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Roy’s Adaptation Model & Cardiac Care

As described by Araich (2001), four nursing strategies effectively summarize how a critical care nurse can use the RAM to aid a ca...

Nurses and Drug Abuse

have access to a range of drugs. Bennett (et al, 2000) argues that the overall rate of substance abuse in the nursing popualtion r...

Magnet Status and Evidence-Based Practice

official entity until 1993. Today it addresses an array of nursing issues. The goals of the program are: * "Promoting quality in...

Self Analysis

that I wanted to make a difference in peoples lives as well. But while my people skills are excellent and I am sure that I can e...

Concept Analysis/Acute Pain

factors" (Hader and Guy, 2004, p. 21). The international Association for the Study of Pain and the American Pain Society define pa...

Patient’s Possessions & Cultural Competency

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

Non-punitive Nursing Culture/Medical Errors

2004). As errors are inevitable, in order to significantly reduce the rate at which they occur, it is imperative that mistakes sho...

Nursing Unions

cardiac monitor, a seizure, drug reaction or other sign of a critical condition...(They) are expected to fill out reports" that we...

Nurse Staffing Ratios

system," since the institution of mandated nursing ratios, and also that data shows California hospitals have not only been able t...

Article Analysis/Urinary Incontinence Study

the prevalence of UI was high in this region of the country and particularly high among African Americans in two of the states, wh...

Ladies & Gentlemen of the Jury, I Present…the Nursing Documentation

was breached," the third is to prove that there was an injury incurred by the patient and the fourth must prove that this "injury ...

The Kidneys and Renal Failure

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

Certifying an Older Driver

drivers" than do states that do not require test automatic testing (Murden and Unroe, 2005, p. 22). Most states do set standards f...

Pets in the Nursing Home: A Program Proposal

The following are research questions that could be asked of staff members regarding whether the program is needed: * Are there pat...

Erikson Stage 8 : Integrity Vs Despair

Integrity in this sense is about wholeness as opposed to how we often use the term (to mean honesty) (Johansson, 2002). It is abou...

Foot Fatigue in Nurses: A Theoretical Framework for Change

feet. Based on the assertion that nurses fall into this category of workers who spend long periods of time on their feet, this st...

Coping Strategies & Influences on Student Nurse

study intervention that addresses strategies for helping student nurses cope with high levels of stress. This studys findings stre...

Foot Fatigue in Nurses: A Research Proposal

injuries as common occurrences in high-impact occupations (HSS, 2007). Musculoskeletal fatigue, caused by repetitive strain or i...

Avoiding Restraint and Seclusion

design. It is "not grounded in research that supports the therapeutic efficacy of this intervention, but upon the observation tha...

A Concept Diagram

fatigue is related to functional state. Older patients are more likely to have persistent pain, to experience less relief from an...

Wellness & Nutrition for Healthy Aging

p. 364). Due to the fact that eating behaviors tend to be established by early experience, it is important for healthy eating habi...

Obesity Community Health Intervention

factor in childhood obesity is the fact that television viewing tends to be accompanied by the consumption of high-calorie, high s...

Emergency Nurses Association

trends. This peer-reviewed journal also offers its readership a forum for sharing their experiences with their peers, as well as l...

Czech Immigrants & Nursing

2001, p. 24). While the ancestors of many Americans of Czech extraction came to the US in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries...

Non-Clinical Director Functions

properly, nursing staff is highly aware of this lack. Research into nursing staff retention has found that the quality of housekee...

Mental Health of Returning Soldiers

need of treatment following tours in Rwanda, the Balkans and Somalia" (Auld). Mental health problems in regards to soldiers retu...

Admissions Essay to the FNP Program at UCLA

program will foster my highest level of achievement and help me focus on both the immediacy of my educational process and the deve...

Improving Management at Shannondale

economic positions (McGinn and Murr, 2006). All of this development in the past several years has led to a restatement of Shannon...

Low Anterior Sigmoid Resection

and Cox, 2001; p. 375). The ascending colon, which is approximately six inches long, extends upward to the hepatic flexure....

Culturally Competent Nursing Strategies

care is to formulate a health care system and workforce that possesses the skill and understanding required to deliver quality hea...