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Why Nurses Leave Clinical Practice?

change the position before completing three years of clinical practice (MacKusick and Minick, 2010). This research article is very...

Primary Prevention in Diabetic Care

can be easily determined via the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and by testing fasting plasma glucose (FPG), as these tests ar...

Responses to Two Nursing Posts

a statement made early-on in the post, which is that nursing has the potential to make a huge contribution to the transformation o...

Student Nurses Assessment Strategies

the personal growth and learning of second year student nurses working within two surgical units. The clinical logs produced by th...

Nursing Home Falls - A Literature Review

of falls in nursing homes, it was essential to collect information from as wide a variety of credible sources as possible. Title s...

APN Posts, Definition and Roles

This essay pertains to how the International Council of Nurses defines advanced nursing practice and it also discusses the confusi...

A Qualitative Study, Fall Prevention

This paper summarizes and analyzes a qualitative Norwegian study that examined the experiences of home care nurses in regards to f...

Catheter-Associated UTI Training

This essay offers a scenario teaching nurses and assistant to prevent UTIs associated with catheters. The essay describes the sett...

Issues in Advanced Practice Nursing

This research paper discusses ten different topics that pertain to advanced practice nursing. The topics discussed include Watson'...

Overview of Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome

the signs of illness in order to maintain prolonged contact with healthcare providers (Criddle, 2010). History and Statistics Ph...

Advanced Practice Nursing, Focus on Florida

This research paper offers an overview of issues pertaining to advanced nursing practice and the impact of advance practice nurses...

Advanced Practice Nursing Roles

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

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 ...

Nursing Course Evaluation

It also is clear that readily accessible primary care services are essential to achieving effective health care reform. The World ...

Presentation for the Implementation of a Fall Prevention Strategy

The paper is a presentation designed to introduce and explain a new fall prevention policy for a home care nursing agency. The pr...

Nurse Attendees Responses to an Educational Program

The writer presents the simulated results from a questionnaire used to collect the perception of nurses who attended a training p...

Schools of Philosophy as Used in Nursing

(Allmark, 2003, p. 4). Poststructuralism: This perspective takes a deconstructive view of structuralism and "sees inquiry as ine...

Family Health Nursing

directly with families in their home, aiding them with complex care situations (Denham, 2003). How has the family changed? In 20...

Mental Health of Returning Soldiers

need of treatment following tours in Rwanda, the Balkans and Somalia" (Auld). Mental health problems in regards to soldiers retu...

Nursing and Self-Care

and respond to patient authentically as individuals in the here-and-now moment may be the best way to prepare safe and effective c...

Entering the Automotive Market in Canada

technically a Constitutional monarchy of Queen Elizabeth II as the head of state, the current head of government is Prime Minister...

Pressure Ulcers/Changing Care

change and its rationale (which was based on the results of empirical research), implemented the change and then "supported the c...

Organizational Change in St. Vincent's ICU

Hospital. The purpose here is to describe and evaluate the restructuring of St. Vincents ICU to gain one-on-one nursing and so im...

Nursing/Personal Reflection Paper

of the patient experience" (Engebretson 20). The background provided by a large, close-knit family means that, from childhood, I h...

Fundamental Theories/Nursing Faculty Shortage

in nursing educators aged 36 to 45 (Lewallen, et al, 2003). To complicate matters further, recent statistics show that nurses wh...

Medication Errors & Their Prevention

are able to make error reports without fear of reprisal. Nevertheless, the consequence of possible disciplinary action and repris...

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...

The Canadian Prime Minister and the U.S. President: Who is More Powerful?

House of Commons, which is elected, and the Senate, which is appointed (Anderson, 2003). As in the United States, it is expected t...

Conceptual, Philosophical, Legal And Ethical Foundations And Processes Inherent To Professional Nursing Practice

there a time when an individuals interests supersede those of the masses? These are ethical questions posed each and everyday thr...

Ethical Dilemma/Canadian Nursing Practice

individual, the eight values of the CNA Code provide a framework for guidance regarding nursing behavior. The Code states that the...