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Impact of HIV/AIDS on Nursing

noted that cases of a rare lung infection, pneumocystis carinni pneumonia, had occurred in Los Angeles and also that three young m...

Nursing Shortage & Patient Safety

established that nurses are often involved in the "timely identification of complications," which, if acted upon swiftly, prevent ...

California Nurse-Patient Ratios

(Cunningham, 2008). Observed Results Cortez (2008) states that in the past, patients had been known to call 911 from their ...

Nursing Image

reality of the profession. It needs a makeover much as it had in the 19th century in Brittan when nursing reformers struggled to h...

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...

Ethics in Nursing Discerning Child Abuse

a decision of having to decide on the basis of what is best for all concerned rather than what the patients family might think tha...

Ethics of Nursing Code

all areas of professional nursing. Provisions 1 through 3 address the principal obligations of nursing, which are to the patient/c...

Nursing Research/IRB Application Process

This research paper offers an overview of the role that institutional review board approval has in regards to ethics and nursing r...

Casuistry Ethics and Nursing

the team to make a decision. The advantage of the casuistry approach to ethical decisions is that the team finds some sort of co...

Nursing Course Evaluation

It also is clear that readily accessible primary care services are essential to achieving effective health care reform. The World ...

Hospital Conflict

This research paper is written as a journal account that records the response of the writer, who has been assigned to handle a hos...

Nursing Participant Observation Controversy and Qualitative Research

who choose to use qualitative methods tend to seek a deeper reality, inasmuch as their aim is to "study things in their natural se...

Hospitals and Nursing

Issues pertinent to these five elements include conceptual framework, scope of practice, policy implications and support of social...

Nursing and Ethics

quality of a patients life, (4) implementing managed care policies that threaten quality of care, and (5) working with unethical/i...

ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses

owes the same duties of care to herself or himself as is owed to patients. A nurse cannot adequately attend to patients if that nu...

Ethical Issues/Living Wills

precisely the same as for other patients. Legal responsibility for care decisions in cases where there is a living will: does the...

Terminating Life Support and Issues of Nursing Ethics

In sixteen pages this paper discusses withdrawal of life support from a perspective of nursing ethics. Twelve sources are cited i...

Withholding Treatment and Ethical Issues Pertaining to Nursing

In four pages this paper examines the ethics of withholding treatment in the form of hydration and nutrition from patients who are...

Patient Care Ethics and Nursing Management

In eight pages this paper discusses nursing management shortage in a consideration of patient care ethics. Six sources are cited ...

Issues in Health Care

to focus more upon running smooth production rather than customer needs. By skewing the focus in this way, health care organizati...

Behavior Impropriety and Nursing Ethics

states, "The nurse promotes, advocates for, and strives to protect the health, safety and rights of the patient" (Code of Ethics f...

Nursing Philosophy and Parse's Theory of Human Becoming

draw on the fundamental concepts espoused by the metaparadigms. Nevertheless, each branch of nursing theory approaches the subjec...

Code of Ethics and Canadian Nursing Values

have had ethical reservations about taking a patient off of life support, but she did not add to Lynns burden by interfering with ...

Nursing Personal Leadership Development Plan

and how discharge instructions should cover these contingencies. "Health" has historically been used to describe the "absence of d...

Nursing Philosophy for Professional Practice

nurses should understand these patients thoroughly, "who they are, where they live and with whom, their current health status and ...

Nursing and Ethical Values

who consistently place the needs of others above their own. The individuals who do this seemingly so naturally often can be diffi...

Medical Missionaries and Nursing

In five pages this paper discusses the ethics and expenses involved in nurses serving as medical missionaries. Seven sources are ...

Shortcomings and Suggestions for Improvement in the ANA Code of Ethics

those that do not receive another. Nurses, however, (and rightfully so) are expected to perform their duties irrespective of such...

Overview of Executive Nursing

In nine pages executive nursing is examined in a discussion of their many concerns regarding the industry itself, patient care, an...

Nursing & Mandatory Overtime

expectancy is increasing and more people are surviving serious illness and living longer with chronic illness. At the same time, t...