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Essays 1981 - 2010

Nursing History and Controlling Infection

This history of nursing considers how antibiotic and antisepsis control of infections developed in five pages. Two sources are ci...

The Difficult Questions Asked in Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible'

perceives as her "rival." Rather they listen to the girl, and in the case of all good villains she switches the blame, "She is b...

Alternative Therapies for the Issue of Advanced Nursing Practice

In six pages the basis for the role of an ANP which is to establish a connection between nurse and patient along with providing a ...

Clinical Skills Evaluation and the Teaching Role of Nurses

In seven pages this research paper discusses the new teaching approaches in nursing education and how the ever growing field will ...

Shortage of Nurses

In nine pages this research paper discusses causes and solutions for the shortage in nursing. Twelve sources are cited in the bib...

Prenatal and Postnatal Care Intervention

In six pages this paper examines community nursing intervention as a way of increasing the birth weights and to decrease the numbe...

Holistic Approach to the Philosophy of Nursing

In five pages this paper discusses how nursing philosophy can be holistically applied. Five sources are cited in the bibliography...

FVSNs and School Nurses

time is spent in the nurses office. While nurses do not want to send away a student who could be suffering from a...

Jean Watson's and Joyce Travelbee's Nursing Theories

These theories emphasize the fact that the concept of holism is integrally linked with the goals and objectives of nursing. Holis...

Restraints and Education Needs Assessment

and arranging transportation; and ensuring that physician orders for residents are met and followed. Beyond these duties ar...

Annotated Bibliography on Patient Restraint

physical restraints. The authors own views combined with the findings of current literature reveal that the use of physical restr...

Self Care Model of Dorothea Orem

Today, the theories of Orem, Roy, Neuman, Rogers, King, and others seem to be more popular than older theories such as those of Fl...

Adult Critical Care and Benefits of the Neuman Model

importance in the immediate nature of the patients problems, however. In critical care, theory can wait. Nurses need to be focus...

Community and Corrections Nursing

does not receive (or seek) health care outside of prison. The literal captive audience allows health care professionals to offer ...

Refugee Camps and the Application of Florence Nightingale's Environmental Theory

was well educated (Le Vasseur, 1998), from a family of wealth and yet held an unusual compassion for those less fortunate. She wa...

Nursing Assistants and Multicultural Education

several problems with recent immigrants, however. These include language barriers, not having completed a GED, limited healthcare...

Nursing Practice and Pain Management Research

a lingering distrust of the qualitative approach, one that often has not been done well and has resulted in works that cannot be c...

Encouraging Continuation of Breast Feeding

for the infant for the first six months" (Moore et al., 1998; p. 36). Bearing this in mind we address those women who are perhaps ...

Developing a Plan for Nursing Education

other people. Whereas simulation is rehearsed, however, role playing is not. It requests that the learners take on the character...

Ratio of Patients to Nurses

to the bill as did many nursing executives, arguing that there was sufficient legislation already on the books that dealt with sta...

Politics and Nurses

(Political Power, 2002). The profession of nursing is no different from any other in this regard (Political Power, 2002). Qualit...

Nursing and the Holism Concept

nursing practice and nurses are formally authorized from the society to touch their clients in the course of nursing activities. ...

Emergency Nurse Triage and Education

being the most complete. Education in triage generally has not been complete at all, however (Crafter, Little and Ritchie, 2000)....

5 Articles Summarized

method in Assisted Suicide: Is There A Future? Ethical And Nursing Considerations employed the use of hypothetical euthanasia case...

Comparison of Integrative, Quantitative, and Qualitative Research Designs

to be exclusionary in terms of acceptable methods and resulted in what Taylor called "the great fault of modern psychology ... tha...

Nursing Methods of Research and Validity Questions

practitioners that do not hold an MSN degree, and the resulting population would be too homogeneous to be of any real benefit. ...

Questions on Nursing Theory

to health care. Many of the same questions that can apply to assessing the validity of qualitative research can be used to ...

Patient Harassment of Nurses

had even been stalked by patients (Global Forum for Health Research, 2000). A major study in Australia found that there is a sign...

Fictional Family Unit and Application of Family Theory

brief excursion into heterosexuality twenty years earlier, who Armand and Albert raised. Son Val (Dan Futterman) does not share A...

Nursing Homes and Ethical Issues

blatant display of irreverence, with some of the worst infractions found within the health care industry. The cramped, dark and u...