The Growing Crisis of Nursing Shortages Nursing shortages have become a pressing concern in healthcare systems worldwide, affecting the quality of patient care and putting additional strain on an already overburdened healthcare workforce. The shorta Continue Reading...
Incidence of in-Hospital Falls in Geriatric Patients Before and After the Introduction of an Interdisciplinary Team -- Based Fall-Prevention Intervention Wolfgang von Renteln-Kruse, MD, and Tom Krause, Dipl Geogr Falls are the leading cause of hos Continue Reading...
Nursing Health Care Informatics "…At the beginning of the 21st century, nursing informatics has become a part of our professional activities…[and has] advanced the field of nursing by bridging the gap from nursing as an art to nursing as Continue Reading...
Nursing Family Nurse Practitioners: Improving Quality of Care A study published in 1976 helped to establish the meaningful difference between family nurse practitioners and traditional health care providers such as doctors and nurses. Patients repo Continue Reading...
Nursing Doctoral Business Proposal The benefits of staffing Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ARNP) as ARNP Case Managers A Nurse Practitioner (NP) is a registered nurse educated and certified to operate autonomously and collaboratively in an advanced Continue Reading...
Nursing The Nevada Nurse Practice Act is similar to the Indiana State Board of Nursing in that the two documents cover definitions of terms (such as Board of nurses, advanced practitioner, and accredited school). In addition to defining terms clearl Continue Reading...
Nursing Intro / Job Description for Endoscopy Nurse An endoscopy nurse is a position available to Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs), as well as Registered Nurses. Therefore, the minimum requirements of the position are the LPN or RN degree. The serv Continue Reading...
Nurse Practitioner Analysis of an Adult Nurse Practitioner The profession of a nurse practitioner is highly important in the medical and support industries, and nurses are instrumental in providing the level of care and attention that patients need Continue Reading...
Nursing Theories Practices Nursing Theories Sister Callista Roy initiated the Adaptation Model of Nursing in 1976. The theory has since then evolved to be one of the prominent nursing theories. The nursing theory defines and explains the nursing ca Continue Reading...
Nursing education has come a long way since my aunt was a practitioner. A Registered Nurse, my aunt worked in geriatric care for twenty years, and in psychiatric care for five years before that. I took my cue from her, developing my skills in a syste Continue Reading...
Nurse Ratio Lowering the Nurse/Patient Ratio: A simple Step for Improving Care Nursing is far from a static profession or discipline, and is in fact in a constant state of progression and change. Not all of these changes are necessarily for the bet Continue Reading...
Nurse Practitioners Should Work Independently of Physicians One of the problems facing health care is the inadequate number of primary-care physicians, more so among the rural population. There are fears that shortages will only get worse as a risin Continue Reading...
Nursing History, Theories and Conceptual Model The three trends in nursing practice that become evident to me from viewing the Nuring Timeline of Historical Events are: first, the rise of formal education and training for nurses—especially in t Continue Reading...
Nursing Practice Act of Virginia: The scope of practice in medicine, nursing, law, dentistry, and various other disciplines are usually established and regulated at the state level. This implies that the legislative body in every state establishes p Continue Reading...
Nursing Evidence-Based Practice The press for evidence-based practice in nursing and for nurses as consumers of research is driven by a number of substantive factors. The state nursing boards and The Joint Commission (TJC) insist that policies and p Continue Reading...
Nursing and Genetics As noted by Lea (et al.) "Obtaining a family history is an established and familiar screening activity used by nurses and other healthcare providers across many healthcare settings" (Lea 2010:4). However, the increased commonali Continue Reading...
Nurse Practitioners: Summary, Recommendations, and Implications Any country serious about improving its health care standards and make basic health care accessible and cost effective for all, must first and foremost pursue development of its nurses Continue Reading...
Nursing Shortage Risk Management Plan Nursing staff scarcity constitutes a widespread issue across several segments of the healthcare sector. It is often a challenge to find an adequate number of qualified nursing professionals for meeting staffing Continue Reading...
Nursing Program Philosophy The values and ideals that go into a nursing program philosophy should be universal in nature, for the reason that nurses are of the community and serve the community. This may seem to complicate the issue of developing su Continue Reading...
