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Community Health & Teen Pregnancy

situation. As a provider of care, it is the role of the community health nurse to address the needs of Centerville adolescents i...

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...

Aging Population and Depression Issue in Home Health Care

In ten pages this paper presents a hypothetical situation in which an agency must address the issue of senior citizens and depress...

Nursing Care for Elderly Patient

By addressing this need, which includes rehabilitation designed to aid her mobility, nursing intervention can also have a positive...

Continuation of 'Historical Development of Shannondale Nursing Home'

nursing shortage has meant for SNFs that they have fewer RNs available to them and that recruiting and retention has become more c...

Nursing Home Residents Suffering from Dementia and Making End of Life Decisions

rely on "surrogate" decision-makers, family members capable of making treatment decisions on their behalf. As a result, this stud...

Dependency and Physical Changes of the Elderly

In five pages this research paper takes a nursing perspecitve regarding the elderly's physical changes and increased dependence th...

Nursing Home Patients And Their Vulnerabilities During Disasters

food, clean water and - most important for some people who did not survive - electricity to keep their life-sustaining equipment r...

Article Critique/Handling Difficult Situations/Daily Care

include not only the emotional impact of being experienced by the patient and the relatives involved, but research has also relate...

Reflections Of A Nursing Home Visit

that came from realizing that even though she had not spent time with elderly people since her own grandparents, she harbored grea...

Theory-Driven Praxis—Personal Framework

Domain concepts Health: The traditional understanding of "health" is that is the absence of illness and/or injury. However, for ...

Nursing Homes & Liability

to a hospital, where he was intubated so that he could receive nutrition. He was again returned to Eastbrooke3 on July 23, 1990, w...

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...

Organizational Change in St. Vincent's ICU

Hospital. The purpose here is to describe and evaluate the restructuring of St. Vincents ICU to gain one-on-one nursing and so im...

Nurses & Health Care Policy

the women who have traditionally filled nursing positions will undoubtedly continue to pursue other professional opportunities tha...

Medicare and the Elderly

can no longer follow this model is because medical technology can now greatly prolong life-perhaps make it too long. People now ro...

Personal Philosophy of Nursing

individual is an "open system," which includes "distinct, but integrated physiological, psychological and socio-cultural systems" ...

Elderly and Community Care

of many elderly patients. The failure of the policy to realise real benefits was seen in many areas. This is not to say...

Intergenerational Family Relationships

elderly population is finding it difficult to meet their own financial needs and have few choices but to pool resources with other...

Caring in Nursing Theory

paternalistic approach that has been favored by physicians. Watsons theory stresses nurses should "honor anothers becoming, autono...

Nursing Caring Theory

This essay focuses on Watson's nursing theory of caring. It reports and explains the meta-paradigms, caratives, and how nurses dev...

Overview of Critical Care Nurse Practitioner

a specialized body of knowledge, skills and experience that enables these nurses to offer a high standard of care to critically il...

An Analysis on an Article About Caring and Science

lawyers, uncaring nurses and pedophile clergy is to cut back on scientific research--a tenuous conclusion at best. Where the art...

The Importance of Care In Nursing

the mountains in California, ride a horse in the Grand Canyon, volunteer in a cancer center, finish painting his house, attend his...

Nursing Shortage & Patient Safety

established that nurses are often involved in the "timely identification of complications," which, if acted upon swiftly, prevent ...

Nursing & Spiritual Care

much broader in its application. It is this broadness that allows nurses to reach across religious lines and distinctions. In a su...

Confused Elderly Patient Case Study

question was directed at the nurse. One of her companions noted that her daughters name is Nancy, but Nancy died three years previ...

Nutrition and Health Problems in the Elderly

self-reported diabetes ranged from 1.6% among persons aged 18-34 years to 12.5% among persons aged 65-74 years" (Current Trends Re...

Forensic Psychiatric Nursing

endeavor. Nursing in any context requires a detailed knowledge of individual patients. Specifically, a forensic nurse will have a...

Field of Nursing and Managed Health Care

In eight pages this paper discusses managed health care and its impact upon specialized nursing in an assessment of managed care's...