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Impact of Professional Environment on Nursing Knowledge

(Bliss-Holtz, Winter and Scherer, 2004). In hospitals that have achieved magnet status, nurses routinely collect, analyze and us...

Book Report on Mark Sanborn’s The Fred Factor

of course, it only takes one person in any organization to "make a difference" (Sanborn, 2004, p. 8). The second principle, Succe...

Bipolar Disorder

there is very little information about predisposes people to these episodes (Swann, 2006). Therefore, for the most part, nursing a...

Computerized System in the Prevention of Medication Errors

care (OMalley, 2007). The aim of this essay is to offer an overview of this problem, focusing on how it applies to a specific ho...

Christian Beliefs in Nursing

beliefs and worldview of the nurse. Salladay (2006) in her review of A Christian Vision of Nursing Practice by Mary M. Doornbos,...

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...

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 ...

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...

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; (...

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 ...

A Nursing Case

Both of these individuals have limited education. Ms. A. graduated from high school but Mr. B. did not, and dropped out at the en...

Preceptorship in Nursing

to do with how a person feels about him- or herself. Those with a high sense of self-efficacy believe that they can master even di...

Uncertainty in Illness Theory/Merle H. Mishel

Intervention using Mishels theory facilitates the process of patients accepting the inevitability of uncertainty as a factor in th...

Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing: An Annotated Bibliography

staff that can result in moral stress or stress of conscience (Fry, Hurly & Foley, 2002). Because unresolved ethical issues can ...

Nursing research/WICHE, CURN and Stetler

to bridge the gap between nursing research and nursing practice, two formal program efforts were undertaken: the Western Interstat...

Improving Human Resources in Health Care

The vision is to be a leader in providing high quality health care services. Their values include a customer-focus and to exceed t...

Evidenced-Based Nursing

practice. Research reveals best practices and these will improve nursing practice. For example, nurses knew that people coming out...

Comparing Mission and Philosophy Statements in regards to Nursing

from those of education- focused institutions, when the institution in question is a nursing school, there are similarities, as we...

Improper Nursing Delegation in NJ/Legal Ramifications

law stipulates that an RN is allowed to delegate specific nursing tasks individuals who are unlicensed if they have been adequatel...

Reimbursing NPs at 100 Percent

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

Role of Nurse Practitioners and Reimbursement

Prospective Payment System (PPS), reimbursement rates going to both hospitals and physicians have declined significantly. In react...

Nursing and Social Ecology

& Kantor-Kaufmann, 2002). The meso level of the ecological model looks at the role of institutions and organizations in shaping ...

Community Health Nursing and Palliative Care

in the overall quality of care delivered by community health nurses (CHNs) is providing end-of-life care that is holistic and cong...

Self-Care Deficit Theory, Dorothea Orem

The SCDNT regards the meta-paradigm of "Nursing" as an art, that is, a "helping service," but also as a technology ("Dorothea," 20...

Diabetes Articles, Reflection, Synthesis

of literature pertaining to type 2 diabetes mellitus, begins by describing, summarizing and analyzing the study conducted by Barko...

APN Leadership

nurses. These were all key people in leading the change (Stetler et al., 2009). These same people were not identified in the begin...

Delaware County Community College, An Overview

County Community College (DCCC) located near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, serves the educational needs of 28,000 students annually ...

Homelessness & Advocacy

the research, which includes finding a definitive measure for the health status of the homeless. This is a reasoned, extensive rev...

Family Presence at Resuscitation

(2005), in which samples of patients or patients families were enrolled. In a study in which the sample participants had lost a lo...

Women's Health Nurse Practitioner

"infertility, cardiovascular health, oncology, geriatrics, endocrinology, uro-gynecology, bone health and high-risk pregnancy" (Ke...