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A Nursing Perspective on Patient Mental Illness

This 15 page paper discusses seven patients who suffer from various forms of mental illness, and argues that there may be an under...

Avoiding Restraint and Seclusion

design. It is "not grounded in research that supports the therapeutic efficacy of this intervention, but upon the observation tha...

Addressing Issues in the HCAHPS

Systems (HCAHPS) is a patient satisfaction survey and assessment of the level of quality care provided by hospitals and healthcare...

The Value of the Family

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

Diabetes Self-Management - Hispanic Patients

has always been about the development of autonomy, equality, social justice and democracy" (Mezirow, 1999). The transformative app...

Organizational Structure and Patient Care

Statement, 2006). It is also a goal of HHC to "join with other health workers and with communities in a partnership" (Mission Sta...

Elder Neglect in Nursing Homes

be vulnerable to abuse or neglect for a variety of reasons and in a variety of situations, which range from home care to care in r...

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...

Education in Health Care

This essay comments on four aspects of education in health care beginning with using the COPA model for basic nursing education an...

Agency & Traveling RNs

(Green, 2004a). A travel nurse, on the other hand, is typically contracted to work a 13-week period, and this usually includes an ...

Empirical Evaluation

healing. Respondents who reported moderate stress before group (56.3%) experienced a decrease (43.8%) after group that dropped th...

Organizational Behavior Problem in Hospitals

A study by the Joint Commission revealed that communication failures were implicated at the root of over 70 percent of sentinel ev...

Nurse Manager Responsibilities

This research paper presents a comprehensive discussion of nurse manager responsibilities, which includes addressing nurse empower...

Making Improvements in the Nursing Agency

provided in their own home. Services offered include, but are not limited to, general nursing services, physical and occupational ...

Article Critique/Where Terminally Ill Prefer to Die

that puts the topic of this study, as well as past research, within an appropriate philosophical framework. Tang then cites the ...

Theories of Peplau and Orem in Patient Assessment

In this paper consisting of seven pages the importance of adequately assessing patient needs is discussed by examining the theorie...

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...

Developing a Care Plan

prior to being admitted to the care facility, it is possible that these needs are not being met. There is also the religious need ...

EBP from Three Perspectives

This essay provides a student with a hypothetical guide to discussing interviews with RN, a nurse practitioner and a patient conce...

MSN Summary and Evaluation

homes. Rather, it is a high-quality facility dedicated to providing the best of care to its residents. Staff members are employe...

Health Care, Bigotry, and Prejudice

This paper considers various strategies that can be applied to prevent prejudicial relationships between health care workers and p...

Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act of 2009

which are factors that are likely to have a beneficial affect on the chronic nursing shortage that is currently affecting the heal...

Leadership and Management in Nursing

management, in recent years, has been quite extensive. This body of empirical evidence and commentary largely supports the concept...

Peplau and Orem/Core Concepts

begins with "orientation," which is a period in which the nurse and the patient become acquainted. The relationship then proceeds ...

Orthopaedic Nursing Journal Article Reviewed

In ten pages a tutorial review on the article 'Discharge Teaching Work Strategies for Patients and Families for Care in the Home'...

Hospice Care, Dying, and Death

In three pages a nursing perspective is applied to a hospice program that deals with terminal patients through investigative resea...

Death and Coping

In six pages the role of nurses in the patient process of dying is considered in two scenario types that also involves caring for ...

Nursing and Family's Role

caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...

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...

Providing Comfort in the Emergency Room

charted component of my daily patient interaction. However, to remind myself of the other responsibilities during busy per...