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Personal Reflections on Clinical Supervision

can facilitate a different type of learning and examination, peer groups may allow an exploration with fewer confines groups with ...

Comfort/A Nursing Concept Analysis

sorrow; (b) relief from distress; (c) a person or thing that comforts; (d) a state of ease and quiet enjoyment, free from worry; (...

Qualitative Studies/What are they good for?

Baumann, et al, in 1995, which was purely qualitative. The point is that through qualitative research, data was provided that can ...

EBP Barriers

the following: In my practice setting, a major barrier against using EBP is that it takes an inordinate amount of time. This is...

Chain of Command in Nursing

risk. For example, Mahlmeister (1996) relates a pediatric situation in which a night nurse in a small hospital was expected to wor...

Evidenced-Based Nursing

practice. Research reveals best practices and these will improve nursing practice. For example, nurses knew that people coming out...

Cunningham's The Hours/Implications for Healthcare

not only relates to the societal restrictions with which women had to contend in regards to their expected societal roles, but it ...

Christian Beliefs in Nursing

beliefs and worldview of the nurse. Salladay (2006) in her review of A Christian Vision of Nursing Practice by Mary M. Doornbos,...

Computerized System in the Prevention of Medication Errors

care (OMalley, 2007). The aim of this essay is to offer an overview of this problem, focusing on how it applies to a specific ho...

Book Report on Mark Sanborn’s The Fred Factor

of course, it only takes one person in any organization to "make a difference" (Sanborn, 2004, p. 8). The second principle, Succe...

Bipolar Disorder

there is very little information about predisposes people to these episodes (Swann, 2006). Therefore, for the most part, nursing a...

Nursing Practice Improvement and Qualitative Research's Importance

on Nursing" in 1860 which not only documented basic concepts of nursing care but also included basic research strategies such as o...

Floating RN Practice

nurse refused and was subsequently fired. The court ruled in favor of the nurse and found that the Beloit Memorial had wrongfully...

Healing Wounds and the Role of Nutrition

placement of polyvinyl alcohol sponges into subcutaneous pockets" (p. 7). Each of the rats were "given a nutritional solution con...

Nursing Practice and Atherosclerosis

1997). It is generally believed that atherosclerosis results from a combination of factors, which include: hemodynamic stress (hyp...

Immobility and Nursing Practice

In six pages this paper examines nursing practice through a definition, literature review, and implications of immobility. Five s...

Women's Mental Health/Depression

minority groups. They are frequently poor and have little education. Scrandis, Fauchald and Radsma describe a "Charlottes Web of C...

Nursing Perspective on the Issue of Living Organ Donation

however, Jones requested an ethics consult on the case due to the fact that Johns psychosocial evaluation had caused Jones to have...

Nursing and the Interaction Between Theory, Research, and Practice

authors state that research "and theory are key underpinnings that guide safe, effective, and comprehensive" (p. 35) practice. As...

Professional Practice and Nursing Philosophy

and religious background and beliefs, as well as how the health/illness continuum works within the framework of their life. "Env...

Nursing Theory Research and Practice

with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to support a level of pro...

Education and Nursing

professionals has come into view as an element of this discourse. Nurse professionals, who once worked directly under the wing ...

Restraints Usage and Issues of Nursing Practice

According to one research study, the top five reasons why nurses employ restraints are "disruption of therapies, confusion, fall p...

Nursing Practice and Otitis Media

of ear infection (Chronic otitis media, 2003). OM is a serious childhood illness because, if not properly treated, it can lead to ...

Newman's Theory & Applications for Practice

awareness of the self within the context of the environment grows in association with each other in a manner that allows the indiv...

Therapies and Health Care, Genetic Research,

This research paper pertains to aspects of genetic research and genetic therapies that are relevant to nursing practice. Eight pag...

Nursing Director, Hospital Hiring Practices

This research paper discusses hospital hiring practices and policies and specifically focuses on the position of nursing director...

Management of Diabetic Patients and Nurse Practitioner Practice

risen in the US population, there has been corresponding increase in the incidence of diabetes mellitus, which is associated with ...

Self-Care Deficit Theory, Dorothea Orem

The SCDNT regards the meta-paradigm of "Nursing" as an art, that is, a "helping service," but also as a technology ("Dorothea," 20...

Diabetes Articles, Reflection, Synthesis

of literature pertaining to type 2 diabetes mellitus, begins by describing, summarizing and analyzing the study conducted by Barko...