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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...

Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing: An Annotated Bibliography

staff that can result in moral stress or stress of conscience (Fry, Hurly & Foley, 2002). Because unresolved ethical issues can ...

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...

A Nursing Case

Both of these individuals have limited education. Ms. A. graduated from high school but Mr. B. did not, and dropped out at the en...

Nursing Home Falls and Best Practices

-3.14 2.83 6.05 As the numbers indicate, in all but Q3 2009, the number of falls experienced exceeded the target. This suggests t...

Nursing and Social Ecology

& Kantor-Kaufmann, 2002). The meso level of the ecological model looks at the role of institutions and organizations in shaping ...

Reimbursing NPs at 100 Percent

nurse practitioners how they could join the movement and help. The Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1989 included minimal reimbursem...

APN Leadership

nurses. These were all key people in leading the change (Stetler et al., 2009). These same people were not identified in the begin...

Title, Premise, Design for DNP Project

This paper presents an outline for a student's Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) project. The paper describes the project title, pr...

NP Advertisement and CPA

This paper begins by offering ten questions that a nurse practitioner might pose when applying for a position with Optum health. T...

Competing Professionals and Primary Healthcare

This paper considers the raging conflict between advanced practice nurses and physicians. Is there an identity crisis? There are...

Device-Associated Nosocomial Infection in an ICU

This paper gives an overview of a study that took place in a Polish ICU and pertained to the rate of device-associated nosocomial ...

Moving to Evidence Based Practices

This paper reports one change that was made in a hospital. An announcement was made that nursing staff would be required to use ev...

The Three Major Religions and Healthcare

This 7 page paper gives an overview of the basics of the major religions and why nurses should study them. This paper includes Jew...

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,...

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...

Hildegard Peplau: Applications in Advanced Practice Nursing

relations. Nurses must assess person and environment in relation to their impact on health. Both person and environment can vary...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Education and Nursing

professionals has come into view as an element of this discourse. Nurse professionals, who once worked directly under the wing ...

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...

Book Report on Mark Sanborn’s The Fred Factor

of course, it only takes one person in any organization to "make a difference" (Sanborn, 2004, p. 8). The second principle, Succe...