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Nursing at the Strong Memorial Hospital, 2002.
An examination of the nursing philosophy of the Strong Memorial Hospital at the University of Rochester Medical Center and School of Medicine in Rochester, New York (Rochester/Strong).
1,195 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper looks at the nursing philosophy of the Strong Memorial Hospital and sets forth the context in which the nursing organization's fundamental principles become relevant. It critiques a core aspect of the principles articulated in publicly available organization documents and discusses the extent to which those principles incorporate a specific theory of nursing. It evaluates the evidence of nursing-staff inputs into such principles and the evidence of how the articulation may reflect the reality of nursing practice, with a view toward evaluating the document's influence on nursing practice.
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"This does not appear to mean that nursing is less important as a discipline than other health-care inputs at Rochester/Strong. It does, however, go to evidence that medical research is in both the foreground and the background of nursing praxis and nursing education there. Commitment to research is embedded as a first principle and a factor of uniqueness at Rochester/Strong, a point driven home again and again in its documentation. Further, where nursing practice per se is a feature of hands-on treatment and patient care, the evidence of the Rochester/Strong policy statements is very much that nursing practice is presumptively a part of--or perhaps more exactly collapsed into--the notion that patient care is a physician's responsibility (Healing Power, 1999). Where nursing is mentioned as a feature of health-care teams, other caregiving disciplines are also mentioned; social work is given particular prominence (Burn/Trauma Health Care Team, 1999)."
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Hospital Downsizing and Nursing, 2002.
A look at the effects of hospital downsizing on the registered nursing service.
1,099 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper proposes a study to examine the effects of hospital downsizing on the performance of registered nurses with regard to their morale and their care of patients. It evaluates how an understanding of the effects of hospital downsizing on registered nurses' morale and patient care will assist with an understanding of how to help mitigate these effects, as well as future directions for the health care system.
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Statement of the Problem
Study Purpose
Research Hypotheses
Definition of Terms
Delimitations
Assumptions
Limitations
Significance of the Study
Literature Review
Downsizing
Effects of Downsizing
Effects of Downsizing on Nurses
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"Downsizing has been a response to cost-cutting pressures and technological advances. In the last ten years downsizing has been prevalent and it is estimated that 60% of companies plan to continue downsizing (Mishra & Spreitzer, 1998, p. 567). For example, health care plans have lost money and as a result been forced to lay off employees. Prudential HealthCare of Florida has lost over $50 million since 1995 and has cut costs by $250 to $500 million by laying off at least 161 employees statewide. Blame for financial problems is placed largely on the SeniorCare Medicare HMO benefits (Shepherd, 1997). These cuts have effected the health care system."
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Hospital Downsizing & Nursing, 1996.
Examines impact on nursing of economy- & efficiency-based changes in hospital organization & operations (cutbacks, decentralization, team care, unlicensed assistants).
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 19 sources, $ 47.95
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"An increasing number of hospitals, in the pursuit of goals related to both efficiency and effectiveness, are implementing reorganization schemes that frequently involve downsizing, decentralization, or some combination of downsizing and decentralization (Barrett, 1995, p. 24). Among health care professionals, nurses tend to be those most frequently displaced by the contemporary downsizing and decentralization strategies (Suderman, 1995, p. 7). This research examines some of the more important effects on the practice of nursing of the implementation of downsizing and decentralization schemes by hospitals."
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Nurses and the Hospital Environment, 2006.
This paper examines the role of nurses in creating a positive physical and psychological environment in a hospital.
1,723 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 55.95
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This paper explores the role of the nurse in creating a positive hospital stay for patients. The author describes a case study of hospital patients and summarizes these findings and their implications to nursing. The paper highlights the difference between the physical setting of the hospital and the importance of the interpersonal connections of the nursing staff to patients.
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"Overall this study attempted to reveal the perceptions of the hospital environment to patients in the acute care setting. It bought to light the fact that patients are not as concerned with the physical environment as the interpersonal connections with nurses. Few people in the study spoke of the actual physical environment of the acute care hospital. The following words of one of the participants should be a reminder to nurses that we do make a vital difference to our patients. " The psychic income from being a nurse is having that personal reward fro knowing you're making a personal difference to someone in that human-to-human contact."(Shattell et al., 2005)"
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Nursing and Obstetrical Nursing Curricula, 2006.
