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Nurses & Liability Insurance

to a patient over the phone and trying to convey the urgency of that patient coming in for a consultation. The patient resists, so...

Nurses and Drug Abuse

have access to a range of drugs. Bennett (et al, 2000) argues that the overall rate of substance abuse in the nursing popualtion r...

Antibiotic Prophylaxis, Surgery & Accountability

in resistant strains of bacteria (Plonczynski, 2005). This situation suggests that changes in antibiotic prophylactic procedures ...

Health Care - Studies on Governance

Developing New Nurse Leaders also considers the issue of shifts in leadership and governance, with a focus on the role of nurses a...

Colby/Deaths of Nancy Cruzan

that the legal struggle took on her family was immense. Her father never recovered emotionally and committed suicide (Colby, 2002)...

Mandatory Overtime for Nurses

quality of the provided care (ANA, 2008). Empirical research studies have confirmed that the risk for medical error increase subst...

Improper Nursing Delegation in NJ/Legal Ramifications

law stipulates that an RN is allowed to delegate specific nursing tasks individuals who are unlicensed if they have been adequatel...

Nursing and Social Ecology

& Kantor-Kaufmann, 2002). The meso level of the ecological model looks at the role of institutions and organizations in shaping ...

Nursing Home Falls and Best Practices

-3.14 2.83 6.05 As the numbers indicate, in all but Q3 2009, the number of falls experienced exceeded the target. This suggests t...

Integrating Evidence-Based Practice/Professional Nursing

Among the challenges facing the integration of EBP into nursing behaviors is the idea that staff, which is clinically competent, a...

Uncertainty in Illness Theory/Merle H. Mishel

Intervention using Mishels theory facilitates the process of patients accepting the inevitability of uncertainty as a factor in th...

Cunningham's The Hours/Implications for Healthcare

not only relates to the societal restrictions with which women had to contend in regards to their expected societal roles, but it ...

EBP Barriers

the following: In my practice setting, a major barrier against using EBP is that it takes an inordinate amount of time. This is...

Nursing research/WICHE, CURN and Stetler

to bridge the gap between nursing research and nursing practice, two formal program efforts were undertaken: the Western Interstat...

Evidenced-Based Nursing

practice. Research reveals best practices and these will improve nursing practice. For example, nurses knew that people coming out...

Comparing Mission and Philosophy Statements in regards to Nursing

from those of education- focused institutions, when the institution in question is a nursing school, there are similarities, as we...

Improving Human Resources in Health Care

The vision is to be a leader in providing high quality health care services. Their values include a customer-focus and to exceed t...

Qualitative Study Death Sentence' to 'Good Cancer' Couples' Transformation of a Prostate Cancer Reviewed

objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and their wives,...

Coronary Artery Disease Prevention and Exercise

risk factor, but is of less consequence among those diabetics who pay close attention to their blood sugar levels, test often and ...

Qualitative vs. Quantitative Nursing Articles

specifically state that their objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with pr...

Impediments to the Utilization of Nurse Wives

particular certified nurse-midwives-- continues to increase, these impediments linger to a certain extent, and may continue to aff...

Nursing Practice and Pain Management Research

a lingering distrust of the qualitative approach, one that often has not been done well and has resulted in works that cannot be c...

EBP, Overcoming Barriers

This research paper pertains to overcoming the barriers that exist in nursing to evidence-based practice and solutions are discuss...

An Ethical Dilemma: Abortion

This research paper pertains to the ethical dilemma confronting nurse practitioners concerning whether or not to offer abortion pr...

NP Advertisement and CPA

This paper begins by offering ten questions that a nurse practitioner might pose when applying for a position with Optum health. T...

Nursing Management Change Theory

incremental. It occurs in small steps, each of which are interspersed with a period of adjustment. This can be useful in staffin...

Moving to Evidence Based Practices

This paper reports one change that was made in a hospital. An announcement was made that nursing staff would be required to use ev...

Importance of EBP

This essay presents an example of how the student might chose to write a personal essay on the importance that research and EBP wi...

Device-Associated Nosocomial Infection in an ICU

This paper gives an overview of a study that took place in a Polish ICU and pertained to the rate of device-associated nosocomial ...

The Three Major Religions and Healthcare

This 7 page paper gives an overview of the basics of the major religions and why nurses should study them. This paper includes Jew...