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Effective Nursing Leadership, Management

power, found that where nurses report that power when is shared, there are corresponding improvements in the nursing/physician rel...

Staff Shortages and UAPs

Literature on this topic indicates that RNs are hesitant in delegating tasks primarily because they are uncertain of the qualific...

ER Application of the Self Care Deficit Theory Developed by Dorothea Orem

Emergency rooms are, at least in many cases, the primary health care provider to the underinsured and uninsured patient (Isenstein...

Synchronous and Dichotomous Concepts of Empowerment and Advocacy

and empowerment must be mutually exclusive. Falk (1995) describes empowerment as a more contemporary concept than advocacy, and...

Overview of Stress in Patients

In nine pages this paper examines causes, symptoms, and results of patient stress in a nursing overview that includes the servant ...

Overview of Haddon's Matrix

"Many changes in health care yesterday, have major unforeseen consequences today. While it is easy to predict results with the be...

Hospitals and Nursing

Issues pertinent to these five elements include conceptual framework, scope of practice, policy implications and support of social...

Nursing and Self Care Wound Instruction

In six pages this tutorial presents information on how to create a nursing instruction plan for how wounds can be self treated. F...

Nursing Philosophies of Betty Newman and Jean Watson

their roles. As a result, there is a need to temper the actions of the nurse in the carative environment with a recognition of th...

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 and Ethics

quality of a patients life, (4) implementing managed care policies that threaten quality of care, and (5) working with unethical/i...

Nursing Degrees and Associate versus Bachelor

In a paper consisting of six pages the argument is presented that nurses should be paid not on their level of education but rather...

2 Journal Articles on Hypertension Reviewed

insight regarding the details of their normal everyday life and health concerns. Boutain sets the stage by reporting that one in...

Possible Barriers for MSN Pursuit by Registered Nurses

nurses considering returning to school for a Masters of Science in Nursing (MSN), the perceived barriers include issues directly r...

Nursing Intervention and Munchausen by Proxy

the condition. More frequently it is the healthcare system which is both exposed to the condition and thus responsible for detect...

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...

Hospital Standard Care and Manual Handling Policy

long been an integral component to the standard of care provided at hospitals, nursing homes, home care and other situations where...

Advance Practice Nursing and Postgraduate Degrees

current literature, which includes existing nursing journals and the WEB sites conducted by the American Association of Nurses and...

Nurses and Their Leadership Skills

In eight pages this paper examines the skills that are necessary for nurse to exert effective leadership. Seven sources are cited...

Article on Nurse Staffing

In five pages a 2001 article by Sarah Jo Brown on the relationship between patient outcomes and nurse staffing according to a stud...

Nurse Educator's Involvement in International Normalized Ratio Stability

laboratory specialists to obtain the appropriate level of anticoagulation independent of related laboratory reagents. Because the...

Senior Citizens Care and the Impact of Local Policies and Global Health Issues

In thirty pages this paper discusses elderly care in a discussion of nursing, holistic care, communications, and local policies, a...

Nursing Organization Leadership Approaches

without distinct criticisms of this kind of choice regarding the quality of care. As a result, many hospitals have turned to the...

Nurses and Violence in the Workplace

Review Before focusing specifically on the impact of workplace violence on nurses, there are certain basic facts that should be u...

Patient Outcomes, Organizational Factors, and Nursing Competency

to insure that nurses continually perform their duties in the most competent and constructive manner (Cain, 2001). The establishm...

Nursing and Congestive Heart Failure

In addition, among hospitalized patients over 65, CHF is the leading hospital admission diagnosis. In 1988 alone, it accounted fo...

Nursing Homes and Ethical Issues

blatant display of irreverence, with some of the worst infractions found within the health care industry. The cramped, dark and u...

Domestic Violence and Community Health Nursing

domestic violence is to, first of all, screen for domestic violence with all injured patients. When screening for abuse, Flitcraft...

Cultural Mores and Nursing

view of medicine in order to better help the indigenous population on which she is called to serve. Before launching any p...

Patient Harassment of Nurses

had even been stalked by patients (Global Forum for Health Research, 2000). A major study in Australia found that there is a sign...