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This research paper investigates development of advanced practice nurses (APNs) within the scope of contemporary health care, both...

Families face a myriad of concerns and issues. Parents may disagree about parenting styles, there may be behavioral or academic pr...

This research paper presents an annotated bibliography pertaining to the effects of the nursing shortage on the delivery of health...

Effective public health agencies are essential for the health of the general public. They have many diverse responsibilities, one ...

This paper offers discussion of several aspects of patient safety. Three pages in length, five sources re cited. ...

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

on an evidenced based evidence based practice and the development of increased individual accountability in the area of clinical g...

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

(Wichowski, 2004). This certainly appeared to be the case for Elvis, as he complained about the "Croatian people" in his head who ...

runs $127 on average (Cummings, 2002). The goal of the ALF is to help senior citizens maintain as much independence as possible wi...

trying times of their lives. Nurses have the capacity to improve lives. Nothing could be more meaningful or provide a greater sens...

These authors conducted a large study of 3,830 individuals consisting of 17.8 percent nurses, 21.8 percent physicians, 29.6 percen...

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

departments (Courson, 2004). It isnt that nurses have not been serving in these roles, they have but today, nurses receive speci...

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

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

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

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

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

operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). This is broken down into three basic categories: 1) wholly compen...

which both of those impacts are important. The question of what statistics should be collected in a medical facility, however, is...

Not all investigators conduct effective interviews. In the case discussed, the interviewer made many mistakes which are identified...

This research paper consists of a longer version of khebptech.doc. The paper offers additional information on the impact that EBP ...

This research paper concerns Jean Watson's theory of human caring and its use within nursing clinical practice. Eleven pages in le...

a list of advantages for patients, which include: * Greater coordination of services leads to higher quality care for the patient ...

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

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...

of those hospitals in a managed care contract consider joint billing to be important. Only nine percent place importance on group...

the combined efforts of intense psychotherapy and standard bipolar medications. Achieving optimum health represents the primary g...

such as tragedies, deaths, serious injuries or threatening situations, require the human being to respond in a way that intensifie...