Number of Pages: 8
An 8 page research paper that addresses a specific case scenario, which deal with nursing interventions for a 52-year-old woman who has been diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer, which is metastasized to the left hip and involves the lymphatic system. She presents to the oncology nursing unit with severe bone pain in her left ...
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Number of Pages: 11
An 11 page paper discussing angina from a nursing perspective. Angina pectoris can be regarded as an 'early warning system' heralding cardiovascular disease, but it also is a condition that itself needs to be managed. Treated angina results in far fewer occurrences of myocardial infarction (MI) than untreated angina. Patients know that ...
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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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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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Number of Pages: 4
A 4 page research paper that contrasts and compares position papers from the Internet sites of two psychiatric nursing organizations. The International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses (ISPN) and the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) both have position paper posted regarding the use of seclusion and restraint on psychiatric patients. The positions of these organizations ...
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Number of Pages: 4
A 4 page essay/research paper in which the writer uses tutorial language to advise a student on relating nursing experience that pertain to community service, specifically, asthma and diabetes care. The student's assignment calls for student to report on professional community services that the student has rendered as an RN within the last ...
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3 pages in length. A true pioneer in the nursing field as well as a social reformer, Margaret Sanger upholds what some believe to be the dubious legacy of introducing birth control for the sole purpose of giving women a choice when it comes to their own bodies. Her nursing career was the ...
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Number of Pages: 3
This 3 page paper provides a response to some of the following questions: 1. What is the difference between baccalaureate and graduate-degree education with regard to autonomy? Why is it important to identify clinical or practice experts to help you achieve your Practicum learning objectives? Why must MSN students have MSN mentors? 2. ...
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Number of Pages: 4
A 4 page research paper/essay that offers an example paper to a nursing student in regards to possible response to a scenario involving ethics, the existence of a living will and the right course of action. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Number of Pages: 7
A 7 page research paper that discusses leadership theories. Healthcare today faces numerous and complicated challenges that must be overcome in order to maintain the viability of healthcare organizations. To meet and overcome these difficulties, effective leadership in the contemporary healthcare system is essential. Therefore, examination of leadership theories and models in order to determine ...
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Number of Pages: 18
This 18 page report is a
literature review of works pertaining to the incidence of
workplace violence and its impact on nurses and what measures can
be taken into consideration regarding including an educational
component in the nursing curriculum to assist nurses in dealing
with the problem. Bibliography lists 22 sources.
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Number of Pages: 28
A 28 page discussion of the importance of Safety Programs in Nursing Homes. Outlines the role of OSHA is nursing home safety issues and details specific
components of nursing home Safety Plans including accident prevention
and reporting procedures, general health concerns, and procedures for
disease control. Emphasizes the role of training in ensuring a
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Number of Pages: 5
A 5 page paper which addresses a nursing article titled “Brief Nursing Consultations for
Preventing Alcohol Use Among Urban School Youth,” written by Chudley E. Werch,
Joan M. Carlson, Deborah M. Pappas, and Carlo C. DiClemente, for The Journal Of
School Health (Nursing Perspectives), November, 1996. The study researched a number
of young adolescents and implemented various methods of ...
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5 pages in length. Considered an extension of a woman's natural ability to nurture and tend to others, the image of nurses and nursing as a profession historically fell into the more traditional female role where the majority of women went unpaid for their services. It was a clear presumption that women's contributions -- ...
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Number of Pages: 7
7 pages in length. Deliberate self-harm is an issue that troubles nurses all throughout the profession. Patients who have been victims of past or present abuse, those with compromised self-image, as well as people who are suffering with terminal illnesses all have tendencies to inflict harm upon themselves. The manner by which ...
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Number of Pages: 15
A 15 page discussion of the vital role nurse practitioners are playing in the health care environment. Emphasizes the need for such positions in practically every aspect of this environment, particularly in the family health clinic. Concludes that not only are nurse practitioners highly skilled professionals, they are trained in dealing with interpersonal ...