Nursing Who is LAMMICO? LAMMICO is an insurance company that covers medical professional liability. They help clinical and medical practitioners to choose services and packages that best suit their needs (lammico.com/why-lammico, 2015) Why should Continue Reading...
Nursing -- Leadership and Management ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Davies, A., Wong, C. A., & Laschinger, H. (2011). Nurses' participation in personal knowledge transfer: The role of leader-member exchange (LMX) and structural empowerment. Journal of Continue Reading...
Nurse Magnetism The author of this report is offering a brief treatise on the broader subject of magnetism when it comes to nursing, learning, leadership and evidence-based practice. The five components of magnetism, as described by Debisette, will Continue Reading...
Nursing Practice Expected to Grow and Change Ageing of population and healthcare providers, coupled with reforms to healthcare, will raise demands for professionals in the field, also expanding existing professionals' required skill sets and roles. Continue Reading...
The questions on legal liability issues were minimal as the field of legal issues is new in nursing. The questions addressed a theoretical part regarding the legal liability issues. They were no need of clarification since the questionnaires were ea Continue Reading...
Nurse Practice Specialties The objective of this study is to locate four evidence-based research articles in nursing peer-reviewed journal. Specialty nursing includes various areas of nursing practice, which are examined in this study. Articles rev Continue Reading...
Theoretical Foundations for Nursing Roles and Practice Nurses interview guideline It is imperative to have specific markers that will aid in executing an interview for an applicant wishing to be employed as a nurse. This will aid in getting the rig Continue Reading...
Licensing As a family nurse practitioner, I would expect work in a type of organization such as a doctor's office. There are several factors that have led me to consider this highly distinct possibility, not the least of which is the increasing tren Continue Reading...
Florence Nightingale's Environmental Theory Florence Nightingale stands out as the mother of modern nursing. In most of the cases, Florence used her life experiences to construct modern nursing theories. She viewed the manipulation of the physical e Continue Reading...
Advanced Practice Roles in Nursing Roles of the Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Educator, Nurse Informatics, and Nurse Administrator The Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Educator, Nurse Informatics, and Nurse Administrator provide health care services although Continue Reading...
Role of Advanced Practice Nurse Framework for Clinical Practice Person/Client/Client System Environment Health Nursing/APN (Factors Effecting APN's Practice and Implementation of the APN Nursing Process) Interrelationships of Client System, En Continue Reading...
Theoretical Foundations of Nursing: Nursing can be described as a science and practice that enlarges adaptive capabilities and improves the transformation of an individual and the environment. This profession focuses on promoting health, improving t Continue Reading...
Masters in Nursing for Clinical Teaching The objective of this study is to examine the importance of a Masters in Nursing for the Nurse in Clinical Teaching endeavors. The work of Orton (2007) entitled "Nurses As Clinical Teachers" Variables Affec Continue Reading...
Professional Nursing Associations: Rationale A professional association refers to "an organization of practitioners who judge one another as professionally competent and who have banded together to perform social functions which they cannot perform Continue Reading...
Ethical-Legal Nursing Discussions - Part II Moral Distress and Moral Integrity Comment by Ileana: OverviewMoral Distress in Advanced Practice NursingThe meaning of moral distress has been changing in nursing. No definition fits all dilemmas. Moral d Continue Reading...
Patricia Benner: Nursing Philosophy Patricia Benner Nursing Philosophy Theoretical Aspects of Benner in Nursing Importance of Benner's Theory Patricia Banner born in Hampton, Virginia received her early and professional education in California. S Continue Reading...
Malpractice in Advanced Nursing Practice A CLOSER LOOK Legal/Ethical Principles When nurses pursued independent practice outside hospitals, the law supported their bid to breach traditional roles (Kjervik & Brous, 2013). This phenomenon was de Continue Reading...
Higher Education in Nursing: Three Major Historical Events "Advanced practice nursing has evolved over the years to become recognized today as an important and growing trend among healthcare systems worldwide;" the evolution of advanced nursing is Continue Reading...
