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Patient Outcomes, Organizational Factors, and Nursing Competency

to insure that nurses continually perform their duties in the most competent and constructive manner (Cain, 2001). The establishm...

Nursing and Congestive Heart Failure

In addition, among hospitalized patients over 65, CHF is the leading hospital admission diagnosis. In 1988 alone, it accounted fo...

Modern Nursing Evolution in the United States

for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...

Five Questions About the Role of Nurse Manager

and consumable supplies. Capital expense and information technology (IT) items are included, but the nurse manager has no direct ...

MEDITECH Hospital Information System

or reject MEDITECHs suggestions as they see fit. Whether users accept or reject the suggestions made by MEDITECH, care prov...

Qualitative vs. Quantitative Nursing Articles

specifically state that their objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with pr...

Science and Art of Nursing

process that requires "interpretation, sensitivity, imagination and active participation" (Jenner, 1997). Scientific knowledge, o...

An Analysis of a Article on Nursing Home Care and Medicaid Payments

for all persons in Medicaid certified facilities within the US. This instrument entails over 350 different data elements ranging f...

2 Perspectives on Nursing Theory

addressing specific phenomena or concepts and reflecting practice (Liehr and Smith, 1999). The grand theories of nursing, that is,...

Australian Patient with Unstable Angina and Nursing Actions

a specific number or percentage of Australian citizens who have or may be suffering from unstable angina. Part of the reason for ...

Nursing Models and Theories of Erickson and Orem

and can be applied in a variety of clinical settings, as well as in educational programs and research. Orems theory is bas...

Orem's Nursing Theory of Self Care Deficit Conceptual Analysis

differences between Orems theories and those of others. The intention of this paper is to work through each of these steps and to...

General Medical Services Contract, National Health Service, and Practice Nursing

practitioner surgeries are run by practice nurses, only making referrals to other members of the healthcare team when required, Th...

Article on Nurse Staffing

In five pages a 2001 article by Sarah Jo Brown on the relationship between patient outcomes and nurse staffing according to a stud...

Nurse Educator's Involvement in International Normalized Ratio Stability

laboratory specialists to obtain the appropriate level of anticoagulation independent of related laboratory reagents. Because the...

An Article on Improving Nursing Homes Reviewed

the nursing homes as well as greater accountability. Accountability is achieved through the requirement for the nursing home to su...

Nursing and Ethics

quality of a patients life, (4) implementing managed care policies that threaten quality of care, and (5) working with unethical/i...

Nursing Degrees and Associate versus Bachelor

In a paper consisting of six pages the argument is presented that nurses should be paid not on their level of education but rather...

Nursing and Integrated Clinical Pathways

that they need to have explained by their physician or nurse. Typically, the last page of the form contains discharge instructions...

Are All Nursing Degrees Created Equal?

the associates course of study to address the very things that can make the greatest difference in patient outcomes and satisfacti...

The Field of Nursing and Issues of Aggregate Introduction and Diagnoses in Health Promotion

already has been diagnosed as having some form of heart disease. In that sense, primary prevention is not possible. The goals of...

Nursing Interventions and the Confusion of Mrs. Galena

undergoes surgery for a hip arthroplasty 24 hours after admission. Twenty-four hours after surgery the nurses note that Mrs. Gale...

Medical/Surgical Nursing and Documentation

(Fawcett, 1995). Application of either model rests in large part on the appropriateness and completeness of nurse documentation (...

Nursing Delegation and Shared Governance

Bell (2000) reports that when an Australian hospital instituted shared governance, nurse managers responded "by developing a teamw...

Nursing Research and Its Crucial Developments

within the academic curriculum (Thomson, 2003). Therefore, this one are of research demonstrates how nursing research impacts many...

Nursing and Health Care Political Issues

the same sort of indirect methods that they have advocated will aid the economy. For example, the Republicans are pursuing putting...

Childhood Obesity and Public Health Nursing

The funding agency chosen for this program is the Childrens Aid Society, a nonprofit organization that has been dedicated to impro...

Expansion of Paper on Nursing Delegation and Shared Governance

of the patient (beneficence); * does not perform functions that can do harm to the patient (non-malficence); * practice fairness...

Article Review and Discussion of Nursing Mentoring

interactions with their patients and with each other have. Kurt Lewins change theory holds that change is incremental. It occurs...

Nursing as an Art

In twelve pages this paper presents the argument that nursing should be regarded not as a science but as an art. Ten sources are ...