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Nurses Using Evidenced-Based Practices

Nursing has evolved over the decades primarily as a result of research (Director, 2009). Nurses recognize a problem and introduce ...

Nursing and Its Cultural Aspects

In five pages the cultural aspects of the nursing profession are considered in a discussion that while Canadian and U.S. nurses mi...

Nursing Assignment Acceptance and the Position Statement of the American Nurses Association

Nursing ethics and autonomy are considered in this discussion of the position statement by the ANA regarding nurses' rights to acc...

Aging Nursing Population/Healthcare

the question of what effect an aging nursing work force has on American healthcare in general. First and foremost, the aging of ...

Caring in Nursing Theory

paternalistic approach that has been favored by physicians. Watsons theory stresses nurses should "honor anothers becoming, autono...

Perspectives on Shortage of Nurses

2002 and allowed for a National Nurse Service Corps program to provide funding for tuition, expenses and a stipend to those nursin...

Elements of Psychiatric Nursing Practice

who is the legal guardian, as this pertains to the legality of admitting a minor for psychiatric care. If the patient is accompani...

Cultural Needs of Chinese Women in Childbirth

background and knowledge to evaluate when there is a need to consult a transcultural nurse specialist, as these specially trained ...

Nursing Staff Selection and Retention

This paper discusses the problem of the nursing shortage and its impact on nursing recruitment and retention. Six pages in length,...

Nursing Error and Understaffing

This research paper employs a nursing case study in order to discuss issues associated with understaffing and its negative impact ...

Patient Care Perception and Nurse Uniform Color

that make use of color, but even these efforts have not typically met with good response by patients or hospital administrators (S...

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...

Role of Nurse Educator

employability: The role of nurse educator requires an advanced practice nursing degree at the graduate levels of masters and docto...

Nurses, Patients, and Managed Care

as HMO, PPO, POS, EPO, PHO, IDS and AHP (IHA, 2002). This is creating a service that can be seen as dividing...

Australia Focus on Breast Cancer

carcinoma in situ (DCIS). This is also known as "intraductal carcinoma or non-invasive breast cancer" (Breast Cancer, 2004; p. PG...

Stroke Patients and Nursing Case Management

Partially as a result of improved heath care practices which result in longer life and partially as the result of the movement aw...

Nursing and Issues of Confidentiality

In seven pages the confidentiality issues nurses must contend with are discussed within the weighty context of the trust between p...

A Nursing Perspective on Patient Mental Illness

This 15 page paper discusses seven patients who suffer from various forms of mental illness, and argues that there may be an under...

Nursing/Medical Vocabulary

9.Surg: Patients recovering from some form of surgery. 10. Med: Patients recovering from some form of illness. 11. ICU-Intensive C...

Limited Nursing Advocacy

report, admissions, and emergency situations" (Griffin, 2003, p. 135). The rationale for this policy is that it protects the confi...

The Theory of Human Caring

al, 2009). The theory came from "the results of studies accomplished by the author along her Doctorate in Clinic and Social Psycho...

Costs of Skilled Nursing Facilities and the Impact of the Shortage of Registered Nurses

Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that it is no longer only added stress and long hours for those ...

Postsurgical Patient Care

indwelling foley and compression boot. Her dressing is dry and intact. She was discharged with Percocet 5mg q6. Analysis and Out...

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...

3 Nursing Theories as They Pertain to Geriatrics

of professional nursing, nursing theory provides perspectives and guidance that aids nurses in achieving their primary goal of pro...

Assisting in Grief Counseling

left to deny anything connected with the loss, either before or after the fact. Those left behind also need to acknowledge the me...

Concept Mapping Versus Care Plans/A Proposed Study

the fever? Was it related to an infection in the surgical wound? Was the patient developing atelectasis and pneumonia? Or, was the...

Implementing Care Following Leininger’s Theory

meals to all Orthodox Jewish patients should be investigated by hospital administrators if they are not already in place. Furtherm...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

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 ...