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Hospitals and Nursing

Issues pertinent to these five elements include conceptual framework, scope of practice, policy implications and support of social...

Nursing Participant Observation Controversy and Qualitative Research

who choose to use qualitative methods tend to seek a deeper reality, inasmuch as their aim is to "study things in their natural se...

Nursing in Great Britain, Clinical Supervision

patient care" (p. 438). Prior to 1970, nursing training in the UK could be described as rigid and highly structured. After...

Arthritis Clinic Led by Nurse Practitioners

Primary Care Act, a feature of both practices is that the patients have the option of seeing a GP or a NP as their first point of ...

Long Term Care Environments and Nursing Care Plans

their wishes for the patients care. Every nursing home resident has a right to such a plan by law (Stern), and it does not only p...

Patient Autonomy and Nursing Concept Analysis

be in agreement with a working definition of autonomy. Thus, the following attributes should be seen: self-determination, in...

Complaints and Nursing

that time. What might be needed, then, would be some plan of action that the staff could follow, or possibly some type of polite s...

Patient Care, Team Approaches, Evaluations, and the Process of Nursing

call for compliance with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to su...

Nursing Theory and Pain Management

deal of pain likely will occur during the first 24 hours after surgery (Drakeford, Pettine, Brookshire and Ebert, 1991). Preventi...

Proposal for an Addiction Treatment Center

Programs and Addiction Treatment Centers, 2007). Breaking addiction to these and other abused drugs often requires medical interv...

Interview with An Executive Leader

it is appropriate, such as when a novice nurse is faced with a crisis. There are times, and stages in a career, when employees can...

Hypertension Education for African American Patients

in response to cognitive and physiological challenge" (Covelli, 2007, p. 323). Diet: Both the intake of dietary sodium and potas...

Staff Shortages and UAPs

Literature on this topic indicates that RNs are hesitant in delegating tasks primarily because they are uncertain of the qualific...

Continuous Quality of Care

patients with certain injuries and missed diagnoses of certain conditions such as appendicitis or meningitis (Dansby, Kavaler & Sp...

Effective Nursing Leadership, Management

power, found that where nurses report that power when is shared, there are corresponding improvements in the nursing/physician rel...

Nursing as a Profession

of ethics; 5. is composed of individuals who consider this occupation as their lifework, contributing to the good of society throu...

Orem, Peplau and Neumann/Concept of Person

A 3 page research paper that compares and contrasts the way in which nursing theorists Hildegard Peplau, Dorothea Orem, and Betty ...

Nursing Knowledge Resources Online

Evidence into Practice" (AHRQ, 2008). The Nursing Center is an extremely useful site in that it offers access to a long list of ...

Family and Health Promotion

this indicates, family is incorporated into and valued within the realm of pediatric nursing practice as a factor that is crucial ...

Nursing/Medical Vocabulary

9.Surg: Patients recovering from some form of surgery. 10. Med: Patients recovering from some form of illness. 11. ICU-Intensive C...

Artificial Nutrition/hydration & Terminal Pediatric Patient

the insertion of a central line, threaded through a vein, and it was once believed that it would aid cancer patients, restoring ap...

Nursing Shortage

If all factors remain the same, by 2030, the shortage could reach the 1 million mark (Chandra and Willis, 2005). There are tremend...

Los Angeles Air Pollution and Healthy People 2010

2008). Further significant improvement is unlikely in the near future, however. Californias Efforts Governor Arnold Schwar...

Nursing Case Study & Critical Thinking Styles

familys emotional state through observation and empathic listening. They can explore their own emotions through self-examination a...

Dorothea Orem - Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory

own studies in numerous areas, such as formal logic, metaphysics, action theories, and to her readings of Aristotle, Aquinas and m...

Delegation Example in a Health Care Setting

feel as if they are not being given proper treatment if a CNA is assigned to their case instead of an RN (Sullivan, 1998). Thus, t...

Colby/Deaths of Nancy Cruzan

that the legal struggle took on her family was immense. Her father never recovered emotionally and committed suicide (Colby, 2002)...

Article Analysis: Nursing Shortage

to others, at least not as frequently as would seem reasonable if they liked it as well as the general public does. The reason mo...

Impact of Professional Environment on Nursing Knowledge

(Bliss-Holtz, Winter and Scherer, 2004). In hospitals that have achieved magnet status, nurses routinely collect, analyze and us...

Nursing Theories Core Concepts

2005, p. 4). She incorporated the environment into the theory along with numerous other factors and variables, all of which would ...