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The Continuing Evolution of Advanced Practice Nursing

absolute separation of duties and artificial formality intended to preserve hierarchy in attitude as well as fact. Physicians pro...

Nursing Practice and Classical Virtues

various formal, stated ethics codes of nursing associations; nurse education programs; health care organizations; and certainly he...

Reminiscence Therapy Research and Reflection

in her favorite chair alone with her memories is something that those remaining behind will never know. Chosen Issue: Reminiscenc...

Healing Wounds and the Role of Nutrition

placement of polyvinyl alcohol sponges into subcutaneous pockets" (p. 7). Each of the rats were "given a nutritional solution con...

Nursing Practice Improvement and Qualitative Research's Importance

on Nursing" in 1860 which not only documented basic concepts of nursing care but also included basic research strategies such as o...

Floating RN Practice

nurse refused and was subsequently fired. The court ruled in favor of the nurse and found that the Beloit Memorial had wrongfully...

Nursing Practice and Atherosclerosis

1997). It is generally believed that atherosclerosis results from a combination of factors, which include: hemodynamic stress (hyp...

Immobility and Nursing Practice

In six pages this paper examines nursing practice through a definition, literature review, and implications of immobility. Five s...

Goals and Mental Health Nursing

Frank seems reluctant to leave. Realizing that Frank needs to be met on a different level, Susan switches back to the "Be-with" mo...

Reduction of Infection Spread and Nursing

is still those are very disturbing numbers when one considers that the problem may be eliminated to some degree by the simple task...

Uncertainty in Illness Theory/Merle H. Mishel

Intervention using Mishels theory facilitates the process of patients accepting the inevitability of uncertainty as a factor in th...

Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing: An Annotated Bibliography

staff that can result in moral stress or stress of conscience (Fry, Hurly & Foley, 2002). Because unresolved ethical issues can ...

Preceptorship in Nursing

to do with how a person feels about him- or herself. Those with a high sense of self-efficacy believe that they can master even di...

A Nursing Case

Both of these individuals have limited education. Ms. A. graduated from high school but Mr. B. did not, and dropped out at the en...

Christian Beliefs in Nursing

beliefs and worldview of the nurse. Salladay (2006) in her review of A Christian Vision of Nursing Practice by Mary M. Doornbos,...

Chain of Command in Nursing

risk. For example, Mahlmeister (1996) relates a pediatric situation in which a night nurse in a small hospital was expected to wor...

Comfort/A Nursing Concept Analysis

sorrow; (b) relief from distress; (c) a person or thing that comforts; (d) a state of ease and quiet enjoyment, free from worry; (...

Cunningham's The Hours/Implications for Healthcare

not only relates to the societal restrictions with which women had to contend in regards to their expected societal roles, but it ...

Qualitative Studies/What are they good for?

Baumann, et al, in 1995, which was purely qualitative. The point is that through qualitative research, data was provided that can ...

EBP Barriers

the following: In my practice setting, a major barrier against using EBP is that it takes an inordinate amount of time. This is...

Improving Human Resources in Health Care

The vision is to be a leader in providing high quality health care services. Their values include a customer-focus and to exceed t...

Evidenced-Based Nursing

practice. Research reveals best practices and these will improve nursing practice. For example, nurses knew that people coming out...

Nursing research/WICHE, CURN and Stetler

to bridge the gap between nursing research and nursing practice, two formal program efforts were undertaken: the Western Interstat...

Family Presence at Resuscitation

(2005), in which samples of patients or patients families were enrolled. In a study in which the sample participants had lost a lo...

Women's Health Nurse Practitioner

"infertility, cardiovascular health, oncology, geriatrics, endocrinology, uro-gynecology, bone health and high-risk pregnancy" (Ke...

Critique of Nursing Articles

once again examines how nurses can be empowered, and learn those values in college. Finally, Ann Gallagher discusses dignity with ...

Article Critique/Cardiac Rehab Nursing

were contributing to the "toxic" work environment, which characterized this CSDU, as there was "evidence of a lack of meaningful c...

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...

Medicare, Part D

to the medications needed to ensure their health. Beginning in 2004, Medicare began to offer aid, $600 a year, for covering the co...

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...