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Critical Modality of Humor

In three pages this research paper discusses how humor can be a modality that assists nurses in patient care as well as self care....

Palliative Care and the Theory of Dorothea Orem

patient to re-establish the self-care capacity. Orems model defines a "self-care deficit" as when a patients condition interferes ...

Cancer Patients and Nursing

that is, whether it will spread (metastasize) and what symptoms that it is likely to cause (Cancer diagnosis, 2005). The term "sec...

Overview of Critical Care Nurse Practitioner

a specialized body of knowledge, skills and experience that enables these nurses to offer a high standard of care to critically il...

Dorothea Orem and Florence Nightingale on Nursing Theories, Beliefs, and Values

prepared for this role" (McKenna, 1997, p. 87). Perhaps most significant of all was Florence Nightingales belief that env...

An Analysis on an Article About Caring and Science

lawyers, uncaring nurses and pedophile clergy is to cut back on scientific research--a tenuous conclusion at best. Where the art...

The Importance of Care In Nursing

the mountains in California, ride a horse in the Grand Canyon, volunteer in a cancer center, finish painting his house, attend his...

Kolcaba and Holistic Care

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

Psychiatric Nursing Alternatives

they visited, and some tended to visit fairly frequently (Demling et al, 2002). Patients in general were very positive about thei...

Overview of Jean Watson's Theory of Transpersonal Caring

a noun and a verb, is inextricably intertwined with nursing. Nurses provide care, that is, the actions necessary to attend to pati...

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. ...

Elder Neglect in Nursing Homes

be vulnerable to abuse or neglect for a variety of reasons and in a variety of situations, which range from home care to care in r...

Moral Distress and Futile Care

This research paper investigates the relationship between the provision of futile care and the development of moral distress among...

Relationship Teacher Preparation And Teacher Quality

(Education Encyclopedia, 2007). Training especially for teachers was initiated by St. John Baptist de la Salle in France in 1685 ...

Concept Mapping Versus Care Plans/A Proposed Study

the fever? Was it related to an infection in the surgical wound? Was the patient developing atelectasis and pneumonia? Or, was the...

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...

A Case Study of the Use of Collaborative Processes for a Woman with Multiple Comorbidities

points out that patients with comorbidities have additional needs that serve to increase the complexity of care. Various models of...

Managed Care Contracts

Wagner 35). It is also suggested that the practitioner should, of course, thoroughly read the contract, but also that practition...

Cultural Influences Exerted by the Life and Art of Robert Frost

other poets of the time by rejecting modernism. As this poem demonstrates, Frost frequently drew his imagery from nature. While m...

Nursing & Spiritual Care

much broader in its application. It is this broadness that allows nurses to reach across religious lines and distinctions. In a su...

Care Partners/RNs & PCTs

the supply by 2010 (Kleinman and Saccomano, 2006). Traditional nursing care models, such as primary nursing, are founded on the su...

Resource Dependency Theory, Contingency Theory and Core Technology

over a great deal with social exchange theory and the study of politics in the workplace (Huczyniski and Buchanan, 2003). The use ...

Legal Aspects of Home Day Care

It is left to regulatory agencies such as the DFPS to interpret the law, write regulations that are in accordance with the law and...

IT's Quality Culture

goals" (p. 41). The fact is not news to anyone working in IT project management, but its magnitude may be. At a time when busine...

Ostomy Wounds

diversion stoma (urostomy) allows urine to be passed through the stoma rather than the urethra (Kirkwood 20). Sometime stomas are ...

Pressure Ulcers/Changing Care

change and its rationale (which was based on the results of empirical research), implemented the change and then "supported the c...

Utilizing Electronic Patient Records Systems

pilot studies 1. Introduction The potential benefits of technology in the health industry are enormous. In the past the use ...

Health Outcomes in the Inner Cities

in 2001 (Griggs and Bazie, 2002). The median household income dropped across the board, including all racial-ethnic groups with t...

Islamic Women's Lives

Women had been treated as possessions of their husbands; Islamic law made the education of girls a sacred duty and gave women the ...

The Jewish 'Father' Abraham

Michalowski explains, "Each person also had an additional, personal god" (Szulc, 2001, p. 90). A close interaction with this pers...