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Appendicitis Diagnosis and Computerized Tomography Scans

prior to patient/surgeon consultation (Lee, Walsh, and Ho, 2001). In reality, such approaches are limited given that the most acc...

Getting the Teenage Diabetic Patient to Comply

One of the main problems with teenage diabetes patients is getting the patient to comply with the diet and medication regimen. Thi...

Patient Teaching Plan on Diabetes and the Internet

In five pages this paper examines how the Internet can be used as a tool to teach patients how to manage the disease diabetes....

Discussion of Change Theories for Specific Field

The paper begins by briefly identifying and explaining three of the standard change theory/models. The stages of each are named. T...

Nursing Shortage In The United States: Causes, Effects And Solutions

Budget cutbacks, burnout and lack of student enrollment have precluded sufficient staffing in many critical areas of healthcare. ...

Contemporary Nursing Ethics

this development and left orders for both analgesia and sedation, which helped at first, but became less effective as the hours pa...

Herbal Medicine/What Nurses Should Know

not as drugs, which means that these remedies do not undergo the rigorous testing that is required for prescription medicines (He...

Health Care: Ethical Dilemma

HIV-positive nurses being a threat to patients and other health care workers. Research clearly supports the reality of the situat...

Clinical Supervision of Nurses in the NHS; Professional, Legal and Ethical Perspectives

nursing supervision is to provide support for nurse practitioner in a range of issues, developing their own identity as well as sk...

Performance Management through Clinical Supervision of Nurses in the NHS; Professional, Legal and Ethical Perspectives

Furthermore they state that is a strategic approach which relates to all aspects of an organization within the context the culture...

Families Should Decide Own Health Goals

to individuals connected by a blood tie. However, to be a "family," members must "live in close contact, care for one another, an...

Philosophy of Nursing and Future Plans

for my patients. Personal philosophy of nursing: Tourville and Ingalls (2003) offer a fascinating and very apt analogy to descri...

Advanced Practice Nursing/Legal Requirements in Tennessee

recognized categories for APNs within this state (TBoN, 2006). The scope of practice for Tennessee APNs includes the legal abili...

Quality Improvement/Pressure Ulcers

a "collaborative quality improvement project" that focuses on PUs in nursing homes as its primary focus (Lynn, et al, 2007). QIOs,...

Caring in Nursing Theory

paternalistic approach that has been favored by physicians. Watsons theory stresses nurses should "honor anothers becoming, autono...

Interview With Nurse CEO

A very large meta-analysis was performed by the American Library Association in 2007 to determine the most important traits for an...

Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing

management dilemma" and is written by Orly Toren and Nurith Wagner. The authors discuss different ethical dilemmas nurse face dail...

Nursing Image

reality of the profession. It needs a makeover much as it had in the 19th century in Brittan when nursing reformers struggled to h...

Reviewing the Literature on OBRA 87 and Care Quality

to increase the quality of care given in long term care facilities in the country, in order to ultimate reduce health care costs t...

Roy Model and Infection Control

the medical team with which these patients have surrounded themselves. It is the patients responsibility to cooperate and do ever...

MEDITECH Hospital Information System

or reject MEDITECHs suggestions as they see fit. Whether users accept or reject the suggestions made by MEDITECH, care prov...

General Medical Services Contract, National Health Service, and Practice Nursing

practitioner surgeries are run by practice nurses, only making referrals to other members of the healthcare team when required, Th...

Improving Management at Shannondale

economic positions (McGinn and Murr, 2006). All of this development in the past several years has led to a restatement of Shannon...

Method Analysis in 'Analyzing Hospital Readmissions Using Statewide Discharge Databases'

the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

Increased Quality While Decreasing Costs in Nursing

in higher costs and reduced perceived quality of care. Hypotheses The purpose of the proposed study is to determine the eff...

Review of an Article on Nursing Research

to examine whether womens social roles mediate the impact of heart surgery on their psychological well-being" (Plach and Heidrich,...

Agency & Traveling RNs

(Green, 2004a). A travel nurse, on the other hand, is typically contracted to work a 13-week period, and this usually includes an ...

Impact of HIV/AIDS on Nursing

noted that cases of a rare lung infection, pneumocystis carinni pneumonia, had occurred in Los Angeles and also that three young m...

Annotated Bibliography/Nursing Shortage & Foreign Recruitment

A pertinent issue to foreign nurse recruitment, as a method for alleviating the shortage of nurses in US hospitals, is the number ...

Images of Nursing

when nurses are needed the most, which is when we are ill (line 12). This is when "Nurses come through, with their care and goodwi...