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Hospital Standard Care and Manual Handling Policy

long been an integral component to the standard of care provided at hospitals, nursing homes, home care and other situations where...

Article on Nurse Staffing

In five pages a 2001 article by Sarah Jo Brown on the relationship between patient outcomes and nurse staffing according to a stud...

Nurse Educator's Involvement in International Normalized Ratio Stability

laboratory specialists to obtain the appropriate level of anticoagulation independent of related laboratory reagents. Because the...

Nursing Degrees and Associate versus Bachelor

In a paper consisting of six pages the argument is presented that nurses should be paid not on their level of education but rather...

2 Journal Articles on Hypertension Reviewed

insight regarding the details of their normal everyday life and health concerns. Boutain sets the stage by reporting that one in...

Possible Barriers for MSN Pursuit by Registered Nurses

nurses considering returning to school for a Masters of Science in Nursing (MSN), the perceived barriers include issues directly r...

Nursing and Congestive Heart Failure

In addition, among hospitalized patients over 65, CHF is the leading hospital admission diagnosis. In 1988 alone, it accounted fo...

Nursing and Ethics

quality of a patients life, (4) implementing managed care policies that threaten quality of care, and (5) working with unethical/i...

Nursing Intervention and Munchausen by Proxy

the condition. More frequently it is the healthcare system which is both exposed to the condition and thus responsible for detect...

Nursing and Self Care Wound Instruction

In six pages this tutorial presents information on how to create a nursing instruction plan for how wounds can be self treated. F...

ER Application of the Self Care Deficit Theory Developed by Dorothea Orem

Emergency rooms are, at least in many cases, the primary health care provider to the underinsured and uninsured patient (Isenstein...

Synchronous and Dichotomous Concepts of Empowerment and Advocacy

and empowerment must be mutually exclusive. Falk (1995) describes empowerment as a more contemporary concept than advocacy, and...

Nursing Philosophies of Betty Newman and Jean Watson

their roles. As a result, there is a need to temper the actions of the nurse in the carative environment with a recognition of th...

A Nursing Ethical Dilemma Case Study

and the directives of the medical environment. For over two decades, for example, the health care industry has recognized a decli...

Life and Contributions of Clara Barton

by three things (501). They were phrenology, discrimination, and psychohygienic therapy. Through phrenology, Barton was given ce...

Nurses and Opiate Addiction

In this paper consisting of ten pages the addiction to opiates as it applies to managed care nurses is discussed in detail. There...

Nursing Homes and Safety Programs

In twenty eight pages this paper discusses nursing homes and the importance of safety programs with OSHA's role, health considerat...

African Americans in Nursing

In five pages African American nurses are examined from a historical perspective. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....

Nursing and Collective Bargaining

In five pages the nursing profession is considered in terms of its collective bargaining history. Five sources are cited in the b...

Nursing Responses to Healthcare Cultural Differences

In a paper consisting of 4 pages the surgical complications regarding a member of the Jehovah's Witness patient as described in a ...

Carper's Four Patterns and Knowledge in Nursing

and administering medical attention. Their role is not just one which is concerned with medicine, but rather one that takes in all...

Canada and the Problem of Hospital Nursing Shortages

In eight pages this paper discusses Canada's nursing shortage problems as they pertain to the hospital environment. Eight sources...

Euthanasia and the Law

In five pages this paper discusses the legal aspects of euthanasia as it affects the legal community, the nurse or caregiver, and ...

Past, Present, and Future of Nursing

In ten pages nursing is examined in a consideration of past, present, and what the twenty first century holds in store for the pro...

Euthanasia and Role of Nursing

In five pages this paper examines euthanasia issues and the nursing profession's role. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Vulnerable Populations and Nursing Involvement

In six pages this paper discusses ethical dilemmas as they pertain to vulnerable populations and the involvement of nursing. Five...

Nursing and Computers

of first-year nursing courses for delivery on the Internet has afforded students the opportunity to complete didactic requirements...

Community-Based Case Management Journal Article Critiqued

Carondelet St. Mary's model of community-based case management was the source of an article titled Community-Based Case Management...

Overview of the Nurse Practitioner Profession

In seven pages this paper examines the nurse practitioner profession. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Issues in Health Care

to focus more upon running smooth production rather than customer needs. By skewing the focus in this way, health care organizati...