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in those nursing homes that maintained adequate staffing, but beyond that, the administrative climate of the nursing home facility...

(Walsh, 2003; p. 22). The intended role is that of partner with an MD in providing direct patient care in terms of serving in rol...

legal errors (Fackelmann, 2002). Furthermore, the AMA study demonstrated that there is a direct statistical connection between th...

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 ...

p. 29), as stated in its title. Mean age was 81; 218 participants completed the study. The researchers evaluated the differences...

if the individual discovers that he or she has thoughts and feelings that are "very basic and very strong" with regard to others o...

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

their own condition. Judkins and Ingram (2002) designed a self-paced learning module in order to determine whether knowledge relat...

Social Services they have complained that that funding is insufficient to provide for even their most basic dietary needs. Part o...

accomplish beneficial behavioral change. As Kurt Lewins pioneering work with change theory points out, any change initiative ent...

nurses considering returning to school for a Masters of Science in Nursing (MSN), the perceived barriers include issues directly r...

who choose to use qualitative methods tend to seek a deeper reality, inasmuch as their aim is to "study things in their natural se...

long been an integral component to the standard of care provided at hospitals, nursing homes, home care and other situations where...

current literature, which includes existing nursing journals and the WEB sites conducted by the American Association of Nurses and...

to insure that nurses continually perform their duties in the most competent and constructive manner (Cain, 2001). The establishm...

by any number of characteristics used for grouping individuals. These characteristics can include geography, relationships, cultu...

their mental capacity often fades due to dementia, or Alzheimers, or a host of other maladies that create this state where there i...

1997). It is generally believed that atherosclerosis results from a combination of factors, which include: hemodynamic stress (hyp...

and sustaining without yielding, they contend that bearing is a reaction which is more passive than coping but an activity which p...

physical restraints. The authors own views combined with the findings of current literature reveal that the use of physical restr...

This book regarding the degrading treatment of senior citizens in nursing homes is reviewed in five pages. There are no other sou...

job experience, type A behavior patterns, and fear of negative evaluation, combined with frequency of stressful events" (Dugan et ...

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...

In ten pages this research paper discusses nursing educational intervention regarding information about secondhand smoke's dangers...

In nine pages this paper discusses multicultural issues and problems such as training models and a development model of biracial i...

This paper considers how nurses can become an agent of change in regard to ageism, the myths surrounding it, and the care of older...

In twelve pages this paper examines the issues and predominantly economic problems that a post Communist country like Germany enco...

In six pages this paper examines a marketing plan for a community nursing program regarding the recruitment of students to volunte...

This research paper discusses the incidence of diabetes mellitus specifically in regards to Davenport, Iowa and Iowa as a whole, f...

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