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There are numerous regulations and codes that mandate and/or guide the mental health professional on the subject of confidentialit...

This paper considers how nurses can become an agent of change in regard to ageism, the myths surrounding it, and the care of older...

This research paper pertains to a proposal for a capstone project in which telemonitoring and skilled nursing visits are utilized ...

This paper consists of the speaker notes for a PowerPoint presentation that pertains to the a student's volunteer experience. The ...

This paper pertains to an ethical dilemma faced by hospital nurses caring for patients who are Jehovah's Witnesses. Adherent of th...

This paper reviews the important criteria of Essentials VIII professionalism and discusses how they apply to nurses working with p...

The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010. It is a progressive, sequential act with different parts mandat...

This 16 page paper outlines the elements that need to change for improving quality of nursing care. This paper explains that the p...

This research paper describes how an advanced practice nurse used Neuman's systems model and assessment tool to aid in developing ...

that make use of color, but even these efforts have not typically met with good response by patients or hospital administrators (S...

and more nurses are standing at the front lines of managed care, acting somewhat as liaison between the patient and managed care o...

provided. A nurse who has back pain will likely reduce the care he or she could otherwise administer. When people have back or m...

and two other men beside her patient, she becomes drawn to the patient, though not in a romantic way. She devotes nearly her entir...

* Time over Money - Employees today seek more personal time versus financial compensation. * Professional versus Personal Role - ...

Acquiescing to the constraints imposed by organizational and professional structure does not mean that the nurse has no alternativ...

placement of polyvinyl alcohol sponges into subcutaneous pockets" (p. 7). Each of the rats were "given a nutritional solution con...

stronger. The authors make no comment on whether any of the individuals were concerned about becoming dependent on their pa...

paradigm but without the fantasy that acceptance is the ultimate outcome. In treating this patient, a student writing on the subje...

indwelling foley and compression boot. Her dressing is dry and intact. She was discharged with Percocet 5mg q6. Analysis and Out...

the patient prior to his death. The nurse clearly felt the need to encourage the family to stay and spend as much time as possibl...

issues of spirituality. In essence, the parish nurse has the ability to treat the whole patient, rather than only addressing symp...

carcinoma in situ (DCIS). This is also known as "intraductal carcinoma or non-invasive breast cancer" (Breast Cancer, 2004; p. PG...

Understanding that there is a step by step progression, both physically and psychologically, can be part of the nurses role in thi...

routine activities necessary to their own care. The purpose is that with a nurses direction, encouragement and initial supervisio...

Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...

analysis. Making use of a sample of 100 patients, the test group is made up of 60 depressed patients with reflex sympathetic dystr...

the elderly. The Nurse Practitioner announced in its July 2000 issue that reports of the AMAs petition had been received as...

caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...

2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...

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