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Practicing Nursing in Pennsylvania

For example, in regards to nurse practitioners from other state, the law states, "The Board (meaning the Board of Nursing) may iss...

Nursing & ED Overcrowding

York found that, in the past, ambulance diversions were a seasonal event. However, more recent research finds that diversional sta...

Burnout

concepts dominated the field of stress research beginning in the 1950s; however, by the 1970s, there was opposition to Selyes stre...

Article Critique/Effects of Remembering/Nursing Home Residents

the study intervention. Also, as yet, Cook is not clear about the purposes, aims or goals of the study. Literature Review While ...

Nursing Leadership Attributes

secretary, should leave the ward when there were fewer than three children on the unit and work a second adult unit as well. He wa...

Role of Culture/Mental Health Nursing

to work efficiently and effectively across cultural boundaries. This concept also encompasses not only the assumption that nurses,...

Learning Diabetes Self-care

of diabetes care, including blood/glucose monitoring, food intake monitoring, exercise monitoring, and insulin administration. Be...

Coping Strategies & Influences on Student Nurse

study intervention that addresses strategies for helping student nurses cope with high levels of stress. This studys findings stre...

A Concept Diagram

fatigue is related to functional state. Older patients are more likely to have persistent pain, to experience less relief from an...

A Future in Nephrology

are Patient Care Manage, Employee Manager and Facilities Operation Manager (DaVita Dialysis, 2007). Each these areas require speci...

Dealing with Change/Miami Valley Hospital

patient care (Hassmiller and Cozine, 2006). Some strategies proposed by RWJF for helping to decrease the tremendous workload on nu...

Nursing Wages

in this case for a variety of reasons (Chaguturu and Vallabhaneni, 2005). First of all, despite any financial incentives, it has b...

Culturally Competent Nursing Strategies

care is to formulate a health care system and workforce that possesses the skill and understanding required to deliver quality hea...

Atrial Fibrillation

percent of al cardiac surgery patients (Brantman and Howie, 2006). While this postoperative condition is typically well-tolerated ...

Homeless & Mental Illness/A Vulnerable Population

necessary health-related behaviors" required for meeting "ones therapeutic self-care demand (needs)" (Hurst, et al 2005, p. 11). U...

Nursing Faculty Shortage

nurses are part of this generation and a large majority of nurses are retiring. It has been estimated that 50 percent of the count...

Leddy’s Human Energy Model of Nursing

are possess "awareness and intention," and can construct a sense of self-identity and meaning," which includes the ability to choo...

BNP Assays (Article Summary)

predicting mortality and morbidity. Authors provide a section to explain and explore the existence of natriuretic peptides. Anoth...

Research on ICU Psychosis

Furthermore, it is also crucial for nurses to also recognize its association with other similar conditions, such dementia, as deli...

Nightingale & Henderson

supply and the importance of fruit and vegetables in the patients diet. She authored over 200 books, reports and pamphlets on nurs...

Diabetic Education/New Nurses

Sometimes the ability to perform foot self-exams for follow-up education or acute illness (Nettles, 2005, p. 44). Additionally, ...

Hypothetical Interview/Nursing Leader

task forces, committees, and organizational projects," while also serving as "resources to other nurses to facilitate advancing sk...

Quality within Australian Nursing

quality and safety for the care they can expect to receive from nurses and midwives and other health professionals are the same" (...

Roy’s Adaptation Model & Cardiac Care

As described by Araich (2001), four nursing strategies effectively summarize how a critical care nurse can use the RAM to aid a ca...

Nursing Vocabulary

is a term that refers to "a formal way of thinking (i.e. conceptualizing) about a process/system under study" (Conceptual Framewor...

Should A Nursing Manager Quit?

interests and values considered and respected in the decision-making process" (Fly and Johnstone, 2002). This rationale is undoubt...

Now Night Nurses on an Intensive Care Unit

of this decision. Ecological theory is an attempt to bring in many different influences in order to understand how a society ...

Review of "Outcomes of Therapeutic Massage for Hospitalized Cancer Patients"

Smith, et al. (2002) explain that their purpose "was to investigate the effects of therapeutic massage on selected outcomes relate...

Licensing Registered Nurses

legislation that authorizes a Nurse Licensure Compact (National Council of the State Boards of Nursing, Nurse Licensure Compact, 2...

The Roper, Logan and Tierney Model of Nursing

Additionally, the model also "incorporates a life span continuum, where the individual passes from fully dependent at birth, to fu...