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This paper examines the need for nurse practioners to consider the cultural mores of the patients whom they treat. The paper uses, as a jumping of point, the case study involving creation of a women's care center on a Native American reservation, then uses other sources to support the thesis. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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A 6 page research paper that explores the concept of patient autonomy, which is a factor that impacts the theoretical basis of all areas of nursing practice, and concerns the moral and legal right of competent individuals to make decisions affecting their lives. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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A 7 page continuation of an educational initiative following completion of a needs assessment and analysis at a long term care facility. The initial assessment indicates that a need exists in further training and education in techniques and rationale of infection control in the institutional setting. This paper discusses learning theory and selects ...
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This 7 page report discusses the moral and ethical concerns related to surrogate mothering. Surrogate motherhood agreements have been responsible for a great deal of public, governmental, religious, and legal debate. For some, the issue involves whether or not it is possible to legitimately establish a “commercial” contract for a biological process which involves the ...
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A 5 page paper discussing the mechanisms that nurses use to arrive at decisions, including the processes of analysis and intuition. The paper uses as an example an elderly patient scheduled for relocation from a hospital to a long-term care facility. It integrates Maslow’s hierarchy of needs in the decision-making process as well. ...
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A 5 page paper discussing the theories of Neuman, Orem and Roy in 2 pages followed by the actual search results gained from a search of the CINAHL database in terms linking those theorists with perioperative nursing. Search results list 2 articles discussing each of the 3 theorists. Bibliography lists 2 sources. ...
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This 6 page report discusses concepts related to therapeutic touch of “TT” and its application in nursing. The assumption of the practice is that the healing energy that can be transferred through touch can serve as an important component in the overall healing process of an injury and the ways in which a patient responds ...
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This 5 page paper looks at the problems and the nurse may encounter when treating an alcoholic, the ways they may treat the patient and overcome the barrier s and how they may then disengage from therapeutic relationship. The bibliography cites 16 sources.
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An 8 page research paper that examines several objectives that are intrinsic to good mental health nursing practices. Topic covered include establishing a professional relationship with clients; role of evaluation in care provision; assessment and risk management; clinical risk factors; principles of case management and clinical supervision. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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A 6 page research paper that examines literature pertaining music therapy as a method for pain management. The writer reviews the literature and offers suggestions for implementation of music therapy into clinical nursing practice. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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A 5 page research paper that discusses nursing regulatory law. Laws covering professional conduct for healthcare professionals, that is, areas such as licensure, credentialing, certification and registration, are complex. This survey pertains to such laws, focusing on law in the State of Georgia. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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A 4 page research paper that address this topic. A baby or toddler screams and a parent notices that the child is tugging or batting at his ear. More than likely, the pain is caused by an ear infection, which is one of the most common childhood diseases. The following examination of this topic looks ...
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This 3 page paper examines the plight of an elderly woman. A nursing assessment is done via interview. Erikson's stages are discussed and Gordon's functional health patterns are included in the analysis. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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An 8 page research paper on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The writer describes the disorder, the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria, treatment options, and a nursing plan for intervention in a case study. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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A 6 page overview of the specifics of the nursing shortage. The writer discusses the extent and seriousness of the problem, its causes and proposed solutions. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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A 3 page essay that offers a student seeking admission to a nurse anesthetist program suggestions on creating an admissions essay. No bibliography is offered.
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A 3 page research paper that discusses ethical decision making in operations management as it applies to nursing case management. A specific case study is presented and discussed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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This 3 page paper discusses the process of coming out, and how nurses can help gay people handle this difficult transition. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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A 6 page paper discussing various self-care modalities (self-massage, music, meditation, exercise and imaging) to be used over the period of a class in holistic nursing. Self-massage and meditation are the modalities chosen, because neither requires any specialized equipment and neither requires that another person be available to assist. Bibliography lists 5 sources. ...
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A 3 page research paper that examines literature that focuses on medication errors and what nurses can do to prevent them. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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This 5 page paper discusses this specific hospital, reporting their mission, vision and values statements, and their decision making process. The writer also comments on the types of nursing staff at the hospital and the training opportunities. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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A 5 page paper assessing the decision aspect of the Stetler model of research analysis, which is use the findings; consider using the findings; delay using the findings; and reject the findings. The study assessed here addresses nurse empowerment, and the paper recommends using the findings. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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A 5 page paper discussing the reasons for and need of ongoing training in health care, for the purpose of persuading a real-world director of nursing to take advantage of training programs available. In today's hypercompetitive health care environment where costs continue to spiral upward despite efforts to contain them, it can seem to ...
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A 3 page essay that summarizes and analyzes the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics. The writer also comments on its content and implications. No additional sources cited.
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A 4 page article critique of a study conducted by McHugh, et al (2001) concerning a nursing intervention for patients waiting for coronary artery bypass graft surgery. No additional sources cited.