A look at the organizations that regulate and control nursing and nursing education programs.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper looks at nursing and obstetrical nursing and investigates what agencies police and design the curricula for these fields. The State Boards of Nursing and the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission are examined and the policies and standards that they set are discussed as well as the required curriculum content and development they oversee. Their impact upon curriculum development and revision is also reviewed.
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"In the arena of nursing, there are so many specialties, so many fields, so many types of nurses, that there must be governing and regulatory bodies. Without such organizations that regulate and control nursing and nursing education programs, there would not be a singular and uniform set of expectations for this nation's nursing professionals. The two organizations that will be discussed in regard to how they influence the regulation of nursing, and more specifically how they could influence obstetrical nursing, are the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) and the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission (NLNAC). The first of the two governing agencies that this paper will discuss and investigate is the NCSBN."
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Using Non-Nursing Personnel for Nursing Tasks, 2004.
A look at the advantages and disadvantages of using non-nursing personnel to perform nursing tasks.
1,356 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 47.95
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This paper considers the reasons for using non-nursing personnel to perform nursing tasks and then takes a look at the advantages and disadvantages of doing so. The paper also discusses the outlook for using non-nursing personnel in the nursing profession as well as the decline in qualified nurses in the labor pool.
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"Much has been written about the nursing shortage that plagues physicians, hospitals and nursing homes in the United States. At the same time that there are fewer qualified nurses available in the work force a number of states and municipalities have passed regulations regarding the nurse-to-patient ratio that is making the situation even more acute. As a result, healthcare providers have been forced to be innovative in the way that they attract nurses to their institutions and recruiting efforts..."
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Director of Nursing in Nursing Home, 1999.
Examines issues affecting this position & role. Examines the economics of the institute, restructuring, responsibilities, quality of care and staffing.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 14 sources, $ 47.95
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"DONS IN THE CONTEMPORARY NURSING HOME ENVIRONMENT
Introduction
This research examines some of the issues affecting the position and role of the Director of Nursing (DON) in contemporary nursing home environments. DONs are experiencing increasing difficulties in their attempts to fulfill their responsibilities as the health care environment in the United States continues in a period of transition.
DONs and Transition in the Health Care Environment
An increasing number of nursing homes, in the pursuit of goals related to both efficiency and effectiveness, are implementing reorganization schemes that frequently involve downsizing, decentralization, or some combination of downsizing and decentralization (Barrett, 1995). Among health care.."
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Drug Theft among Nurses in Hospitals, 2007.
This paper deals with the issue of drug theft among nurses in hospitals.
945 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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In this article, the writer discusses several instances where nurses have been involved with stealing drugs. The writer points out that some accidental deaths and injuries on account of medical errors, neglect and incompetence are never reported to the authorities. The writer notes however, that the media has sounded the alarm about hospital management and patient care as it relates to this crisis within nursing where nurses have been caught stealing drugs. The writer concludes that a hospital nurse who is caught stealing drugs, intended for cancer patients or patients of any kind of illness, for her own use should be immediately dismissed and then prosecuted.
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"A former nurse at the Bedford Veterans Hospital was convicted of tampering with a consumer product after removing narcotics from pain patches. Margaret Girouard of Merrimack, New Hampshire also stole other controlled substances, most of them painkillers from the hospital between September 2001 and August 2002. The pain patches were not used on patients, as reported. Girouard pleaded guilty of obtaining them by making false statements. Prosecutors later discovered that the nurse had been fired by a former employer in 1998 on suspicion of stealing her patients' medication. She faced a maximum prison sentence of up to 10 for tampering, four years for each count of the controlled substance fraud charges, and five years for making false statements."
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Nurses Aids as Supplement to Nursing Staff, 2002.
A discussion of the conflict within a hospital setting between registered nurses and nursing aids.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 62.95
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This paper examines a conflict between registered nurses and nurses' aids at a hospital. The conflict is centered around a misunderstanding on the part of the aids towards their respective duties. The paper provides a series of steps that can resolve this group conflict.
