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Training of Nursing Staff and Its Rationale

learned long ago the value of yet another Deming (1986) exhortation, that of continuous improvement. By definition, the concept i...

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...

Leininger's Culture Care Nursing Theory

caring; 2. every human culture has lay (generic, folk or indigenous) care knowledge and practices and usually some professional ca...

Vets with PTSD

with sudden flashbacks intruding on thoughts (Fagan and Freme, 2004). Other symptoms include: an exaggerated startle reflex, sleep...

Cultural Influences on Medical Care; Indian Hindus

is in charge of all domestic affairs. Younger newly wed couples will often live with one set of parents, even if they are going to...

NANDA

imply, a standardized nursing language provides a "uniform nomenclature for the diagnosis, intervention, and evaluation components...

Nursing's Contribution to Quality of Life

could be called human biological life; or(2) human personal life that includes biological life but goes beyond it to include other...

Article Critique/Nursing Older People

pilot study was performed first, in which the research tested the methodology. This also involved developing an interview schedule...

Ida J. Orlando And Hildegard E. Peplau: Theoretical Application To Eating Disorders

the inherent differences between models. Ultimately, an individual chooses a nursing model that is based upon and compatible with...

Nursing Leadership & Groups

socially isolating, as outside opinion is discounted. The team adopts a "defensive posture," which is evidenced by "derogatory, de...

Negative Effect of Anesthesia Assistants on Nursing

generations. Though Nightingale promoted a professional demeanor, nursing was not something that most well-bred women would even ...

Nursing Community Services, Asthma & Diabetes

do not have their inhaler with them or it is "forgotten, lost or empty when needed" (Bryne, Schreibr and Nguyen 335). Without this...

Retention/Recruitment & Canadian Nursing Shortage

30 months, as this is when between 13 and 28 percent of senior nurses are due to retire (Sibbald, 2003). Currently, close to a thi...

Enhancing Cultural Competency

leaders should facilitate their development of trans-cultural nursing skills such as being able to assess patterns that are eviden...

Negligence Or Malpractice?

results from the diagnostic test; as such, the case definitely leans toward malpractice. Two glaring points that support this cha...

Proposal for Increasing Nurses' Salaries

numbers of young students came to believe that perhaps nursing would provide an outlet for caring natures as well as support a fam...

Med/Surg Leader, An Interview

embarrassment in front of others, withheld pay increases, and termination" (Marriner-Tomey, 2004, p. 118). While conferring reward...

Health Promotion

promotion can address a variety of nursing clients in a variety of circumstances. For example, Richardson (2002) acknowledges that...

Nursing Education & A Humanities Fieldtrip

chosen. The Metropolitan Museum of Art indicates two events that would be appropriate for a humanities-oriented fieldtrip geared...

Community Nursing Questions

self-knowledge (Simpson, 2004). While anecdotal evidence is not regarded as conclusive, the experience of individual nurses in reg...

Nursing Leadership Scenario

defining the leadership characteristics that would be the focus of this educational effort (Pintar, Capuano and Rosser, 2007). As ...

Profile of Nursing Leader Donna Brunskill

and nurses need to be and has generated capacity and energy within that body of nursing to reach that vision" (Ralko 6). A princip...

Health and Alcohol as Perceived by a GP Nurse

those under stress or who are unhappy with their lives. For this reason there has been a higher use in poorer social classes where...

Nursing Care for Hypertension

defined as a systolic blood pressure of greater than or equal to 140 mm/Hg) was linked most commonly to individuals whoa re overwe...

Patient Compliance & CHF Nursing Care

While CHF has a mortality rate that ten times that of AIDS and is also responsible for far more hospitalizations than cancer, even...

Nurse Practitioner & Nurse Midwife

are RNs who are "prepared, through advanced education and clinical training, to provide preventive and acute health-care services"...

Patient Simulators/Human Patients in Nursing Education

age. Therefore, the patient population is increasing. This factor is also influenced by the fact that that the huge lump in the Am...

Nursing Images

images represent some aspect of nursing? Examination of this question shows that two of these images are particularly helpful in d...

Personal Nursing Model Using the Self Care Deficit Theory of Orem

in diagnostic, prescriptive, and regulatory operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). From this perspective,...

Nursing, Cultural Understanding, and the Cultural Care Diversity and Universality Theory of Madeleine Leininger

19th and early 20th centuries. Hughes and Romeo (1999) question the usefulness of education that does not address the growing div...