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Workplace Incident Investigation

may use the data to institute preventative measures. When investigating a major workplace incident, several steps need to ...

Offices in Uganda and the U.S. and Acme Paperclips

In a report of seven pages a fictitious Acme Paperclip company is used to compare issues of protection and safety of workers with ...

Overview of Stretcher Safety

In five pages this paper discusses uses of stretchers, various types of equipment, and addresses safety issues with military stret...

Elevator Industry's Hydraulic Oils

areas, such as the impact on the surrounding environment. Even small quantities of leaked oil can result in widespread areas of po...

Nurses and Pediatric Injury Prevention

educating parents as to the failure of seat belts along to protect young children from injury (Philbrook, et al, 2009). Children a...

Nursing Image

reality of the profession. It needs a makeover much as it had in the 19th century in Brittan when nursing reformers struggled to h...

Terrorist Attack Scenario and the Use of the Incident Command System

major even. 2. Roles The multi jurisdiction approach helps to delineate the different tasks of the different agencies involved ...

Caring in Nursing Theory

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

Philosophy of Nursing and Future Plans

for my patients. Personal philosophy of nursing: Tourville and Ingalls (2003) offer a fascinating and very apt analogy to descri...

Families Should Decide Own Health Goals

to individuals connected by a blood tie. However, to be a "family," members must "live in close contact, care for one another, an...

Business Law Questions

the termination justifiably be blamed on business conditions. As Pats manager already has told him that "things did not seem to b...

Outsourcing Airline Maintenance

left the airline industry financially devastated, with airlines losing $8 billion last year alone, according to the Air Transport ...

Pros and Cons of Transportation's 5 Modes

that as people attain an increased amount of affluence the more they choose to live in areas with a lower population density; ofte...

How A Civil Action Demonstrates a Need for Social Action

1998, p. 67). The case is not anything new. It is based on a true situation and there are other cases of cancer clusters being tie...

South Africa Trip Planning

flights and other options are two stops ("Orbitz," 2005). A student writing on this subject should note that when planning a trip ...

Child with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Nursing Theory Application Assessment

In Ten pages this paper discusses a child afflicted with ALL and a possible treatment plan that would provide successful patient a...

An Ethical Dilemma Situation in Nursing

In two pages this paper discusses how a nurse should handle the emotional involvement of treating a terminally ill child and how t...

Overview of Preterm Labor Treatment and the Role of an OB Nurse

at high risk for preterm labor would have the effect of reducing preterm labor rates; this has not been the case. Studies in Franc...

Death and Coping

In six pages the role of nurses in the patient process of dying is considered in two scenario types that also involves caring for ...

Nursing Case Mgmt./Asthma

this condition. If the student does not have asthma, the student may feel motivated to help this population because of he/she rea...

Skills Needed by a Forensic Nurse

McAndrew, 2006). With communication skills there are includes skills of listening as well as tact as essential to facilitate effec...

Nurse/Patient Ratios/Not One Size Fits All

assisting registered nurses (RNs) in order to meet legislated requirements (Schaefer 9). This means that while RNs have fewer pati...

Roy’s Adaptation Model: A Case Study

particular condition because he at least is aware of his condition. About one-half of those with this disease are not as fortunat...

Fall Prevention in the Elderly in Home Care

percent of that total population lose their ability to walk (Tonarelli, 2010). Hip injuries and falls of any kind can reduce the ...

Roy’s Adaptation Model & Cardiac Care

As described by Araich (2001), four nursing strategies effectively summarize how a critical care nurse can use the RAM to aid a ca...

Nurse Staffing Ratios

system," since the institution of mandated nursing ratios, and also that data shows California hospitals have not only been able t...

Patient’s Possessions & Cultural Competency

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

Rural & Remote Nursing in Australia

seek the same health goals for clients as in mainstream nursing, nurses in remote locations often cope with problems and obstacles...

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...