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Exercises to Support Continued Professional Development

in the International Journal of Nursing Studies, looking at the effectiveness of nurses delivering health promotion activities to ...

Needs Assessment and Simulation

evaluated stated that they are predominantly "hands-on learners." Eight of the 10 nurses evaluated stated they were hands-on lear...

Summary and Analysis of a Nursing Practicum

catheterization provides an effective method for evaluating the effectiveness of medications while also assessing cardiac function...

3 Nursing Theories as They Pertain to Geriatrics

of professional nursing, nursing theory provides perspectives and guidance that aids nurses in achieving their primary goal of pro...

Political Activism and Nursing

The manner in which professional organizations can be used to keep nursing leaders aware of political issues that are relevant to ...

Explaining DNRs

agent, such as an adult child or another proxy. In recent years, the DNR has been included in the Physicians Orders for Life Susta...

Mandatory Overtime, An Issue that Endangers Patients

This essay gives an overview of why mandatory overtime for nursing staff is a significant issue that as the potential to harm pati...

Personal Nursing Ambition

This paper presents a hypothetical example of how a student might wish to express her nursing ambition. The principal focuses of t...

Middle Range Nursing Theories, Medication Error

This paper pertains to two middle range nursing theories, Kolcaba's comfort theory and nursing intellectual capital theory, and th...

Nursing Staff Selection and Retention

This paper discusses the problem of the nursing shortage and its impact on nursing recruitment and retention. Six pages in length,...

Three Nursing Questions

This paper offers answers to three nursing questions that address the role of nurse practitioners, the Consensus Model for APRN Re...

Master of Science in Nursing/Issues

This research paper addresses a variety of issues that concern earning a master's in nursing science and with nursing leadership. ...

Management of Hypertension Among African Americans

to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...

Doctorate of Nursing Goals A

12-21, live relatively sedentary lives, as they are not active enough to successfully maintain good health (Covelli, 2007). The in...

Coping with Being Understaffed

the ability of an institution to deliver quality, error-free care. At the Six Sigma level, there are roughly "3.4 errors per one m...

The Lasting Legacy of Nursing Theorist Virginia Henderson

college degree is now a requirement for all registered nurses. A nursing major is comprised of a diverse and challenging liberal ...

Schools of Philosophy as Used in Nursing

(Allmark, 2003, p. 4). Poststructuralism: This perspective takes a deconstructive view of structuralism and "sees inquiry as ine...

Creating a Sexual Health Clinic

serve to mentor teens and provide socially positive guidance and support. Diagnostic and screening exams will also be available, b...

Addressing the Nursing Shortage

be increased substantially, of course, by those immigrants families who would likely be admitted to the country as well. The inte...

Nurses Job Satisfaction

in the U.S. stands at 8.5 percent to over 14 percent, depending on the specific area of specialty (Letvak and Buck, 2008), by 2020...

Orem, Mid-range & Grand Theories

relationships between self-care agency and the self-care demand" (Kumar, 2007, p. 106). Within the context of Self-Care Deficit ...

Limited Nursing Advocacy

report, admissions, and emergency situations" (Griffin, 2003, p. 135). The rationale for this policy is that it protects the confi...

Discharge Instructions, Heart Patients

planning evaluation to those patients, conducted or overseen by a registered nurse, social worker or other appropriately qualified...

Occupational Rehabilitation For A Nurse; A Case Study

workplace is a critical component of occupational rehabilitation (Morrison, 1993). In one study it was found that employees of inj...

Reflective Learning Document; Healthcare Promotion

the stage of evaluation is being one mainly concerned with health-related assessment activities so that progress can be measured a...

Nursing Leadership for Today and Future

entails job commitment and a resolution to not to waste time resisting change processes simply because they contradict the way in ...

Hand Washing Project

proven to be the principal reason for nosocomial infections, that is, infections that are acquired after hospital admittance. Impo...

Nursing Questions

provide effective communication, the Band Aid song "Do They Know Its Christmas" a song which led to Live Aid was effective; this w...

Value of Joining a Nurses’ Organization

of nursing and by lobbying" both Congress and regulatory agencies in regards to healthcare issues that affect nursing (ANA, 2008)....

Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP)

factors that have been identified include "diabetes, alcoholism, malnutrition, history of antibiotic or corticosteroid use, decrea...