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In fifteen pages this paper discusses the health care setting in an examination of the advanced practice nurse or nurse practition...

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...

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

patients, cleaning patients up, changing the beds for patients, helping patients go to the bathroom, and many other simple, but ne...

from an advanced practice nurse. Patients value the nurse practitioner (NP) as a trustworthy source of medical information that a...

In six pages this paper examines nursing care from the perspectives of nurses and patients as reported by this Australian study. ...

In seventeen pages this research paper examines the U.S. system of health care in terms of the empirical studies that indicate the...

Managed care has caused an upheaval in the way medical services are delivered in this country. This paper discusses the largest su...

In two pages an article featured in a nursing journal is reviewed that considers the correlation between patient health care quali...

Certification is important in many fields as it is in nursing. The CNA position is discussed in depth. The nursing care industry i...

job experience, type A behavior patterns, and fear of negative evaluation, combined with frequency of stressful events" (Dugan et ...

In eight pages the concerns that have recently developed regarding the 1976 ANA Code for Nursing are considered including nursing ...

In five pages this paper discusses the plight of the homeless and health care access in a consideration of a nurse's role. Six so...

who suffer from cancer, arthritis, AIDS, multiple sclerosis or acute back pain are known to frequently turn to alternative medicin...

made available to all of the outside world including Wall Street analysts. The news of its financial problems came as a surprise ...

that MCOs develop their capacity to handle changes that are driven legislatively by congressional response to public reactions to ...

In three pages this research paper discusses how humor can be a modality that assists nurses in patient care as well as self care....

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

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

not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely woul...

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

which a person demonstrates fundamental functioning in their life environment (Jones and Kilpatrick, 1996). In other words, the c...

All of these studies reflect empirical studies of hospital populations in an effort to determine how changes in the healthcare env...

Colorado/Utah and 3.7 percent of the hospitalizations occurring in New York resulted incurred adverse events (Dunn 45). Death occu...

regimes and goals are instituted to bring about change that is viewed to be best for the people involved (Oberle and Allen, 2002)....

are intrinsically connected to behaviors that cope with stress factors in the environment (Roy, 1999). The goal within this nursi...

care. The team leader is responsible for overseeing and coordinating all of the elements of care and also delegates care of specif...

the people involved (Oberle and Allen, 2002). The principal focus of the simultaneity paradigm is on the clients perspectives of t...

a good nurse ... Id spend more time with their families. If I were a good nurse, I would ..." (Williams, 2001; p. 24ac2)....

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