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Number of Pages: 4
A 4 page research paper that explores various ethical dilemmas and how application of the ANA Code of Ethics can be used as a guide to professional conduct. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Number of Pages: 3
A 3 page research paper/essay that examines the ANA Code of Ethics. This examination of this code examines its clarity of goals, identified ethical principles, evaluates the feasibility of enforcement and offers recommendations. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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A 3 page research paper that looks briefly at specifically at legal, ethical and personal obstacles before also examining the factors that influence these factors. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Number of Pages: 5
A 5 page paper answering four questions focusing on ethical considerations in clinical research and putting research into practice. The questions include topics of informed consent and the relative worth of some ethics committees’ requirement for comprehensive consent forms. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Number of Pages: 8
This 8 page paper provides an overview of the issue of congestive heart failure from a nursing perspective, and integrates a view of adaptation theory as it can be applied to a treatment perspective on CHF. Bibliography lists 12
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Number of Pages: 6
There are a number of constraints to the provision of appropriate care including financial considerations, the shortage of nurses and the differences in settings.
This 6 page paper argues that nurses should be paid according to ability and experience rather than educational level. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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This is a 5 page paper discussing health promotion plan for STDs in small and large communities. Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are a global as well as local concern for health care providers. In addition to guidelines and fact sheets about the prevalence, treatment and symptoms of STDs provided by the World Health Organization, national ...
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Number of Pages: 5
A 5 page paper discussing the issue of the ethics of
euthanasia within a nursing context. The paper presents philosophical argument, but one author
notes that those nurses unable to come to terms with agreed-on procedures should disqualify
themselves from cases employing those procedures. Whereas the physician of record has the privilege of and ability to ...
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Number of Pages: 14
A 14 page research paper that is based on the premise that the author is a nurse who is spending a year as a health practitioner to the Olinkan tribe. The author must state a position relative to the subject of female circumcision, a practice of the Olinkans. The writer gives both sides of this ...
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Number of Pages: 10
This 10 page paper considers the issue of addressing opiate addiction in the
nursing population in managed care. This paper considers the specific
problems and policies that have been adopted to address the issue of
opiate addiction in this population, and relates specific protocols for
addressing addiction in nurse and nurse practitioner populations.
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Number of Pages: 7
This 7 page paper discusses a variety of issue related to the NP or APN. These include reimbursement issues, prescribing authority, malpractice insurance, whether to open independent practice, budget issues and other issues the writer comments on. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Number of Pages: 12
A 12 page paper discussing the therapeutic use of self and self-disclosure in the psychiatric setting. Formal training provides the technical knowledge needed to provide competent care in the psychiatric setting, but formal training also can be seen as only the beginning point of building competence. Experience and reflection on that experience are ...
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Number of Pages: 3
A 3 page discussion of the evolving role nurses play in data base management. This paper
contends that the nurse plays many roles in data base management. Not only does she or he collect data and input it into the data base, the nurse
is often responsible for some components of the management of the ...
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Number of Pages: 5
A 5 page paper which discusses the role of nursing in
relationship to issues involving euthanasia concerns. Illustrations, descriptions, and
opinions are provided. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Number of Pages: 15
15 pages in length. As nursing has moved forward into the twenty-first century, has the industry earned any more respect and admiration than it had over one hundred years ago? Indeed, it can readily be argued that men continue to hold both superiority and power within today's medical
community, inasmuch as nurses' responsibilities include ...
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Number of Pages: 6
This 6 page paper provides an overview of the role of the nurse in the ambulatory care setting. This paper considers the increasingly complex services and the coordination of delivery necessary in the ambulatory care environment, including the
expanded role of nurses as a result of this change. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Number of Pages: 10
This 10 page paper looks at a the arguments
presented in a legal brief asking the court to rule on the participation
of nurses in a court ordered euthanasia by depriving the patient of food
and water. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Number of Pages: 11
An eleven page paper which looks at the techniques of reflective practice in terms of way in which nurses are trained, and how useful this strategy is both in terms of the understanding of theoretical knowledge and the practical applications of nursing philosophy.
