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Explaining DNRs

agent, such as an adult child or another proxy. In recent years, the DNR has been included in the Physicians Orders for Life Susta...

Political Activism and Nursing

The manner in which professional organizations can be used to keep nursing leaders aware of political issues that are relevant to ...

Nursing Leadership Environment Assessment Survey

survey. Encouraging nurses to cultivate an inquiring attitude The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) indicates ...

3 Nursing Theories as They Pertain to Geriatrics

of professional nursing, nursing theory provides perspectives and guidance that aids nurses in achieving their primary goal of pro...

Health Among the Homeless

They are in the community and spreading bacterial infections to the general public. Appropriate health care could greatly improve ...

Interpersonal Relations Model, Peplau

describe the utility of Peplaus model in working with a 62-year-old man, Jason, who was suffering from depression and anxiety resu...

Current Issues, Advanced Practice Nursing

This research paper discusses a number of issues in advanced practice nursing, such as barriers to practice, credentialing, the hi...

ANA, Benefits of Membership

This essay pertain to a nurses's reasons for becoming a member of the American Nurses Association. The multiple benefits of membe...

Scope of Practice and APN Roles

This research paper presents an examination of nursing empirical literature that covers a number of issues relevant to advanced pr...

Entry Level for Nursing Practice, the BSN

This research paper discusses the ongoing debate about what should be the entry level degree necessary for entry into nursing. The...

APN Roles, an Overview

This research paper explores nursing literature pertaining to the role of advanced practice nurses (APNs). The writer first discus...

An Article Analysis, Ethics and School Nurses

This essay provides a summary and analysis of the research conducted by Solum and Schaffer (2003), which involved a study sample o...

Policies and Health Care

This essay is about proposed policies and legislation that addressed the nursing shortage. It also brings in proposed changed to M...

APRN Working to Their Full Extent

This paper offered a position paper on the topic of allowing Advanced Practice Registered Nurses to practice up to their knowledge...

Smoking az a Nursing Advocacy Issue

This research paper pertains to smoking as a nursing advocacy issue, and describes how nurses are addressing this issue. Three pag...

Comparison of Novice vs. Expert Clinician Skills

This research paper focuses on the development of novice nurses' skills and the ways in which they differ from those of an expert....

Suggestions for a Psychiatric Practicum

imagines that implementation of the practicum could take several different formats. For example, it may consist of formulating a c...

Old Age Conceptual Understanding

In eight pages this paper attempts to understand the concept of 'old age' and the current lack of respect being accorded senior ci...

Pain Management Barriers and Nursing's Role

management. Howard Leventhal is responsible for developing an important research model that can be easily tailored to address any...

Nursing's Systems Theory Analyzed

defined relationships and also includes an interdependency between such and the surrounding environment. Systems theory also embra...

Nurse's Role and Bowel Elimination Influential Factors

post-surgical patients. Normal Bowel Elimination Allison (1995) recognized that maintaining bowel elimination is a substantial ...

The Parish Nurse and Advanced Practice Nursing

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

Nurse Practitioners and Advanced Practice Nursing

(Walsh, 2003; p. 22). The intended role is that of partner with an MD in providing direct patient care in terms of serving in rol...

Psychiatric Nursing and Nursing Theory

nursing. Forchuk and Dorsay (1995) and Barker, Reynolds and Stevenson (1997) identify Hildegard Peplau as the first to apply nurs...

Rapid Response Team: Quick Recognition And Intervention Of Problems At Va Medical Centers

being more capable of acting proactively and preventively. The philosophy of nursing is something much grander and more complex t...

Nursing's Philosophical Issues

course of action is often jumbled. Is the patient cognizant enough to make the correct choices? Many issues come into play when a...

Nursing's Hermeneutic Phenomenology Method of Inquiry

Replicatability is one hallmark of valid quantitative research. In past years, qualitative research in nursing has been ass...

Contemporary Nursing's History

as how the profession has been viewed for at least a century. It was an honorable and respected position for a woman and one that ...

Temporary Agency Nurses' Accountability and Competence in a Hospital Setting

not only better oriented overall to do the job but who also would be paid enough to have an incentive to stay in the job or put ma...

Dementia

emotional (limbic) memories are affected, and the last group of memories to be affected as the "motor or more reptilian memories,"...