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activities" (Orems Self-Care Model Concepts) that patients need to undertake to meet their own health care needs on a routine basi...

invest billions annually on alternative approaches to healthcare (Allen, 2005). The National Institutes of Health estimates that ...

on an evidenced based evidence based practice and the development of increased individual accountability in the area of clinical g...

the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...

suggestions for future action in regards to this problem. Section A: Problem identification The Problem and its importance The G...

make a real difference. In helping professions, such leadership is desirable. The health care industry today is fraught with probl...

provide additional income. Environmentally, the water supply is inadequate and healthcare is of poor quality and also inaccessibl...

learned long ago the value of yet another Deming (1986) exhortation, that of continuous improvement. By definition, the concept i...

this indicates, family is incorporated into and valued within the realm of pediatric nursing practice as a factor that is crucial ...

own studies in numerous areas, such as formal logic, metaphysics, action theories, and to her readings of Aristotle, Aquinas and m...

2008). Further significant improvement is unlikely in the near future, however. Californias Efforts Governor Arnold Schwar...

First seen as an occasional point of minor and temporary discomfort, there seemed to be other, more "important" issues to assess. ...

reasons given by nursing staff for not providing this care (Kalisch, 2006, p. 306). At the end of the study article, in the "Di...

a "collaborative quality improvement project" that focuses on PUs in nursing homes as its primary focus (Lynn, et al, 2007). QIOs,...

the listeners would occasional offer comments and observations, to which the rabbi would generally respond. Occasionally, this pro...

grueling exam Id have to pass to earn my CCRN," she bought the necessary study materials, sent in an applications and "hit the boo...

some problems that can be encountered include "breast engorgement, nipple soreness, and latch-on" (Hurst, 2007, p. 207). An interp...

"low-fidelity, moderate-fidelity, and high-fidelity" (Sportsman et al., 2009, p. 67). Low-fidelity are introductory, moderate-fide...

nursing from the time when Florence Nightingale founded modern nursing in the nineteenth century. Since Nightingale, a variety of ...

The SCDNT regards the meta-paradigm of "Nursing" as an art, that is, a "helping service," but also as a technology ("Dorothea," 20...

This essay discusses the barriers and advantages of health care professionals collaborating. This was one of the sections in the F...

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on the views in existing studies on the best approaches for asthma care. There are ...

original consensus among mental health professionals the schizophrenia developed during late teens or early adulthood. However, a...

out care. Though there is a need for health care providers as a whole to have a greater awareness of the diagnostic process for b...

This research paper investigates development of advanced practice nurses (APNs) within the scope of contemporary health care, both...

This essay addresses five issues. The first section is a brief description of one of the recommendations from the IOM for nursing ...

This research paper presents an annotated bibliography pertaining to the effects of the nursing shortage on the delivery of health...

This paper summarizes and analyzes a qualitative Norwegian study that examined the experiences of home care nurses in regards to f...

This research paper concerns Jean Watson's theory of human caring and its use within nursing clinical practice. Eleven pages in le...