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Reviewing the Literature on OBRA 87 and Care Quality

to increase the quality of care given in long term care facilities in the country, in order to ultimate reduce health care costs t...

Significance of Information Literacy

found on the Internet is accurate. As researching a topic using a Web browser is simply a matter of using a handful of keywords, t...

Uncertainty in Illness Theory/Merle H. Mishel

Intervention using Mishels theory facilitates the process of patients accepting the inevitability of uncertainty as a factor in th...

Transactional and Transformational Nursing Leadership

of the department and the achievement of goals by motivating staff through the offer of rewards (Sellgren, Ekvall and Tomson, 2006...

Article Summary/Veenema (2008)

The American Red Cross, after an extensive peer review of the program, which was conducted in 2006, adopted Veenemas curriculum as...

Farming, An Occupational Health Assessment

population" (Nyman, Butterfield and Shreffler-Grant, 2009, p. 282). Description of farming: Farming is "more than a business; i...

THE WORKPLACE AND BREASTFEEDING

of choice and need are pitted against each other in the debate over breastfeeding in the workplace, the winner has historically fa...

Integrating Evidence-Based Practice/Professional Nursing

Among the challenges facing the integration of EBP into nursing behaviors is the idea that staff, which is clinically competent, a...

Nursing Research/IRB Application Process

This research paper offers an overview of the role that institutional review board approval has in regards to ethics and nursing r...

School Programs to Reduce Obesity

The same results were not seen for boys. Shaya and colleagues conducted a similar study in 2008. The results of the empirical re...

Shortage or Registered Nurses

have simply left the profession (Fox and Abrahamson, 2009). Buerhaus, Auerbach and Staiger (2009) reported that while there has b...

Transcultural Nursing

on a global level. Her background was anthropology, which focuses on groups in different areas of the world and it was this focus ...

An Analysis of Violence in the Field of Nursing

Accordingly, as many of those people lack the financial resources to pursue mental health counseling to cope with that anxiety, th...

The Purpose of Healthcare Organizations

and healthcare developments in this country. Many of these organizations have websites that provide information about the nature ...

Nursing Satisfaction on the Job

including Hayhurst et al. (2005) and Reineck & Furino (2005). The purpose of this study, though, is defined in relation to the re...

Nursing: A Review of Agency-Driven Support

health care depends not just upon knowledge of health care practices, but upon the successful business administration of clinics a...

Suggestions for a Clinical Journal Entry

to answer Mary or look at her. Mary continued to talk soothingly, rubbing Angelas back lightly as she did so. She talked about how...

Organizational Commitment in the Nursing Field

all intimately connected. The function of a leader, in part, is to ensure that an organization achieves its goals by means of meth...

Leadership Evolves Over Time

network that includes a hospital, reference laboratory, and home care agency. Numerous primary care and specialty physicians pract...

Patient Advocacy, A Concept Analysis

as a central tenet to professional practice (Hanks, 2010). Both the American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics and the Code ...

A Project for Nursing Administration

Introduction When patients experience cardiac arrest, the response of healthcare workers can have a significant impact on patient...

Adverse Effects to Antipsychotic Drugs

a fever, and a variety of other symptoms (Boyd, 2008). It is the variety of symptoms associated with NMS that become a significant...

Comparing Mission and Philosophy Statements in regards to Nursing

from those of education- focused institutions, when the institution in question is a nursing school, there are similarities, as we...

Florence Nightingale

disciplined and well-organized care. On returning to England, she visited the Institute of Protestant Deaconesses at Kaiserwerth, ...

Quality Indicators and Nurse/Patient Ratios

literature and also "analysis of ICD-9-CM codes," which were reviewed by a "clinician panel," offering specific IQs that address i...

Personal Essays

career involved his presence in the Civil Rights Movement. He was a President who seemed concerned about injustice in the nation. ...

Ethics in Nursing Discerning Child Abuse

a decision of having to decide on the basis of what is best for all concerned rather than what the patients family might think tha...

Cunningham's The Hours/Implications for Healthcare

not only relates to the societal restrictions with which women had to contend in regards to their expected societal roles, but it ...

Establishing Community Partnerships

is pooled together with the expertise and experience of others (Mutsambi, 2009). For example, a community health program for preve...

EBP Barriers

the following: In my practice setting, a major barrier against using EBP is that it takes an inordinate amount of time. This is...