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Nursing-Sensitive Outcome Indicators

nursing quality of care" (Hart, et al, 2006, p. 256). These indicators specifically indicate that complications, such as pressure ...

Nurse's Knowledge of Breast Cancer Screening

out care. Though there is a need for health care providers as a whole to have a greater awareness of the diagnostic process for b...

The Theory of Human Caring

al, 2009). The theory came from "the results of studies accomplished by the author along her Doctorate in Clinic and Social Psycho...

Analyzing John Nash's Mental Illness in A Beautiful Mind Film by Director Ron Howard

original consensus among mental health professionals the schizophrenia developed during late teens or early adulthood. However, a...

Leininger's Culture Care Nursing Theory

caring; 2. every human culture has lay (generic, folk or indigenous) care knowledge and practices and usually some professional ca...

Vets with PTSD

with sudden flashbacks intruding on thoughts (Fagan and Freme, 2004). Other symptoms include: an exaggerated startle reflex, sleep...

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...

Contrasts Between Culture and Medical Science in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...

Nursing Care and Patient Diagnosis

is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...

Nursing and Statistics

which both of those impacts are important. The question of what statistics should be collected in a medical facility, however, is...

Nursing Personal Values' Development

caring as the very definition of what constitutes personal values from a nursing perspective (2003). Koerner (1996), likewise, e...

Proper Care for Stroke Victims, a Case Study

classifies the stroke patients needs in four domains: 1) medical/surgical issues; 2) mental status/emotion/coping behaviors; 3) ph...

Human Becoming Nursing Theory of Parse

moment to moment as the changing patterns of shifting perspectives weave the fabric of life through the human-universe interconnec...

Integration of the Hierarchy of Needs by Abraham Maslow and Self Care of Dorothea Orem

activities" (Orems Self-Care Model Concepts) that patients need to undertake to meet their own health care needs on a routine basi...

Nursing and the Caring Phenomena

on nurses increase (Cullen, 2003). Nevertheless, nurse educators and scholars stress that it is through recognition of caring as a...

Jean Watson's Human Caring Theory

is they do, when they change their actions, then the image of nursing will change" (Watson, 1996, p. 142). Watson has recognized ...

Nursing and Family's Role

caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...

Overview of Respiratory Therapy

regards to lung function. If patients cannot breath on their own, RTs are trained on how to intubate patients and connect them to ...

Stroke Patients and Nursing Case Management

Partially as a result of improved heath care practices which result in longer life and partially as the result of the movement aw...

Johnson and Johnson Marketing Communications

and in 2001 unofficially took over daily operations of Johnson & Johnson as he was being trained to succeed Ralph Larsen upon his ...

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...

Leadership in Nursing

change, understand the reasons for this change and hare a vision of the future" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). The catch is that these g...

Article Summary on High Blood Pressure

differences between these two classifications are then described and three factors that are believe to influence the formation of ...

The Importance of Forensic Nursing

departments (Courson, 2004). It isnt that nurses have not been serving in these roles, they have but today, nurses receive speci...

Method Analysis in 'Analyzing Hospital Readmissions Using Statewide Discharge Databases'

the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

Geriatric Care Quality

balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...

Community and Patient Nursing Care and Meningococcal Meningitis

the disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...

Proposed Nursing Communication Project

suggestions for future action in regards to this problem. Section A: Problem identification The Problem and its importance The G...

Nurse Consultants and Their Role

on an evidenced based evidence based practice and the development of increased individual accountability in the area of clinical g...

Training of Nursing Staff and Its Rationale

learned long ago the value of yet another Deming (1986) exhortation, that of continuous improvement. By definition, the concept i...