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Quality of Life and the Role of Nursing

Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...

Nurse Practitioners and Advanced Practice Nursing

(Walsh, 2003; p. 22). The intended role is that of partner with an MD in providing direct patient care in terms of serving in rol...

The Parish Nurse and Advanced Practice Nursing

issues of spirituality. In essence, the parish nurse has the ability to treat the whole patient, rather than only addressing symp...

Psychiatric Nursing and Nursing Theory

nursing. Forchuk and Dorsay (1995) and Barker, Reynolds and Stevenson (1997) identify Hildegard Peplau as the first to apply nurs...

Nursing Theory and the Importance of Domestic Violence Screening and Intervention

Although the nursing professions is just now beginning to become more aware of the need for this type of approach it was first int...

Nursing's Contribution to Quality of Life

could be called human biological life; or(2) human personal life that includes biological life but goes beyond it to include other...

Proposal for Increasing Nurses' Salaries

numbers of young students came to believe that perhaps nursing would provide an outlet for caring natures as well as support a fam...

The Nursing Issue of Drug and Alcohol Abuse among Nurses

results from alcohol or drug misuse and which interferes with professional judgment and the delivery of safe, high quality care" (...

Nurse Practitioner & Nurse Midwife

are RNs who are "prepared, through advanced education and clinical training, to provide preventive and acute health-care services"...

Nursing Theory Selection and Implementation

are, meaning that their immediate physical conditions affect the likelihood of success of the procedures they are about to undergo...

Nurse's Views on Euthanasia

use this possibility as an excuse to not provide other people, people who are obviously suffering tremendously and would inevitabl...

Nursing Homes and Ethical Issues

blatant display of irreverence, with some of the worst infractions found within the health care industry. The cramped, dark and u...

Temporary Agency Nurses' Accountability and Competence in a Hospital Setting

not only better oriented overall to do the job but who also would be paid enough to have an incentive to stay in the job or put ma...

The Changing Nature of Health Care in the U.S.

expected only to continue for several years to come. Then, growth will begin to decline in response to fewer numbers of people re...

Nursing Assistants and Multicultural Education

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

Registered Nurse's Work and Objectives

of patients that not only speak about the medical problem, but also monopolize the staffs time by discussing volumes of informatio...

Emergency Room and Intensive Care Unit Nursing Retention

the chaos," she said (Serafini 1490). This nurse further stated that sometimes ER nurses are called to the intensive care unit for...

International Implications of Nursing

affect the level of health care available to individuals in sub-Saharan nations, the exodus of qualified health care providers and...

SNF Costs and the Impact of the Shortage of Registered Nurses

of the patients in a single unit will be assigned to one RN; the other half will be assigned to another. Another will be availabl...

Decision Making and Nursing

on the other hand, is much faster than analysis in that it is based on "immediate recognition of the key elements of a situation a...

SNF Costs and the Impact of Primary Nursing

to changes which in turn can result in higher costs and reduced perceived quality of care. Primary nursing is not a new con...

Contemporary Nursing's History

as how the profession has been viewed for at least a century. It was an honorable and respected position for a woman and one that ...

Costs of Skilled Nursing Facilities and the Impact of the Shortage of Registered Nurses

Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that it is no longer only added stress and long hours for those ...

Research Proposal on SNFs and the RN Shortage

well. This study also appears to be sound scientifically. Its primary means of data analysis is statistical; the methods b...

Nursing's Hermeneutic Phenomenology Method of Inquiry

Replicatability is one hallmark of valid quantitative research. In past years, qualitative research in nursing has been ass...

Nurse's Perspective on the Midwifery Profession

most often have a great deal of training and, in most mainstream settings, are also nurses or nurse-midwife practitioners. Many ar...

Pain Management Barriers and Nursing's Role

management. Howard Leventhal is responsible for developing an important research model that can be easily tailored to address any...

Registered Nurse's Hospital Role

several years. Psychologically, it has been found that individuals more actively involved with their own health care often fare m...

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...

Studies and Recommendations on Burnout of Nurses in Oman and Other Countries

of the nurses and the nurse population ratio is considered higher than most in the region (MoH, 2002). Recent advances in nursing ...