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Overview of Respiratory Therapy

regards to lung function. If patients cannot breath on their own, RTs are trained on how to intubate patients and connect them to ...

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...

Johnson and Johnson Marketing Communications

and in 2001 unofficially took over daily operations of Johnson & Johnson as he was being trained to succeed Ralph Larsen upon his ...

Stroke Patients and Nursing Case Management

Partially as a result of improved heath care practices which result in longer life and partially as the result of the movement aw...

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...

Article Summary on High Blood Pressure

differences between these two classifications are then described and three factors that are believe to influence the formation of ...

Terminally Ill Patients and Nursing Care

the needs of the dying and her work indicates that there are times when the most meaningful communication that a nurse can offer i...

Infections of the Urinary Tract

This is significant to nursing because nurses have to learn to insert and remove the catheter from the patient which is sometimes ...

Health Care - Studies on Governance

Developing New Nurse Leaders also considers the issue of shifts in leadership and governance, with a focus on the role of nurses a...

Nursing as a Desirable Career Choice

trying times of their lives. Nurses have the capacity to improve lives. Nothing could be more meaningful or provide a greater sens...

Health Policy and the Role of Public Health Nurses

These authors conducted a large study of 3,830 individuals consisting of 17.8 percent nurses, 21.8 percent physicians, 29.6 percen...

Reform and Ethics As They Relate to Nursing Home Care

or state agencies may seek and implement studies. II. Nursing Home Care for the Elderly Whenever nursing home care is an...

Forensic Mental Health Setting and Nursing Care

the same holds true about the theories with which these people are treated. In the United Kingdom, nurses specializing in forensi...

Ratio of Patients to Nurses

to the bill as did many nursing executives, arguing that there was sufficient legislation already on the books that dealt with sta...

Community Health Care Nursing and Child Abuse Interventions

the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...

Community Health Nursing Considerations

making a critical separation between their medical and social responsibilities within the short time allowed in an office visit. ...

Enteric Feeds and Health Organization Policy

How governments accomplish this purpose, of course, varies considerably. In Great Britain, the government via the National Health...

Canada's Immigrant Women, Prenatal and Postnatal Health Care

issues along a continuum of health and good health is defined as a "state of complete physical, mental and social well-being" (Ada...

Case Scenario on Nursing Care

In seven pages this paper presents a case scenario featuring a nursing care situation and possible change of employment environmen...

Defining and Treating Schizophrenia

prevention. Today, researchers are not disregarding the genetic component, but see this component as working in conjunction with o...

Self Care Model of Dorothy Orem

Hendersons definition of the Orem model as being the "practice of activities that individuals initiate and perform on their own be...

STDs and Plans of Health Promotion

in the heart and nervous system, or in some cases, death (WHO, 1996). While health promotion relating to STDs may be a global mis...

Human Caring Philosophy of Jean Watson

cosmic forces: they comprise the primal and universal psychic energy yet are overlooked * We have to treat our "self" with gentlen...

Nursing Liability and Access to Health Care by the Poor in Texas

goes way beyond the paradigm of nursing as simply a "handmaiden" to physicians. The nursing professional is required to know virtu...

Caring Nursing Theory of Jean Watson

that caring is good. Some nurses might object to allowing themselves the luxury because it makes them vulnerable, but in some prof...

Nursing in Great Britain, Clinical Supervision

patient care" (p. 438). Prior to 1970, nursing training in the UK could be described as rigid and highly structured. After...

New Jersey's Health Care Delivery System and Its Problems

governor should strive to at least make a dent in the problem in the next four years. It seems that the most pertinent problems ar...

Caring Theory, a Critique

nurse-patient relationship, the nurse gives without the expectation of reciprocation (1991). Thus, a patient need not return the f...

Health Care Delivery Trends

In five pages the effects of various health care practices and trends upon the nursing field are examined. Five sources are cited...

Patient Care Quality and Nurse Staffing

In six pages this paper considers studies that explore the link between patient care quality and nurse staffing. Five sources are...