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authors state that research "and theory are key underpinnings that guide safe, effective, and comprehensive" (p. 35) practice. As...

indicates, restraint places health practitioners between the proverbial rock and a hard place. However, there are practice standar...

dehydrated? Has literature simply made you aware of this potential problem? You might say something like: "Considering the dire co...

minority groups. They are frequently poor and have little education. Scrandis, Fauchald and Radsma describe a "Charlottes Web of C...

of ear infection (Chronic otitis media, 2003). OM is a serious childhood illness because, if not properly treated, it can lead to ...

According to one research study, the top five reasons why nurses employ restraints are "disruption of therapies, confusion, fall p...

and religious background and beliefs, as well as how the health/illness continuum works within the framework of their life. "Env...

with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to support a level of pro...

professionals has come into view as an element of this discourse. Nurse professionals, who once worked directly under the wing ...

is still those are very disturbing numbers when one considers that the problem may be eliminated to some degree by the simple task...

various formal, stated ethics codes of nursing associations; nurse education programs; health care organizations; and certainly he...

in her favorite chair alone with her memories is something that those remaining behind will never know. Chosen Issue: Reminiscenc...

can facilitate a different type of learning and examination, peer groups may allow an exploration with fewer confines groups with ...

risk factor, but is of less consequence among those diabetics who pay close attention to their blood sugar levels, test often and ...

objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and their wives,...

to three days more than 20 years ago. We ruefully joke that some managed care plans only allow new mothers to be hospitalized on ...

In ten pages this paper examines the increasing health care industry practice of hospital mergers and the problems with them and s...

In twenty pages this research paper discusses management practices as they pertain to nursing homes in a consideration of ideologi...

In eleven pages this paper examines such strategic pain management for senior citizens as guided imagery, meditation, and massage ...

This paper contains five pages and explores research presented by Julia Cameronon on the professional ramifications of holistic nu...

Tashi first came into the clinic, she could barely walk due to complications from her circumcision. A pelvic examination revealed...

In fourteen pages this research paper discusses rehabilitation in terms of nursing practices with a detailed literature review fea...

In ten pages a home healthcare case study is employed to examine what nursing approaches would best be used in this scenario and a...

of this perspective for modern nursing practices. The Theory of Unitary Human Beings Rogers theory described as the "Science of...

care (OMalley, 2007). The aim of this essay is to offer an overview of this problem, focusing on how it applies to a specific ho...

there is very little information about predisposes people to these episodes (Swann, 2006). Therefore, for the most part, nursing a...

of course, it only takes one person in any organization to "make a difference" (Sanborn, 2004, p. 8). The second principle, Succe...

beliefs and worldview of the nurse. Salladay (2006) in her review of A Christian Vision of Nursing Practice by Mary M. Doornbos,...

sorrow; (b) relief from distress; (c) a person or thing that comforts; (d) a state of ease and quiet enjoyment, free from worry; (...

risk. For example, Mahlmeister (1996) relates a pediatric situation in which a night nurse in a small hospital was expected to wor...