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Dyspnea, Family Caregiving and Quality of Life

primary symptoms of COPD are "wheezing, cough, dyspnea on exertion and increased phlegm production" (Touhy and Jett, 2012, p. 289)...

Strategies for Student Nursing Assessment

student offer a description that relates the students personal assessment of the strategy. For example, in regards to rubrics, the...

Various Nursing Questions

and fatigue, abdominal pain, vomiting, constipation and learning difficulties" ("Lead"). These physiological effects are caused by...

Nursing Interventions for a Stroke Case Study

This research paper offers four nursing diagnoses and their relevant goals and interventions, which are applicable to a case study...

Diabetic Case Study/Art of Nursing

entails addressing the emotional, psychological and spiritual needs of the patient, as well as medical and physical needs, entails...

Customer Satisfaction, Responding to Call Lights

environment is highly competitive and consumers have high expectations in regards to the quality and effectiveness of the services...

Diabetes in New Mexico and Community Health Nursing

of Health (NMDH) indicates that, as of 2007, it was estimated that 157,930 New Mexico adults, 18 years of age and older, had diabe...

Overview of NMAS and its HIV/AIDS Intervention Program

housing, case management, nutritional guidance and vocational rehabilitation, as well as the development of new approaches to prev...

Phenomenology and Addressing Elderly Depression

the staff endeavors not only to care for our residents physical needs, but also for their psychological, social, and emotional nee...

Benefits of Lesson Derived from Mentoring

in emergency nursing, as the my mentor expressed obtaining this certification would enhance my professional development. The Ped...

Nightingale's Theoretical Perspective

rate at the hospital soon declined by two-thirds (Garofalo and Fee, 2010). This emphasis is immediately evident in Nightingales No...

Mandated Nurse-to-Patient Ratios, The Debate

to the passage of the California law (Tevington, 2011). Currently, Connecticut, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Texas an...

Article Critique/Nurses & Tobacco

a summation of how addiction occurs. They then address the scope of the problem, which relates the issue under investigation dir...

Nursing at the End of Life

by the caring physical presence of this nurse in her last remaining hours. However, the way in which this case turned out saw the ...

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...

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...

Public Health/Then & Now

and three stores," which served as "stock rooms, milk stations, clinics," etc. (Lillian Wald). Roughly 3,000 people typically were...

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...

Online Education/Professional Development

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

The Decision Aspect of the Stetler Model of Research Analysis

train sufficient numbers of new nurses. Turnover is high among those who remain in the profession, and those so dissatisfied - an...

Geriatric Care Quality

balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...

Method Analysis in 'Analyzing Hospital Readmissions Using Statewide Discharge Databases'

the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

Nursing Issues and the Health Issues of the West Family

her, per se, but rather with her expectations of Madeline, which are not age appropriate. The scenario says that Madeline knows be...

Nursing Shortage in Canada

considering this economic downturn, the numbers of undergraduates pursuing nursing careers began to also decline. In 1991, Canada ...

Kolcaba and Holistic Care

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

Informed Consent and Nursing

that the doctrine of informed consent is "hopelessly flawed--or at least misguided," as it is often not possible to truly inform ...

'Con' Argument on Quotas in Nursing

Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...

Proper Care for Stroke Victims, a Case Study

classifies the stroke patients needs in four domains: 1) medical/surgical issues; 2) mental status/emotion/coping behaviors; 3) ph...

Nurse Practitioner's Role and Strategies

certification program (Policy statement, 1999). On the other hand, the additional education required to become a licensed NP may t...