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3 Specialties in Advanced Nursing Practice

an advanced practice nurse. The benefits that a nurse midwife can bring to a first-time mother include information that the mothe...

Immobility and Nursing Practice

In six pages this paper examines nursing practice through a definition, literature review, and implications of immobility. Five s...

A Summary and Analysis of the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics

and safety" (ANA, 2005). After all, if a nurse does not take steps to preserve her or his own safety, the nurse cannot adequately ...

Patient and Family Challenges of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury

be on the alert for any changes in blood pressure, urinary tract, and body temperature (Jackson, 2000). Muscles must be exercised ...

Depression, Pain, and Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy

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

Antibiotic Resistance and Nursing Implications

is understandable given that MRSA is one of the primary threats in terms of diseases encountered in ICUs in the US. Over fifty pe...

Concept Analysis of Condom Use

the order be filled. They specified one minor change, however. That was that each of the condoms that were manufactured include ...

General Medical Services Contract, National Health Service, and Practice Nursing

practitioner surgeries are run by practice nurses, only making referrals to other members of the healthcare team when required, Th...

Qualitative Study 'Occupational Stress and Job Satisfaction in Mental Health Nursing: Focussed (sic) Interventions via Evidence-based Assessment' Reviewed

has been with us for several years, and it is widely publicized. The result is that the nursing shortage not only affects the qua...

Medicare, Part D

to the medications needed to ensure their health. Beginning in 2004, Medicare began to offer aid, $600 a year, for covering the co...

Certifying an Older Driver

drivers" than do states that do not require test automatic testing (Murden and Unroe, 2005, p. 22). Most states do set standards f...

Global v. National Interests

and when" these problems appear(Carey and Shapiro, 2004, p. 18). Many people would argue that problems with relying on high carbon...

Nursing Practice and Otitis Media

of ear infection (Chronic otitis media, 2003). OM is a serious childhood illness because, if not properly treated, it can lead to ...

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 Profession and 'Telehealth' Implications

and was replaced by the broader term, telehealth (Maheu et al 7). The definition has also evolved to encompass all types of healt...

The Nursing Issue of Drug and Alcohol Abuse among Nurses

results from alcohol or drug misuse and which interferes with professional judgment and the delivery of safe, high quality care" (...

Advanced Nursing Practice Philosophy

therapeutic manner (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). This relationship may refer to a single individual, or the "person" may be a sma...

Nursing and the Theory of Interpersonal Relations by Hildegard Peplau

the beginning of her career in the 1950s, Peplau indicated that she believed that the significance between the nurse and the patie...

Nursing Perspective on the Issue of Living Organ Donation

however, Jones requested an ethics consult on the case due to the fact that Johns psychosocial evaluation had caused Jones to have...

Various Types of Nursing Roles

implementing the treatment regimen. 5. collaborating with other health care providers in determining the appropriate health care f...

Confidentiality and Three Nursing Models

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

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 Knowledge: Development And Utilization

have otherwise been a lingering existence in private homes or disreputable hospitals. Inasmuch as the nurse is "temporarily the c...

Healing Wounds and the Role of Nutrition

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

"Explaining Globalization" - Review And Evaluation

Is there a time when an individuals interests supersede those of the masses? These are ethical questions posed each and everyday ...

Images of Nursing

when nurses are needed the most, which is when we are ill (line 12). This is when "Nurses come through, with their care and goodwi...

Stem Cell Research: Societal Implications

in a laboratory situation (Licking, 1998; Brownlee and Schrof, 1998). Many of these cells, in fact, have the capability of develo...

Web Assigns/Nursing

of the site is that it connects to numerous opportunities for continuing education and there is a page dedicated to this purpose. ...

Global Warming

any additional or lessened amount of water (How Things Work, 2007). At the same time, icebergs come from glaciers and with warmer ...

Global Warming and Animals

the words of one individual, referring to studies involving plant and animal life in recent years, it seems that half of the plant...