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NANDA

imply, a standardized nursing language provides a "uniform nomenclature for the diagnosis, intervention, and evaluation components...

Personal Definition of Nursing

upholding the human dignity of the people involved, as well as their "unique biopsychosocial, cultural, (and) spiritual being" (LM...

Improving Pediatric Care in the ED

graduate nursing hires (Truman, 2004, p. 45). The novice nurses participate in six hours of classroom instruction, plus thirty hou...

Article Critique/Nursing Older People

pilot study was performed first, in which the research tested the methodology. This also involved developing an interview schedule...

Aging Nursing Population/Healthcare

the question of what effect an aging nursing work force has on American healthcare in general. First and foremost, the aging of ...

Nursing Leadership & Groups

socially isolating, as outside opinion is discounted. The team adopts a "defensive posture," which is evidenced by "derogatory, de...

Negative Effect of Anesthesia Assistants on Nursing

generations. Though Nightingale promoted a professional demeanor, nursing was not something that most well-bred women would even ...

Retention/Recruitment & Canadian Nursing Shortage

30 months, as this is when between 13 and 28 percent of senior nurses are due to retire (Sibbald, 2003). Currently, close to a thi...

Communication Management Between Doctors & Nurses

Empirical research ahs consistently reported that when communication between the two professions is good, which includes doctors ...

Community Health & Teen Pregnancy

situation. As a provider of care, it is the role of the community health nurse to address the needs of Centerville adolescents i...

Elder Neglect in Nursing Homes

be vulnerable to abuse or neglect for a variety of reasons and in a variety of situations, which range from home care to care in r...

Nurse Retention

This nurse that leaving the acute care facility had to do with "When youre constantly short-staffed and feel your managers arent s...

CC vs. Med-Surg Units/Job Satisfaction

(Domrose, 2001). However, current trends have developed that have greatly expanded the scope of med-surg nursing, which includes a...

Personal Philosophy of Nursing

But, it also refers to the fact that nurses "shape and transform the environment" as well as offer care within the context of an e...

Philosophy of Nursing

Nightingale as power-crazed and iron-willed. Salvage (2001) tends to believe that these criticisms of Nightingale reflect lingerin...

Nursing Theory and Its Sub Specialties

and nursing literature abounds with how such theories influence and guide nursing practice in all of its varied aspects. For exa...

4 Traditional Metaparadigms in Nursing

Under her wing, Nightingale took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to health. ...

Theoretical Perspectives on Nursing

and Ingalls (2003) describe the four metaparadigms allegorically as the "roots" of a living tree, emphasizing that the metaparadig...

Article Analysis/Evidence-Based Practice

study also examined the availability of information resources available to the RN respondents (both at work and at home). Their fi...

Are All Nursing Degrees Created Equal?

the associates course of study to address the very things that can make the greatest difference in patient outcomes and satisfacti...

Advanced Practice Nursing Care and Ida Jean Orlando's Theory

to identify and to relate in terms of actual patient care. Ida Jean Orlando created a conceptual view of the nursing process whic...

Prescribing Nurses and the Treatment of Wounds

in which nurses had to request perceptions for certain types of dressing was a waste of time and resources, which in turn impacted...

Research Evaluation on Nursing Home Costs of Utilizing MDS/PPS RUG III Systems

(p. 835) among Medicaid residents of Massachusetts nursing homes between 1991 and 1994. This mixed method (i.e., quantitative as ...

SNF Costs and the Impact of Primary Nursing

to changes which in turn can result in higher costs and reduced perceived quality of care. Primary nursing is not a new con...

Research Proposal on SNFs and the RN Shortage

well. This study also appears to be sound scientifically. Its primary means of data analysis is statistical; the methods b...

The Difficult Problem of the Nursing Shortage

Statistics expects that number to rise to more than one million in less than 20 years. The American Nurses Association and Monste...

Advanced Practice Nursing and Leadership

The ever-changing nature of Americas health care system has introduced a chaos in a population that for more than a century has be...

Nursing Theory, a Comparison

p. 144). Each has value, but each exists with a paradox. The more abstract theories are more easily generalized, but more diffic...

The Changing Nature of Health Care in the U.S.

expected only to continue for several years to come. Then, growth will begin to decline in response to fewer numbers of people re...

Carper's 4 Knowledge Types and Nursing Evaluation

(Snyder and Lindquist, 2001). Under this philosophy the social factors and even the spiritual factors of an individuals existen...