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Quality in Health Care and the Effects of Agency Nurses

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

The New Health Care and Columbia/HCA

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

Advanced Practice Nursing, the Self Care Deficit Model of Dorothea Orem, and Urinary Incontinence

development of nurse-operated continence centers, which provide conservative management for UI (Bernier, 2002). Continence nurses...

Health Care Governance - Three Studies

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

Critical Incident Analysis in Nurse Management

and certainly health care facilities. In essence, the minimum requirements of nursing dictate that: * the nurse remain cognizant ...

Senior Citizens with Heart Problems and the Transitional Care Nursing Model

has left the facility and has gone home to the comforts of home in order to spend the last days, weeks or months of their life in ...

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...

Reviewing the Literature on OBRA 87 and Care Quality

to increase the quality of care given in long term care facilities in the country, in order to ultimate reduce health care costs t...

Pressure Ulcers/Changing Care

change and its rationale (which was based on the results of empirical research), implemented the change and then "supported the c...

Quality Assurance and Nursing Management

In five pages this research paper discusses quality care standard maintenance and the role played by nurse managers in sustaining ...

Federal And Connecticut Resident Rights: Nursing Homes And Assisted Living Facilities

?19a-490, Connecticut Department of Public Health Code ?19-13-D105 and Residential care homes ?19-13-D-6 (National Academy for Sta...

Nursing Education Bill

quality and care" of health services that offered to rural areas throughout the US (Clinton, 2007). In addition to providing fun...

ACA Took Away Some Freedoms

Few stakeholders are satisfied with health care in America despite the fact that health care costs more than in any other develope...

Quality within Australian Nursing

quality and safety for the care they can expect to receive from nurses and midwives and other health professionals are the same" (...

The Value of the Family

individual family member are considered within this context (Friedman, Bowden and Jones 37). In analyzing the various theories th...

Formulating Nursing Theory

verifies old knowledge (Wilkerson, 1998). As this suggests, the continuation of scholarly advances in the development of nursing t...

Health Care: Challenges in Caring for a Diverse Population, and Dealing with Colleagues of Different Ages

to proper interaction with culturally diverse patients: "These standards provide comprehensive definitions of culture, competence,...

Health Care Staff Shortages

nurses by 2012 to eliminate the shortage (Rosseter, 2009). By 2020, the District of Columbia along with at least 44 states will ha...

Importance of Nurses using Evidenced-Based Care

time to actively conduct a research study, lack of time to read current research, nurses do not have time to read much of the rese...

Comparing Australian Nursing Roles in Gerontology

these reforms. The data revealed a "sense of tension and conflict between nurses traditional values, roles and responsibilities ...

Definitions of Nursing Meta-paradigms

the profession of nursing has developed some basic ideas that serve as the foundation that guides all subsequent professional prac...

Advanced Practice Nursing Roles

the various roles and responsibilities that the specialty involves, they share the common quality that the nursing process is inhe...

An Annotated Bibliography of Nurse Research

prevent the potential of incidences of sudden cardiac death in young athletes. The authors maintained that pre-participation card...

Nursing Studies: Identifying the Underlying Theoretical Frameworks

order to infer what theoretical framework is being utilized, and why such a framework is appropriate for the context. This parag...

Personal Nursing Philosophy

perspective, is viewed as "the optimal level of ones potential relating to the environment" (Tourville and Ingalls 22). For examp...

Nurse Role Definition

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

NJ's Advanced Practice Nurses

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

'Don't Call Me Sweetie!' Australia Nursing Study Reviewed

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

Developments In Forensic Nursing

scientific investigation and treatment of trauma and/or death of victims of abuse, violence, criminal activity, and traumatic acci...

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...