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Nurse as an Agent of Change in Data Base Management

a nurses role as a change agent in data base management. Fonville, Killian, and Tranbarger (1998) note that successful nurses of ...

Nursing Practice and the Opposition of Euthanasia

lethal drug is given with the intent to bring about death, thus ending suffering" (28). Of course, there is a difference between ...

'Military Industrial Complex' Warning of Outgoing President Dwight Eisenhower

to physicians. Increasingly, "evidence-based guidelines are becoming codes of medical practice" (Healy, 2005; p. 54). Superficia...

Hand Washing and the Care of Patients

preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...

Pediatric Setting and Margaret Newman's Nursing Theory

transformative perspective because Newman argues that rather than being diametrically opposed, disease and health are merely facto...

Nurse Mentoring Issues

There are different studies that have made a partial examination of the developmental models of clinical mentorship and supervisio...

Geriatric Care Quality

balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...

The Decision Aspect of the Stetler Model of Research Analysis

train sufficient numbers of new nurses. Turnover is high among those who remain in the profession, and those so dissatisfied - an...

Practice Scope and Nursing Professionalism

(1999), research shows that the level of education reached by an RN contributes to a sense of professional autonomy and those nurs...

Community Nursing Partnership Rewards and Threats

a partnership approach where the discipline work together can be increased cost effectiveness in the overall treatment of a patien...

Case Study on Depression

nonverbal and behavioural signals and information relating to the clients support system. Objective data could include observation...

Nurse Retention and Teams Effects

in decision making (Thomas Group, 2004). The leadership team appointed a steering committee to develop a plan for empowering nur...

Merie Mishel's Uncertainty in Illness Theory

McKenna (1997) points out that mid-range nursing theories tend to focus on concepts of interest to nurses. This can encompass pati...

Nurse Practitioner's Role and Strategies

certification program (Policy statement, 1999). On the other hand, the additional education required to become a licensed NP may t...

Changing Image in the Nursing Profession

A nurses dedication and selflessness recall a mothers sacrifice and care (Dworkin, 2002). Furthermore, Dworking (2002) points out ...

Levels of Nursing Education

declined as "educators, employers and others recognize the need for educational changes in nursing" (Bednash, 2000, p. 2985). Asso...

New Nursing Theory Formulation

An effective and valuable nurse is one who has sound technical knowledge and experience in applying it, but who also is a superlat...

Coping Nursing Concept Analysis

includes strategies that are designed to make the individual feel better, such as "exercise, spirituality, support groups and humo...

Medication Error Reduction Lesson Plan

deaths each year are related to medications" (Meadows, 2003). The actual number is estimated to be much higher because these kinds...

Nursing and Reflective Thinking Development

as a solution to the problem of developing reflective skills, Ferrario defines reflective thinking as: a) analyzing, synthesizing,...

Psychiatric Nursing and Self Disclosure for Therapeutic Purposes

many had very definite opinions on the matter as a whole, "none of the participants articulated what the process consisted of or h...

Nursing and the Importance of Intensive Care and Critical Care Skills

the non-emergency sections of the hospital or when they are in the doctors office or the resident clinic! Heart attacks happen! ...

U.S. Foreign Educated Nurse Licensing

also point out that "developed countries may not be well served by international nurse recruitment if it prevents them from addres...

Student Interest in the Nursing Profession

just need a positive touch from another human being. The student investigating the relationship of nursing contribution to patien...

Impact of Nursing Models

within these models. Definition of nursing model Semantic confusion abounds in the relevant literature as to what--precisely--is...

JCAHO's HF1 Core Measure and Hoshin Planning

* "HF-2 LVF assessment * "HF-3 ACEI for LVSD * "HF-4 Adult smoking cessation advice/counseling" (Overview, 2002). JCAHO e...

Human Becoming Nursing Theory of Parse

moment to moment as the changing patterns of shifting perspectives weave the fabric of life through the human-universe interconnec...

JCAHO's Core Measure Heart Failure Process Implementation

They are: 1. "activity level 2. "diet 3. "discharge medications 4. "follow-up appointment 5. "weight monitoring 6. "what to do if ...

Nursing Personal Values' Development

caring as the very definition of what constitutes personal values from a nursing perspective (2003). Koerner (1996), likewise, e...

Standards of Critical Care Nursing

Critically-Care nurses, 1989 in Nursing Management, 1999, p. 38). This abbreviated version of AACN nursing standards was located...