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LPNs and RNs

advocates, providing medical treatments prescribed by physicians, and keeping accurate records of changes in patient status (Nurse...

An Overview of Critical Care Nursing

which a person demonstrates fundamental functioning in their life environment (Jones and Kilpatrick, 1996). In other words, the c...

Nurse's Role in Patient Assessments

of a unified health care organization that included both Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH...

Advanced Practical Nurse's Role

recognition of cultural and social influences on health care outcomes. As a result, advanced practice nurses have also become int...

PTSD Caused by Childhood Incest and Peplau Intervention Theory

In fourteen pages this research paper considers how a nursing intervention can be designed to assist adults with PTSD resulting fr...

Decubitus Ulcers and Nursing Shortage

1999). Elderly patients who are alert, and not declared incompetent, have the right to refuse treatment, which includes turning or...

Levine's Conservation Theory of Nursing

individuals personal integrity, which is defined as a "sense of worth which can be conserved through consideration of cultural, et...

Nursing Regulations and Laws of Georgia

showing that they graduated from a nursing education program approved by the Georgia Board of Nursing or from a nursing education ...

Nursing and Mandatory Overtime

issue of regulatory interest when attached to direct patient care (Nursing, 2004). As few nurses with no patient responsibilities...

Past and Present Nursing

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

Nurse Educator Shortages and Alternatives

the very act of following the "law" (i.e., supply and demand) of economics now has exacerbated the shortage of nurses who also are...

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 ...

Family Nurse Practitioner's Role

or chronic illness; however, nurse practitioners also have additional intensive education that involves risk reduction and prevent...

The Elderly and Alternative Care Choices

runs $127 on average (Cummings, 2002). The goal of the ALF is to help senior citizens maintain as much independence as possible wi...

A Review of the Article 'Parent behavior and child distress during urethral catherization'

is a very important consideration in nursing. Indeed, some four thousand of so documents were published annually about pain in th...

Errors in Medication and Nursing Prevention

for the precise coding of medication in order to avoid the errors listed above (Woods and Doan-Johnson, 2002). Cohen, Robinson and...

Legislation on Nursing Overtime

the risk of medical errors, such as dispensing the wrong medication or the wrong dose (Nursing overtime, 2004). The study, which w...

Healthcare Solutions From Clinical Practice

in scientific reasoning that she changed the face of nursing. She made use of statistical analysis in order to demonstrate the way...

Critical Modality of Humor

In three pages this research paper discusses how humor can be a modality that assists nurses in patient care as well as self care....

Hospital Nurses, Employment Stress, Performance, and Social Support Among Other Nurses

considered one of a number of high stress jobs, and stress is problematic, causing inefficiencies, high staffing turnover rates an...

Scenario on Malpractice in Nursing

when he cannot feel a pulse. A new nurse, a first year graduate, Sally enters the room, sees Long and runs out. She encounters Nur...

2005's Safe Nursing and Patient Act, Legal and Ethical Concerns

is simply to require that their nursing staff make up for understaffing by working mandatory overtime on a more or less permanent ...

Nursing Ethics and Operations Management

1999). Lee and his family owned a small business and had no health or medical insurance. The family was urged to begin the process...

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 ...

Practice, Knowledge, and Nursing Theory's Role

The metaparadigms of nursing represent common concepts that are accepted throughout the profession and across international bounda...

Dependency and Physical Changes of the Elderly

In five pages this research paper takes a nursing perspecitve regarding the elderly's physical changes and increased dependence th...

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...