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Essays 1951 - 1980

Occupational Drug Testing of Employees

have enacted certain laws on their own which sometimes provide for testing in a much wider arena. Consider Idaho as an example. ...

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...

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...

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...

Harm Reduction Theory and Drug Addiction

Alternatives, 2001). "Harm reduction" first arose in Great Britain, under the premise that use of illicit drugs should be ...

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...

Medication Error Reduction Lesson Plan

deaths each year are related to medications" (Meadows, 2003). The actual number is estimated to be much higher because these kinds...

Overview of Home Health Nursing Field

as business practices, documentation systems, process flows and lines of communication can differ (Blevins, 2001) Home health nur...

Metaparadigm of Nursing, Parse's Totality and Simultaneity, and Madeleine Leininger's Cultural Care Diversity

today, but health care delivery appears to be more of a team project than the responsibility of one doctor. In earlier days, a nu...

Issue of Elder Abuse and Neglect

in both domestic environments, i.e., private residences, and in institutions, i.e., nursing homes (Jogerst et al, 2003). However, ...

Shortage of Nurses and Its Global Implications

staff them (Ocala, Fla., Hospitals Tackle Nursing Shortage, 2002). The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizati...

Various methods of pain management

in acute care is sensitive about the use of drugs in recovering patients. Exposure of abuses of past years has raised awareness o...

Nursing and Reflective Thinking Development

as a solution to the problem of developing reflective skills, Ferrario defines reflective thinking as: a) analyzing, synthesizing,...

Psychiatric Nursing and Self Disclosure for Therapeutic Purposes

many had very definite opinions on the matter as a whole, "none of the participants articulated what the process consisted of or h...

Nurse Practitioner's Role and Strategies

certification program (Policy statement, 1999). On the other hand, the additional education required to become a licensed NP may t...

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...

Canadian Drug Testing in the Workplace

Employers in Canada face legislative restrictions concerning their abilities to test employees for drugs. This foundation level p...

Device-Associated Nosocomial Infection in an ICU

This paper gives an overview of a study that took place in a Polish ICU and pertained to the rate of device-associated nosocomial ...

Self-Medication and Another Model

This paper focuses on a video case study of a young woman who is an alcoholic and drug addict. The paper describes what was observ...

A Qualitative Study, Fall Prevention

This paper summarizes and analyzes a qualitative Norwegian study that examined the experiences of home care nurses in regards to f...

Nosocomial Project, Disseminating Evidence

This paper provides an overview of how to disseminate evidence regarding a research project to both stakeholders that the wide nur...

Proposed Nursing Communication Project

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

Neuman's Systems Model, an overview

This research paper offers an overview of Betty Nueman's System Model (NSM) and its application to a specific nursing situation. T...

The Three Major Religions and Healthcare

This 7 page paper gives an overview of the basics of the major religions and why nurses should study them. This paper includes Jew...

'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...

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...

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...

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 ...