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Nursing Contracts

312). Various types of contracts characterize contemporary professional nursing. For example, due to the nursing staffing shorta...

H.R. 724/Nursing Education Act of 2009

back to Congress on the proposed legislation, either favorably or unfavorably (GovTrack, 2009b). They are first considered in the ...

Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act of 2009

which are factors that are likely to have a beneficial affect on the chronic nursing shortage that is currently affecting the heal...

Nursing in Louisiana

may leave and go to another area, therefore, wages also need to be set with other areas wages to be taken into consideration. In...

Cuckoo's Nest and Nursing Ethics

frees him from this indignity and travesty of life by smothering him with a pillow and then escapes from the asylum (One Flew, 199...

Nature of Humanity

A 3 page essay in which the writer offers a guide to writing about how a nurse's philosophy pertaining to the nature of humanity i...

Nursing Leadership

that the working environment of the scenario is lacking, as the two nurses who are moonlighting, if this accusation is true, may h...

Leadership, Management Experience in 2 Nursing Environments

indicated by Carter, census also frequently plays a vital role in this regard for nursing managers. Other factors that I considere...

Field of Nursing and Collective Bargaining

are getting calls from every part of the country every day. I am hearing from nurses that the working conditions are intolerable a...

Second World War and Changes to the Nursing Profession

base on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, officially bringing the United States into World War II. At the time of the surprise attack, howev...

Crimean War and Nightingale

is considered to have written the first nursing textbook, Notes on Nursing (OConnor, Robertson and Davidson). As this suggests, ...

Nurse Salaries

the politics found in hospitals and other environments (Reuters, 2008). Supply and demand is always a major driver of salaries in...

Diabetes Self-Management - Hispanic Patients

has always been about the development of autonomy, equality, social justice and democracy" (Mezirow, 1999). The transformative app...

Affordable Healthcare in Australia

can only be expected to escalate in the near future. Therefore, issues of affordability, in relation to equitable healthcare servi...

Nursing Professionalism

it is also something that people must essentially be trained for, go to school for, and seek out as a career, at least for much of...

Nursing Theorist Websites

in detail the theories of Betty Neuman, Madeleine Leininger and Callista Roy and, also, describe direct applications of each theor...

Writing Exercise: Autobiography

like an angel because she was so caring and helpful, and I couldnt get her, or nursing, out of my mind. I soon realized that nursi...

Nurse Migration

developing countries, while it alleviating the nursing shortage in the industrialized countries to a certain degree, is creating a...

Prevention of Problems and Physical Activity, Mobility

This paper presents nursing interventions that pertain to physical activity and how exercise can be employed in the prevention of ...

Kolcaba's Comfort Theory, A Classroom Situation

This research paper pertains to a nursing education classroom scenario in which the students are experiencing learning problems. T...

Australia's Shortages of Nurses

budget restraints. Nurses leave the profession because they are "distressed by being unable to provide quality nursing care, disgr...

Additional Nursing Schools Needed by Pennsylvania

currently has 9 major nursing schools, which include the University of Pennsylvania (one of the most renowned facilities in the Un...

Retention in Nursing and the Role of a Nursing Manager

support for the concept that effective leadership style is directly related to nursing job satisfaction (Kleinman, 2004a). These s...

Preventing Medication Error Change Project

for the precise coding of medication and, thereby, helps nurses avoid the common errors listed above (Woods and Doan-Johnson, 2002...

Fall Prevention in the Elderly in Home Care

percent of that total population lose their ability to walk (Tonarelli, 2010). Hip injuries and falls of any kind can reduce the ...

Substance Abuse in Nursing

Not only are the direct health impacts to the nurse deleterious, impaired nurses cannot meet their responsibility to provide top q...

Reducing Absenteeism/Nursing Home

have "little or no training in fundamental management skills" (Baer, 2006, p. 60). As well as absenteeism, problems with managemen...

U.S. Nursing Shortage

Roughly 50 percent of the current working nursing population will retire within the next 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). Adding...

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...

Research on Nursing Leadership

in those nursing homes that maintained adequate staffing, but beyond that, the administrative climate of the nursing home facility...