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Introduction
Problem
Overview of Situation
Recommendationa for Solution
Conclusion
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"It has come to the attention of the floor supervisors at Newport General Hospital that there is tension among the nursing staff. The decision of Harvard Group HMO to utilize "creative management" strategies to supplement the existing registered nurses with nurses' aids has been met with extreme prejudice on the part of the medical team and the patients. "
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Every Nurse Controls the Image of Nursing, 2008.
This paper is a persuasive essay on the changing role of the nursing profession's image in modern day society.
730 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 26.95
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This paper discusses the changing role of nurses. The paper asserts that while every nurse controls the image of nursing, the demands of the times change what constitutes, and what will constitute nursing. Furthermore, the paper states that the nursing profession is undergoing transitions both within and without that profoundly impact it's public image as providing care to those in need. The author states that whereas technology can provide more and more timely cures, nurses are still typecast into a caring role, which may be less of a priority in the global scene that merely looks at health care as a service-oriented body repair shop.
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"As often is the case, internal and external change can have unpredictable effects on the components of the profession, not only as a whole. For instance, the broadening of the different roles a nurse can pursue has only happened in the latter quarter of the previous century in response to the expanding demand for them. There is an inherent advantage in specializing and giving students advancement options, even the option to independently practice is currently available. However, with the lack of time to develop these different tracks into distinct, autonomous, regulatory professional entities, this leaves the impression on the public that the nursing profession's demand-driven schism is a warning sign that health care is slowly becoming service-oriented rather than patient-oriented. Presently, it is difficult to distinguish nursing roles such as the nurse practitioner apart from the roles of other professionals such as physicians. Such increasing overlap in responsibilities, knowledge, patient treatment and management must be assessed and acted upon in order to ultimately establish a change in the public's perspective on nursing as a whole."
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Florence Nightingale's Nursing Model, 2001.
A discussion on Florence Nightingale's nursing model and its positive influence on the nursing profession and hospitals.
1,740 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 10 sources, $ 56.95
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This paper discusses Florence Nightingale's contribution to nursing field. Nightingale developed a new modern nursing model that emphasized on improving sanitation and hospital conditions as well as developing research on certain diseases. Nonetheless, this nursing model focused on the patient's needs.
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"It was Florence Nightingale who established professional nurses' training and who stands out as the founder of the modern profession. She was also adept politically and could mobilize public opinion - she was possibly the first spin-nurse. Florence Nightingale has for years been recognized as the founder of modern nursing. The strength of Nightingales model is that it focuses on the patient. The quality of care such focus can bring only serves to improve the quality of the patient ?s life and does not allow for the nurse to be lost in the management and politics that are found in hospitals today. It allows the nurse to understand where his or her first duty lies and thus makes health care more compassionate."
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Culturally Competent Nursing Care, 2002.
This paper attempts to create a policy and a procedure for a hospital that describes how a policy of culturally competent nursing care can be integrated into the philosophical and practical foundations of a hospital environment today.
1,325 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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The following paper asserts the importance of culturally competent nursing not only on a practical level, but also in a theoretical and philosophical sense of the nursing profession. It suggests that in orienting nurses to a hospital environment, the cultural differences between patients is a critical aspect to be considered when providing nursing care.
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"First of all, what is meant by culturally competent nursing care? Culturally competent nursing care takes into consideration the different cultural needs of the individual patient. It takes into consideration the culture that exists outside of the hospital as well as the culture that has been created within the hospital to respond to those needs. Ann Tomey's collection of essays on nursing theories suggests that the importance of having a paradigmatic approach to nursing, rather than a mere series of responses on a daily basis gives the nurse a framework to rely upon when making difficult decisions. This is true not only of individual nurses when making decisions, but also of hospital policy as a whole. (Tomey 1998, p.5)One such framework provided for a philosophical analysis of the needs of nursing is provided in Jacqueline's Fawcett's book on the subject. Fawcett has developed a model of nursing that links the profession's responsibilities into four distinct areas she divides into 'person,' 'environment,' 'health,' as well as the actual procedures of 'nursing' itself. Fawcett's framework is uniquely helpful to a culturally competent form of nursing practice because it forces practitioners not simply to look at the body of the patient in a generic fashion, but to locate the body in a particular cultural world."
