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Emergency Nurses Association

trends. This peer-reviewed journal also offers its readership a forum for sharing their experiences with their peers, as well as l...

Czech Immigrants & Nursing

2001, p. 24). While the ancestors of many Americans of Czech extraction came to the US in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries...

Homeless & Mental Illness/A Vulnerable Population

necessary health-related behaviors" required for meeting "ones therapeutic self-care demand (needs)" (Hurst, et al 2005, p. 11). U...

Non-Clinical Director Functions

properly, nursing staff is highly aware of this lack. Research into nursing staff retention has found that the quality of housekee...

Obesity Community Health Intervention

factor in childhood obesity is the fact that television viewing tends to be accompanied by the consumption of high-calorie, high s...

Wellness & Nutrition for Healthy Aging

p. 364). Due to the fact that eating behaviors tend to be established by early experience, it is important for healthy eating habi...

Public Health/Then & Now

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

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...

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...

Middle Range Nursing Theories, An Overview

a profession, nursing theory has responded to meet the needs of nurses. For example, from the mid-1970s through the 1980s, the foc...

Nightingale's Theory, Case Study of Elderly Woman

client who is the focus of this case study is an 86-year-old woman who has been living at home with her husband. Her medical histo...

Online Education/Professional Development

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

Nursing and Adolescent Pregnancy

their infants, and this factor is associated with increased morbidity and mortality, as well as significant financial expenditures...

Fall Prevention in the Elderly in Home Care

percent of that total population lose their ability to walk (Tonarelli, 2010). Hip injuries and falls of any kind can reduce the ...

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...

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...

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 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...

Asthma Medication/Xolair

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

Nursing Unions

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

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...

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...

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...

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, 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...