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Patient Care Quality and Nurse Staffing

In six pages this paper considers studies that explore the link between patient care quality and nurse staffing. Five sources are...

Patient Outcomes, Organizational Factors, and Nursing Competency

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

Nurse's Role and Bowel Elimination Influential Factors

post-surgical patients. Normal Bowel Elimination Allison (1995) recognized that maintaining bowel elimination is a substantial ...

Article on Nurse Staffing

In five pages a 2001 article by Sarah Jo Brown on the relationship between patient outcomes and nurse staffing according to a stud...

Professional Dilemmas and Nursing Ethics

decisions. It is through our status as health care professionals that such a role is not only valued but critical. Nursing...

Nursing Home Autonomy and Concept Development

That freedom and responsibility can improve the nursing home experience for all involved. Definition and Clarification...

Nurses, Patients, and Managed Care

as HMO, PPO, POS, EPO, PHO, IDS and AHP (IHA, 2002). This is creating a service that can be seen as dividing...

Patient Care and Individual Differences

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

Patient Care, Team Approaches, Evaluations, and the Process of Nursing

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

Patient Autonomy and Nursing Concept Analysis

be in agreement with a working definition of autonomy. Thus, the following attributes should be seen: self-determination, in...

Complaints and Nursing

that time. What might be needed, then, would be some plan of action that the staff could follow, or possibly some type of polite s...

5 Articles Summarized

method in Assisted Suicide: Is There A Future? Ethical And Nursing Considerations employed the use of hypothetical euthanasia case...

Patient Harassment of Nurses

had even been stalked by patients (Global Forum for Health Research, 2000). A major study in Australia found that there is a sign...

Role of Charge Nurse

the situation, the charge nurse might take a number of different actions in response to this information. For example, the charge ...

HOSPITAL CASE STUDY

paying salaries). Patients are going to generally go to hospitals where their doctors are - though when it comes to emergencies or...

NP role in EDs/Study Article Critique

and theoretical Framework: The instrument designed for use in this study drew heavily upon the survey developed by Cole, et al, wh...

Aveyard/Believing and Doubting

explained the process further and made it clear that he would perform the catheterization, the man approved. As this indicates, fr...

Treating Osteoporosis

and typically occurs by the time a person reaches their 70s. In the U.S., roughly 1.5 million fractures are caused by osteoporosis...

Nursing Korean and Russian Patients and Cultural Competence

the KA familys ability to utilize US healthcare systems (Donnelly, 2005). KA parents experience with schizophrenia in their chil...

Oncology and Coping with an Annotated Bibliography

parents of children with cancer regarding the needs of siblings and on the support that was offered by hospital staff. The results...

Patient Outcomes and the Collaboration Between Physicians and Nurses

often a factor in nurse/doctor communication. Nurses can bring power to nurse/doctor interchange by harnessing the power of lang...

Teams and Patient Satisfaction

In ten pages this research paper presents a literature review on team nursing as a way of increasing patient satisfaction. Thirte...

Circulating Nurse Surgery Case Study

ventilation. This included placing hip pads with egg crate foam under the patients iliac crest to prevent hyperextension of the lo...

Geriatric Mentally Ill Patients and Nursing

characteristics of metal disorders may include abnormalities in cognition, mood or emotions; it may include abnormalities in integ...

Assessment of a Woman with Menopause Case Study

the nGMS as an assessment instrument. This computer program provides a check list that the nurse can use to cover all pertinent in...

Article Summary on High Blood Pressure

differences between these two classifications are then described and three factors that are believe to influence the formation of ...

Nursing Interventions for Clients Suffering from Depression

frequently use mental health nurses as a means for expanding services (Winefield and Chur-Hansen, 2004). The following examination...

Ethical Dilemma Pertaining to a Do Not Resuscitate Order

disagree with his wife could disrupt their marital relationship at a time when he needs this support, which is undoubtedly one of ...

Adolescents and Pediatric Perioperative Nursing Interventions

an adolescent client (Wallis, 2004, p. 59). Data on the development of abstract reasoning skills, as well as of the "recognition o...

Terminally Ill Patients and Nursing Care

the needs of the dying and her work indicates that there are times when the most meaningful communication that a nurse can offer i...