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Nursing as a Profession

of ethics; 5. is composed of individuals who consider this occupation as their lifework, contributing to the good of society throu...

Significance of Information Literacy

found on the Internet is accurate. As researching a topic using a Web browser is simply a matter of using a handful of keywords, t...

Nursing Relevance of Jean Watson's Theory of Caring

phenomenological, existential, and qualitative components (Cohen, 1991). These combine to create a theory that addresses the pers...

Nurses and Unions

This essay describes the unionization debate in regards to the nursing profession and focuses on the con side. Four pages in lengt...

Farming, An Occupational Health Assessment

population" (Nyman, Butterfield and Shreffler-Grant, 2009, p. 282). Description of farming: Farming is "more than a business; i...

Elements of Psychiatric Nursing Practice

who is the legal guardian, as this pertains to the legality of admitting a minor for psychiatric care. If the patient is accompani...

Substance Abuse in Nursing

Not only are the direct health impacts to the nurse deleterious, impaired nurses cannot meet their responsibility to provide top q...

Following Watson's Example/Personal Philosophy of Nursing

Stimulus for developing of the students personal philosophy The process of nursing education exposes students to diverse clinical...

Nursing and the Impact of 1996's Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

in 2000, allowing a long comment period before the final rule was issued in February 2003. Five rules were published in 199...

A Summary and Analysis of the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics

and safety" (ANA, 2005). After all, if a nurse does not take steps to preserve her or his own safety, the nurse cannot adequately ...

Legislation on Nursing Overtime

the risk of medical errors, such as dispensing the wrong medication or the wrong dose (Nursing overtime, 2004). The study, which w...

Nursing Management and Leadership

Leaders create the future rather than simply become its victims (Kerfoot, 1998). They are generally thinking several months ahead,...

Nursing and Gender Role Stereotyping

first started to administer to the injured and the sick, the notion that nurses should be women has prevailed (Odendaul, 2004). T...

Nursing, Cultural Understanding, and the Cultural Care Diversity and Universality Theory of Madeleine Leininger

19th and early 20th centuries. Hughes and Romeo (1999) question the usefulness of education that does not address the growing div...

Nursing Evolution

the religious fervor generated by the teachings of "love and mercy" by Jesus Christ resulted in a dramatic increase in charitable ...

Leadership in Nursing

change, understand the reasons for this change and hare a vision of the future" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). The catch is that these g...

Nursing and Ethical Issues

the extent to which terminally ill individuals can be alleviated of languishing in such an inhumane state without involvement of l...

Process of Becoming a Nurse Practitioner

act as integral members of healthcare teams, provide direct and indirect patient care, and address central issues for patients, in...

Nursing and 2 Qualitative Research Articles Critiqued

including critical attributes, communication processes, and the overall benefits of school-based support groups in addressing the ...

Nursing and Distance Education

a video that presents the patients symptoms and are presented with the question "What is the most likely differential diagnosis ba...

Profession of Nursing

their profession to be their career and it definitely requires career-long continuous professional development. Why then, does a...

Euthanasia's Pros and Cons

and antibiotics" (Ersek, 2005, p. 48). Upon first glance, it would appear that euthanasia is an application that is in direct con...

Nursing Profession and Men

degree (CBS News). Where 4.1 percent of new female nurses leave the profession after four years, 7.5 percent of new male nurses lo...

Student Interest in the Nursing Profession

just need a positive touch from another human being. The student investigating the relationship of nursing contribution to patien...

Shared Governance v. Collective Bargaining in Nursing Labor Relations

for protocol and for adhering to standard practice. There are many aspects of the job for which the nurse is best suited to addre...

Philosophy of Nursing and Values

money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely would no...

Hand Washing and the Care of Patients

preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...

Nursing Practice and the Opposition of Euthanasia

lethal drug is given with the intent to bring about death, thus ending suffering" (28). Of course, there is a difference between ...

'Military Industrial Complex' Warning of Outgoing President Dwight Eisenhower

to physicians. Increasingly, "evidence-based guidelines are becoming codes of medical practice" (Healy, 2005; p. 54). Superficia...

Profession of Nursing

not unusual given that there is a common perception that the higher a persons educational attainment the greater level of employme...