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ICU Delirium

hospital stays (Cole and Soucy, 2003). While all ICU patients have serious and potentially life-threatening conditions, those ov...

Health Care: Ethical Dilemma

HIV-positive nurses being a threat to patients and other health care workers. Research clearly supports the reality of the situat...

Herbal Medicine/What Nurses Should Know

not as drugs, which means that these remedies do not undergo the rigorous testing that is required for prescription medicines (He...

Contemporary Nursing Ethics

this development and left orders for both analgesia and sedation, which helped at first, but became less effective as the hours pa...

Holistic Nursing Journal

discourse that I find confusing. Philosophy has often struck me as an amorphous subject. Its slippery and refuses to be categoriz...

The Dorothy Johnson Behavioral System Model of Nursing

the environment" (Reynolds and Cormack, 1991, p. 1123). Within this main system are eight subsystems: the "ingestive, eliminative,...

Community Nursing: Positive Impacts on Nutrition and Lifestyle

Social Services they have complained that that funding is insufficient to provide for even their most basic dietary needs. Part o...

Observing a Religious Service

the listeners would occasional offer comments and observations, to which the rabbi would generally respond. Occasionally, this pro...

3 Nursing Diagnoses for an Elderly Patient

the case study, is important for planning a safe and effective rehabilitation program (Craven and Hirnle, 2007). People who experi...

Ethical Issues/Living Wills

precisely the same as for other patients. Legal responsibility for care decisions in cases where there is a living will: does the...

ADHD and the Role of the Psychiatric Nurse

motor vehicle crashes, substance abuse, and illegal behavior" (Visser, Lesesne and Perou, 2007, S99). Symptoms include irritabili...

ADHD: A Critique of the Research

and Perou (2007) report that an estimated five to eighteen percent of youth in the US are diagnosed with ADHD and most receive so...

Quality Improvement/Pressure Ulcers

a "collaborative quality improvement project" that focuses on PUs in nursing homes as its primary focus (Lynn, et al, 2007). QIOs,...

Evaluating 2 Nursing Web Sites on EBP

researchers (JBI, 2008). This section of the site also addresses the topic of "Research Training" and the availability of scholars...

Nurse Training and Retention Act of 2007

wages and benefits to its nurses that are competitive for its market or that have been collectively bargained with a labor organiz...

Preventing Nursing Injury in the Workplace

such as "human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus" (Shelton and Rosenthal, 2004, p. 25). The gr...

NP role in EDs/Study Article Critique

and theoretical Framework: The instrument designed for use in this study drew heavily upon the survey developed by Cole, et al, wh...

Admissions Essay, Doctoral Program, Family Nurse Practitioner

versatile medium, learning how to create web pages and make them interactive and user-friendly. It is important that care provid...

HOSPITAL CASE STUDY

paying salaries). Patients are going to generally go to hospitals where their doctors are - though when it comes to emergencies or...

Pain Management Literature Review

p. 29), as stated in its title. Mean age was 81; 218 participants completed the study. The researchers evaluated the differences...

In Vitro Fertilization

nature have cropped up. Is a 60 year old woman too old to raise children? Is it ethical for a woman to carry her own grandchildren...

Missed Nursing Care/Research Article Critique

reasons given by nursing staff for not providing this care (Kalisch, 2006, p. 306). At the end of the study article, in the "Di...

Nursing And Case Management: Abstract Of Qualitative Study Article

also occupied a role or part in the setting, reflecting how participant observation is both extensive and intuitive by nature. In...

Mandatory Overtime for Nurses

quality of the provided care (ANA, 2008). Empirical research studies have confirmed that the risk for medical error increase subst...

Community Nursing Problem/Yeadon, PA

avoidance, such as creating a buddy system, which pairs elderly neighbors with each other. Buddies check on one another and accomp...

IOM Ecological Model/Bioterrorism

On further examination, the cause of death is determined to be smallpox. As the World Health Organization (WHO) completely eradica...

Mental Models of a Finance Officer in a Healthcare Setting

This 3 page paper looks at the type of mental models which may be used by a chief finance officer in a healthcare organization whe...

Adverse Drug Reactions and Metabolic Changes Associated with Antipsychotic Medications

as typical or traditional (first generation) and atypical (second generation) (Blake, 2006). Typical antipsychotic medications ar...

Fourteen Forces Of Magnetism - Case Study

the others (Trofino, 2007). Those 14 Forces of Magnetism provide the conceptual foundation and basis for what became the Magnet a...

Teenage Pregnancy

various roles" (Meadows-Oliver, et al, 2007, p. 116). The stress involved in a teenage pregnancy and the associated pressure tha...