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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 ...

'Military Industrial Complex' Warning of Outgoing President Dwight Eisenhower

to physicians. Increasingly, "evidence-based guidelines are becoming codes of medical practice" (Healy, 2005; p. 54). Superficia...

Hospital Innovation Program Education Proposal

over their blood glucose levels; and (3) encouraging continuous improvement in nursing knowledge and patient education. The progr...

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 ...

Australian Nursing Council and Meningococcal Meningitis

The ANCI Competency Unit 4 demands that nurses accept accountability and responsibility for their actions in nursing. To do so we...

Pharmaceutical Sales and the Entrance of Nurses

greater demand on health care services as more of them cross that line from employed to retired. Projections are just that,...

Nurse Consultants and Their Role

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

Social Policy Statement of Nursing

the basic paradigms of nursing professional theory are considered within a social context. For example, health is defined as a "dy...

Overview of the NYSNA

Working for the well-staffed working environment in itself is no small task, given the fact of the ongoing nursing shortage. The ...

Kolcaba and Holistic Care

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

Nursing Shortage in Canada

considering this economic downturn, the numbers of undergraduates pursuing nursing careers began to also decline. In 1991, Canada ...

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...

Using Learning Contracts Within Patient Education

only the teaching of adult learners, but also the teaching of those who will be teaching them. Learning Theory It has been ...

Five Questions About the Role of Nurse Manager

and consumable supplies. Capital expense and information technology (IT) items are included, but the nurse manager has no direct ...

MEDITECH Hospital Information System

or reject MEDITECHs suggestions as they see fit. Whether users accept or reject the suggestions made by MEDITECH, care prov...

Qualitative vs. Quantitative Nursing Articles

specifically state that their objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with pr...

Science and Art of Nursing

process that requires "interpretation, sensitivity, imagination and active participation" (Jenner, 1997). Scientific knowledge, o...

Profession of Nursing

not unusual given that there is a common perception that the higher a persons educational attainment the greater level of employme...

A Review of an Article on Hypothermia

had to have gone through surgery (orthopedic, gynecological, urological, vascular) of at least twenty minutes in duration. They ha...

Comparative Analysis of Erickson's and Orem's Theories

and patient. Orems theory is central to much of nursing philosophy and methodology. This theory is one of three theories...

Beyond Caring by DF Chambliss

parameters of his perspective and goals, and, specifically, refers to the unique orientation of nursing. "Nurses encounter patient...

2 Perspectives on Nursing Theory

addressing specific phenomena or concepts and reflecting practice (Liehr and Smith, 1999). The grand theories of nursing, that is,...

Australian Patient with Unstable Angina and Nursing Actions

a specific number or percentage of Australian citizens who have or may be suffering from unstable angina. Part of the reason for ...

Hospital Utilization Management

information brochure that described the standard course of care for CHF patients (About Virtua, 2004). The team modified the flow ...

Article on Mothers' Depression and Infants Critiqued

American Psychiatric Association. The authors indicate that postpartum depression has received a great deal of research att...

Research on Nursing Leadership

in those nursing homes that maintained adequate staffing, but beyond that, the administrative climate of the nursing home facility...

Different Literature Presentations of Asthma

and the effect on the occupational arena. Both articles, however, emphasize that asthma takes a tremendous economic toll in the U...

6 Questions on Nursing Professionalism

was perceived as merely the "handmaiden" of medicine, that is, a service that was there to facilitate the practice of the physicia...

Sections D and E of an Insulin IV Therapy Plan Development

rather than requiring patient transfer to ICU. This plan is consistent with the principles of planned change in that it focuses o...

Shared Governance and Collective Bargaining Issues in Nursing

associated with a considerable change in the traditional locus-of-control can be safely confronted, and professional practice can ...