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Staffing Ratios and Outcomes in Nursing

what was said in the first sentence of this essay - nurse shortages results in nurses being given unrealistic workloads (DPE Resea...

Concepts of Self Care

to the wide-ranging aspect of nursing than merely administering medicine; in fact, the myriad components that ultimately comprise ...

Care Barriers

in a Scottish farmhouse that is more than 10 miles from the nearest village and more than 50 miles from the nearest hospital. Jame...

Blood Pressure and Hypothermia

a serious concern for the lower it is the more likely the body is to stop working all together. In addition, it is incredibly impo...

Alzheimer's Patients and Caregiving Study Critique

In five pages this research study on Alzheimer's patients and caregivers' long term intervention is subjected to a content critiqu...

Geriatric Case Psychosocial Assessment

serious enough to keep her in the ICU unit for three days. Still, it did not take long for Eleanor to resume her activities at ver...

Patient Depression and Nursing

influential resource and is a resource in which the patient will rely. Ethics Issues In this paper the treatment of a pati...

Cardiac Patents and Dietary Non Compliance

One of the more important lifestyle changes involves the diet. Coronary artery disease as the leading cause of death in the...

Adolescents and Pediatric Perioperative Nursing Interventions

an adolescent client (Wallis, 2004, p. 59). Data on the development of abstract reasoning skills, as well as of the "recognition o...

Onetime Vioxx Patients and Pain Treatment Management

and also consider the concerns of the patients. There have been many drugs developed that are good for the treatment of ar...

Evaluation of a CBT session

on too long, she says things that do not need to be said, like the comment about not wanting to overwhelm him and they will go thr...

Ethical Dilemma Pertaining to a Do Not Resuscitate Order

disagree with his wife could disrupt their marital relationship at a time when he needs this support, which is undoubtedly one of ...

Cancer Patients and Nursing

that is, whether it will spread (metastasize) and what symptoms that it is likely to cause (Cancer diagnosis, 2005). The term "sec...

Terminally Ill Patients and Nursing Care

the needs of the dying and her work indicates that there are times when the most meaningful communication that a nurse can offer i...

Gender, Surgery, and Hypothermia

to correct these deviations (Nicoll, 2002). If the hypothalamus senses that the body is too cold, the first autonomic response is ...

Diabetes Education Lesson Plan

reason, who are newly diagnosed with Type II diabetes. The primary purpose will be to impress upon these patients the critical ne...

Dorothea Orem and Florence Nightingale on Nursing Theories, Beliefs, and Values

prepared for this role" (McKenna, 1997, p. 87). Perhaps most significant of all was Florence Nightingales belief that env...

Home Oxygen Therapy

and TCPL2. The precise level of oxygen allowed per patient is prescribed by the patients physician. Too much or too little can b...

Case Study Analysis of Patient Confidentiality

the written record. The patient also adamantly refuses a recommended treatment, but he is only 16 years old. The parents go along ...

Nurse's Role in Patient Assessments

of a unified health care organization that included both Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH...

A Hemorrhoids and Constipation Plan of Treatment

clinical perspective, there are additional considerations. An assessment of the patient determined a presence of mild anemia and ...

The Terminal Patient: A Case Study

paradigm but without the fantasy that acceptance is the ultimate outcome. In treating this patient, a student writing on the subje...

Native Medical System of Iran

help have as great an expanse of knowledge as is possible. This will also help the Iranian doctors to "find work in the private s...

Chronic Pain Management and Nursing Philosophy

stronger. The authors make no comment on whether any of the individuals were concerned about becoming dependent on their pa...

Student Supplied Case Study on Moral Pastoral Practice

worries that God is angry with her, that maybe He hates her. She feels she has destroyed her relationship with God. She even asks ...

Healing Wounds and the Role of Nutrition

placement of polyvinyl alcohol sponges into subcutaneous pockets" (p. 7). Each of the rats were "given a nutritional solution con...

Blodget Case Analysis

a new, inexpensive test, called the Fox test, is now in circulation, and is available to help screen clinic patients. The test cos...

Patient Care and the Adaptation Model of Callista Roy

All care is the responsibility of the medical team with which these patients have surrounded themselves. It is the patients respo...

Acute Renal Failure and Dialysis Patients, Nutrition, and Nursing

infinitely more to the aspect of nursing than administering medicine; in fact, the myriad components that ultimately comprise the ...

Confidentiality Issues and Nursing Ethics

he could use public transportation to visit his parents nearby town. In short, the argument that Mr. Paul depends on his dr...