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Use of Restraints in Healthcare

indicates, restraint places health practitioners between the proverbial rock and a hard place. However, there are practice standar...

Women's Mental Health/Depression

minority groups. They are frequently poor and have little education. Scrandis, Fauchald and Radsma describe a "Charlottes Web of C...

Dehydration & Older Patient

dehydrated? Has literature simply made you aware of this potential problem? You might say something like: "Considering the dire co...

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...

Competing Professionals and Primary Healthcare

This paper considers the raging conflict between advanced practice nurses and physicians. Is there an identity crisis? There are...

An Ethical Dilemma: Abortion

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

Essential III, Insulin Administration Project

This paper asserts that the nursing student's project is appropriate to the requirements for Essential III, which indicates schola...

EBP, Overcoming Barriers

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

Chain of Command in Nursing

risk. For example, Mahlmeister (1996) relates a pediatric situation in which a night nurse in a small hospital was expected to wor...

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 ...

Qualitative Studies/What are they good for?

Baumann, et al, in 1995, which was purely qualitative. The point is that through qualitative research, data was provided that can ...

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...

Comfort/A Nursing Concept Analysis

sorrow; (b) relief from distress; (c) a person or thing that comforts; (d) a state of ease and quiet enjoyment, free from worry; (...

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...

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...

Hypertension Caused by Pregnancy

of pregnancies, pending on the population and the definitions used (Walker, 2000). Hypertension in pregnancy is typically classi...

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...

Nursing Practice and Atherosclerosis

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

Immobility and Nursing Practice

In six pages this paper examines nursing practice through a definition, literature review, and implications of immobility. Five s...

Goals and Mental Health Nursing

Frank seems reluctant to leave. Realizing that Frank needs to be met on a different level, Susan switches back to the "Be-with" mo...

Herbal Medicine/What Nurses Should Know

not as drugs, which means that these remedies do not undergo the rigorous testing that is required for prescription medicines (He...

Healing Wounds and the Role of Nutrition

placement of polyvinyl alcohol sponges into subcutaneous pockets" (p. 7). Each of the rats were "given a nutritional solution con...

Collaborative Practice

Additionally, at the completion of this study intervention, evaluation of results showed that the project also resulted in improve...

Floating RN Practice

nurse refused and was subsequently fired. The court ruled in favor of the nurse and found that the Beloit Memorial had wrongfully...

Nursing Practice Improvement and Qualitative Research's Importance

on Nursing" in 1860 which not only documented basic concepts of nursing care but also included basic research strategies such as o...

RN vs. BSN, Advantages for Nurses

ratio, the mortality rates are 44 percent lower (Degree-level nurses, 2005). Substantiating this research, a Canadian study cond...

Spirituality in Nursing Practice - Literature Review

significantly as ethnicity and can encompass many different forms of beliefs. Spirituality plays a major role in how individuals...

Summary of Nursing Articles

to reach the disease" (Colwell; 2). The author also examines aspects of surgical treatment, indicating that a particular type of s...