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Healthcare and Continuous Quality Improvement

to produce better outcomes for patients and improve the conduct and performance of nurses and other health care employees on a dai...

Difficult Decision Making

as sadness. My Dad quickly smiled and patted me on the back, but in my heart I knew that my decision would forever change the cou...

Analysis of Costs of Decubitus Ulcers in Elder Care Facilities

Furthermore, if the ulcers end up in hospitalization, the nursing home is responsible for those costs as well. Even if the patient...

Critical Incident Analysis in Nurse Management

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

Single Mother's Economic Struggles

my divorce are better understood in relation the traditional concept of a nuclear family. The term "nuclear family" brings to min...

Nursing and the Caring Phenomena

on nurses increase (Cullen, 2003). Nevertheless, nurse educators and scholars stress that it is through recognition of caring as a...

The School Nurse and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

the educational setting, and considers the role of school nurses. At a time when an increasing number of students are receiving s...

Encouraging Continuation of Breast Feeding

for the infant for the first six months" (Moore et al., 1998; p. 36). Bearing this in mind we address those women who are perhaps ...

Developing a Plan for Nursing Education

other people. Whereas simulation is rehearsed, however, role playing is not. It requests that the learners take on the character...

Values and Professionalism in Nursing

that "People choose nursing for love, not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and...

Refugee Camps and the Application of Florence Nightingale's Environmental Theory

was well educated (Le Vasseur, 1998), from a family of wealth and yet held an unusual compassion for those less fortunate. She wa...

Ratio of Patients to Nurses

to the bill as did many nursing executives, arguing that there was sufficient legislation already on the books that dealt with sta...

Nursing Assistants and Multicultural Education

several problems with recent immigrants, however. These include language barriers, not having completed a GED, limited healthcare...

Politics and Nurses

(Political Power, 2002). The profession of nursing is no different from any other in this regard (Political Power, 2002). Qualit...

Nursing Value of Shared Governance and its Implementation

does know is what is involved in the job, and many of the permutations that one simple standard can take. There is protocol, then...

Emergency Nurse Triage and Education

being the most complete. Education in triage generally has not been complete at all, however (Crafter, Little and Ritchie, 2000)....

Cultural Assessment of Family Nursing

in education and work experience. 2. Boyfriends work sporadically. 3. Neither appears to consider the possibility of breaking the ...

Nursing and the Holism Concept

nursing practice and nurses are formally authorized from the society to touch their clients in the course of nursing activities. ...

Professional Dilemmas and Nursing Ethics

decisions. It is through our status as health care professionals that such a role is not only valued but critical. Nursing...

Comparison of Integrative, Quantitative, and Qualitative Research Designs

to be exclusionary in terms of acceptable methods and resulted in what Taylor called "the great fault of modern psychology ... tha...

5 Articles Summarized

method in Assisted Suicide: Is There A Future? Ethical And Nursing Considerations employed the use of hypothetical euthanasia case...

Role of Nurse Administrator

role has changed in nursing home facilities. Long gone are the days when a modern amount of nursing care and dietary supervision w...

Nurses, Patients, and Managed Care

as HMO, PPO, POS, EPO, PHO, IDS and AHP (IHA, 2002). This is creating a service that can be seen as dividing...

Value of Mentoring in the Nursing Profession

term. The rationale is that the experienced nurse will guide the new graduate into the active and applied portion of the pr...

Nursing Management Change Theory

incremental. It occurs in small steps, each of which are interspersed with a period of adjustment. This can be useful in staffin...

Hypertension Caused by Pregnancy

of pregnancies, pending on the population and the definitions used (Walker, 2000). Hypertension in pregnancy is typically classi...

Six Questions on Nursing Theory Models

general systems model serves as an example. Nursing research formerly was purely quantitative in design, and any qualitativ...

Nursing Homes and Ethical Issues

blatant display of irreverence, with some of the worst infractions found within the health care industry. The cramped, dark and u...

Domestic Violence and Community Health Nursing

domestic violence is to, first of all, screen for domestic violence with all injured patients. When screening for abuse, Flitcraft...

Cultural Mores and Nursing

view of medicine in order to better help the indigenous population on which she is called to serve. Before launching any p...