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al, 2009). The theory came from "the results of studies accomplished by the author along her Doctorate in Clinic and Social Psycho...

report, admissions, and emergency situations" (Griffin, 2003, p. 135). The rationale for this policy is that it protects the confi...

9.Surg: Patients recovering from some form of surgery. 10. Med: Patients recovering from some form of illness. 11. ICU-Intensive C...

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

self-knowledge (Simpson, 2004). While anecdotal evidence is not regarded as conclusive, the experience of individual nurses in reg...

can only be expected to escalate in the near future. Therefore, issues of affordability, in relation to equitable healthcare servi...

nurses by 2012 to eliminate the shortage (Rosseter, 2009). By 2020, the District of Columbia along with at least 44 states will ha...

In five pages this research paper discusses quality care standard maintenance and the role played by nurse managers in sustaining ...

left to deny anything connected with the loss, either before or after the fact. Those left behind also need to acknowledge the me...

meals to all Orthodox Jewish patients should be investigated by hospital administrators if they are not already in place. Furtherm...

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

the various roles and responsibilities that the specialty involves, they share the common quality that the nursing process is inhe...

well with Watsons care model. Watson has seven assumptions, the first is that care is demonstrated in an interpersonal level (Geor...

and continues to do so, over the past two decades, as it was first published in 1979 (Falk-Rafael, 2000). In formulating her theor...

to the wide-ranging aspect of nursing than merely administering medicine; in fact, the myriad components that ultimately comprise ...

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely woul...

In three pages this research paper discusses how humor can be a modality that assists nurses in patient care as well as self care....

prepared for this role" (McKenna, 1997, p. 87). Perhaps most significant of all was Florence Nightingales belief that env...

that is, whether it will spread (metastasize) and what symptoms that it is likely to cause (Cancer diagnosis, 2005). The term "sec...

This 16 page paper outlines the elements that need to change for improving quality of nursing care. This paper explains that the p...

The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010. It is a progressive, sequential act with different parts mandat...

This research paper pertains to actions that nurses undertake to aid heart failure patients in regards to self-care management. Th...

In seventeen pages this research paper examines the U.S. system of health care in terms of the empirical studies that indicate the...

In five pages a nursing services' director for a long term health care facility for senior citizens is interviewed regarding the p...

In two pages an article featured in a nursing journal is reviewed that considers the correlation between patient health care quali...

has left the facility and has gone home to the comforts of home in order to spend the last days, weeks or months of their life in ...

In six pages this paper examines nursing care from the perspectives of nurses and patients as reported by this Australian study. ...

call for compliance with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to su...

of the patients in a single unit will be assigned to one RN; the other half will be assigned to another. Another will be availabl...