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Evaluating 2 Nursing Web Sites on EBP

researchers (JBI, 2008). This section of the site also addresses the topic of "Research Training" and the availability of scholars...

Nursing Theory Sites

unitary human beings (Newman). This theory is appealing because it acknowledges how each person is unique and, therefore, must be ...

Mandatory Overtime for Nurses

quality of the provided care (ANA, 2008). Empirical research studies have confirmed that the risk for medical error increase subst...

3 Nursing Diagnoses for an Elderly Patient

the case study, is important for planning a safe and effective rehabilitation program (Craven and Hirnle, 2007). People who experi...

Ethical Issues/Living Wills

precisely the same as for other patients. Legal responsibility for care decisions in cases where there is a living will: does the...

Nursing Program Mgmt. Case Scenario Questions

fact that Ross, who is associated with an established clinic, recommends this procedure and offers her an example of how this can ...

Theory Analysis/Peplau

indicate the patients readiness for growth and movement" (Marchese, 2006, p. 364). Phase 1, orientation, describes the patient and...

IOM Ecological Model/Bioterrorism

On further examination, the cause of death is determined to be smallpox. As the World Health Organization (WHO) completely eradica...

Community Nursing Problem/Yeadon, PA

avoidance, such as creating a buddy system, which pairs elderly neighbors with each other. Buddies check on one another and accomp...

Nursing Theory: Hildegard Peplau

of her theory is the "improvement of nurses relationships with patients," which is a goal that she proposed can be accomplished by...

The Crimean War and Florence Nightingale

that by instituting improved sanitation and nutrition, there was a corresponding decrease in morality (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003...

Changing a Dangerous Situation

accomplish beneficial behavioral change. As Kurt Lewins pioneering work with change theory points out, any change initiative ent...

Family Systems/The Postpartum Mother

of family such as the one cited above. In many instances hospitals adhere to the traditional definition, which means that the poli...

Mandatory Overtime for Nurses

of hospital environments is driving many nurses away from hospital nursing and some are leaving the profession entirely. In 2000, ...

Evolution of Personal Philosophy of Nursing

the "inability to determine the meaning of illness-related events" (McCormick, 2002, p. 127). Furthermore, Chinn and Kramer (1999)...

Guillain-Barre Syndrome

and specific therapy" (Newswanger and Warren, 2004, p. 2405). As patients advance through the acute phase of the illness, supporti...

Nursing Personal Leadership Development Plan

and how discharge instructions should cover these contingencies. "Health" has historically been used to describe the "absence of d...

Patients’ Bill of Rights

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

School Nursing and Disaster Planning

any incident that requires an increased level of response beyond the routine operating procedures" (NASN, 2006). Natural disasters...

Leadership in Nursing

change, understand the reasons for this change and hare a vision of the future" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). The catch is that these g...

British Columbia and the Problems of Substance Abuse Among Canadian Youth

take to the streets rather than cope with abuse, violence or parental drug addiction. Also, as indicated above in regards to alcoh...