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

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

their wishes for the patients care. Every nursing home resident has a right to such a plan by law (Stern), and it does not only p...

Today, the theories of Orem, Roy, Neuman, Rogers, King, and others seem to be more popular than older theories such as those of Fl...

patient care (Hassmiller and Cozine, 2006). Some strategies proposed by RWJF for helping to decrease the tremendous workload on nu...

a good nurse ... Id spend more time with their families. If I were a good nurse, I would ..." (Williams, 2001; p. 24ac2)....

the inclination is to treat the dying patient with as little emotion as possible, so as not to suffer emotionally as well, many nu...

have different concerns and worries which will need to be addressed prior to the tackling of the practical issues. The plan will...

particular, resilience is also crucial because each instance is completely unique and may require a different response. In other ...

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

necessary health-related behaviors" required for meeting "ones therapeutic self-care demand (needs)" (Hurst, et al 2005, p. 11). U...

it is like the concept of paying it forward. Praying forward is that act of doing something kind or helpful for someone else, they...

provide effective communication, the Band Aid song "Do They Know Its Christmas" a song which led to Live Aid was effective; this w...

workplace is a critical component of occupational rehabilitation (Morrison, 1993). In one study it was found that employees of inj...

proven to be the principal reason for nosocomial infections, that is, infections that are acquired after hospital admittance. Impo...

in the U.S. stands at 8.5 percent to over 14 percent, depending on the specific area of specialty (Letvak and Buck, 2008), by 2020...

York found that, in the past, ambulance diversions were a seasonal event. However, more recent research finds that diversional sta...

secretary, should leave the ward when there were fewer than three children on the unit and work a second adult unit as well. He wa...

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

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

information. These guidelines are also based on this researchers finding that self-care promotes the pediatric patients spiritual ...

Aesthetic, the need for beauty, order and symmetry (Huitt, 2004). 7. Self-actualization is a plateau not all people reach. At this...

include an understanding of how insulin functions to control glucose levels and the interaction between variables that can affect ...

In six pages this nurse's job loss is examined in terms of the reasons behind it after her failure to save a terminally ill patien...

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

The United States has become more and more diverse over the last four decades and that diversity continues to expand. Different cu...

This pair consists of the speaker notes for khapnpall.ppt, a six-slide Power Point presentation that critiques an article, Reed (2...

This research paper/essay concerns a home visit with an older woman suffering from congestive heart failure (CHF, hypertension and...

This essay gives an overview of why mandatory overtime for nursing staff is a significant issue that as the potential to harm pati...

This essay presents a summary and analysis of "Video on Interviewing Vulnerable Elders (VIVE)," which instructs nurses and long-te...