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Czech Immigrants & Nursing

2001, p. 24). While the ancestors of many Americans of Czech extraction came to the US in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries...

Emergency Nurses Association

trends. This peer-reviewed journal also offers its readership a forum for sharing their experiences with their peers, as well as l...

Homeless & Mental Illness/A Vulnerable Population

necessary health-related behaviors" required for meeting "ones therapeutic self-care demand (needs)" (Hurst, et al 2005, p. 11). U...

Non-Clinical Director Functions

properly, nursing staff is highly aware of this lack. Research into nursing staff retention has found that the quality of housekee...

Mental Health of Returning Soldiers

need of treatment following tours in Rwanda, the Balkans and Somalia" (Auld). Mental health problems in regards to soldiers retu...

Culturally Competent Nursing Strategies

care is to formulate a health care system and workforce that possesses the skill and understanding required to deliver quality hea...

Improving Management at Shannondale

economic positions (McGinn and Murr, 2006). All of this development in the past several years has led to a restatement of Shannon...

Low Anterior Sigmoid Resection

and Cox, 2001; p. 375). The ascending colon, which is approximately six inches long, extends upward to the hepatic flexure....

Roy’s Adaptation Model: A Case Study

particular condition because he at least is aware of his condition. About one-half of those with this disease are not as fortunat...

Article Critique//Charge Nurse Competencies

does not address the topic of specific competencies. In other words, the most recent literature that is even remotely related to t...

Diabetic Education for Continuing Education for Nurses

methods with measurable outcomes, creating a link between existing research and nursing process, define the role of nurse educator...

Code Green: Addressing the Problems in Money-Based Hospital Decision-Making

period of restructuring in many industries, including healthcare. Managed care organizations and changes in reimbursement rates f...

Patients’ Bill of Rights

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

Mandatory Overtime for Nurses

of hospital environments is driving many nurses away from hospital nursing and some are leaving the profession entirely. In 2000, ...

Family Systems/The Postpartum Mother

of family such as the one cited above. In many instances hospitals adhere to the traditional definition, which means that the poli...

Aveyard/Believing and Doubting

explained the process further and made it clear that he would perform the catheterization, the man approved. As this indicates, fr...

Health Care Center Case Study: PQRST

inflamed, tender to the touch and evident of a small amount of pus (DAlessandro et al, 2004), becoming more painful as time progre...

Evolution of Personal Philosophy of Nursing

the "inability to determine the meaning of illness-related events" (McCormick, 2002, p. 127). Furthermore, Chinn and Kramer (1999)...

Case Study of a Boy with Acne

of use) of sunscreen at the beach are important considerations. Other factors that should be assessed relative to subjective data...

Becoming a Nurse Manager

FTE RN Demand Projected Growth Setting 2000 2010 2020 2000 to 2010 2000 to 2020 Total 49,200 59,900 69,600 22%...

Effective Nursing Leadership, Management

power, found that where nurses report that power when is shared, there are corresponding improvements in the nursing/physician rel...

Interview with An Executive Leader

it is appropriate, such as when a novice nurse is faced with a crisis. There are times, and stages in a career, when employees can...

Leadership/Clinical Nurse Specialist

2003). As this suggests, a major factor in the leadership of CNSs is that they facilitate and implement educational initiatives. ...

Leadership/Clinical Nurse Specialist

2003). As this suggests, a major factor in the leadership of CNSs is that they facilitate and implement educational initiatives. ...

Treating Osteoporosis

and typically occurs by the time a person reaches their 70s. In the U.S., roughly 1.5 million fractures are caused by osteoporosis...

Proposal for an Addiction Treatment Center

Programs and Addiction Treatment Centers, 2007). Breaking addiction to these and other abused drugs often requires medical interv...

Family Nursing - Teen Suicide

apply to the many diverse factors related to teen suicide attempts and completions. Three of these objectives are: 1. Reduce fire...

Guillain-Barre Syndrome

and specific therapy" (Newswanger and Warren, 2004, p. 2405). As patients advance through the acute phase of the illness, supporti...

RN vs. BSN, Advantages for Nurses

ratio, the mortality rates are 44 percent lower (Degree-level nurses, 2005). Substantiating this research, a Canadian study cond...

Clinical Supervision of Nurses in the NHS; Professional, Legal and Ethical Perspectives

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