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Nursing Management Issue/Medication Error

systems. The following examination of the problem of medication errors focuses on the context of mental health nursing within the ...

NP role in EDs/Study Article Critique

and theoretical Framework: The instrument designed for use in this study drew heavily upon the survey developed by Cole, et al, wh...

Admissions Essay, Doctoral Program, Family Nurse Practitioner

versatile medium, learning how to create web pages and make them interactive and user-friendly. It is important that care provid...

Role of Public Health Nurse/Diabetes Care

reveals about diabetic populations. The normal digestive processes of the body turn any form of carbohydrate that is consumed in...

Pain Management Literature Review

p. 29), as stated in its title. Mean age was 81; 218 participants completed the study. The researchers evaluated the differences...

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...

Theory Analysis/Peplau

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

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...

IOM Ecological Model/Bioterrorism

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

Mandated Nurse-to-Patient Ratios

nursing skill levels and patient mix" (Minimum staff levels, 2004, p. 33). However, the researchers found that a "greater total nu...

Safe Nursing and Patient Care Act

"study and report to Congress on standards for the maximum number of hours that a nurse may work without compromising the safety o...

Nursing Theory/Florence Nightingale

during an era that rationalized social inequalities. In regards to Environment, Nightingale was changed the course of nursing an...

CCRN Certification/A Program Proposal

grueling exam Id have to pass to earn my CCRN," she bought the necessary study materials, sent in an applications and "hit the boo...

Hospital Administration

as a facilitator of human resources, but also encompasses consideration of financial resources. These two roles were selected as m...

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...

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 ...

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...

Teenage Pregnancy

various roles" (Meadows-Oliver, et al, 2007, p. 116). The stress involved in a teenage pregnancy and the associated pressure tha...

Impact of Professional Development

and the values and preferences of the individuals, families and communities who are served"(Reavy and Tavernier, 2008, p. 166). Nu...

Homeless Veterans with PTSD

to a Veterans Administration (VA) inpatient program for the treatment of substance abuse. Research has definitively established ...

Advanced Nursing Program: Assessment and Recommendations

in pursuit of their advanced standing certification. Moreover, active RNs, LPNs and CNAs understand that these advanced practice ...

Mayo Clinic/Educational Needs Assessment

(Masters and Doctoral degree) (Career overview, 2009). Summary of Results of the Need Assessment For the purposes of the needs a...

The Nursing Shortage

due to a number of reasons. First of all, the average age of the population is getting progressive older. As a people. America, an...

Pediatric Obesity/Overweight

for "population, intervention, comparison intervention and outcome" and therefore offers nurses a structure that prompts nurses t...

Grundy, Virginia/Helping an Elderly Patient

care home agencies also offer data on each service that is provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and acco...

Effective Nursing Leadership, Management

power, found that where nurses report that power when is shared, there are corresponding improvements in the nursing/physician rel...

Hypertension Education for African American Patients

in response to cognitive and physiological challenge" (Covelli, 2007, p. 323). Diet: Both the intake of dietary sodium and potas...

Ethical Implications of Shortages in Nursing

Beginning in the early 1990s, managed care targeted nursing as an expenditure where hospitals could cut costs. Managed care consul...