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Teaching Using the SEI Approach

ELLs receive a minimum of four hours of daily instruction in English language development, that is, not simply instruction in Engl...

Comparing Mission and Philosophy Statements in regards to Nursing

from those of education- focused institutions, when the institution in question is a nursing school, there are similarities, as we...

Mandatory Nurse-to-Patient Ratios

the American healthcare system, the debate concerning whether or not states should implement mandated nurse-to-patient ratios rema...

Need for Cultural Competent Care

quite frequently, they are seldom defined specifically, yet both terms hold significant importance in terms of their relevance to ...

Technlogy in Nursing

Advances in technology have changed everything from how patients are diagnosed to acute care to managing chronic illnesses. Techno...

Mentoring a Student Nurse

as relating information to patients families. Pugh relates that just thinking about this task made her anxious; however, the staff...

Nurses' Use of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication

nurses regarding physical touch, found that these study participants used touch as a therapeutic form of nonverbal communication, ...

Education Issues Related to Three Essays

to intimidation over rental agrees, not being able to pay bills by mail, and being intimidated by virtually everyone else in socie...

Patient Advocacy, A Concept Analysis

as a central tenet to professional practice (Hanks, 2010). Both the American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics and the Code ...

Violating Nursing Protocol

illustrates how she ignored the potential for causing harm when she increased the patients drugs; only after the medication had be...

Nurse/Patient Ratios/Not One Size Fits All

assisting registered nurses (RNs) in order to meet legislated requirements (Schaefer 9). This means that while RNs have fewer pati...

Article Critique/Effects of Remembering/Nursing Home Residents

the study intervention. Also, as yet, Cook is not clear about the purposes, aims or goals of the study. Literature Review While ...

Clinical Nurse Leaders/Are They Needed?

(Webber). This does sound extremely similar to the way in which the AACN defines the CNL role. In some hospitals, nurse practiti...

Case Scenario/Alcohol Abuse

"chronic, heavy drinking" (Enoch and Goldman, 2002, p. 192). According to government standards, a woman is at-risk for heavy drink...

Jung & Maslow On Religion

personal unconscious, there is also "an infinitely more important collective unconscious" (Connolly 151). This refers to a "repos...

Nursing Case Mgmt./Asthma

this condition. If the student does not have asthma, the student may feel motivated to help this population because of he/she rea...

Leininger's Culture Care Nursing Theory

caring; 2. every human culture has lay (generic, folk or indigenous) care knowledge and practices and usually some professional ca...

Teaching About STIs to Young Teens

discuss and name the various methods for preventing the transmissions of STIs; and also, they will demonstrate ability to resist p...

Nursing Unions

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

Study Guide/Oedipus the King & Darker Face of the Earth

this writer/tutor encourages the student to reread the play, noting passages that support the chosen theme. While certainly study ...

Nurse Staffing Ratios

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Statistics in Two Articles

results are reliable and representative (Curwin and Slater, 1996). The first is the profiling of the samples to show that they are...

Nurses & Liability Insurance

to a patient over the phone and trying to convey the urgency of that patient coming in for a consultation. The patient resists, so...

Implementing Care Following Leininger’s Theory

meals to all Orthodox Jewish patients should be investigated by hospital administrators if they are not already in place. Furtherm...