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A 5 page discussion of the multifaceted approach this disease requires in order to accommodate both patent and community needs. The nursing role extends from the bedside administration of medications and the monitoring of vital signs to administration of prophylactic medications to close contacts of the patient to the education of the community as ...
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An 11 page research paper in which the writer argues that nurses have a duty not to passively accept the position that they cannot alter the monolithic nature of "the system" and should be advocates for their patient's right to informed consent. The historical understanding nature of informed of consent is explored, as well as ...
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A 6 page research paper in outline form that argues the "con" position in the debate concerning the efficacy of legislated nurse/patient ratios. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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A 4 page research paper that discusses how nurses are involved in health and wellbeing as it relates to heart disease prevention. The writer discusses this topic in relation to the five categories of health promotion listed in the Ottawa Charter of 1986. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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A 5 page nursing case study that concerns the situation of "Tommy," a 10-year-old permanently disable child who suffers from multiple handicaps caused by Shaken Baby Syndrome. The writer addresses Tommy's needs but also focuses on the needs of Tommy's extended dysfunctional family. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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A 10 page research paper that offers a nursing concept analysis of coping. Topics covered include definitions and attributes, as well as model, borderline and related cases. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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A 6 page paper discussing this abstract and grand nursing theory. Parse’s theory is illuminating and thought-provoking, and it gives the student of it a route by which to imagine how different all of health care would be were Parse’s theory descriptive of mainstream health care practice rather than a view of what health ...
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A case study which involves setting out a care plan for a bereaved woman suffering from depression, including delineating the kind of nursing interventions which might be appropriate, their outcomes, and the etiologies of the depression. Bibliography lists 14 sources.
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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 paper which looks in detail at mentoring in nursing, with specific reference to assessment and the importance of feedback and interdepartmental communication. Bibliography lists 4 sources
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A 3 page research paper that discusses the roles and responsibilities inherent in pediatric nursing and also the various types of pediatric specialization. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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A 6 page research paper/essay that discusses nursing ethics, the factors that influence the development of personal and professional ethics and how they apply to clinical practice. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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A 4 page continuation of the development process of a pilot program for nurses to teach the effectiveness of insulin IV drip therapy on the regular medical unit, rather than transferring the patient to ICU, which often requires transferring the most stable ICU patient to the regular medical unit. The paper includes implementation and ...
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A 6 page research paper that discusses ethical dilemmas, the Canadian Nurses' Association Ethics Code, and various scenarios of ethical dilemmas. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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A 5 page paper reporting the basics of 8 articles on diabetes education of staff nurses and patients. Article information is presented in table form only (no text explanations) including author, theory, objective, method, data analysis and findings. Some articles include notes on personal thoughts. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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A 6 page review and critique of an article published in the American Journal of Nursing in 2001. Researchers established baseline values regarding how often health care workers washed their hands in two ICUs in a single hospital; introduced a waterless alcohol-gel hand sanitizing agent; and recorded subsequent incidence of hand antisepsis following that ...
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A 10 page research paper that discussing a case study in which the nursing diagnosis of Body Image Disturbance (BID) was made. The writer differentiates between this diagnosis and Self-Esteem Disturbance, defines BID, and possible interventions. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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An 8 page paper. This is a lesson plan for teaching nurses to teach other staff to teach mentally disabled patients to take their medication properly. The lesson begins with objectives and materials needed. The introduction offers data regarding medication errors. Technology solutions to this problem are discussed, e.g., bar coding. The author then discusses ...
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An 8 page research paper that examines the field of home health nursing. This examination looks at the conceptual, philosophical, and legal foundation to this field. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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A 21 page research paper that examines three models of nursing that are used extensively in the UK, the Roper-Logan-Tierney model, Orem's Self-Deficit Model and Roy's Adaptation Model. The writer offers an extensive literature review and then offers an overall analysis. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
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A 4 page research paper that discusses the increasing positive influence that advanced practice nurses (APNs) are having within health care organizations. For example, the writer describes how APNs in an intensive care neonatal unit instituted positive change. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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An 8 page paper assessing the information flows becoming possible with one skilled nursing facility’s (SNF) attention to automating much of the information needed for patient records, managed care negotiations and Medicare. Five full-size, color diagrams illustrate the SNF’s information types, flows and uses. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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A 4 page critique of a qualitative study using grounded theory as its theoretical framework. Martin and Hutchinson (1999) set out to identify social and operational problems faced by Nurse Practitioners (NPs) in their daily routines, focusing on negative aspects of the NP position. Though their motives are sound, the conclusions they reach ...
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An 8 page paper answering 5 public health nursing questions. Topics include Lillian Wald; the concept of health for all; Healthy People 2010; data collection; the Community as Partner model; and population pyramids. Specific questions are included as an appendix. Includes 2 charts. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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A 3 page essay for admission into a PhD program in nursing. The paper addresses previous professional experience; personal career goals; research interests; goals in pursuing graduate study; and educational objectives. The applicant’s research interest is Persistent Vegetative State (PVS). Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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