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Career Questions in Nursing

should reflect the willingness of participants to take on a range of roles that can enhance the opportunities for learning in this...

Nursing and the Philosophy of Care

activity of "caring moments". Caring moments are instances wherein a nurse spends a certain amount of uninterrupted devoted time w...

Ethics and Legal Issues in Nursing

typically covered by the Nursing Practice Act of the particular state in which a nurse is practicing, as this piece of legislation...

Nursing Cultural Competence

and Cultural Competency in Health Care: An Australian Study by Megan-Jane Johnstone and Olga Kanitsaki. * Abstract; The authors p...

Nursing Concerns at Large Hospital System

fail to assure patient safety and a reasonable working environment for themselves. Sutter Health is a large system of hospitals an...

Nursing and the Importance of the Team Approach

Interdisciplinary teams have taken on a progressively more important role in healthcare over the...

Influence of Advanced Practice Nurses

part of their academic preparation knowledge that pertains to how "to initiate, plan and manage change" (Elser, McClanahan and Gre...

Sigmund Freud, Imogene King, and Nursing

2001). Growth and development is a component in Kings Goal Attainment Theory. Where the patient is in terms of growth and develo...

2 Nursing Paradigm Models

the people involved (Oberle and Allen, 2002). The principal focus of the simultaneity paradigm is on the clients perspectives of t...

Combating Ageism, Nursing's Role

This research paper discusses the effect that ageism has on health care provision for older adults. Twelve pages in length, eight ...

Deliberate Harm to Self and Nursing Management

In seven pages this paper discusses the problems associated with a patient's deliberate self harm in a discussion of relevant mana...

Clinical Nurse Specialist's Role

In six pages this paper discusses the CNS's role in terms of areas of importance, relevant issues, and implications of policies. ...

Atlantic County, New Jersey, Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory and Community Assessment

In seven pages Atlantic County, NJ is used as an example in a discussion of healthcares and community assessment with problematic ...

Description of an Advanced Nurse Practitioner

In six pages this paper defines as well as describes APNs, discusses their responsibilities and considers course requirements for ...

Technology and Decision-Making in Nursing

showing substantial improvement over these early versions. Recognizing that the task of designing a CDSS is formidable, the Deci...

Advanced Nursing Practice and Family Theory: Lessons From the Movie “Thirteen”

begins using drugs, stealing, experimenting with sex, and seeking out more radical means of self mutilation. Each of these change...

Skilled Nursing Facility Uses

N F Resident Costs N N N - - C = Critical N = Needed (may or may not be necessary on its own) F = Facilitating information ?Includ...

Nursing Ethics/Case Scenario Response

the conflict between ethical principles that the case scenario entails. The steps that the nurse and Dr. F. may have followed in d...

Long Term & Short Term Goals in a Nursing

are in the ICU and on IABP therapy. The literature on this subject indicates that monitoring should include the "patients left ra...

Surgical ICU Clinical Practice and Theoretical Nursing Models

this scenario, the question to be explored now is how each of above named nursing models addresses these patient needs. The Syste...

OR Nursing Practice Scope

2006). The activities of UAPs, unlike those of nurses and other licensed caregivers, is defined through job description and not re...

Families and the Nursing Theory of Dorothea Orem

of fulfilling desires of order. Orem also sees the family as a relational concept (Taylor, 2001, p. 7). It only exists because o...

Nursing as an Integral Part of the VA Medical Center at Asheville

(Waller, 2006). Not only is customer satisfaction rated higher than it is on a general scale, the death rate is somewhat lower as ...

Nurse Practitioner

collaborating physicians name. Authority to prescribe controlled substances includes Schedule II-V as outlined in the prescribers ...

Nursing Homes & Liability

to a hospital, where he was intubated so that he could receive nutrition. He was again returned to Eastbrooke3 on July 23, 1990, w...

Nursing and Ethical Dilemmas

arise during this absence. Not only is this practice unacceptable professionally, but it is also problematic legalistically, as th...

Oral Hygiene Protocol and Nursing Practice

Hanson (2004) recommends a toothbrush, but specifies that it should be soft and that non-abrasive toothpaste should be selected. P...

Nursing Profession and 'Telehealth' Implications

and was replaced by the broader term, telehealth (Maheu et al 7). The definition has also evolved to encompass all types of healt...

Practical Nursing Theory Application

care model is highly useful with the elderly and those recovering from surgery or illness. Self care is not an issue that enters ...

Heath Care and Nursing's Pender Promotion Model

doctoral degree in Psychology and Education in 1969" (Pender, n.d.a). She found psychological research to be rigorous and methodo...