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Nursing and the Impact of 1996's Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

in 2000, allowing a long comment period before the final rule was issued in February 2003. Five rules were published in 199...

Work Environment and Communication

and allows the receiver to observe non-verbal cues as to the messages meaning. Feedback "reports back to the sender that the recei...

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...

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....

Causes and Symptoms of Burnout in Nursing

their own condition. Judkins and Ingram (2002) designed a self-paced learning module in order to determine whether knowledge relat...

Nursing Profession and English Instruction Benefits

be more enlightening and convey a more precise meaning than an extended descriptive passage. At this point, the student researchin...

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...

Practice, Knowledge, and Nursing Theory's Role

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

Article on Bypass Surgery Critiqued

which resulted in 47 practices taking part and two of these having two patients. The sample : 98 (75 male) consecutive patients w...

Holistic Nursing and Migraine Headaches

"significant anxiety, particularly before they discover the most effective symptom management" (Moloney, et al, 2001, p. 19). In o...

Nursing Diabetes Patient Education Internet Websites

on diabetes into categories and addresses these topics on separate web pages, as does the first site. The homepage explains that t...

A Family Practice Model for Advanced Nursing Practice and Grieving Parents

define what other mechanisms are brought into the healing process. For example, Gordon et al (2002) argue that depending on the v...

Vulnerable Populations and Nursing

their mental capacity often fades due to dementia, or Alzheimers, or a host of other maladies that create this state where there i...

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...

Nursing Homes and Elderly Abuse

report the trouble. Sometimes they have no family or nobody to report the abuse to. Many nursing homes have no background check ...

Burnout of Nurses

profession" and so individuals are susceptible, the current structure in medicine has exacerbated the stress. Cutbacks at hospital...

Overview of the Federal Civil False Claims Act

in 1999 alone "returned almost $500 million to the federal government." (Butler, 2000, 1). The first question to consider...

Historical Significance of Scarlet Fever

face and chest that it causes, and it is characterized by chills, fever, headache, vomiting, rapid pulse, red rash and an inflame...

Nursing Education Reflections

lives, especially the course of their daily professional lives. We tend to get stuck in ruts where we rely on the same patterns an...

Ethical Dilemma Pertaining to a Do Not Resuscitate Order

disagree with his wife could disrupt their marital relationship at a time when he needs this support, which is undoubtedly one of ...

Nursing Evolution

the religious fervor generated by the teachings of "love and mercy" by Jesus Christ resulted in a dramatic increase in charitable ...

Shortage of Nursing Faculty

educators in the past, are lured away from academia by better-paying positions in clinical and private practice (Mee, 2003). Furth...

Adolescents and Pediatric Perioperative Nursing Interventions

an adolescent client (Wallis, 2004, p. 59). Data on the development of abstract reasoning skills, as well as of the "recognition o...

Pain Management and Nursing

appears a simple enough way in which to establish the particular approach toward pain management for a given patient. However, re...

Dorothea Orem and Florence Nightingale on Nursing Theories, Beliefs, and Values

prepared for this role" (McKenna, 1997, p. 87). Perhaps most significant of all was Florence Nightingales belief that env...

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...

Health Care - Studies on Governance

Developing New Nurse Leaders also considers the issue of shifts in leadership and governance, with a focus on the role of nurses a...

Professional Practice and Nursing Philosophy

and religious background and beliefs, as well as how the health/illness continuum works within the framework of their life. "Env...

ER Television Series and the Nursing Image it Presents

(Summers, 2004). This switch back to pursing a doctors role sent a horrendous message concerning nursing to the viewing public. ...

Overview of Nursing Diagnoses

for the same population. Pertinent Neighborhood Characteristics This is a sample of the information that should be included in...