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Article Critique/Nursing Home Patients

there is no cure either for Alzheimers disease or the various forms of dementia on the horizon, healthcare practitioners should "i...

Pediatric Asthma Case Management

an obstruction of the airway and can involved any or all of the following factors: "smooth muscle bronchoconstriction, mucous secr...

Culturally Competent Nursing Strategies

care is to formulate a health care system and workforce that possesses the skill and understanding required to deliver quality hea...

Emergency Nurses Association

trends. This peer-reviewed journal also offers its readership a forum for sharing their experiences with their peers, as well as l...

Ethical Implications of Shortages in Nursing

Beginning in the early 1990s, managed care targeted nursing as an expenditure where hospitals could cut costs. Managed care consul...

Homeless & Mental Illness/A Vulnerable Population

necessary health-related behaviors" required for meeting "ones therapeutic self-care demand (needs)" (Hurst, et al 2005, p. 11). U...

Czech Immigrants & Nursing

2001, p. 24). While the ancestors of many Americans of Czech extraction came to the US in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries...

Circulating Nurse Surgery Case Study

ventilation. This included placing hip pads with egg crate foam under the patients iliac crest to prevent hyperextension of the lo...

HIV Positive Nurses Should Still Be Allowed to Work

much closer look at the unwise choice to allow HIV-positive nurses to continue their practice. Britain provides statistics that i...

Vancouver, British Columbia and Homelessness

which means that the homeless population in Vancouver encompasses roughly 1800 people (The Americas, 2004). They are virtually all...

Geriatric Mentally Ill Patients and Nursing

characteristics of metal disorders may include abnormalities in cognition, mood or emotions; it may include abnormalities in integ...

Assessment of a Woman with Menopause Case Study

the nGMS as an assessment instrument. This computer program provides a check list that the nurse can use to cover all pertinent in...

Patient’s Possessions & Cultural Competency

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

Nursing Unions

cardiac monitor, a seizure, drug reaction or other sign of a critical condition...(They) are expected to fill out reports" that we...

Nurse Staffing Ratios

system," since the institution of mandated nursing ratios, and also that data shows California hospitals have not only been able t...

Article Analysis/Urinary Incontinence Study

the prevalence of UI was high in this region of the country and particularly high among African Americans in two of the states, wh...

Non-punitive Nursing Culture/Medical Errors

2004). As errors are inevitable, in order to significantly reduce the rate at which they occur, it is imperative that mistakes sho...

Asthma Medication/Xolair

events (Owen, 2007). This action includes "presentation of antigen by dendritic cells" as well as the "degranulation of mast cells...

Nursing Shortage in New York State

Nursing (Webber, 2007). However, this is not a long-term solution. The long-term solution to achieving an adequate nursing force f...

Now Night Nurses on an Intensive Care Unit

of this decision. Ecological theory is an attempt to bring in many different influences in order to understand how a society ...

Medicare, Part D

to the medications needed to ensure their health. Beginning in 2004, Medicare began to offer aid, $600 a year, for covering the co...

Concept Analysis/Acute Pain

factors" (Hader and Guy, 2004, p. 21). The international Association for the Study of Pain and the American Pain Society define pa...

Anthropology and Nursing

There are numerous nursing scholars who utilizing ethnographic techniques in their research; university courses that address both ...

Nursing Career Plans & Goals

upon the nursing knowledge that I already possess in order to facilitate my helping larger number of people through the mediums of...

Magnet Status and Evidence-Based Practice

official entity until 1993. Today it addresses an array of nursing issues. The goals of the program are: * "Promoting quality in...

Roy’s Adaptation Model & Cardiac Care

As described by Araich (2001), four nursing strategies effectively summarize how a critical care nurse can use the RAM to aid a ca...

Nurses and Drug Abuse

have access to a range of drugs. Bennett (et al, 2000) argues that the overall rate of substance abuse in the nursing popualtion r...

BNP Assays (Article Summary)

predicting mortality and morbidity. Authors provide a section to explain and explore the existence of natriuretic peptides. Anoth...

A Future in Nephrology

are Patient Care Manage, Employee Manager and Facilities Operation Manager (DaVita Dialysis, 2007). Each these areas require speci...

Meeting a Patient’s Spiritual Needs

caregiver can also ask if they belong to a spiritual, community or religious group (involvement); if the children attend religious...