization of the "dehumanizing" of patients that led to them being referred to as "Bed x," "Case x" or some other nameless, ...

Pain Requirements of Cognitive-Impasired Nursing Home Residents

expressing his or her misery. Such caregivers may have experienced patients who are as likely to cry out, thrash around, or simply...

Nursing and Mandatory Overtime

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

Operating Room Nursing Specialties and Oncology

nurse, 2005). In addition to basic educational preparation at the RN level, oncology nursing practice also requires cancer-speci...

Foreign Registered Nurses Recruitment and Nursing Shortage

2003). Most international nurses coming to the US come from the Philippines, but many also come from Canada and India with addit...

Faculty Shortages and Shortages in Nursing

up billboards offering cash incentives, while nursing schools also originated creative means of recruiting more students (Wells). ...

Nurse Educator Shortages and Alternatives

the very act of following the "law" (i.e., supply and demand) of economics now has exacerbated the shortage of nurses who also are...

Political Activism and Nursing

The manner in which professional organizations can be used to keep nursing leaders aware of political issues that are relevant to ...

Explaining DNRs

agent, such as an adult child or another proxy. In recent years, the DNR has been included in the Physicians Orders for Life Susta...

Nursing Leadership Environment Assessment Survey

survey. Encouraging nurses to cultivate an inquiring attitude The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) indicates ...

The Problem of Alcohol Abuse - Impact in Abusers and Families

Alcohol poses a direct risk as a result of the physical impact it has on the body. The use of alcohol is often seen as a social ...

Exercises to Support Continued Professional Development

in the International Journal of Nursing Studies, looking at the effectiveness of nurses delivering health promotion activities to ...

Needs Assessment and Simulation

evaluated stated that they are predominantly "hands-on learners." Eight of the 10 nurses evaluated stated they were hands-on lear...

Advanced Practice Nursing Roles

the various roles and responsibilities that the specialty involves, they share the common quality that the nursing process is inhe...

Responses to Two Nursing Posts

a statement made early-on in the post, which is that nursing has the potential to make a huge contribution to the transformation o...