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School Nursing and Disaster Planning

any incident that requires an increased level of response beyond the routine operating procedures" (NASN, 2006). Natural disasters...

Caring and the Nurse Practitioner

now regarded as a crucial and defining component of nursing, as caring defines "nursings unique area of practice and provides dire...

The Impact of Bioterrorism on the Future of Health Care

to current medicines, or to increase their ability to be spread into the environment" (Miller-Boyle, 2006, p. 6). Miller-Boyle wri...

Culturally Competent Nursing Strategies

care is to formulate a health care system and workforce that possesses the skill and understanding required to deliver quality hea...

Low Anterior Sigmoid Resection

and Cox, 2001; p. 375). The ascending colon, which is approximately six inches long, extends upward to the hepatic flexure....

Mental Health of Returning Soldiers

need of treatment following tours in Rwanda, the Balkans and Somalia" (Auld). Mental health problems in regards to soldiers retu...

Obesity Community Health Intervention

factor in childhood obesity is the fact that television viewing tends to be accompanied by the consumption of high-calorie, high s...

Wellness & Nutrition for Healthy Aging

p. 364). Due to the fact that eating behaviors tend to be established by early experience, it is important for healthy eating habi...

Article Critique/Nursing Home Patients

there is no cure either for Alzheimers disease or the various forms of dementia on the horizon, healthcare practitioners should "i...

Pediatric Asthma Case Management

an obstruction of the airway and can involved any or all of the following factors: "smooth muscle bronchoconstriction, mucous secr...

Czech Immigrants & Nursing

2001, p. 24). While the ancestors of many Americans of Czech extraction came to the US in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries...

Emergency Nurses Association

trends. This peer-reviewed journal also offers its readership a forum for sharing their experiences with their peers, as well as l...

Homeless & Mental Illness/A Vulnerable Population

necessary health-related behaviors" required for meeting "ones therapeutic self-care demand (needs)" (Hurst, et al 2005, p. 11). U...

Non-Clinical Director Functions

properly, nursing staff is highly aware of this lack. Research into nursing staff retention has found that the quality of housekee...

Admissions Essay to the FNP Program at UCLA

program will foster my highest level of achievement and help me focus on both the immediacy of my educational process and the deve...

Improving Management at Shannondale

economic positions (McGinn and Murr, 2006). All of this development in the past several years has led to a restatement of Shannon...

Aveyard/Believing and Doubting

explained the process further and made it clear that he would perform the catheterization, the man approved. As this indicates, fr...

Family Systems/The Postpartum Mother

of family such as the one cited above. In many instances hospitals adhere to the traditional definition, which means that the poli...

Family Nursing - Teen Suicide

apply to the many diverse factors related to teen suicide attempts and completions. Three of these objectives are: 1. Reduce fire...

Guillain-Barre Syndrome

and specific therapy" (Newswanger and Warren, 2004, p. 2405). As patients advance through the acute phase of the illness, supporti...

Evolution of Personal Philosophy of Nursing

the "inability to determine the meaning of illness-related events" (McCormick, 2002, p. 127). Furthermore, Chinn and Kramer (1999)...

Mandatory Overtime for Nurses

of hospital environments is driving many nurses away from hospital nursing and some are leaving the profession entirely. In 2000, ...

Health Care Center Case Study: PQRST

inflamed, tender to the touch and evident of a small amount of pus (DAlessandro et al, 2004), becoming more painful as time progre...

Performance Management through Clinical Supervision of Nurses in the NHS; Professional, Legal and Ethical Perspectives

Furthermore they state that is a strategic approach which relates to all aspects of an organization within the context the culture...

Clinical Supervision of Nurses in the NHS; Professional, Legal and Ethical Perspectives

nursing supervision is to provide support for nurse practitioner in a range of issues, developing their own identity as well as sk...

Summary of Nursing Articles

to reach the disease" (Colwell; 2). The author also examines aspects of surgical treatment, indicating that a particular type of s...

Nursing While Impaired

Johns Hopkins University and member of the IOM research team that authored the report, said that "fatigue was a major cause of mis...

RN vs. BSN, Advantages for Nurses

ratio, the mortality rates are 44 percent lower (Degree-level nurses, 2005). Substantiating this research, a Canadian study cond...

Proposal for an Addiction Treatment Center

Programs and Addiction Treatment Centers, 2007). Breaking addiction to these and other abused drugs often requires medical interv...

Treating Osteoporosis

and typically occurs by the time a person reaches their 70s. In the U.S., roughly 1.5 million fractures are caused by osteoporosis...