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21st Century Leadership For Health Care Organizations

and they want guidance to improve their conditions and diseases Canton (2007) reminds the reader that technology has changed eve...

Article Overview of 'Nursing Workload Measurements in the Acute Mental Health Inpatient Units'

The methodology utilized in the study by OBrien is quantitative and includes an assessment of a review of literature, the developm...

2004 Senate Bill 2545

and respiration. Her parents were told that she would never recover, but that her body could be kept alive indefinitely through ar...

Application of Leadership Theory II

I replied that I could develop a program with her supervision, that nurses were more interested in furthering their training than ...

Kolcaba and Holistic Care

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

Questioning Health Policy

who suffer from cancer, arthritis, AIDS, multiple sclerosis or acute back pain are known to frequently turn to alternative medicin...

The Role of the Physician: Differing Views in Accordance with Age, Gender, Ethnicity and OccupationVarious Perspectives on the Role of Medical Doctor

value the psychological and social factors which can equate with disease or infirmity. Nurses, although also trained primar...

Nursing Models and Theories of Erickson and Orem

and can be applied in a variety of clinical settings, as well as in educational programs and research. Orems theory is bas...

Liability in Nursing

Colorado/Utah and 3.7 percent of the hospitalizations occurring in New York resulted incurred adverse events (Dunn 45). Death occu...

Cancer Patients and Nursing

that is, whether it will spread (metastasize) and what symptoms that it is likely to cause (Cancer diagnosis, 2005). The term "sec...

Nursing and Mandatory Overtime

issue of regulatory interest when attached to direct patient care (Nursing, 2004). As few nurses with no patient responsibilities...

Concepts of Self Care

to the wide-ranging aspect of nursing than merely administering medicine; in fact, the myriad components that ultimately comprise ...

Community Health and the Nursing Care Theory of Jean Watson

and continues to do so, over the past two decades, as it was first published in 1979 (Falk-Rafael, 2000). In formulating her theor...

Dorothea Orem and Florence Nightingale on Nursing Theories, Beliefs, and Values

prepared for this role" (McKenna, 1997, p. 87). Perhaps most significant of all was Florence Nightingales belief that env...

Balance of Philosophy and Nursing Values

not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely woul...

Critical Modality of Humor

In three pages this research paper discusses how humor can be a modality that assists nurses in patient care as well as self care....

Truth in Patient Care

"become a universal law" (Kant, 1993, p. 30). In other words, Kants main criteria for action is that the individual should conside...

Hospital Information Systems: Identifying Pathways

to transfer data recorded by the monitors by telephone to the clinic. Nurses orchestrate this data transfer and conduct an initia...

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" (...

The Value of the Family

individual family member are considered within this context (Friedman, Bowden and Jones 37). In analyzing the various theories th...

Concept Mapping Versus Care Plans/A Proposed Study

the fever? Was it related to an infection in the surgical wound? Was the patient developing atelectasis and pneumonia? Or, was the...

Formulating Nursing Theory

verifies old knowledge (Wilkerson, 1998). As this suggests, the continuation of scholarly advances in the development of nursing t...

Implementing Care Following Leininger’s Theory

meals to all Orthodox Jewish patients should be investigated by hospital administrators if they are not already in place. Furtherm...

Pressure Ulcers/Changing Care

change and its rationale (which was based on the results of empirical research), implemented the change and then "supported the c...

Jean Watson, Nursing Theorist

move in concentric circles of caring--from individuals, to others, to community, to (the) world" (Vance, 2003). Caring science inv...

Federal And Connecticut Resident Rights: Nursing Homes And Assisted Living Facilities

?19a-490, Connecticut Department of Public Health Code ?19-13-D105 and Residential care homes ?19-13-D-6 (National Academy for Sta...

Alternative Medical Approaches

use these techniques only in response to certain ailments, such as back or neck pain (Steiner 20). However, another difference is ...

A Consideraiton of the ANA Code for Nursing

In eight pages the concerns that have recently developed regarding the 1976 ANA Code for Nursing are considered including nursing ...

Health Care Quality, Nursing Job Satisfaction, and a Review of a Nursing Journal Article VI

In two pages an article featured in a nursing journal is reviewed that considers the correlation between patient health care quali...

Nursing Aide Certification

Certification is important in many fields as it is in nursing. The CNA position is discussed in depth. The nursing care industry i...