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Use of Restraints in Healthcare

indicates, restraint places health practitioners between the proverbial rock and a hard place. However, there are practice standar...

Nursing Practice and Atherosclerosis

1997). It is generally believed that atherosclerosis results from a combination of factors, which include: hemodynamic stress (hyp...

Immobility and Nursing Practice

In six pages this paper examines nursing practice through a definition, literature review, and implications of immobility. Five s...

Improving Human Resources in Health Care

The vision is to be a leader in providing high quality health care services. Their values include a customer-focus and to exceed t...

Floating RN Practice

nurse refused and was subsequently fired. The court ruled in favor of the nurse and found that the Beloit Memorial had wrongfully...

Healing Wounds and the Role of Nutrition

placement of polyvinyl alcohol sponges into subcutaneous pockets" (p. 7). Each of the rats were "given a nutritional solution con...

Preceptorship in Nursing

to do with how a person feels about him- or herself. Those with a high sense of self-efficacy believe that they can master even di...

Cunningham's The Hours/Implications for Healthcare

not only relates to the societal restrictions with which women had to contend in regards to their expected societal roles, but it ...

EBP Barriers

the following: In my practice setting, a major barrier against using EBP is that it takes an inordinate amount of time. This is...

Comfort/A Nursing Concept Analysis

sorrow; (b) relief from distress; (c) a person or thing that comforts; (d) a state of ease and quiet enjoyment, free from worry; (...

The Continuing Evolution of Advanced Practice Nursing

absolute separation of duties and artificial formality intended to preserve hierarchy in attitude as well as fact. Physicians pro...

Nursing Practice and Classical Virtues

various formal, stated ethics codes of nursing associations; nurse education programs; health care organizations; and certainly he...

Personal Reflections on Clinical Supervision

can facilitate a different type of learning and examination, peer groups may allow an exploration with fewer confines groups with ...

Community Mental Health Practice and Communication

to three days more than 20 years ago. We ruefully joke that some managed care plans only allow new mothers to be hospitalized on ...

Adding an Athletic Trainer to the Sports Medicine Clinic

increase; third-party payers strive to keep payments as low as possible; individuals seek to enhance performance or gain the great...

Spirituality in Nursing Practice - Literature Review

significantly as ethnicity and can encompass many different forms of beliefs. Spirituality plays a major role in how individuals...

Summary of Nursing Articles

to reach the disease" (Colwell; 2). The author also examines aspects of surgical treatment, indicating that a particular type of s...

Integration of the Hierarchy of Needs by Abraham Maslow and Self Care of Dorothea Orem

activities" (Orems Self-Care Model Concepts) that patients need to undertake to meet their own health care needs on a routine basi...

Critique of Nursing Articles

once again examines how nurses can be empowered, and learn those values in college. Finally, Ann Gallagher discusses dignity with ...

Magnet Status and Evidence-Based Practice

official entity until 1993. Today it addresses an array of nursing issues. The goals of the program are: * "Promoting quality in...

Nursing Management Change Theory

incremental. It occurs in small steps, each of which are interspersed with a period of adjustment. This can be useful in staffin...

Coronary Artery Disease Prevention and Exercise

risk factor, but is of less consequence among those diabetics who pay close attention to their blood sugar levels, test often and ...

Qualitative Study Death Sentence' to 'Good Cancer' Couples' Transformation of a Prostate Cancer Reviewed

objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and their wives,...

Urban Children and Asthma Care Barriers

In five pages an article is summarized and discussed in terms of knowledge contained within within the perspective of personal nur...

Health Care Delivery Trends

In five pages the effects of various health care practices and trends upon the nursing field are examined. Five sources are cited...

Advance Practice Nursing and Postgraduate Degrees

current literature, which includes existing nursing journals and the WEB sites conducted by the American Association of Nurses and...

A Review of an Article on Hypothermia

had to have gone through surgery (orthopedic, gynecological, urological, vascular) of at least twenty minutes in duration. They ha...

Qualitative vs. Quantitative Nursing Articles

specifically state that their objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with pr...

Advanced Nursing and the Theory of Rosemarie Parse

In eight pages this paper examines advanced nursing practices through an application of the theory by Rosemarie Parse. Five sourc...

Nursing and Elderly Pain Management Strategy

In eleven pages this paper examines such strategic pain management for senior citizens as guided imagery, meditation, and massage ...