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The Changing Nature of Health Care in the U.S.

expected only to continue for several years to come. Then, growth will begin to decline in response to fewer numbers of people re...

Literature Review on a Cancer Patient's Emotional Needs

It seems that within the context of the work, there is little compassion shown for the protagonist with the exception of one oncol...

The Difficult Problem of the Nursing Shortage

Statistics expects that number to rise to more than one million in less than 20 years. The American Nurses Association and Monste...

Advanced Practice Nursing and Leadership

The ever-changing nature of Americas health care system has introduced a chaos in a population that for more than a century has be...

Research Evaluation on Nursing Home Costs of Utilizing MDS/PPS RUG III Systems

(p. 835) among Medicaid residents of Massachusetts nursing homes between 1991 and 1994. This mixed method (i.e., quantitative as ...

SNF Costs and the Impact of Primary Nursing

to changes which in turn can result in higher costs and reduced perceived quality of care. Primary nursing is not a new con...

Treatment to Sustain Life and Patient's Refusal

best way to appease both the law and the public; its dynamic decision about whether to include doctor-assisted suicide and volunta...

Health Care Providers, the Patient, and the Patient Self Determination Act

policies in regard to the PSDA. I have been fortunate in that I was chosen to be a member of that team. Consequently, I have at ...

Are All Nursing Degrees Created Equal?

the associates course of study to address the very things that can make the greatest difference in patient outcomes and satisfacti...

Taking a Toddler’s Blood Pressure

pressure There are three types of high blood pressure observed in children. The first type is called "white-coat" high blood pres...

Case Study/Death of a Client

2001). Toms condition remained so precarious that personal care for him had to be done very tentatively. For example, brushing his...

Personal Nursing Ethics

students values : This calls for personal reflection. A question that the student can ask herself/himself is how he or she might h...

Different Careers in Nursing

nurses which makes job searching easier. Registered nurses are in great demand and it is thought that there will be a significa...

Remote & Regional Issues/Australia’s Nursing Shortage

less people living in rural communities and the "more remote geographical regions" of Australia than in urban locales (Bushy 104)....

Nurse Practitioner & Nurse Midwife

are RNs who are "prepared, through advanced education and clinical training, to provide preventive and acute health-care services"...

Community Nursing Questions

self-knowledge (Simpson, 2004). While anecdotal evidence is not regarded as conclusive, the experience of individual nurses in reg...

Proposal for Increasing Nurses' Salaries

numbers of young students came to believe that perhaps nursing would provide an outlet for caring natures as well as support a fam...

Med/Surg Leader, An Interview

embarrassment in front of others, withheld pay increases, and termination" (Marriner-Tomey, 2004, p. 118). While conferring reward...

Nursing Leadership Scenario

defining the leadership characteristics that would be the focus of this educational effort (Pintar, Capuano and Rosser, 2007). As ...

Health Promotion

promotion can address a variety of nursing clients in a variety of circumstances. For example, Richardson (2002) acknowledges that...

Nursing Education & A Humanities Fieldtrip

chosen. The Metropolitan Museum of Art indicates two events that would be appropriate for a humanities-oriented fieldtrip geared...

Nurse Salaries

the politics found in hospitals and other environments (Reuters, 2008). Supply and demand is always a major driver of salaries in...

Theory-Driven Praxis—Personal Framework

Domain concepts Health: The traditional understanding of "health" is that is the absence of illness and/or injury. However, for ...

Nurse Migration

developing countries, while it alleviating the nursing shortage in the industrialized countries to a certain degree, is creating a...

Affordable Healthcare in Australia

can only be expected to escalate in the near future. Therefore, issues of affordability, in relation to equitable healthcare servi...

Professional Ethics: Nursing Inmates

all aspects of professional nursing and a nurses obligation to patients to provide ethical and professional quality care. The firs...

AD and BSN Competencies

This research paper pertains to nursing competencies and the difference between associate degree-trained nurses and those with a b...

Patient Falls, Patient Safety and Communication

This paper is made up of three sections, with each section pertaining to a significant hospital administration issue. These topics...

4 Traditional Metaparadigms in Nursing

Under her wing, Nightingale took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to health. ...

Theoretical Perspectives on Nursing

and Ingalls (2003) describe the four metaparadigms allegorically as the "roots" of a living tree, emphasizing that the metaparadig...