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well with Watsons care model. Watson has seven assumptions, the first is that care is demonstrated in an interpersonal level (Geor...

looking at a potential scenario where a patient seeks the provision of narcotics with the intention of ending their life the nurse...

nurses by 2012 to eliminate the shortage (Rosseter, 2009). By 2020, the District of Columbia along with at least 44 states will ha...

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

The writer presents a proposal to support a plan for setting up and running a nursing agency, providing nursing and other healthca...

This research paper presents an examination of nursing empirical literature that covers a number of issues relevant to advanced pr...

using similar tests and with mixed variables such as aromatherapy and hypnosis. All of the studies mentioned concluded that massag...

are licensed individuals who go through at least one year of formal education in addition to clinical instruction, and the focus o...

This essay gives an overview of why mandatory overtime for nursing staff is a significant issue that as the potential to harm pati...

The United States has become more and more diverse over the last four decades and that diversity continues to expand. Different cu...

There are more than 40 million smokers in the United States. Of those who try quitting through groups, patches, or gum, very few s...

This research paper pertains to actions that nurses undertake to aid heart failure patients in regards to self-care management. Th...

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

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

must have at least some knowledge of the topic of discussion beforehand, or the discussion can disintegrate into an exercise in "p...

to take insulin only when his blood glucose level was above the value established by his physician. The nurse laid out all ...

formulation with others, testing new behaviors, integrating this learning into "new, more satisfying behavior, and then using thes...

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

is 130% of ideal bodyweight5. There are also other hidden costs that are often ignored in terms of the cost and benefit of smokin...

to the wide-ranging aspect of nursing than merely administering medicine; in fact, the myriad components that ultimately comprise ...

intervention protocols. In particular, this model has been utilized to consider the way in which health professionals address beh...

of a unified health care organization that included both Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH...

influential resource and is a resource in which the patient will rely. Ethics Issues In this paper the treatment of a pati...

autistic children (Sallows and Graupner, 2005). In Sallows and Graupner (2005), 48 percent of the group were enrolled and perfor...

secretary, should leave the ward when there were fewer than three children on the unit and work a second adult unit as well. He wa...

in which nurses had to request perceptions for certain types of dressing was a waste of time and resources, which in turn impacted...

the inclination is to treat the dying patient with as little emotion as possible, so as not to suffer emotionally as well, many nu...

patient was in a significant amount of pain, he made jokes throughout his entire stay, as family members remained at his bedside. ...

of the patients in a single unit will be assigned to one RN; the other half will be assigned to another. Another will be availabl...

several years. Psychologically, it has been found that individuals more actively involved with their own health care often fare m...