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Gender Identity Patient Disorder Diagnosis, Treatment, and the Film Boys Don’t Cry

by persistent discomfort with ones sex" (Meyenburg, 1999, p. 305). This gender identification with the opposite sex typically com...

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)....

Sharing Grief

did you wonder about your stepfather being alive or dead? What you write may resemble the following: I was considered too young to...

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 ...

Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Asthma

infants younger than one year (Bozzette, 1996). The virus is extremely potent and has the potential to be deadly (Bozzette, 1996)...

Medical/Surgical Nursing and Documentation

(Fawcett, 1995). Application of either model rests in large part on the appropriateness and completeness of nurse documentation (...

Study on Health Status and Participation Critiqued

evaluating information (including assumptions and evidence) related to the issue, considering alternatives ... and drawing conclus...

Advocacy and Caring in Nursing

The link between nurse caring and patient satisfaction has been reported numerous times. For instance, the AORN journal reported a...

Implications of New Dual Diagnosis Terminology

there are others as well (Glossary of Terms, 2004). For example, MICAA is an acronym for Mentally Ill, Chemical Abusers a...

Dual Diagnosis Patients and the Importances of Comprehensive Treatment Programs

episode of major depression be treated in this type of program? Or can this person be treated in a primary addiction-oriented prog...

Instructional Approaches Assessed

must have at least some knowledge of the topic of discussion beforehand, or the discussion can disintegrate into an exercise in "p...

Nursing and Evidence Based Practice Enhancement

body. Though "the VG site has long been established as an optimal site, not all nurses use it" (Scott and Marfell-Jones, 2004; p....

Family Dynamics and a Schizophrenia Diagnosis

In fifteen pages this paper examines schizophrenia in a consideration of the family dynamics after a member has been diagnosed wit...

Causes and Diagnosis of Asthma

In seven pages asthma is examined in terms of environmental and biological causes along with diagnostic techniques such as Sensiti...

DSM IV, Alcohol Abuse, and Family Effects of Diagnosis

In this paper consisting of six pages the DSM IV's role in both diagnosing and treating alcohol abuse in terms of the alcoholics a...

Diagnosing and Treating Pathological Gambling

In five pages this paper discusses pathological gambling in terms of the DSM IV diagnostic criteria and then considers various mod...

Ambulatory Care and the Nurse's Role

In six pages this paper examines the nurse's role from an ambulatory care perspective with service complexities and constant chang...

Theories of Peplau and Orem in Patient Assessment

In this paper consisting of seven pages the importance of adequately assessing patient needs is discussed by examining the theorie...

Dr. Madeleine Leininger, Transcultural Nursing, and the Family Nurse Practitioner

In six pages this paper examines the family nurse practitioner within the context of the transcultural nursing theories of Dr. Mad...

Nursing and Men

68 admitted male students (Poliafico, 1998). The situation began to change in the 1960s. Men were again allowed to enter military...

Impact of Child Abuse

In ten pages child abuse and its social implications are described in terms of its different forms which also considers a communit...

Pregnancy, Drug Use, and Nursing

In six pages this research paper discusses substance addicted pregnant mothers and the positive impacts of nursing practice and nu...

Nursing, Employment Satisfaction, and Shortage of Nurses

In six pages this essay discusses nursing shortages and examines the employment satisfaction aspects or lack thereof as it pertain...

Wellness Education and Nursing Techniques

In five pages this paper discusses wellness teaching in a consideration of nursing's current techniques. Five sources are cited i...

Nursing Homes Centered on Clients

The most recent trend in nursing home care is client-centered treatment. This paper examines statistics in elder care, with almost...

Nursing Home Costs and the Impact of MDS/PPS/RUG III System Utilization

Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that it is no longer only added stress and long hours for those...

SNF Costs and the Impact of the Shortage of Registered Nurses

of the patients in a single unit will be assigned to one RN; the other half will be assigned to another. Another will be availabl...

Using Critical Thinking in the Field of Nursing

or understanding when the staff or the doctors have to move on to the next client. Many patients complain that their healthcare pr...