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have had ethical reservations about taking a patient off of life support, but she did not add to Lynns burden by interfering with ...

is simply to require that their nursing staff make up for understaffing by working mandatory overtime on a more or less permanent ...

1999). Lee and his family owned a small business and had no health or medical insurance. The family was urged to begin the process...

if they are simple and straightforward. These patient data records will be replaced weekly, and each will contain a weeks worth o...

the ability to learn nursings technical complexities and already have full command of ethical values to the point that the can act...

and the directives of the medical environment. For over two decades, for example, the health care industry has recognized a decli...

regarded as creating obligations on others to help her exercise her rights. An inherent theme that is implied in all of the questi...

further harm; instead of deferring to this individuals personhood, she wholly disregarded what his physician considered to be the ...

potential need for treatment for impaired skin integrity due to immobility. Therefore, the nurse will begin precautions prior to a...

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

management dilemma" and is written by Orly Toren and Nurith Wagner. The authors discuss different ethical dilemmas nurse face dail...

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

or state agencies may seek and implement studies. II. Nursing Home Care for the Elderly Whenever nursing home care is an...

of stem cell research far outweigh the negativities. Because of these benefits stem cell research can be ethically defended utili...

Acquiescing to the constraints imposed by organizational and professional structure does not mean that the nurse has no alternativ...

seek the same health goals for clients as in mainstream nursing, nurses in remote locations often cope with problems and obstacles...

be immensely helpful in gaining insight into the specific issues involved and subsequent perspective on what course of action to t...

which initiates a series of events that will either successful contain the infection or prompt it progression toward active diseas...

Beginning in the early 1990s, managed care targeted nursing as an expenditure where hospitals could cut costs. Managed care consul...

led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...

for nurses who come into intimate contact with clients from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. Ott, Al-Khadhuri and Al-Junaibi...

this development and left orders for both analgesia and sedation, which helped at first, but became less effective as the hours pa...

and fatigue, abdominal pain, vomiting, constipation and learning difficulties" ("Lead"). These physiological effects are caused by...

nurse to patient ratio in California. In 1992 and 1993 the California Nurses Association has sponsored the Democratic Senator Jack...

nurse practitioners how they could join the movement and help. The Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1989 included minimal reimbursem...

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

of hospital environments is driving many nurses away from hospital nursing and some are leaving the profession entirely. In 2000, ...

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

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

harms the healthcare systems of the home countries of these nurses, which ethically and morally limits its use. Another method t...