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Nursing at the End of Life

by the caring physical presence of this nurse in her last remaining hours. However, the way in which this case turned out saw the ...

END-OF-LIFE PLANNING, NURSING AND GUIDANCE

to provide adult individuals, at the time of inpatient admission (or enrollment) information about state laws rights concerning ad...

Terminating Life Support and Issues of Nursing Ethics

In sixteen pages this paper discusses withdrawal of life support from a perspective of nursing ethics. Twelve sources are cited i...

Nursing Home Residents Suffering from Dementia and Making End of Life Decisions

rely on "surrogate" decision-makers, family members capable of making treatment decisions on their behalf. As a result, this stud...

Nursing's Contribution to Quality of Life

could be called human biological life; or(2) human personal life that includes biological life but goes beyond it to include other...

Quality of Life and the Role of Nursing

Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...

Should a Nurse Assist in the Suicide of a Suffering Patient

looking at a potential scenario where a patient seeks the provision of narcotics with the intention of ending their life the nurse...

Cultural diversity, End-of-Life Issues

rituals of this religion in order to offer quality care. They should know, for instance, that an Orthodox Jew is required to wash ...

Nursing: Article Reviews

some determining the study was inconclusive, others saying certain interventions should be made universal and still others stating...

Rewriting the Ending to the Book of Acts

version of history must be selected. Therefore, the following "addition" to Acts is based on scholarship in the Catholic Encyclope...

Advance Directives, Pros and Cons

of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), define an "Advance Directives," as "l...

The End of the Earth

as the End of Times. Many strong Believers believe we are already in the End of Times. It is during this time there are great Spir...

Communication and Palliative Care

the patient prior to his death. The nurse clearly felt the need to encourage the family to stay and spend as much time as possibl...

A Plan for Reducing Catheter Related Infection

training. In addition, the class will also require the development and distribution of training materials, including a point-by-p...

Exercise in Making an Ethical Decision

the cracks of indigent health care. The hospital quite naturally is concerned about the cost of continuing to provide care for Mr...

7 Nursing Theory Issues

patient was in a significant amount of pain, he made jokes throughout his entire stay, as family members remained at his bedside. ...

Personal Philosophy of Nursing

individual is an "open system," which includes "distinct, but integrated physiological, psychological and socio-cultural systems" ...

Persistent Vegetative State Patients and Ethical Decision Making

the balloon, and certain gestures, were definite responses to the environment and evidence of consciousness, but the doctors disag...

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

"beetle" and the "moping owl." The narrator walks beneath "rugged elms," where the turf is rounded into "many a moldering heap" (...

A Biographical Study Of St. Peter, The Apostle

will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you...

Sanctity of Life versus Quality of Life

have the discretion to terminate their dependents lives" (Woodward, 1995). Defenders of Latimer points out that if the surgery tha...

Depression and Entertainer Judy Garland

milieu, and how we respond is governed by genetic make-up" (Dobson, 1997, pp. 44-45). Garlands early indoctrination to the movie ...

Classifications of Web Sites

to automatically collect information on any particular topic is of critical importance in todays technologically advanced world. ...

New Nurses Survival Guide

2008, p. 208). The purpose of the study designed by Sorensen and Yankech (2008) was to investigate whether a "research-based, th...

Peplau and Orem/Core Concepts

begins with "orientation," which is a period in which the nurse and the patient become acquainted. The relationship then proceeds ...

Conceptual, Philosophical, Legal And Ethical Foundations And Processes Inherent To Professional Nursing Practice

there a time when an individuals interests supersede those of the masses? These are ethical questions posed each and everyday thr...

Humanistic Leadership & Nursing Unions

with humanity, that is, to be humanistic in ones orientation refers to the principles of humanism, which has been given a variety ...

Nursing Leadership, Advocacy & Responsibilities

Leadership and management while related are two distinctively different concepts. Leadership can be discerned from simply manageme...

Battle of Dien Bien Phu Between the Vietminh and the French

In five pages this battle that brought an end to Europe's involvement in Vietnam is examined....

Catalog Marketing of Lands' End Company

In five pages this essay discusses the catalog sales success of Lands' End in a consideration of strategies with other competitor ...