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Family Health Nursing

the "niche were multiple members encounter and respond to disease and illness across the life course" (Denham, 2003, p. 143). Nurs...

Group Process/Nursing

(2003) gives the example of an nurse assigned to a busy intensive care unit (ICU) began experiencing clear signs of traumatic stre...

Nursing & Mandatory Overtime

expectancy is increasing and more people are surviving serious illness and living longer with chronic illness. At the same time, t...

Residencies for Registered Nurses

It is well known that there is a significant shortage of registered nurses that will continue to grow. There is a difference of op...

Discussion of Change Theories for Specific Field

The paper begins by briefly identifying and explaining three of the standard change theory/models. The stages of each are named. T...

Forensic Psychiatric Nursing

endeavor. Nursing in any context requires a detailed knowledge of individual patients. Specifically, a forensic nurse will have a...

Legal Issues & Nursing

will--in all likelihood--result in a professional negligence suit, rather than criminal charges. Suits against nurses result from ...

National Association of Orthopedic Nurses

NAON recognizes that learning and developing professional is a life-long processes and it helps orthopedic nurses achieve the goal...

Review of "Outcomes of Therapeutic Massage for Hospitalized Cancer Patients"

Smith, et al. (2002) explain that their purpose "was to investigate the effects of therapeutic massage on selected outcomes relate...

Licensing Registered Nurses

legislation that authorizes a Nurse Licensure Compact (National Council of the State Boards of Nursing, Nurse Licensure Compact, 2...

Nurses and Stress

have more opportunity to encounter difficulties involved in nursing the critically ill. "How frequently a given stressor occurs d...

Quitting Smoking and Hospitalized Patients Educational Obstacles

In five pages this paper examines literature regarding the nurse's role in educating hospitalized patients on smoking cessation. ...

Florence Nightingale's Work

the incidence of the deaths that were preventable, and also developed the polar-area diagram as a way of demonstrating the impact ...

'Don't Call Me Sweetie!' Australia Nursing Study Reviewed

In six pages this paper examines nursing care from the perspectives of nurses and patients as reported by this Australian study. ...

NJ's Advanced Practice Nurses

from an advanced practice nurse. Patients value the nurse practitioner (NP) as a trustworthy source of medical information that a...

Nursing and Communication Theory

relationships, in terms of power dynamics and the initiation and resolution of conflicts. Communication theory is, therefore, impo...

Nursing Theory Practical Integration

different that needs attention, but many have been able to prepare for the changes that are happening to them. Geriatric patients...

Continuing Educaiton and the Application of Theory

they are working in the field now indicates that they understand the concepts and were successful in completing the ranges of stud...

Community Nursing Advantages and Disadvantages

individual, regardless of that individuals station in or stage of life. Todays nurse has many duties and answers to people and ad...

HMOs and Metaparadigms of Nursing

the situation in which the health care is offered, that is, a clinic, a hospital or a physicians office. "Health" refers to a st...

Arguing Against Nurses Participating in the Death of Patients and the Christine Busalacchi Case

Rural Nurses, represented by registered nurse and practicing attorney Jacqulyn Hall, filed an amici curiae (friends of the court) ...

Pain Management and Nursing Involvement Increases

a long period, have the opportunity to build relationships with them and are able to come to know the individual patients response...

Nursing Home Care and the Effects of Mandatory Continuation of Nursing Education

nursing care over the past decade and how do they support the argument for a continuum of educational practices for nursing profes...

Nursing Management Topics

over the course of several years of research into the issue. Most styles also depend on an array of variables including "organiza...

Nursing Ethics Issues

in death is a wise safeguard. In the early part of the twentieth century, rationalizations abounded in medical literature that def...

Health Assessment Models and the General Practice Nurse

such as medical history as well as their role in consultation and also in the way that preventative healthcare is delivered, the ...

Nursing Selection

member with a meaningful recovery experience? When did you first realize that you wanted to help others? Relating personal details...

Angina Pectoris From a Nursing Perspective

risk factors that can be altered, with special attention to lowering cholesterol and blood pressure. B. Treatment of ischemia usua...

Community Health and the Nursing Care Theory of Jean Watson

and continues to do so, over the past two decades, as it was first published in 1979 (Falk-Rafael, 2000). In formulating her theor...

Therapeutic Relationship Between Nurse and Client

36). Both a therapeutic and social relationship are featured in the film Good Will Hunting (1997). The protagonist in the film, ...