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Nurse Role Definition

patients, cleaning patients up, changing the beds for patients, helping patients go to the bathroom, and many other simple, but ne...

NJ's Advanced Practice Nurses

from an advanced practice nurse. Patients value the nurse practitioner (NP) as a trustworthy source of medical information that a...

'Don't Call Me Sweetie!' Australia Nursing Study Reviewed

In six pages this paper examines nursing care from the perspectives of nurses and patients as reported by this Australian study. ...

Developments In Forensic Nursing

scientific investigation and treatment of trauma and/or death of victims of abuse, violence, criminal activity, and traumatic acci...

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...

SNF Costs and the Impact of the Shortage of Registered Nurses

of the patients in a single unit will be assigned to one RN; the other half will be assigned to another. Another will be availabl...

The Civil War: The Burning of Atlanta

Confederacy. The events leading up the planning and execution of the Atlanta Campaign, however, were much more complex than many ...

Analyzing the Speech by Othello in Act II, Scene ii

A critical analysis of Othello's climactic speech is featured in this paper of two pages....

Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media

In eight pages this text is critically reviewed in terms of the theories McLuhan presented and critical points are argued....

What are Critical Thinking Skills

of the time. Even critical thinkers get stuck in ruts and do not see their own blind spots in their thinking (Foundation for Criti...

Critical Thinking's Global Importance

him not guilty. On one hand, the majority used critical thinking skills to deduce that he did it. They looked at the various piece...

Humanistic Leadership & Nursing Unions

with humanity, that is, to be humanistic in ones orientation refers to the principles of humanism, which has been given a variety ...

Culturally Competent Care In Psychiatric Hospitals

Culturally competent care appropriate for a psychiatric hospital is considered a basic and primary component of nursing given the ...

Field of Nursing and Managed Health Care's Impact

In two pages this paper examines the nursing field and the growing complexities involving managed health care. Two sources are ci...

Nursing Management/Retention Issues

that not only were nurses retained but that everyone on staff is motivated to be actively engaged and involved in the work environ...

Contemporary Nursing Ethics

this development and left orders for both analgesia and sedation, which helped at first, but became less effective as the hours pa...

Nursing's Philosophy of Caring

In five pages this paper discusses contemporary nursing and the caring philosophy's role. Seven sources are listed in the bibliog...

Heath Care and Nursing's Pender Promotion Model

doctoral degree in Psychology and Education in 1969" (Pender, n.d.a). She found psychological research to be rigorous and methodo...

ICU Delirium

hospital stays (Cole and Soucy, 2003). While all ICU patients have serious and potentially life-threatening conditions, those ov...

Article Critique/Perceptions of Palliative Care

(in English) between the years 1989 and 2004. The extent of the literature review appears to be sufficient to support the research...

Nursing Shortage And Access To Quality Care

that hospital nurse staffing levels are inadequate to provide safe and effective care" (DPE Research Department, 2003). Physicians...

Following Watson's Example/Personal Philosophy of Nursing

Stimulus for developing of the students personal philosophy The process of nursing education exposes students to diverse clinical...

High Nursing Turnover Rate

based on a research study that surveyed over 2,000 RNs who provide direct nursing care in three mid-western hospitals. This result...

Mandatory Staffing Ratios

between those who supported mandatory staffing ratios, based on research such as the study conducted by Linda Aiken, and the stanc...

Economic Indicators 2006

Budget Office forecasts that gross domestic product will grow by 3.6 percent after inflation (in "real" terms) this year and by 3....

Elements of Psychiatric Nursing Practice

who is the legal guardian, as this pertains to the legality of admitting a minor for psychiatric care. If the patient is accompani...

ISO 9000 And Malcolm Baldrige Award

systems." The author explains that ISO 9000 can help institutional health care providers who must comply with the standards establ...

Mandatory HIV Testing for Pregnant Women

transmission of this disease (Chow, 2005, p. 38). In other words there is no disagreement over the positive benefits of HIV screen...

The Transformation of Attitudes about Death and Dying

11 pages and 11 sources. This paper provides an overview of the transformation of views on death and dying in the 20th century. ...

Exoskeleton Via Medical Technology

Now the standard of care in some areas of physical rehabilitation, exoskeleton bionics have many potential applications in the fut...