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Health Care Providers, the Patient, and the Patient Self Determination Act

policies in regard to the PSDA. I have been fortunate in that I was chosen to be a member of that team. Consequently, I have at ...

Literature Review on a Cancer Patient's Emotional Needs

It seems that within the context of the work, there is little compassion shown for the protagonist with the exception of one oncol...

Legal and Medical Issues Associated with a Patient's 'Right to Die'

providers and also provide a well-balanced outline about the issues involved in a patients "right to die" (Hendin, Foley and White...

Patient Falls, Patient Safety and Communication

This paper is made up of three sections, with each section pertaining to a significant hospital administration issue. These topics...

The Changing Nature of Health Care in the U.S.

expected only to continue for several years to come. Then, growth will begin to decline in response to fewer numbers of people re...

Nurse's Views on Euthanasia

use this possibility as an excuse to not provide other people, people who are obviously suffering tremendously and would inevitabl...

Nursing Theory, a Comparison

p. 144). Each has value, but each exists with a paradox. The more abstract theories are more easily generalized, but more diffic...

Carper's 4 Knowledge Types and Nursing Evaluation

(Snyder and Lindquist, 2001). Under this philosophy the social factors and even the spiritual factors of an individuals existen...

Long Term Nurse's Reflections and the Formulation of a New Nursing Theory

that have affected my choice of working as a nurse. Of course many people have these factors in common within their personal valu...

Review of an Article on Nursing

during which time they reviewed data regarding the patient and made adjustments to the clinical care program. The advanced practic...

The Difficult Problem of the Nursing Shortage

Statistics expects that number to rise to more than one million in less than 20 years. The American Nurses Association and Monste...

Advanced Practice Nursing and Leadership

The ever-changing nature of Americas health care system has introduced a chaos in a population that for more than a century has be...

Research Evaluation on Nursing Home Costs of Utilizing MDS/PPS RUG III Systems

(p. 835) among Medicaid residents of Massachusetts nursing homes between 1991 and 1994. This mixed method (i.e., quantitative as ...

SNF Costs and the Impact of Primary Nursing

to changes which in turn can result in higher costs and reduced perceived quality of care. Primary nursing is not a new con...

Nursing and the Concept of Reflective Thinking

In five pages this paper considers the reflective thinking concept from a nursing perspective with the emphasis on Bert Teekman's ...

Unionization and Collective Bargaining in Nursing

This research paper examines the arguments both pro and con in regards to unionizaion within the nursing profession. The writer in...

Nursing and Reflective Practice Techniques

Nursing and the training of nurses through reflective practice techniques are examined in 11 pages with the importance of applying...

Research and Nursing Practice

eventually revert to many of the methods formerly used in patient care. She makes clear distinction between research in nursing t...

Field of Nursing and Collective Bargaining

are getting calls from every part of the country every day. I am hearing from nurses that the working conditions are intolerable a...

Problems of Retaining Nurses

and Robinson, 2003). Another element complicating the problem is the fact that in the early 1990s, many hospitals restructured a...

Nursing Shortage Critical Issue

today will reach retirement age within 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). At the same time, fewer people are entering nursing, as ...

Theoretical Perspectives on Nursing

and Ingalls (2003) describe the four metaparadigms allegorically as the "roots" of a living tree, emphasizing that the metaparadig...

Nursing Theory and Its Sub Specialties

and nursing literature abounds with how such theories influence and guide nursing practice in all of its varied aspects. For exa...

4 Traditional Metaparadigms in Nursing

Under her wing, Nightingale took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to health. ...

Basic Nursing Metaparadigm

In four pages this research paper examines nursing's metaparadigm in a consideration of concepts including nursing, health, enviro...

Role of Nursing and 4 Metaparadigms

The concept of health also has undergone change over the years. It formerly referred to absence of disease, but now it generally ...

Different Careers in Nursing

nurses which makes job searching easier. Registered nurses are in great demand and it is thought that there will be a significa...

Are All Nursing Degrees Created Equal?

the associates course of study to address the very things that can make the greatest difference in patient outcomes and satisfacti...

Influence Of Therapeutic Setting In Psychoanalysis

counselor, often causing even greater tension than what already exists and drawing away from the ability to forge an alliance. Se...

Community Health & Teen Pregnancy

situation. As a provider of care, it is the role of the community health nurse to address the needs of Centerville adolescents i...