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Pediatric Obesity/Overweight

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

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 ...

Nursing Theory/Florence Nightingale

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

CCRN Certification/A Program Proposal

grueling exam Id have to pass to earn my CCRN," she bought the necessary study materials, sent in an applications and "hit the boo...

Safe Nursing and Patient Care Act

"study and report to Congress on standards for the maximum number of hours that a nurse may work without compromising the safety o...

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...

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...

Nursing Management Issue/Medication Error

systems. The following examination of the problem of medication errors focuses on the context of mental health nursing within the ...

ADHD and the Role of the Psychiatric Nurse

motor vehicle crashes, substance abuse, and illegal behavior" (Visser, Lesesne and Perou, 2007, S99). Symptoms include irritabili...

ADHD: A Critique of the Research

and Perou (2007) report that an estimated five to eighteen percent of youth in the US are diagnosed with ADHD and most receive so...

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...

Observing a Religious Service

the listeners would occasional offer comments and observations, to which the rabbi would generally respond. Occasionally, this pro...

Newman's Theory & Applications for Practice

awareness of the self within the context of the environment grows in association with each other in a manner that allows the indiv...

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...

Holistic Nursing Journal

discourse that I find confusing. Philosophy has often struck me as an amorphous subject. Its slippery and refuses to be categoriz...

Kolcaba's Comfort Theory Of Nursing

the plan may be objective where the actual healing can be measured or it may be subjective according to what the patient says (Dup...

Mandatory Overtime for Nurses

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

Hildegard Peplau: Applications in Advanced Practice Nursing

relations. Nurses must assess person and environment in relation to their impact on health. Both person and environment can vary...

Community Nursing: Positive Impacts on Nutrition and Lifestyle

Social Services they have complained that that funding is insufficient to provide for even their most basic dietary needs. Part o...

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...

The Dorothy Johnson Behavioral System Model of Nursing

the environment" (Reynolds and Cormack, 1991, p. 1123). Within this main system are eight subsystems: the "ingestive, eliminative,...

Learning Theories-Nursing Education: Annotated Bibliography

Based on their results, the authors suggested nurse educators add more critical thinking exercises to their classroom curriculum. ...

Theory Analysis/Peplau

indicate the patients readiness for growth and movement" (Marchese, 2006, p. 364). Phase 1, orientation, describes the patient and...

Staff Shortages and UAPs

Literature on this topic indicates that RNs are hesitant in delegating tasks primarily because they are uncertain of the qualific...

Hypertension Education for African American Patients

in response to cognitive and physiological challenge" (Covelli, 2007, p. 323). Diet: Both the intake of dietary sodium and potas...

Continuous Quality of Care

patients with certain injuries and missed diagnoses of certain conditions such as appendicitis or meningitis (Dansby, Kavaler & Sp...

Dehydration & Older Patient

dehydrated? Has literature simply made you aware of this potential problem? You might say something like: "Considering the dire co...

Use of Restraints in Healthcare

indicates, restraint places health practitioners between the proverbial rock and a hard place. However, there are practice standar...