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Women's Mental Health/Depression

minority groups. They are frequently poor and have little education. Scrandis, Fauchald and Radsma describe a "Charlottes Web of C...

Quality Assurance and Nursing Management

In five pages this research paper discusses quality care standard maintenance and the role played by nurse managers in sustaining ...

Preventing Medication Error Change Project

for the precise coding of medication and, thereby, helps nurses avoid the common errors listed above (Woods and Doan-Johnson, 2002...

Nursing and Kangaroo Care

article, "Mother-Infant Skin-to-Skin Contact (Kangaroo Care)," kangaroo care offers the parents the only opportunity to engage in ...

Profession of Nursing

their profession to be their career and it definitely requires career-long continuous professional development. Why then, does a...

Nursing Perspective on the Issue of Living Organ Donation

however, Jones requested an ethics consult on the case due to the fact that Johns psychosocial evaluation had caused Jones to have...

Nursing and the Interaction Between Theory, Research, and Practice

authors state that research "and theory are key underpinnings that guide safe, effective, and comprehensive" (p. 35) practice. As...

Nursing Programs and Reflective Practice and Critical Thinking Connection

Developing Clinical Guidelines by Allen et al (1997) set out to determine the disparities that exist within the resolution process...

2 Topics Involving Health Care Management

among all team members (DC Area Health Education Center, 2005). Well-functioning effective teams do not happen by chance. It requ...

Users of Drugs and Alcohol and Quitting Smoking

et al, 2005). However, smokers are not limited in their addition, those who are addicted to other substances, such as alcohol. For...

Australia's Shortages of Nurses

budget restraints. Nurses leave the profession because they are "distressed by being unable to provide quality nursing care, disgr...

Nursing Research Developments

notable historic key developments in nursing research are: 1859 Nightingales Notes on Nursing published 1900 American Nursing Jou...

Change Theory and Shortages in Nursing

the new paradigm becomes the new standard. Lewin once commented, "If you want to truly understand something, try to change it" (Go...

Overview of the Federal Civil False Claims Act

in 1999 alone "returned almost $500 million to the federal government." (Butler, 2000, 1). The first question to consider...

Historical Significance of Scarlet Fever

face and chest that it causes, and it is characterized by chills, fever, headache, vomiting, rapid pulse, red rash and an inflame...

Nursing and Gender Role Stereotyping

first started to administer to the injured and the sick, the notion that nurses should be women has prevailed (Odendaul, 2004). T...

Nursing, Cultural Understanding, and the Cultural Care Diversity and Universality Theory of Madeleine Leininger

19th and early 20th centuries. Hughes and Romeo (1999) question the usefulness of education that does not address the growing div...

Nursing Assessment and Elderly Woman Interview

individual, this woman does reflect on the past and has some regrets, but some optimistic comments are made as well. In evaluat...

Nursing Education Reflections

lives, especially the course of their daily professional lives. We tend to get stuck in ruts where we rely on the same patterns an...

Ethical Dilemma Pertaining to a Do Not Resuscitate Order

disagree with his wife could disrupt their marital relationship at a time when he needs this support, which is undoubtedly one of ...

Pain Management and Nursing

appears a simple enough way in which to establish the particular approach toward pain management for a given patient. However, re...

Nursing Shortage in Canada

US shortage has caused many healthcare institutions to look for nurses outside their countrys borders and many nurses are leaving ...

Nursing Evolution

the religious fervor generated by the teachings of "love and mercy" by Jesus Christ resulted in a dramatic increase in charitable ...

Development of Nursing Theory

While these definitions are extremely similar, a differences in emphasis can reflect a differing philosophical stance. The manner ...

Shortage of Nursing Faculty

educators in the past, are lured away from academia by better-paying positions in clinical and private practice (Mee, 2003). Furth...

Dorothea Orem and Florence Nightingale on Nursing Theories, Beliefs, and Values

prepared for this role" (McKenna, 1997, p. 87). Perhaps most significant of all was Florence Nightingales belief that env...

Sarasota, Florida's Doctors Hospital

I - Demonstrating Integrity at all times D - Showing concern for the Dignity of others E - Displaying Excellence and Empathy in ...

Professional Practice and Nursing Philosophy

and religious background and beliefs, as well as how the health/illness continuum works within the framework of their life. "Env...

ER Television Series and the Nursing Image it Presents

(Summers, 2004). This switch back to pursing a doctors role sent a horrendous message concerning nursing to the viewing public. ...

Pregnancy and Smoking

infant mortality rate in the United States, which is one of the highest of the developed nations. Women who smoke at the...