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ICU Delirium

hospital stays (Cole and Soucy, 2003). While all ICU patients have serious and potentially life-threatening conditions, those ov...

Truth in Patient Care

"become a universal law" (Kant, 1993, p. 30). In other words, Kants main criteria for action is that the individual should conside...

Article Critique/Perceptions of Palliative Care

(in English) between the years 1989 and 2004. The extent of the literature review appears to be sufficient to support the research...

Being an Advocate for an Injured Client

actions. It has been over a decade since the passage of the American with Disabilities Act (ADA), which means that the 5 and 10 ye...

Reflection Process Recording

of abilities that serve to engage, relieve, understand and respect the patient. The extent to which reaching for their feelings i...

Imogene King: Theory Of Goal Attainment

how to achieve restorative health within an environment of compassion, benevolence and intuitiveness. Indeed, the fundamental bas...

Health Care: Ethical Dilemma

HIV-positive nurses being a threat to patients and other health care workers. Research clearly supports the reality of the situat...

McCubbin and Patterson/Double ABCX Model of Family Stress

stressor pileup. Therefore, in their model, they double the concepts labels, using a capital letter behind each of the original la...

Contemporary Nursing Ethics

this development and left orders for both analgesia and sedation, which helped at first, but became less effective as the hours pa...

Herbal Medicine/What Nurses Should Know

not as drugs, which means that these remedies do not undergo the rigorous testing that is required for prescription medicines (He...

Wellness & Nutrition for Healthy Aging

nurses facilitate the "recognition and communication" of these concepts, permitting "thoughts to be shared through language" (Davi...

Beehive Home Assisted Living Facility

care service has been the focus of greater scrutiny. Willging (2004) asks: "Just what is assisted living? There are still too ma...

Effects of Stress

stress, which causes fluctuating levels of neuro-endocrine responses (Taylor, Repetti and Seeman, 1997). To understand this concep...

Nursing Shortage In The United States: Causes, Effects And Solutions

Budget cutbacks, burnout and lack of student enrollment have precluded sufficient staffing in many critical areas of healthcare. ...

Dehydration & Older Patient

dehydrated? Has literature simply made you aware of this potential problem? You might say something like: "Considering the dire co...

Confidentiality and Three Nursing Models

nurse seeks to preserve any culture-specific aspect of the patients life everywhere possible. When some culturally-linked aspect ...

Use of Restraints in Healthcare

indicates, restraint places health practitioners between the proverbial rock and a hard place. However, there are practice standar...

Weight Study Proposal

feel lethargic, further disinclining the individual to exercise, which escalates the problem. In regards to population, all age gr...

Euthanasia's Pros and Cons

and antibiotics" (Ersek, 2005, p. 48). Upon first glance, it would appear that euthanasia is an application that is in direct con...

Nursing Profession and Men

degree (CBS News). Where 4.1 percent of new female nurses leave the profession after four years, 7.5 percent of new male nurses lo...

Appraisal of Team Performance

of every single employee. If youre not thinking all the time about making every person more valuable, you dont have a chance. Wh...

Quality Assurance and Nursing Management

In five pages this research paper discusses quality care standard maintenance and the role played by nurse managers in sustaining ...

Preventing Medication Error Change Project

for the precise coding of medication and, thereby, helps nurses avoid the common errors listed above (Woods and Doan-Johnson, 2002...

Women's Mental Health/Depression

minority groups. They are frequently poor and have little education. Scrandis, Fauchald and Radsma describe a "Charlottes Web of C...

Nursing and Kangaroo Care

article, "Mother-Infant Skin-to-Skin Contact (Kangaroo Care)," kangaroo care offers the parents the only opportunity to engage in ...

An Article on Childbirth and Nursing Presence Reviewed

for the birth" (MacKinnon, McIntyre and Quance, 2005, p. 29). As this suggests, intrapartum nurses spend the most time with labor...

Profession of Nursing

their profession to be their career and it definitely requires career-long continuous professional development. Why then, does a...

Users of Drugs and Alcohol and Quitting Smoking

et al, 2005). However, smokers are not limited in their addition, those who are addicted to other substances, such as alcohol. For...

Australia's Shortages of Nurses

budget restraints. Nurses leave the profession because they are "distressed by being unable to provide quality nursing care, disgr...

Nursing Research Developments

notable historic key developments in nursing research are: 1859 Nightingales Notes on Nursing published 1900 American Nursing Jou...