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Future Trends in Managed Care

that MCOs develop their capacity to handle changes that are driven legislatively by congressional response to public reactions to ...

4 Nursing Metaparadigms Defined

how change can be effectively managed and challenges in the transformation of nursing and health care delivery. Clearly, Roys mod...

Metaparadigms and Nursing

and with others interacting with the patient. Mezirow (1991) promotes the use of critical reflection in building new knowle...

Attitudes of Social Workers and Nurses About Working with Alcoholic Clients

criminal and social repercussions, creating a punitive response to alcoholism that can impact the views of service providers. Cha...

Health Promotion Rationale and Coronary Heart Disease

(Link and Tanner, 2001). Research has found that some clients may be suffering from myocardial infarction (MI) even when they have...

Terminal Care Patients, Families, Nursing Staff, and Effective Communication

Understanding that there is a step by step progression, both physically and psychologically, can be part of the nurses role in thi...

'Applying Airline Safety Practices to Medication Administration' Article Review

establish policy guidelines. In the administration of medication, "processes have been virtually ignored in the search for EBP" (...

Providing Comfort in the Emergency Room

charted component of my daily patient interaction. However, to remind myself of the other responsibilities during busy per...

Nursing and Motivation

2003, p. 50). Comments went on to say that it is disheartening when they arent acknowledged in any way for the hard work they do (...

Function and Role of Nurse Practitioners

the most frequently reported intervention classifications for NPs were patient education, drug management, nutrition support, risk...

Concept Analysis of Condom Use

the order be filled. They specified one minor change, however. That was that each of the condoms that were manufactured include ...

Nursing Values and Beliefs Defined

a process that assumes that a persons own subjective construction of reality is more accessible than anything else. The process o...

Burnout and Stress in Nursing

are working, for example, in pediatrics(Sherman 2004). Therefore, she suggests, as many have, that the nursing professional learn ...

Shared Governance v. Collective Bargaining in Nursing Labor Relations

for protocol and for adhering to standard practice. There are many aspects of the job for which the nurse is best suited to addre...

Description and Diagnostics of Diabetes Mellitus

"a heterogeneous disorder characterized by 2 pathogenic defects, impaired insulin secretion and insulin resistance. The resultant ...

Student Ethics and Nursing

for nurses who come into intimate contact with clients from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. Ott, Al-Khadhuri and Al-Junaibi...

Comfort Theory and Kolcaba

MEANING AND CONCEPTS Jones & Krysa (1998) describe the three essential comfort interventions as listening (to...

Health Care and Interdisciplinary Teams

a list of advantages for patients, which include: * Greater coordination of services leads to higher quality care for the patient ...

Jean Watson's Nursing Theories

the word alone that Watsons ideology is based not just upon clinical actions but upon the implementation of emotional availability...

Philosophy of Nursing and Values

money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely would no...

Analyzing Universality and the Cultural Care Diversity Theories of Madeleine Leininger

patients life needs to change in response to the patients health care needs, then the nurse needs to be sensitive to that factor a...

Ireland's Nurse Practitioner Role

clinical nurse specialist and the advanced nurse practitioner is decidedly hazy. However, Wickham (2003) states that a nurse worki...

Ethical Implications of Shortages in Nursing

Beginning in the early 1990s, managed care targeted nursing as an expenditure where hospitals could cut costs. Managed care consul...

Overview of Health Promotion and Health

absence of disease and infirmity" ("Definitions of Health and Fitness," 2006). Health promotion, on the other hand, " is the combi...

HIV Positive Nurses Should Still Be Allowed to Work

much closer look at the unwise choice to allow HIV-positive nurses to continue their practice. Britain provides statistics that i...

Vancouver, British Columbia and Homelessness

which means that the homeless population in Vancouver encompasses roughly 1800 people (The Americas, 2004). They are virtually all...

Geriatric Mentally Ill Patients and Nursing

characteristics of metal disorders may include abnormalities in cognition, mood or emotions; it may include abnormalities in integ...

Assessment of a Woman with Menopause Case Study

the nGMS as an assessment instrument. This computer program provides a check list that the nurse can use to cover all pertinent in...

Discusison of Dementia

p. 1). Multi-infarct dementia (MID) is caused by a series of strokes, which are frequently small (MID, n.d.). Patients with MID ...

Leadership in Nursing

change, understand the reasons for this change and hare a vision of the future" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). The catch is that these g...