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

physical restraints. The authors own views combined with the findings of current literature reveal that the use of physical restr...

of stem cell research far outweigh the negativities. Because of these benefits stem cell research can be ethically defended utili...

or state agencies may seek and implement studies. II. Nursing Home Care for the Elderly Whenever nursing home care is an...

Acquiescing to the constraints imposed by organizational and professional structure does not mean that the nurse has no alternativ...

and the directives of the medical environment. For over two decades, for example, the health care industry has recognized a decli...

be immensely helpful in gaining insight into the specific issues involved and subsequent perspective on what course of action to t...

seek the same health goals for clients as in mainstream nursing, nurses in remote locations often cope with problems and obstacles...

potential need for treatment for impaired skin integrity due to immobility. Therefore, the nurse will begin precautions prior to a...

led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...

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

have had ethical reservations about taking a patient off of life support, but she did not add to Lynns burden by interfering with ...

nursing supervision is to provide support for nurse practitioner in a range of issues, developing their own identity as well as sk...

now regarded as a crucial and defining component of nursing, as caring defines "nursings unique area of practice and provides dire...

is simply to require that their nursing staff make up for understaffing by working mandatory overtime on a more or less permanent ...

1999). Lee and his family owned a small business and had no health or medical insurance. The family was urged to begin the process...

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

further harm; instead of deferring to this individuals personhood, she wholly disregarded what his physician considered to be the ...

This research paper pertains to the ethical dilemma confronting nurse practitioners concerning whether or not to offer abortion pr...

This paper pertains to an ethical dilemma faced by hospital nurses caring for patients who are Jehovah's Witnesses. Adherent of th...

management dilemma" and is written by Orly Toren and Nurith Wagner. The authors discuss different ethical dilemmas nurse face dail...

this development and left orders for both analgesia and sedation, which helped at first, but became less effective as the hours pa...

nurse practitioners how they could join the movement and help. The Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1989 included minimal reimbursem...

and fatigue, abdominal pain, vomiting, constipation and learning difficulties" ("Lead"). These physiological effects are caused by...

nurse to patient ratio in California. In 1992 and 1993 the California Nurses Association has sponsored the Democratic Senator Jack...

have access to a range of drugs. Bennett (et al, 2000) argues that the overall rate of substance abuse in the nursing popualtion r...

in resistant strains of bacteria (Plonczynski, 2005). This situation suggests that changes in antibiotic prophylactic procedures ...

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

to a patient over the phone and trying to convey the urgency of that patient coming in for a consultation. The patient resists, so...

harms the healthcare systems of the home countries of these nurses, which ethically and morally limits its use. Another method t...