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Family Values/ICU Environment

and the church" and encompasses "spirituality, social support, and traditional, non-biomedical health and healing practices," whic...

Discharge Instructions, Heart Patients

planning evaluation to those patients, conducted or overseen by a registered nurse, social worker or other appropriately qualified...

Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP)

factors that have been identified include "diabetes, alcoholism, malnutrition, history of antibiotic or corticosteroid use, decrea...

Nurse's Role : Patient Smoking Cessation

with clear results provided. Quantitative and Discussion articles needed to present information that directly addresses the purpos...

The Nurse Educator, Postprostatectomy Patients and Informative Websites

Dr. McCullough is "Director of the Sexual Health and Male Fertility and Microsurgery Programs at New York University School of Med...

Nursing Caring Theory

This essay focuses on Watson's nursing theory of caring. It reports and explains the meta-paradigms, caratives, and how nurses dev...

EBP from Three Perspectives

This essay provides a student with a hypothetical guide to discussing interviews with RN, a nurse practitioner and a patient conce...

Best Practice in Ensuring Infected Wound Healing

potential for long term physiological complications as well as long-term emotional impacts. Not only does the type of care needed...

Theories of Peplau and Orem in Patient Assessment

In this paper consisting of seven pages the importance of adequately assessing patient needs is discussed by examining the theorie...

Conflicting Ethics, Euthanasia, and Nursing

In eight pages this essay discusses the ethical conflict between a patient's 'right to die' and the Nurse's Code. Five sources ar...

Mandatory Staffing Ratios

between those who supported mandatory staffing ratios, based on research such as the study conducted by Linda Aiken, and the stanc...

Continuing Education for the Healthcare Professional

Continuing education is a universal requirement for professionals in the healthcare industry. This paper presents a lesson plan on...

Nursing in Great Britain, Clinical Supervision

patient care" (p. 438). Prior to 1970, nursing training in the UK could be described as rigid and highly structured. After...

Registered Nurse's Hospital Role

several years. Psychologically, it has been found that individuals more actively involved with their own health care often fare m...

Instructional Approaches Assessed

must have at least some knowledge of the topic of discussion beforehand, or the discussion can disintegrate into an exercise in "p...

Conceptual, Philosophical, Legal And Ethical Foundations And Processes Inherent To Professional Nursing Practice

there a time when an individuals interests supersede those of the masses? These are ethical questions posed each and everyday thr...

Nurse Patient Ratios in Patient Safety, The California Law

This nursing practicum proposal focuses on the mandated nurse-to-patient ratios that have been implemented in California. The writ...

Medical Coders

Building on the work of William Farr, Jacques Bertillon, the chief statistician for the city of Paris, devised a revised classific...

California Medical Law Case

the patient (Overview of California Civil Lawsuit Filing Procedures, n.d.). This restriction may or may not apply in Dr. Sanders ...

Patient Education That Are Both Successful and Unsuccessful

of her post-polio syndrome left her unable to completely void her urine, which in turn led to the development of further UTIs. Da...

Nursing: Article Reviews

some determining the study was inconclusive, others saying certain interventions should be made universal and still others stating...

Restraint Uses in Psychiatric Nursing

Yet both organizations also observe that, sometimes, it is necessary to use seclusion and restraint, as a last resort, in order to...

Families and Therapeutic Goals Regarding Autism

"syndrome of behavioral deficits and excesses that have a biological basis but are nonetheless amenable to change through carefull...

The Kidneys and Renal Failure

"three important hormones: erythropoietin ... or EPO, which stimulates the bone marrow to make red blood cells; renin, which regul...

How Can Doctors Get Patients to Comply?

who "cheats" on his diet (1994). Doctors merely expect patients to comply with their dictums but this author says that some like S...

Setting Boundaries in the Therapeutic Relationship

welfare must be protected at a premium. If our definition of boundary violations, however, overlap our standard practices a dilem...

Case Study of Patient Evaluation

The following are the five DSM-IV-TR Diagnoses based on the DSM Five-Axis determinations: Axis I: Alcohol dependence...

Critical Incident Analysis in Nurse Management

and certainly health care facilities. In essence, the minimum requirements of nursing dictate that: * the nurse remain cognizant ...

Nursing Home Admissions' Perception versus Reality

to a nursing facility, it should also be understood that each situation is unique. When both the family members and the staff of t...

Elderly Citizens and Considerations for Community Health Care

the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the economics of elder care. The stakeholders in this...