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Nursing Diagnoses After Surgery

indwelling foley and compression boot. Her dressing is dry and intact. She was discharged with Percocet 5mg q6. Analysis and Out...

Health Care Workers and Treating Patients Who Inflict Self Injury

for further self-harm to occur. Pembrooke and Smith recommend, for example, that triage staff assume that even minor injuries repr...

Communication and Palliative Care

the patient prior to his death. The nurse clearly felt the need to encourage the family to stay and spend as much time as possibl...

Nursing Injuries' Problem Resolution

provided. A nurse who has back pain will likely reduce the care he or she could otherwise administer. When people have back or m...

Neonatal Circumcision and Pain Management and Assessment

still exists as to the necessity and long-term benefits of circumcision. Virtually all agree that if circumcision is to be done, ...

Nursing Reflections

biochemistry. I recognized the wonder of chemistry, but what I failed to recognize at the time was the solid practice it gave me ...

Terminal Condition and Informing Patients 2

Acquiescing to the constraints imposed by organizational and professional structure does not mean that the nurse has no alternativ...

Massachusetts General Hospital and its Patient Care Delivery Model

the mid-1990s and later. The hospitals purpose in implementing the PCDM was to decrease costs of both operation and labor, while ...

Medical Doctors and Nurse Practitioners Conflict Management

the elderly. The Nurse Practitioner announced in its July 2000 issue that reports of the AMAs petition had been received as...

Annotated Bibliography on Patient Restraint

physical restraints. The authors own views combined with the findings of current literature reveal that the use of physical restr...

Nursing Home Management Interview Summary

every 30 minutes for protection, safety and placement. This was a two-part citation in that there is no evidence that staff...

Professional Dilemmas and Nursing Ethics

decisions. It is through our status as health care professionals that such a role is not only valued but critical. Nursing...

Patient Welfare, Health, and the Family Nurse Practitioner

so often work today. The first issue which will be discussed for the purposes of this paper is that of environment. This...

Case Studies on Medical Care's Informed Consent

implied (Retsas and Forrester, 1995). Take the action of the patient who rolls up their sleeve to receive a shot for example (Ret...

Patient Stress Reduction According to Theories King, Johnson, and Neuman

on education and prevention, and on how individual and social systems work together in the "society" of the health care industry. ...

Alcoholic Patients and Nursing

abuse despite interpersonal problems or social caused brought about by drinking (Dawson, 2000). Repeated drinking of alcohol on da...

Literature Review of Terminal Cancer Patients and Hospital Care Quality

is important to note aspects of hospitalization which are perceived by patients dying of cancer as negative experiences that incre...

Acute Renal Failure and Dialysis Patients, Nutrition, and Nursing

infinitely more to the aspect of nursing than administering medicine; in fact, the myriad components that ultimately comprise the ...

Confidentiality Issues and Nursing Ethics

he could use public transportation to visit his parents nearby town. In short, the argument that Mr. Paul depends on his dr...

Patient Harassment of Nurses

had even been stalked by patients (Global Forum for Health Research, 2000). A major study in Australia found that there is a sign...

5 Articles Summarized

method in Assisted Suicide: Is There A Future? Ethical And Nursing Considerations employed the use of hypothetical euthanasia case...

Nursing and Physical Restraints Usage

the restrained person and others. This implies that the force used in restraining the person is less injurious to all concerned th...

Patient Autonomy and Nursing Concept Analysis

be in agreement with a working definition of autonomy. Thus, the following attributes should be seen: self-determination, in...

Complaints and Nursing

that time. What might be needed, then, would be some plan of action that the staff could follow, or possibly some type of polite s...

Public Health Care v. Home Health Care

of Healthcare Organizations is one organization which has had a definitive impact on the quality of care being provided across the...

Nursing Home Autonomy and Concept Development

That freedom and responsibility can improve the nursing home experience for all involved. Definition and Clarification...

A Nursing Analysis of 'A Study of Practicing Nurses Perceptions and Experiences of Intimacy within the Nurse-Patient Relationship'

it is useful to follow certain well-established frameworks for critique of qualitative research. For the purposes of this report, ...

Overview of Stress in Patients

In nine pages this paper examines causes, symptoms, and results of patient stress in a nursing overview that includes the servant ...

Overview of Legionnaire's Disease

This paper consists of ten pages and discusses what hospitals and nursing staff need to know when treating patients suffering from...

Patient Outcomes, Organizational Factors, and Nursing Competency

to insure that nurses continually perform their duties in the most competent and constructive manner (Cain, 2001). The establishm...