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Antibiotic Prophylaxis, Surgery & Accountability

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

Personal Philosophy of Nursing

attitude for science and the availability of educational opportunities, and the need for nurses in the job market, a the heart of ...

Collaborative Practice

Additionally, at the completion of this study intervention, evaluation of results showed that the project also resulted in improve...

Family in Med/Surg Nursing

relationship or marriage (Darling, 2005). For example, a homosexual man suffering from HIV-related illness and receiving the inten...

Certifying an Older Driver

drivers" than do states that do not require test automatic testing (Murden and Unroe, 2005, p. 22). Most states do set standards f...

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...

Emergency Nurses Association

trends. This peer-reviewed journal also offers its readership a forum for sharing their experiences with their peers, as well as l...

Czech Immigrants & Nursing

2001, p. 24). While the ancestors of many Americans of Czech extraction came to the US in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries...

Article Critique/Nursing Home Patients

there is no cure either for Alzheimers disease or the various forms of dementia on the horizon, healthcare practitioners should "i...

Pediatric Asthma Case Management

an obstruction of the airway and can involved any or all of the following factors: "smooth muscle bronchoconstriction, mucous secr...

A Case Study

inexperienced teacher whose pedagogical approach to teaching is not geared to a fourth grade level. What are the different perspe...

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...

Non-Clinical Director Functions

properly, nursing staff is highly aware of this lack. Research into nursing staff retention has found that the quality of housekee...

Mental Health of Returning Soldiers

need of treatment following tours in Rwanda, the Balkans and Somalia" (Auld). Mental health problems in regards to soldiers retu...

Obesity Community Health Intervention

factor in childhood obesity is the fact that television viewing tends to be accompanied by the consumption of high-calorie, high s...

Race Relations in Kankakee, Illinois

been brewing in Kankakee that is connected to a "personal matter" concerning Dr. Brian Ali, the Superintendent of Kankakee School ...

Wellness & Nutrition for Healthy Aging

p. 364). Due to the fact that eating behaviors tend to be established by early experience, it is important for healthy eating habi...

Statistics in Two Articles

results are reliable and representative (Curwin and Slater, 1996). The first is the profiling of the samples to show that they are...

Asthma Medication/Xolair

events (Owen, 2007). This action includes "presentation of antigen by dendritic cells" as well as the "degranulation of mast cells...

Non-punitive Nursing Culture/Medical Errors

2004). As errors are inevitable, in order to significantly reduce the rate at which they occur, it is imperative that mistakes sho...

Nursing Shortage in New York State

Nursing (Webber, 2007). However, this is not a long-term solution. The long-term solution to achieving an adequate nursing force f...

Patient’s Possessions & Cultural Competency

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

Music as a Nursing Intervention

the effect of music on preoperative anxiety and postoperative pain with a participant group that listened to "peaceful pan flute m...

Benner’s Novice to Expert Theory of Nursing

more on intuition and to "a hidden knowledge that is not so open to cognitive description" (Bradshaw, 1995, p. 83). In other words...

Concept Analysis/Acute Pain

factors" (Hader and Guy, 2004, p. 21). The international Association for the Study of Pain and the American Pain Society define pa...

Maslow And Nursing

Aesthetic, the need for beauty, order and symmetry (Huitt, 2004). 7. Self-actualization is a plateau not all people reach. At this...

Study Guide/Oedipus the King & Darker Face of the Earth

this writer/tutor encourages the student to reread the play, noting passages that support the chosen theme. While certainly study ...

Nursing Unions

cardiac monitor, a seizure, drug reaction or other sign of a critical condition...(They) are expected to fill out reports" that we...

Nurse Staffing Ratios

system," since the institution of mandated nursing ratios, and also that data shows California hospitals have not only been able t...

School Climate/James P. Comer

through a consensual process, each member of the team feels that they had an input into the decision, whereas the process of votin...