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Method Analysis in 'Analyzing Hospital Readmissions Using Statewide Discharge Databases'

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

Films Saving Private Ryan and Gandhi, and the Alignment of Leadership

years, or so, and according to the Corporate Development Group (1999),providers of a leadership diagnostic system, the alignment ...

'Military Industrial Complex' Warning of Outgoing President Dwight Eisenhower

to physicians. Increasingly, "evidence-based guidelines are becoming codes of medical practice" (Healy, 2005; p. 54). Superficia...

Hospital Innovation Program Education Proposal

over their blood glucose levels; and (3) encouraging continuous improvement in nursing knowledge and patient education. The progr...

Nurse as an Agent of Change in Data Base Management

a nurses role as a change agent in data base management. Fonville, Killian, and Tranbarger (1998) note that successful nurses of ...

Nursing History and Theorists

couldnt get along without nurses any more than they could get along without mothers" (Garey et al, 1988, p. PG). II. VIRGINIA HEN...

Hand Washing and the Care of Patients

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

Pediatric Nursing and Secondhand Smoke

In ten pages this pediatric nursing issues focuses upon young children's health and the environmental effects of secondhand smoke....

The Decision Aspect of the Stetler Model of Research Analysis

train sufficient numbers of new nurses. Turnover is high among those who remain in the profession, and those so dissatisfied - an...

Practice Scope and Nursing Professionalism

(1999), research shows that the level of education reached by an RN contributes to a sense of professional autonomy and those nurs...

ANA as a Political Action Committee

a compulsory health insurance program for its elderly citizens (225). There are indications then that American circumstances, as ...

Philadelphia RNs and Sleep Deprivation

In five pages this paper discusses the problem Philadelphia registered nurses deal with regarding sleep deprivation resulting from...

A Family Practice Model for Advanced Nursing Practice and Grieving Parents

define what other mechanisms are brought into the healing process. For example, Gordon et al (2002) argue that depending on the v...

Nursing Diabetes Patient Education Internet Websites

on diabetes into categories and addresses these topics on separate web pages, as does the first site. The homepage explains that t...

Australian Nursing Council and Meningococcal Meningitis

The ANCI Competency Unit 4 demands that nurses accept accountability and responsibility for their actions in nursing. To do so we...

Holistic Nursing and Migraine Headaches

"significant anxiety, particularly before they discover the most effective symptom management" (Moloney, et al, 2001, p. 19). In o...

Dependency and Physical Changes of the Elderly

In five pages this research paper takes a nursing perspecitve regarding the elderly's physical changes and increased dependence th...

Overview of the NYSNA

Working for the well-staffed working environment in itself is no small task, given the fact of the ongoing nursing shortage. The ...

Kolcaba and Holistic Care

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

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...

Practice, Knowledge, and Nursing Theory's Role

The metaparadigms of nursing represent common concepts that are accepted throughout the profession and across international bounda...

Community and Patient Nursing Care and Meningococcal Meningitis

the disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...

Informed Consent and Nursing

that the doctrine of informed consent is "hopelessly flawed--or at least misguided," as it is often not possible to truly inform ...

'Con' Argument on Quotas in Nursing

Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...

Proposed Nursing Communication Project

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

Health Care System Problems and Theoretical Appications

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

Social Policy Statement of Nursing

the basic paradigms of nursing professional theory are considered within a social context. For example, health is defined as a "dy...

Training of Nursing Staff and Its Rationale

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

Nursing Shortage in Canada

considering this economic downturn, the numbers of undergraduates pursuing nursing careers began to also decline. In 1991, Canada ...

Carper's Four Patterns and Knowledge in Nursing

and administering medical attention. Their role is not just one which is concerned with medicine, but rather one that takes in all...