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Ethical Conflict Regarding Nurse's Code and a Patient's 'Right to Die'

In eight pages this essay discusses efforts to reconcile euthanasia and the Nurse's Code in a consideration of the ethics nonmalef...

Critical Concepts in the Hospital Environment

Decision-making, critical thinking and advocacy are all important in the modern hospital experience. This paper examines a patient...

Advanced Practice Nurses and Their Significance

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

Jean Watson's Nursing Theory

and technology, however, she refers to these elements as the "Trim," which is a term she originated that differentiates between ca...

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...

Technlogy in Nursing

Advances in technology have changed everything from how patients are diagnosed to acute care to managing chronic illnesses. Techno...

Comparing Australian Nursing Roles in Gerontology

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

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,...

Political Processes and Healthcare Regulations

should be political informed by drawing on a variety of sources for information; vote for the candidates and/or ballot issues that...

Nurses and Stress

have more opportunity to encounter difficulties involved in nursing the critically ill. "How frequently a given stressor occurs d...

Quitting Smoking and Hospitalized Patients Educational Obstacles

In five pages this paper examines literature regarding the nurse's role in educating hospitalized patients on smoking cessation. ...

Nurse's Perspective on the Midwifery Profession

most often have a great deal of training and, in most mainstream settings, are also nurses or nurse-midwife practitioners. Many ar...

Pain Management and Long Term Care Residents' Rights

old signs of questionable care still apply, however. Unexplained injury or falls, the occurrence of pressure sores, and evidence ...

Nursing, Management, and Stress

stress and exhaustion sets in (1992). Nurse managers are subject to continual stress as many of their tasks involve life an...

Derived Theory of Smoking Relapse Analyzed

then transpose and restate it, in order to explain the phenomenon (1987). Then, the identification of content from the parent theo...

Nurse Practitioner Cost Analysis

In a paper consisting of twenty five pages that includes an annotated bibliography of nine pages the addition of a staff nurse pra...

Interdisciplinary Management Factors, Training, and Nursing Competency

There is, in fact, an ongoing shortage of well-trained, competent, nurses. This shortage could be expected to intensify beginning...

Nursing Homes and Professional Conflict

In six pages this tutorial discusses nursing homes and the conflicts that can erupt between administrators and nursing staff. Six...

PDAs as a Home Nursing Boon

In a research paper consisting of nine pages the ways in which personal digital assistance can be used as home nursing support are...

Comparing Nursing Definitions of Virginia Henderson and Florence Nightingale

In seven pages this research paper examines how nursing was defined in the 19th century by Florence Nightingale and in the 20th ce...

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...

Nursing Transcendence Relevance

In fifteen pages this research paper considers the relevance of the transcendence concept to the nursing profession and discusses ...

Concerns About Safety and the Shortage of Nurses

In five pages this paper discusses how the shortage of nurses compromises the safety of both patients and nurses alike. Six sourc...

Nursing and the Structural Functionalist Sociological Model

family as it enables the family system to be regarded in a myriad of ways (1998). Here, the family may be evaluated holistically, ...

Florence Nightingale's Life and Nursing Contributions

In twelve pages English nurse Florence Nightingale's life and many innovative nursing profession contributions are examined. Six ...

Delegation Importance and Nursing Management

dedication and focus on doing a good job. But, hesitancy to delegate takes the manager away from more important work and results ...

Homeless Patients and a Nurse's Role

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...

Nursing and Autonomy

In a paper consisting of nine pages the argument is presented that the reduction of nurses' autonomy through restrictive constrain...

A Nursing Perspective on Patient Mental Illness

This 15 page paper discusses seven patients who suffer from various forms of mental illness, and argues that there may be an under...

Nursing, Pregnancy, and Use of Cocaine

In twelve pages contemporary literature relevant to the nursing role in at risk population pregnancies concentrating on the use of...