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Terminal Condition and Informing Patients 2

Acquiescing to the constraints imposed by organizational and professional structure does not mean that the nurse has no alternativ...

Theory and Nurse Leadership

leadership of the nursing department with another individual at the VP level. Maras has full leadership of the department o...

Patient Care Impact of the Shortage in Nursing

* Time over Money - Employees today seek more personal time versus financial compensation. * Professional versus Personal Role - ...

Elderly Citizens and Considerations for Community Health Care

the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the economics of elder care. The stakeholders in this...

An Analysis of Nursing Care Concepts

individuals belief, values, and membership in family and social groups. Brodie (2001) asserts that it is the hallmark of professio...

Nurse Leadership, Clinical Pathways, Discharge Planning, and Quality Management

synopsis will be provided for each of these articles and one article will selected for a more detailed discussion of how its findi...

Personal Reflections on Clinical Supervision

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

Ethics and Legalities of Health Care

to believe that his strategy for paying the hospitals bill for treatment to be a sound one. He had sued the local trolley line (a...

Nurse and the Future of Canadian Health Care

industry and primary care access; homecare access; and the new legislation proposed in regards to the entire health human resource...

Nursing Profession and Hispanics

of the great need for Hispanic nurses which has been created by the growing Hispanic population, this occupational choice presents...

Proposal Regarding Nursing Homes and Elder Incontinence

Medical Center, 2002). It is estimated that 13 to 18 million adults suffer from incontinence at some time or other (Mercy Medical...

Energy Conservation and Nursing

From this perspective, individuals can be viewed as open systems, in which energy is transformed within the body, gaining or losin...

ICU Nursing Ratio Restructuring and Change Management

will the organization finance those costs? How will current and future employees view the planned changes? Once senior man...

Review of an Article on Nursing Research

to examine whether womens social roles mediate the impact of heart surgery on their psychological well-being" (Plach and Heidrich,...

Review of an Article on Nursing Home Residents and Hospitalization

field of nursing and in particular for nursing home facilities. Valid data could put pressure on nursing homes to hire an adequate...

Malpractice and the Nursing Profession

in the profession. As long ago as 1990, at least one author was addressing in print the problems that hospitals were having not o...

Psychiatric Nursing Training and Reflective Practice

Irelands influence in reflective practice is now beginning to be felt around the country. Among other developments, the English N...

Nursing Injuries' Problem Resolution

provided. A nurse who has back pain will likely reduce the care he or she could otherwise administer. When people have back or m...

Reminiscence Therapy Research and Reflection

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

Nursing Personnel Performance Appraisals

least useful in nursing. The purpose here is to review the state of performance evaluation in nursing. Literature Review A...

Clinical Nursing Ladder System Development

process variation, foster awareness of the impact of different clinical decisions, and encourage reduction in undesirable practice...

Nursing Value of Shared Governance and its Implementation

does know is what is involved in the job, and many of the permutations that one simple standard can take. There is protocol, then...

Nursing and the Holism Concept

nursing practice and nurses are formally authorized from the society to touch their clients in the course of nursing activities. ...

Emergency Nurse Triage and Education

being the most complete. Education in triage generally has not been complete at all, however (Crafter, Little and Ritchie, 2000)....

Nursing Assistants and Multicultural Education

several problems with recent immigrants, however. These include language barriers, not having completed a GED, limited healthcare...

Nursing Practice and Pain Management Research

a lingering distrust of the qualitative approach, one that often has not been done well and has resulted in works that cannot be c...

Refugee Camps and the Application of Florence Nightingale's Environmental Theory

was well educated (Le Vasseur, 1998), from a family of wealth and yet held an unusual compassion for those less fortunate. She wa...

Values and Professionalism in Nursing

that "People choose nursing for love, not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and...

Ratio of Patients to Nurses

to the bill as did many nursing executives, arguing that there was sufficient legislation already on the books that dealt with sta...

Politics and Nurses

(Political Power, 2002). The profession of nursing is no different from any other in this regard (Political Power, 2002). Qualit...