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Research on Nursing Leadership

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

Proposed Legislation Patient Safety Act of 2004

legal errors (Fackelmann, 2002). Furthermore, the AMA study demonstrated that there is a direct statistical connection between th...

Depression, Pain, and Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy

with "depression, sleep disturbance, fatigue, and decreased overall physical and mental functioning" (Hearn, 2001). Problem Stat...

Nursing Injuries' Problem Resolution

provided. A nurse who has back pain will likely reduce the care he or she could otherwise administer. When people have back or m...

Nursing Homes and Senior Citizen Infections

In eight pages this research paper discusses the serious problem of controlling senior citizen infection in a nursing home setting...

Proposal Regarding Nursing Homes and Elder Incontinence

Medical Center, 2002). It is estimated that 13 to 18 million adults suffer from incontinence at some time or other (Mercy Medical...

Nursing Profession and Medication Errors

that nurse is guilty of doing something unethical. Nurses must impose a high standard of care in the office, hospital or home sett...

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...

A Nursing Ethical Dilemma Case Study

and the directives of the medical environment. For over two decades, for example, the health care industry has recognized a decli...

Nursing Homes and the Financial Crisis Confronting Them

nursing home chains. As a result, there have been a number of highly publicized defaults such as that of Integrated Health Service...

Temporary Agency Nurses' Accountability and Competence in a Hospital Setting

not only better oriented overall to do the job but who also would be paid enough to have an incentive to stay in the job or put ma...

Nursing Home Conflict and Resolution

44% involved strains and sprains, with most involving the back (Fragala 22). Of that number 10.5% of back injuries experienced in...

Literature Review on Turnovers in Nursing

In five pages this research paper examines the problems of nursing turnover in a consideration of a literature review on solutions...

FVSNs and School Nurses

time is spent in the nurses office. While nurses do not want to send away a student who could be suffering from a...

Nursing and Cultural Diversity with Regard to the Hispanic Community

In eight pages cultural diversity within the nursing profession is discussed within the context of the Hispanic community with 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...

Nurse Handoff Tools, Two New Instruments

This research paper discusses the problem of poor communication in regards to nursing handoff and describes two new tools to aid t...

Caregiver Burnout, Compassion Fatigue

This research paper presents an overview of literature on the topic of compassion fatigue and nursing burnout. The discussion cove...

Exploration Pedagogical Approaches For Nurse Education

This paper reports and discusses several teaching theories including behaviorist, cognitivist, constructivist. Bloom's taxonomy is...

Hispanic Youth, Obesity, and Research

This research paper pertains to three research studies, which pertain to overweight/obesity in Hispanic adolescents, and reports ...

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...

British Columbia and the Problems of Substance Abuse Among Canadian Youth

take to the streets rather than cope with abuse, violence or parental drug addiction. Also, as indicated above in regards to alcoh...

Australia's Shortages of Nurses

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

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...

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...

How To Come Out

if the individual discovers that he or she has thoughts and feelings that are "very basic and very strong" with regard to others o...

Legislation on Nursing Overtime

the risk of medical errors, such as dispensing the wrong medication or the wrong dose (Nursing overtime, 2004). The study, which w...

Nursing Shortage in Canada

US shortage has caused many healthcare institutions to look for nurses outside their countrys borders and many nurses are leaving ...