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Science and Practice - Incompatible?

Science and practice of psychotherapy have been at odds for decades. Each has different goals: knowledge for its own sake or knowl...

The Elderly and Mental Health

This essay presents a discussion on mental health practice and the elderly, focusing on the biases of the student as a mental heal...

Patient Education Assessment

to take insulin only when his blood glucose level was above the value established by his physician. The nurse laid out all ...

Instructional Approaches Assessed

must have at least some knowledge of the topic of discussion beforehand, or the discussion can disintegrate into an exercise in "p...

The U.S. Air Force and Advanced Practice Nursing

between states and federal regulation. The purpose here is to determine whether the USAF advanced nurse practitioners are "functi...

Family Therapy - Three Different Models

Batesons cybernetics model (Niolan, 2002). Tucker (2002, PG) notes that to Bateson familial problems exist in a system of units a...

Primary Care v. Team Nursing

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

Discussion Questions for Nursing Practice

In a paper of nine pages, the writer looks at nursing practice. Discussion questions related to education and practice are examine...

Comparing and Contrasting TQM and BPR

result in improvements (Mintzberg et al, 2008; Reed et al, 1996). Defining TQM is difficult, there is no standard definiti...

Power and Practice in Nursing

nursing leadership and the integration of best-practice approaches to nursing care in order to address some distinct issues in the...

Nursing Leadership Environment Assessment Survey

survey. Encouraging nurses to cultivate an inquiring attitude The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) indicates ...

APNs and Cardiology

registered nurse (RN) who has obtained a graduate degree, at least a masters. There are four basic APN categories: clinical nurse ...

Needs Assessment and Simulation

evaluated stated that they are predominantly "hands-on learners." Eight of the 10 nurses evaluated stated they were hands-on lear...

Summary and Analysis of a Nursing Practicum

catheterization provides an effective method for evaluating the effectiveness of medications while also assessing cardiac function...

Advanced Practice Nursing, Various Issues

This research paper offers discussion of a various issues that pertain to advance practice nurses (APNs), such as their involvemen...

An Overview of the Health Care System in the United States

The estimated increase for 1999 is between 7 and 10 percent.4 Of the expenditures in 1997, 33 percent went towards hospital costs,...

Science of Healthcare

In twelve pages the scientific practice of health care is described in a consideration of the relationship between health care and...

Improving Pediatric Care in the ED

graduate nursing hires (Truman, 2004, p. 45). The novice nurses participate in six hours of classroom instruction, plus thirty hou...

Geriatric Clinical Nurse Specialist/State of CA

in any other state must, as of January 1, 2008, have a masters or another advanced graduate degree in nursing (Phillips, 2005). Wi...

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...

The NHS as a Model of Healthcare

by many the local and national government ought to have a more important role in the healthcare of the nations. As early as 1900 t...

Family Stress, Health, and the ABCX Model

Stress can have a varied impact on families, their cohesiveness, and their resiliency. Stress, of course, can...

Epidural Analgesia and Nursing Practice

In seven pages this research paper discusses epidural analgesia in an overview that examines nursing practice and considers the Ce...

Pregnancy, Drug Use, and Nursing

In six pages this research paper discusses substance addicted pregnant mothers and the positive impacts of nursing practice and nu...

Overview of Family Nurse Practitioner

crosses over all these disciplines (Warda, 2001). Family is defined broadly to incorporate the diverse structures of family in to...

APN Roles, an Overview

This research paper explores nursing literature pertaining to the role of advanced practice nurses (APNs). The writer first discus...

The Future of Nursing, The IOM Report

This research paper discusses the Future of Nursing, which is a report issued by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the...

The Use of a Health Promotion Model

In a paper of nine pages, the author reflects on the use of a behavioral health promotion model in at-risk populations. Specifica...

Noncompliant CHF Patients, A Health Education Intervention

regards to taking prescribed medications is a common phenomenon among patients. It has been estimated that roughly 10 percent of a...

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...