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Management of Diabetic Patients and Nurse Practitioner Practice

risen in the US population, there has been corresponding increase in the incidence of diabetes mellitus, which is associated with ...

Fall Prevention in the Elderly in Home Care

percent of that total population lose their ability to walk (Tonarelli, 2010). Hip injuries and falls of any kind can reduce the ...

Treatment and Jehovah's Witnesses, An Ethical Dilemma

This paper pertains to an ethical dilemma faced by hospital nurses caring for patients who are Jehovah's Witnesses. Adherent of th...

NURSING SHORTAGE AND IMPACT ON HEALTHCARE DEMAND

for certainty is that as demand for health care services grows, nurses will be pressed more and more into taking over doctors duti...

Journal Entries on Healthcare and Nursing

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on some specific issues in three different reflective journal entries. There is one...

Impact of Persistent Diseases

As we live longer, we are subject to acquiring one or more chronic illnesses, some of which come with advancing age. Older age ran...

Horizontal Violence In Nursing: Critical Essay

individuals who collectively utilize this approach to humiliate as a show of solidarity, which is often hidden in the form of goss...

Nursing's Contribution to Quality of Life

could be called human biological life; or(2) human personal life that includes biological life but goes beyond it to include other...

Aging Nursing Population/Healthcare

the question of what effect an aging nursing work force has on American healthcare in general. First and foremost, the aging of ...

Nursing Shortage And Access To Quality Care

that hospital nurse staffing levels are inadequate to provide safe and effective care" (DPE Research Department, 2003). Physicians...

Article Critique/Handling Difficult Situations/Daily Care

include not only the emotional impact of being experienced by the patient and the relatives involved, but research has also relate...

Margaret Sanger

hold a great deal of authority when it comes to changing the attitudes and perspectives of young girls who may believe living off ...

Safe Nursing and Patient Care Act

"study and report to Congress on standards for the maximum number of hours that a nurse may work without compromising the safety o...

Utilizing Electronic Patient Records Systems

pilot studies 1. Introduction The potential benefits of technology in the health industry are enormous. In the past the use ...

Impact of Professional Environment on Nursing Knowledge

(Bliss-Holtz, Winter and Scherer, 2004). In hospitals that have achieved magnet status, nurses routinely collect, analyze and us...

Multicultural Plan For Schools

some school systems are at a greater disadvantage due to cultural insulation while others struggle with integration due to social ...

Healthy Work Environments: Decision Making In Nursing

volumes regarding the vastness of the human mind. Moreover, it is virtually impossible to have critical thinking present without ...

3 Nursing Diagnoses for an Elderly Patient

the case study, is important for planning a safe and effective rehabilitation program (Craven and Hirnle, 2007). People who experi...

Leadership, Management Experience in 2 Nursing Environments

indicated by Carter, census also frequently plays a vital role in this regard for nursing managers. Other factors that I considere...

Article Critique/Nursing Home Patients

there is no cure either for Alzheimers disease or the various forms of dementia on the horizon, healthcare practitioners should "i...

Arguing Against Nurses Participating in the Death of Patients and the Christine Busalacchi Case

Rural Nurses, represented by registered nurse and practicing attorney Jacqulyn Hall, filed an amici curiae (friends of the court) ...

Strategic Plan: St. Vincent Health Care

route of accessible health care to growing numbers of Americans. Harvards Clayton Christensen has long preached the gospel ...

Nursing Home Patients And Their Vulnerabilities During Disasters

food, clean water and - most important for some people who did not survive - electricity to keep their life-sustaining equipment r...

ICU Nursing Environment and Malignant Hyperthermia

triggering agents that typically cause a MH crisis are: Halothane (ie, Flurothane); Enflurane (ie, Ethrane); Isoflurane (ie, Foran...

Pregnant Patients Smoking Cessation Through Nurse Intervention Programs

in a general form that not only is not useful, but also can lend the appearance of the issue being of less importance than it trul...

Nursing and Patient Records

In ten pages this paper examines the increased visibility of a nurse's role and also considers the enhancement of nursing document...

Nursing Home Environment and Pet Therapy Programs

In five pages this paper examines the benefits of pet therapy in a nursing home setting in terms of memory stimulation and positiv...

Long Term Care Environments and Nursing Care Plans

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...

Nursing Models and Stress of Patients

In ten pages this paper discusses patient stress in an application of the Orlando and Newman stress models and the development of ...

Hospital Environments and the Skills Necessary for Effective Leadership in Nursing

an integral part of the carative model, there is a definnitive need to recognize the specific characteristics and skills of effect...