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BSN Advantages and the Selection of Nursing as a Career

At the heart of nursing is the nurse-patient relationship, which provides the foundation for nursing care (Patusky, 2003). This r...

Time Management and Critical Care Nursing

achieved that the critical care nurse may address the bio-psycho-social implications of the event (Alfafara and Hedges, 1996). Fur...

Nursing Care and Patient Diagnosis

is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...

Academic Planning and Nursing Assessment

should all be considered (OConnor and Walker, 2003). Traditionally, societys influence on educational planning has meant that the...

Depression, Pain, and Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy

with "depression, sleep disturbance, fatigue, and decreased overall physical and mental functioning" (Hearn, 2001). Problem Stat...

Nursing and the Caring Phenomena

on nurses increase (Cullen, 2003). Nevertheless, nurse educators and scholars stress that it is through recognition of caring as a...

Domestic Violence and Community Health Nursing

domestic violence is to, first of all, screen for domestic violence with all injured patients. When screening for abuse, Flitcraft...

Comparison of Integrative, Quantitative, and Qualitative Research Designs

to be exclusionary in terms of acceptable methods and resulted in what Taylor called "the great fault of modern psychology ... tha...

Role of Nurse Administrator

role has changed in nursing home facilities. Long gone are the days when a modern amount of nursing care and dietary supervision w...

Arthritis Clinic Led by Nurse Practitioners

Primary Care Act, a feature of both practices is that the patients have the option of seeing a GP or a NP as their first point of ...

Nursing and Physical Restraints Usage

the restrained person and others. This implies that the force used in restraining the person is less injurious to all concerned th...

Science and Art of Nursing

process that requires "interpretation, sensitivity, imagination and active participation" (Jenner, 1997). Scientific knowledge, o...

MEDITECH Hospital Information System

or reject MEDITECHs suggestions as they see fit. Whether users accept or reject the suggestions made by MEDITECH, care prov...

2 Perspectives on Nursing Theory

addressing specific phenomena or concepts and reflecting practice (Liehr and Smith, 1999). The grand theories of nursing, that is,...

Theoretical Foundations for Nursing, Various Issues

and Kramer (2008) to describe the ability of nurses to be cognizant of and reflect upon the wide variety of cultural, social and p...

Jokinen's Family Life-Path Theory

also possess knowledge concerning a particular family as a whole, including the intricacies of its family system, the position of ...

Theory of Caring, Kristen M. Swanson

nursing from the time when Florence Nightingale founded modern nursing in the nineteenth century. Since Nightingale, a variety of ...

A Comparison, Novice vs. Expert

for an expert mentor, which are "being an authority in the field, an educator, a counselor, a sponsor, and having personal commitm...

Electronic Documentation, Making the Switch

documentation towards the use of electronic medical records (EMRs). This frequently, however, causes conflict among nursing staff,...

Proposed Legislation Patient Safety Act of 2004

legal errors (Fackelmann, 2002). Furthermore, the AMA study demonstrated that there is a direct statistical connection between th...

Questioning Health Policy

who suffer from cancer, arthritis, AIDS, multiple sclerosis or acute back pain are known to frequently turn to alternative medicin...

Heath Benefits of Aged Garlic Extract

point that relatively few paid attention to it at all. In many respects, the same has occurred in the discussion of anythin...

Technology Implementation at SJMCH, A Case Study

This research paper presents a case study of the implementation of electronic technology at St. Joseph Medical Center at Houston, ...

Moral Distress and Futile Care

This research paper investigates the relationship between the provision of futile care and the development of moral distress among...

Nursing Director, Role and Description

This research paper offers a comprehensive overview of the qualities and characteristics that describe an ideal nursing director. ...

The Future of Nursing

This research paper pertains to "The Future of Nursing," a report that was collaboratively formulated by the Robert Wood Johnson F...

Tone and Expectations of Nursing Managers' Role

This research paper discusses how nursing managers establish a workplace culture that supports the delivery of quality patient car...

Nursing Recruitment, A Plan

This research paper offers a review of relevant literature that will be used in a plan that addresses recruitment and retention of...

Davenport, Iowa, Diabetes

This research paper discusses the incidence of diabetes mellitus specifically in regards to Davenport, Iowa and Iowa as a whole, f...

Nursing Leadership and Hospital Strategic Planning

This research paper presents a discussion of the nursing leadership role in regards to hospital strategic process planning. Five p...