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Number of Pages: 8
An eight page paper which looks at the role and function of the Clinical Nurse Specialist, in terms of clinical specialisation, leadership within the parameters of the health-care organisational model, and the ways in which the CNS’s role is changing with regard to other positions in the field of advanced nursing practice.
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Number of Pages: 15
A 15 page research paper. The concept of transcendence refers to the awareness of an individual that goes beyond normal physical boundaries. For more than a decade, the relationship between health, recovery, coping and spirituality have been a focus of the literature. This paper explores and investigates what transcendence means, how spirituality is defined ...
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A 5 page paper which examines the complexities of situations with regard to a head nurse’s administration of standard hospital procedures, including making exceptions to such customary procedures such as visitation, children,
etc.; contending with frequent complaints from the same nurse; and the separation of reasonable and unreasonable procedural requests. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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In 6 pages, the author discusses Clara Barton. "As a young girl, her skull was studied by phrenologist, and he determined her to be one that would never assert herself for herself, but that for others she would be fearless. Angel of mercy during the Civil War, although not a nurse. Founder ...
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Number of Pages: 5
A 5 page discussion of nursing case management.
Case management can be a very complicated issue, involving many different programs
and companies who each have their own position in regards to the case management of
any given patient. In addressing the complexities we illustrate how involved the
circumstance can be and them give examples of institutions that are ...
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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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A 6 page paper discussing the Neuman and Rogers systems models of nursing, evaluating each and determining which would be most appropriate for a specific case. Many of today’s commonly-used theories are quite similar in their form, differing in only a few distinct points. This is the case with the theories of Neuman ...
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Number of Pages: 24
A 24 page paper discussing the value of the hermeneutic phenomenological method of inquiry in nursing. All researchers need to take great care in designing, conducting and evaluating their investigations, particularly when using the hermeneutic phenomenological method of inquiry. Any research effort undertaken in this method may be suspect in the view of ...
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3 pages in length. Nursing, a profession that was decidedly more of the female persuasion in the mid-eighteen hundreds, has long been considered an extension of a woman's natural ability to nurture. Had it not been for Florence Nightingale's attempts to humanize the medical profession in the nineteenth century, there is no telling ...
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Number of Pages: 26
A 26 page paper dissecting the family depicted in the movie “The Birdcage” for the purpose of assessing according to family and nursing theory. The paper briefly describes the film and applicability of nursing theory and intervention both to individual family members and to the family unit as a whole. The largest section ...
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A 5 page paper constructing a new theory of nursing as it relates to postoperative pain management following hip replacement surgery. The new nursing theory constructed here is that a better approach to postoperative pain management associated with hip replacement surgery is to avoid as much immediate pain sensation as possible. This restricts ...
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A 10 page overview of the nursing theories of Joyce Travelbee and Jean Watson. This paper emphasizes the holistic approach of both of these theories, comparing them to other nursing theories and, noting the importance of spiritual, culture, and
psychosocial impacts on health. Bibliography lists 14 sources.
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A 7 page paper discussing how the correctional facility nurse can have effect in the local community. The US penal system guarantees appropriate health care to prison inmates. US Supreme Court decisions have determined that withholding any medical treatment where there is urgent need constitutes "cruel and unusual punishment," which of course is ...
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Number of Pages: 10
This 10 page paper is written in two parts. The first part considers how mentors can understand and communicate more efficiently with the charges by understanding their level of development and the type of communication they need. The second part of the paper examines the way learning can be facilitated by looking at different learning ...
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This 10 page paper provides a comparative view of LPS and RNs, including a focus on diffences in their duties. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Number of Pages: 6
As an ER nurse, it is easy to get caught up in the fast pace of the environment, to focus on the technical and critical nature of nursing in the ER and to forget that patients are people with hopes and fears and dreams rather than just people exhibiting illnesses and crying out in pain ...
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