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Concept Mapping Versus Care Plans/A Proposed Study

the fever? Was it related to an infection in the surgical wound? Was the patient developing atelectasis and pneumonia? Or, was the...

Formulating Nursing Theory

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

Importance of Evidence-Based Practice

makes the point that EBP involves more than simply utilize research evidence; and Penz and Bassendowski emphasize this point by s...

Jean Watson, Nursing Theorist

move in concentric circles of caring--from individuals, to others, to community, to (the) world" (Vance, 2003). Caring science inv...

Practicing Nursing in Pennsylvania

For example, in regards to nurse practitioners from other state, the law states, "The Board (meaning the Board of Nursing) may iss...

Interview/Diabetic Nurse Educator

perceived self-efficacy (Capik, 1998). JJ explained how Penders theory guides her priorities in establishing educational goals, ...

Role of Culture/Mental Health Nursing

to work efficiently and effectively across cultural boundaries. This concept also encompasses not only the assumption that nurses,...

Clinical Nurse Leaders/Are They Needed?

(Webber). This does sound extremely similar to the way in which the AACN defines the CNL role. In some hospitals, nurse practiti...

Responsibilities of Nursing Directors

In five pages Directors of Nursing are examined in terms of their many responsibilities which include business management, human r...

Residencies for Registered Nurses

It is well known that there is a significant shortage of registered nurses that will continue to grow. There is a difference of op...

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...

Clinical Practice and Psychological Assessment

are not as valid as medical tests, that the assessments used are not valid (Daw, 2001). As the report stated: "This report helps u...

Professional Nursing Burnout

This left Mee with little opportunity to connect with these patients as human beings and she started "to feel like a machine," whi...

Nursing Questions

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

Nursing Management/Retention Issues

that not only were nurses retained but that everyone on staff is motivated to be actively engaged and involved in the work environ...

Mental Health Parity Act: Interplay of Policy, Cultural And Societal Attitudes Within Clinical Social Work Practice

mental health arena. Anyone is vulnerable to the onset of mental illness which can be triggered by any number of occurrences, not...

Hypovolemic Shock and the Evolution of Nursing

are necessary for patient survival" (Kelley, 2005, p. 2). When the blood volume in the body is too low, it activates "compensatory...

Mandatory Overtime, An Issue that Endangers Patients

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

The Practice of Clinical Psychology

There are four pages created by an author that reflect the issue of ethics vs. legalities in relation to clincal psychology. Ther...

Influences on Patient Healthcare Service Provider Communication

information being given to the patient by the doctor. Anecdotal evidence from those who were patients at the time remember importa...

Clinical Healthcare Practice Measures of Cost Effectiveness

when the management team in the clinical practice supports and endorses a system in which medical care is the top goal and "somebo...

Violating Nursing Protocol

illustrates how she ignored the potential for causing harm when she increased the patients drugs; only after the medication had be...

Humanistic Leadership & Nursing Unions

with humanity, that is, to be humanistic in ones orientation refers to the principles of humanism, which has been given a variety ...

Nursing Recommendation

This 3 page paper provides an overview of a nursing recommendation. This paper gives a number of reasons why the student would be...

Peplau and Orem/Core Concepts

begins with "orientation," which is a period in which the nurse and the patient become acquainted. The relationship then proceeds ...

Issues in Clinical Practice: Infant Abduction

justify its relevance to health care. The severity of infant abductions from hospitals should not be gauged by the frequency of oc...

Nursing at Good Sam

profession is very rewarding, if at times very difficult and even heartbreaking. This paper describes the Good Samaritan College o...

Why Should One Choose Nursing?

relational dyads, and the part of a larger social collective. Family values, individual culture and social constructs all impact ...

Nurses and Stress

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

Nursing and Professionalism

PG). Society also tends to associates professionals with prestige (PG). According to Lysaught, characteristics of a profession i...