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Personal Philosophy of Nursing

attitude for science and the availability of educational opportunities, and the need for nurses in the job market, a the heart of ...

High Risk Family Assessment/Violence

education or less; little or not prenatal care; unlisted telephone number; low income; history of unemployment; current under or u...

Collaborative Practice

Additionally, at the completion of this study intervention, evaluation of results showed that the project also resulted in improve...

Family in Med/Surg Nursing

relationship or marriage (Darling, 2005). For example, a homosexual man suffering from HIV-related illness and receiving the inten...

Emergency Nurses Association

trends. This peer-reviewed journal also offers its readership a forum for sharing their experiences with their peers, as well as l...

Czech Immigrants & Nursing

2001, p. 24). While the ancestors of many Americans of Czech extraction came to the US in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries...

Homeless & Mental Illness/A Vulnerable Population

necessary health-related behaviors" required for meeting "ones therapeutic self-care demand (needs)" (Hurst, et al 2005, p. 11). U...

Non-Clinical Director Functions

properly, nursing staff is highly aware of this lack. Research into nursing staff retention has found that the quality of housekee...

Mental Health of Returning Soldiers

need of treatment following tours in Rwanda, the Balkans and Somalia" (Auld). Mental health problems in regards to soldiers retu...

Certifying an Older Driver

drivers" than do states that do not require test automatic testing (Murden and Unroe, 2005, p. 22). Most states do set standards f...

Culturally Competent Nursing Strategies

care is to formulate a health care system and workforce that possesses the skill and understanding required to deliver quality hea...

Article Critique/Nursing Home Patients

there is no cure either for Alzheimers disease or the various forms of dementia on the horizon, healthcare practitioners should "i...

Pediatric Asthma Case Management

an obstruction of the airway and can involved any or all of the following factors: "smooth muscle bronchoconstriction, mucous secr...

A Case Study

inexperienced teacher whose pedagogical approach to teaching is not geared to a fourth grade level. What are the different perspe...

Caring and the Nurse Practitioner

now regarded as a crucial and defining component of nursing, as caring defines "nursings unique area of practice and provides dire...

School Nursing and Disaster Planning

any incident that requires an increased level of response beyond the routine operating procedures" (NASN, 2006). Natural disasters...

Economics and Nursing

(Nellis and Parker, 2000). Elasticity Elasticity of a good is the measure that assess the impact that a change in price will have...

Nursing and Self-Care

and respond to patient authentically as individuals in the here-and-now moment may be the best way to prepare safe and effective c...

Nursing Personal Leadership Development Plan

and how discharge instructions should cover these contingencies. "Health" has historically been used to describe the "absence of d...

Obesity Community Health Intervention

factor in childhood obesity is the fact that television viewing tends to be accompanied by the consumption of high-calorie, high s...

Race Relations in Kankakee, Illinois

been brewing in Kankakee that is connected to a "personal matter" concerning Dr. Brian Ali, the Superintendent of Kankakee School ...

Wellness & Nutrition for Healthy Aging

p. 364). Due to the fact that eating behaviors tend to be established by early experience, it is important for healthy eating habi...

Asthma Medication/Xolair

events (Owen, 2007). This action includes "presentation of antigen by dendritic cells" as well as the "degranulation of mast cells...

Non-punitive Nursing Culture/Medical Errors

2004). As errors are inevitable, in order to significantly reduce the rate at which they occur, it is imperative that mistakes sho...

Nursing Shortage in New York State

Nursing (Webber, 2007). However, this is not a long-term solution. The long-term solution to achieving an adequate nursing force f...

Patient’s Possessions & Cultural Competency

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

Nursing Unions

cardiac monitor, a seizure, drug reaction or other sign of a critical condition...(They) are expected to fill out reports" that we...

Nurse Staffing Ratios

system," since the institution of mandated nursing ratios, and also that data shows California hospitals have not only been able t...

Music as a Nursing Intervention

the effect of music on preoperative anxiety and postoperative pain with a participant group that listened to "peaceful pan flute m...

Benner’s Novice to Expert Theory of Nursing

more on intuition and to "a hidden knowledge that is not so open to cognitive description" (Bradshaw, 1995, p. 83). In other words...