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A 5 page research paper that discusses delirium in the context of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Research addressing delirium in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) has been ongoing since the 1960s (Hartwick, 2003). However, despite all that has been learned over the past forty years, ICU patients continue to suffer from delirium and it continues ...
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Number of Pages: 9
A 9 page paper examining three forecasts for each of 5 economic indicators and then relating those findings to the medical industry. The bottom line in nursing is that (1) currently active, practicing nurses have a wealth of opportunity available to them; (2) the profession is attracting greater interest among would-be students who could ...
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A 10 page research paper. Numerous factors in the American healthcare system make achieving high rates of patient satisfaction within a hospital setting difficult to obtain. The following literature review explores the topic of patient satisfaction, particularly in regards to the role that management can play in effecting improved patient satisfaction through specific practices. Research ...
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Number of Pages: 12
A 12 page paper discussing effects of chronic pain and proposing a pilot program based on Healing Touch. Chronic pain can interfere with immune function, ability to sleep, ability to eat normally and ability to participate in work or leisure activities. It is defined as that which persists after the individual has suffered ...
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A 3 page paper discussing a series of nine articles appearing in the AORN Journal between April and December, 2002. The value of the series of articles is that each article focuses on a specific point of stated, formal ethics code to explain to perioperative nurses precisely what the standards mean for them. ...
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Number of Pages: 14
A 14 page expansion of a 4-page paper by the same name. The health care facility that maintains a shared governance model is able to make greater use of all the resources available to it. Typically, each patient care department of a facility such as this has a nurse manager who serves as ...
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This 8 page paper presents a case history of one trauma center that decreased their turnover rate from 58 percent to 15 percent and have a list of nurses who want to work at the center. This essay reports the process this center used to develop empowered teams that led to such remarkable success. Bibliography ...
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A 6 page paper reviewing economic influences on home health, including increasing fuel costs and the ongoing nursing shortage. The healthcare industry is hampered by its history of trying to operate separate from economic realities and laws, creating several hurdles that it will need to negotiate simultaneously. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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8 pages in length. The health care industry is fraught with struggles that keep people from obtaining the medical attention they need in a system where patients often pay the price for social and political agendas. One area in which this fall down of services is felt especially hard is with regard to ...
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A 9 page paper arguing that the use of Anesthesia Assistants is detrimental to the profession of nursing. Nurse Anesthesia Assistants are registered nurses (RNs) trained to certificate level, technologists that have greater understanding of the process of anesthesia than RNs without the certificate training but without the specialized knowledge that anesthesiologists or certified ...
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This 6 page paper provides an overview of existing research on the issue of workplace violence for nurses. This paper reviews five research studies on the issue. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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A 5 page research paper that examines the work of nursing theorist and innovator Dorothea Orem. The writer also examines how Orem's work has affected the nursing profession. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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A 20 page nursing research proposal seeking approval for instituting a primary nursing structure in a nursing home setting. Primary nursing is an old concept and has not been extensively studied in the long term care setting. The paper includes an extensive literature review as well as methods, hypotheses, data collection, data analysis, ...
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Implementation: A 4 page paper discussing implementation, data collection and evaluation of the proposed plan to institute primary nursing in a skilled nursing facility (SNF) for long-term care. The paper discusses the need for both quantitative and qualitative measures as well as ethical considerations attached to preserving individual privacy when assessing change in ...
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A 5 page paper assessing the value of instituting a primary nursing arrangement at a nursing home skilled nursing facility (SNF) to reduce the influence of the nursing shortage while also gaining more timely MDS/PPS/ RUG III reporting and therefore Medicare payments to the SNF. Of course the purpose of any SNF is to ...
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A 4 page paper evaluating two nursing studies. The proposal under consideration is to implement a primary nurse organizational structure in the skilled nursing facility (SNF). The two studies examined here indicate that patients fare better with greater direct care by RNs and that RNs are less likely to leave their profession when ...
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Number of Pages: 8
An 8 page review of a study published in the Jan/Feb edition of “Nursing Research”. The study is analyzed for completeness and applicability. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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A 5 page paper which discusses the effects of
dealing with budget cuts and restructuring while still managing day to day operations as a
nurse manager. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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A 5 page paper assessing the validity and scientific merit of two studies of nursing home population samples in advance of conducting a larger study that will develop and test an innovation in long term care. That innovation will consist of creating alliances between nursing homes and assisted living facilities to provide the latter ...
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This 5 page report
discusses pet therapy programs that generally consist of
volunteers bringing a dog or cat (a shelter animal or their own
pet) to an in-patient facility in order to interact with
residents or patients. National studies have confirmed the
therapeutic effects of animals upon humans, especially those
individuals who are confined due to age or illness. Human-animal
contact encourages ...
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(5 pp) Sen. Tim Hutchinson (R-Ark.), chairman of
the Subcommittee on Aging of the Health, Education,
Labor and Pensions Committee, said the report,
"2000 National Sample Survey of RNs," -- being
released by the Health and Human Services Health
Resources and Services Administration - confirms
"nursing demands will exceed supply by 20% in year
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This 5 page report briefly discusses the development
and history of modern nursing in the Western world. “Modern” nursing, just as other
aspects of modern medicine, began to come into its own in the mid- to late-19th century
in the Western world. Between war, scientific advancement, and the onslaught of the
Industrial Age, humans were becoming aware of certain ...
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Client Centered Nursing Home Care. (12 pp). On any
given day, nursing homes are caring for about one
in twenty Americans over the age of 65. Almost half
of all Americans turning 65 this year will be
admitted into a nursing home at least once. One
fifth of those people admitted into nursing homes
stay ...
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