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Immunization Policy and Australian Nursing

the states and territories rather than the federal government. Currently, six of the eight Australian states and territories requi...

Advanced Nursing Practice and Family Theory: Lessons From the Movie “Thirteen”

begins using drugs, stealing, experimenting with sex, and seeking out more radical means of self mutilation. Each of these change...

Transformational Leadership/Nurse Retention

profession. The current nursing shortage-Why retention is important Basically, this shortage results from "massive disrupts in t...

Nursing and Ethical Dilemmas

arise during this absence. Not only is this practice unacceptable professionally, but it is also problematic legalistically, as th...

Nursing Profession and 'Telehealth' Implications

and was replaced by the broader term, telehealth (Maheu et al 7). The definition has also evolved to encompass all types of healt...

Professional Nursing Dimensions

ethnic distribution of the population in Paramus: White Non-Hispanic (75.5%) Hispanic (4.9%) Korean (4.8%) Asian Indian (4.5%...

Nursing Home Residents Suffering from Dementia and Making End of Life Decisions

rely on "surrogate" decision-makers, family members capable of making treatment decisions on their behalf. As a result, this stud...

HIV Prevention for Youth in Rural Areas

sex (Dunn, et al, 2007). Statistics, such as this, indicate the clear need for HIV prevention programs that specifically target ad...

Oral Hygiene Protocol and Nursing Practice

Hanson (2004) recommends a toothbrush, but specifies that it should be soft and that non-abrasive toothpaste should be selected. P...

Hospital Environments and the Skills Necessary for Effective Leadership in Nursing

an integral part of the carative model, there is a definnitive need to recognize the specific characteristics and skills of effect...

Personal Nursing Model Using the Self Care Deficit Theory of Orem

in diagnostic, prescriptive, and regulatory operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). From this perspective,...

RN and LPN Nursing Wage Disparities

Spence (1973) proposes that employers rationally offer higher compensation to those workers who have completed a higher level of e...

Ionized Drugs' Absorption

matrix, which contains mostly cholesterol and phospholipids (Merck, 2005). The composition of lipids not only determine the permea...

OR Nursing Practice Scope

2006). The activities of UAPs, unlike those of nurses and other licensed caregivers, is defined through job description and not re...

Australian Society and Drugs' Legal Status

legal status have no supportive precedents to cite (Moffitt et al, 1998). In the United States, Alaska briefly legalized the use ...

Nurse Practitioner

collaborating physicians name. Authority to prescribe controlled substances includes Schedule II-V as outlined in the prescribers ...

Nursing Homes & Liability

to a hospital, where he was intubated so that he could receive nutrition. He was again returned to Eastbrooke3 on July 23, 1990, w...

Health and Nursing Article Reviewed

impact the treatment process. Research underscores the connection between a "fighting" attitude and the capacity of individuals t...

Article Overview of 'Rotating Night Shifts and Risk of Breast Cancer in Women Participating in the Nurses' Health Study'

in general, and the risk of breast cancer in premenopausal and postmenopausal American women. Sampling Procedures The sampling...

Families and the Nursing Theory of Dorothea Orem

of fulfilling desires of order. Orem also sees the family as a relational concept (Taylor, 2001, p. 7). It only exists because o...

Surgical ICU Clinical Practice and Theoretical Nursing Models

this scenario, the question to be explored now is how each of above named nursing models addresses these patient needs. The Syste...

Nursing as an Integral Part of the VA Medical Center at Asheville

(Waller, 2006). Not only is customer satisfaction rated higher than it is on a general scale, the death rate is somewhat lower as ...

Spanish-speaking Clients/Mental Health Nursing

"hypnosis, behavior modification, and cognitive restructuring and their shamanic equivalents" (De Rios, 2002, p. 1576). Latino imm...

Marketing Plan for Utilizing the Adult Nurse Practitioner at an HIV/AIDS Clinic

they do and so are less valuable in health care (Cys, 2004). NPs are and have been nurses first, and a requirement for the Master...

Ecstasy Use As A Party Drug: Cause And Effect

dosage will make them increase this aphrodisiac sensation will only experience acute nausea, seizures and eventual unconsciousness...

Why Don't Nurses Delegate?

skill levels of assistant personnel. The term "unlicensed assistive personnel" (UAP) can apply to as many as 65 different job desc...

Evidence-Based: Nurse-Led Secondary Prevention Clinics For Women With CHD

is given according to patient needs. Appropriate management is prescribed by physician in a second final visit. Interaction betw...

Culturally Sensitive Nursing/Hispanic Client

(Kemp, 2005). In American mainstream culture, making eye contact is expected, as this indicates that the other person is listening...

Reflections Of A Nursing Home Visit

that came from realizing that even though she had not spent time with elderly people since her own grandparents, she harbored grea...

Obstacles to Nursing Recruitment & Retention

drain on the healthcare system of the nurses home countries. Personal : It is, of course, impossible for this writer/tutor to id...