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Advocacy and Caring in Nursing

The link between nurse caring and patient satisfaction has been reported numerous times. For instance, the AORN journal reported a...

Depression and Pain Relationship and Chi Square Test Assessment

analysis. Making use of a sample of 100 patients, the test group is made up of 60 depressed patients with reflex sympathetic dystr...

Health and Gender Inequality

2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...

Software Development and Ethics

desire to increase revenue to allow further development and facilitate increased benefits to the users. The errors may not be as s...

Medical Doctors and Nurse Practitioners Conflict Management

the elderly. The Nurse Practitioner announced in its July 2000 issue that reports of the AMAs petition had been received as...

Nursing and Family's Role

caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...

Study on Health Status and Participation Critiqued

evaluating information (including assumptions and evidence) related to the issue, considering alternatives ... and drawing conclus...

A Needs Assessment for Diabetes Education in New York City

provide the physician interface. Beyond these duties are the operational and administrative duties required in this type of facil...

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...

A Lesson Plan For Diabetes Education

routine activities necessary to their own care. The purpose is that with a nurses direction, encouragement and initial supervisio...

Adolescent Type I Diabetes Care Plan

much sugar remains in the blood and too little energy is transferred to other cells. The diabetic needs to take externally adminis...

Quality of Life and the Role of Nursing

Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...

Theoretical Comparison of Hildgard Peplau and Dorothea Orem on Self Care Deficit

In seven pages this paper compares the self care deficit health care theories of Peplau and Orem in terms of similarities regardin...

Causes and Interventions Regarding Coronary Artery Disease

In twelve pages coronary artery disease is examined in terms of causes, approaches, and methods of intervention, discussing causat...

An Examination of Selective Immunoglobulin Isotype Deficiencies and Agammaglobulinaemia

were widely available, many children affected with XLA did not live through their first decade. The less common alymphocytotic ty...

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner's Role

In twelve pages this paper examines the pediatric nurse practitioner's role and how they are effective responses to patient needs....

Cultural Considerations and Nursing

In five pages this paper discusses how patient culture is an important consideration in the nursing field. Six sources are cited ...

Senior Citizens with Heart Problems and the Transitional Care Nursing Model

has left the facility and has gone home to the comforts of home in order to spend the last days, weeks or months of their life in ...

Nursing's Legal Issues

In ten pages this paper considers a legal brief's argument regarding nurse participation in patient deprivation of water and food ...

Fidelity, Fiduciary, and Managed Health Care

their doctors fidelity and integrity to put their medical needs ahead of the doctors financial interests. "The most significant s...

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...

In Home Cancer Treatment

In a paper consisting of six pages the growing trend towards treating cancer patients at home rather than at a medical facility is...

DNR Orders and Medical Ethics

In six pages this report considers medical ethics and the impact of 'do not resuscitate' orders upon patients, their families, the...

Critical Concepts in the Hospital Environment

Decision-making, critical thinking and advocacy are all important in the modern hospital experience. This paper examines a patient...

Overview of the Evaluation and Quality Improvement Program by the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards

of standards with sets of criteria that must achieved. Standards related to information management span the operations of the orga...

Article on Bypass Surgery Critiqued

which resulted in 47 practices taking part and two of these having two patients. The sample : 98 (75 male) consecutive patients w...

Balance of Philosophy and Nursing Values

not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely woul...

Right to Die Defense

and the bitterness on both sides of that unfortunate incident have brought the debate about the right-to-die to the fore. Ironi...

Kolcaba and Holistic Care

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

Outpatient Surgery and Risk

(Outpatient Surgical Centers, 2005). Surgeons generally are not part of the staff, but the centers employ all other positions req...