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Nurse as an Agent of Change in Data Base Management

a nurses role as a change agent in data base management. Fonville, Killian, and Tranbarger (1998) note that successful nurses of ...

Method Analysis in 'Analyzing Hospital Readmissions Using Statewide Discharge Databases'

the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

Nursing Practice and the Opposition of Euthanasia

lethal drug is given with the intent to bring about death, thus ending suffering" (28). Of course, there is a difference between ...

The Decision Aspect of the Stetler Model of Research Analysis

train sufficient numbers of new nurses. Turnover is high among those who remain in the profession, and those so dissatisfied - an...

Hand Washing and the Care of Patients

preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...

Human Becoming Nursing Theory of Parse

moment to moment as the changing patterns of shifting perspectives weave the fabric of life through the human-universe interconnec...

Community Nursing Partnership Rewards and Threats

a partnership approach where the discipline work together can be increased cost effectiveness in the overall treatment of a patien...

JCAHO's Core Measure Heart Failure Process Implementation

They are: 1. "activity level 2. "diet 3. "discharge medications 4. "follow-up appointment 5. "weight monitoring 6. "what to do if ...

Nursing Personal Values' Development

caring as the very definition of what constitutes personal values from a nursing perspective (2003). Koerner (1996), likewise, e...

Standards of Critical Care Nursing

Critically-Care nurses, 1989 in Nursing Management, 1999, p. 38). This abbreviated version of AACN nursing standards was located...

Nursing Theory and the Importance of Domestic Violence Screening and Intervention

Although the nursing professions is just now beginning to become more aware of the need for this type of approach it was first int...

Proper Care for Stroke Victims, a Case Study

classifies the stroke patients needs in four domains: 1) medical/surgical issues; 2) mental status/emotion/coping behaviors; 3) ph...

The Case Study of a Child in Need

in order so that it can be determined if all of the childs educational needs are being met. Aiding disabled children in reaching t...

Coping Nursing Concept Analysis

includes strategies that are designed to make the individual feel better, such as "exercise, spirituality, support groups and humo...

Nursing Application Degree Essay

many people have these factors in common within their personal value sets, but I believe that the nurse possesses them in specific...

Merie Mishel's Uncertainty in Illness Theory

McKenna (1997) points out that mid-range nursing theories tend to focus on concepts of interest to nurses. This can encompass pati...

Integration of the Hierarchy of Needs by Abraham Maslow and Self Care of Dorothea Orem

activities" (Orems Self-Care Model Concepts) that patients need to undertake to meet their own health care needs on a routine basi...

Levels of Nursing Education

declined as "educators, employers and others recognize the need for educational changes in nursing" (Bednash, 2000, p. 2985). Asso...

Changing Image in the Nursing Profession

A nurses dedication and selflessness recall a mothers sacrifice and care (Dworkin, 2002). Furthermore, Dworking (2002) points out ...

Nurse Retention and Teams Effects

in decision making (Thomas Group, 2004). The leadership team appointed a steering committee to develop a plan for empowering nur...

Case Study on Depression

nonverbal and behavioural signals and information relating to the clients support system. Objective data could include observation...

Nursing and the Impact of Electronic Data Security

The act of faxing patient information to another care-providing organization or third-party payer comes under privacy regulations ...

Health Care System Problems and Theoretical Appications

make a real difference. In helping professions, such leadership is desirable. The health care industry today is fraught with probl...

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...

'Con' Argument on Quotas in Nursing

Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...

Proposed Nursing Communication Project

suggestions for future action in regards to this problem. Section A: Problem identification The Problem and its importance The G...

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...

Kolcaba and Holistic Care

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

Informed Consent and Nursing

that the doctrine of informed consent is "hopelessly flawed--or at least misguided," as it is often not possible to truly inform ...

Community and Patient Nursing Care and Meningococcal Meningitis

the disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...