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Nursing Leadership, 2008.
This paper uses the author's own experience to exemplify the application of leadership theories to the hospital nursing environment.
1,000 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 35.95
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This paper discusses the correction of a situation of poor morale within the author's nursing staff of a hospital telemetry team. The author attributes this morale issue to a very busy workload, to demanding physicians who mostly are non-collegial and especially to a high turnover rate of new people who leave within a year. The paper related that these resignations were because many nurses, including senior staff nurses, felt powerless in their daily work. The author states that her goal became to enhance the staff's personal level of empowerment. The paper explains that some sources of power were in the extensive experience (expert power) of the staff itself and in the legitimate and recognized leadership power of the author. The author comments that this legitimate type of power can influence, motivate and facilitate the direction of the author's staff.
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"I began to empower my subordinates by first utilizing the human resources at hand. The senior staff was a promising starting point primarily due to their accumulated experience within the telemetry unit. This initiation of distribution of power started with the recognition of senior staff that see the opportunity to assume greater responsibility and accountability, influence and direct others, participate in planning, decision-making and implementation. This also went hand-in-hand with the examination of personal motivations for seeking and exerting power."
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Nursing Ratios, 2005.
This paper discusses an article "Registered Nurse Staffing and Patient and Nurse Outcomes in Hospitals: a Commentary", which reports the research of Sean P. Clarke and Linda Aiken.
1,185 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper explains and reflects on the research of Sean P. Clarke and Linda Aiken, which looked at 168 hospitals in Pennsylvania and found that the ratio of nurses to patients affected negatively patient outcomes. The author points out that the article predicts that nursing will have to be seen as the vitally important role it truly is before hospitals will realize that cutting nursing staff cannot save money without putting patients at risk. The paper suggest that unionization of nurses would be one option to make sure that a financially-strapped hospital cannot force nurses to work so many hours that the quality of care begins to slip.
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"Suggesting solutions for this complex problem was not really part of the authors' intent. Nonetheless, they point out that other good research supports their findings. In light of the fact that a body of research exists supporting low nurse-to-patient ratios, they view decisions to cut nursing staff to save money as a callous and inappropriate way to achieve that goal. They note that overworking nurses rather than hiring more staff will be counter-productive in the long run, since it leads to burnout and loss of employees. The authors note that the problem and solutions are interlinked in complex ways. Declining to provide nurses with raises contributes to burnout, but increased cost for nursing staff makes it harder to hire more nurses. Both overwork and being spread too thin can contribute to poor patient outcomes. Thus the issues are clear but complex and without any easy solutions. This is because each solution presents new problems. Hospitals need to provide raises, but the public wants to see a curb put on the rapid rise of health costs. They don't want to spend more, but they want the hospitals well staffed. When nurses are faced with overwork and what they see as inadequate pay, they may discourage others from going into nursing. The authors do not address these problems with clear solutions as that was not the purpose of their research."
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Nursing Clinical Placement Report, 2006.
An example of a clinical placement report for a hospital-based nurse.
781 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 27.95
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This report is a clinical placement report for a nurse working at Charters Towers Hospital in Queensland, Australia. The author describes the services provided by the nursing staff to the patients in their care, as well as her personal contribution to the nursing team.
Table of Contents:
Describe the Complex Nursing Interventions Delivered By the Service
Describe How the Service Promotes Client Health and Positive Lifestyle Choices?
Describe How the Service Ensures the Safe Administration of Medications to Clients
Describe the Strategies Used to Ensure Nursing Practice is Performed Within Legal Requirements and Ethical Frameworks
Describe How You Contributed to the Nursing Plan of Care For a Client With a Chronic Health Problem.
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"The service promotes clients well being by adopting the concept of the community as a client (Caretto & McCormick, 1991). This means that nurses seek to focus on not only individual and family care but also focus on health care at the community level and providing hands on experience to all clients in the health care setting. This means the service works toward providing hands on nursing interventions at the collective level, identifying the needs, health patterns and risk factors for illnesses within a given community and making appropriate diagnosis, planning and implementing treatments based on the needs of a group or subgroups as well as the needs of individuals (Caretto & McCormick, 1991)."
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