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Oncology and Coping with an Annotated Bibliography

parents of children with cancer regarding the needs of siblings and on the support that was offered by hospital staff. The results...

Patient Outcomes and the Collaboration Between Physicians and Nurses

often a factor in nurse/doctor communication. Nurses can bring power to nurse/doctor interchange by harnessing the power of lang...

Online Education/Professional Development

by trying things out)...reflective learners (learn by thinking things through, working alone) 5. sequential learners (linear, orde...

Ethical Implications of Shortages in Nursing

Beginning in the early 1990s, managed care targeted nursing as an expenditure where hospitals could cut costs. Managed care consul...

U.S. Nursing Shortage

Roughly 50 percent of the current working nursing population will retire within the next 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). Adding...

Client Profile

A 7 page client profile that discusses nursing care for an elderly client with degenerative brain disease and offers a research su...

Reducing Absenteeism/Nursing Home

have "little or no training in fundamental management skills" (Baer, 2006, p. 60). As well as absenteeism, problems with managemen...

Non-punitive Nursing Culture/Medical Errors

2004). As errors are inevitable, in order to significantly reduce the rate at which they occur, it is imperative that mistakes sho...

Asthma Medication/Xolair

events (Owen, 2007). This action includes "presentation of antigen by dendritic cells" as well as the "degranulation of mast cells...

Nursing Shortage in New York State

Nursing (Webber, 2007). However, this is not a long-term solution. The long-term solution to achieving an adequate nursing force f...

Music as a Nursing Intervention

the effect of music on preoperative anxiety and postoperative pain with a participant group that listened to "peaceful pan flute m...

Statistics in Two Articles

results are reliable and representative (Curwin and Slater, 1996). The first is the profiling of the samples to show that they are...

Concept Analysis/Acute Pain

factors" (Hader and Guy, 2004, p. 21). The international Association for the Study of Pain and the American Pain Society define pa...

Patient’s Possessions & Cultural Competency

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

Nursing Unions

cardiac monitor, a seizure, drug reaction or other sign of a critical condition...(They) are expected to fill out reports" that we...

Nurse Staffing Ratios

system," since the institution of mandated nursing ratios, and also that data shows California hospitals have not only been able t...

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...

Online Clinical Resources

safeguard and monitor the public health, which means that it formulates prevention initiatives, investigates health problems and a...

Benner’s Novice to Expert Theory of Nursing

more on intuition and to "a hidden knowledge that is not so open to cognitive description" (Bradshaw, 1995, p. 83). In other words...

Ethics, Blood Transfusions & Jehovah's Witnesses

be immensely helpful in gaining insight into the specific issues involved and subsequent perspective on what course of action to t...

Nursing Economics/ Fiscal Realities

harms the healthcare systems of the home countries of these nurses, which ethically and morally limits its use. Another method t...

Vets with PTSD

with sudden flashbacks intruding on thoughts (Fagan and Freme, 2004). Other symptoms include: an exaggerated startle reflex, sleep...

Leininger's Culture Care Nursing Theory

caring; 2. every human culture has lay (generic, folk or indigenous) care knowledge and practices and usually some professional ca...

Nursing Case Mgmt./Asthma

this condition. If the student does not have asthma, the student may feel motivated to help this population because of he/she rea...

Nurses & Liability Insurance

to a patient over the phone and trying to convey the urgency of that patient coming in for a consultation. The patient resists, so...

Ethics of Nursing Code

all areas of professional nursing. Provisions 1 through 3 address the principal obligations of nursing, which are to the patient/c...

Nursing Theory and Self Agency

is defined as the needs of that individual to meet "Universal self-care requisites associated with life processes and maintenance ...

Teams and Patient Satisfaction

In ten pages this research paper presents a literature review on team nursing as a way of increasing patient satisfaction. Thirte...

Overview of Respiratory Therapy

regards to lung function. If patients cannot breath on their own, RTs are trained on how to intubate patients and connect them to ...

Past and Present Nursing

education for nurses in the US followed the model established by modern nursings founder Florence Nightingale (Fitzpatrick 63). Th...