Families Should Decide Own Health Goals
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An 8 page research paper that offers a discussion of the family health nurse's role, which focuses on the aspect of decision-making and who is the most qualified to establish health goals and make health-oriented decisions, the professional health practitioner or families themselves. This examination of literature indicates that the role of the family nurse should be to empower family members in the task of determining their own health goals by helping families develop their strengths within the context of an egalitarian, collaborative partnership with the family health nurse. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Family and Health Promotion
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A 3 page research paper that discusses the centrality of families to health promotion and pediatric nursing care. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Family Attendance in Emergency Medical Situations
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A 5 page discussion of the ethical and medical reasons for either allowing or excluding family members during certain emergency medical situations. Emphasizes that the decision as to whether or not to allow family member attendance is really dependent on the family and the patient. While some family members obviously provide a needed support structure for the patient, and thus are beneficial in terms of their overall welfare; other family members can be more of a liability or interference in certain medical situations. Assessing which category a family member falls into becomes the responsibility of medical personnel. In no event, however, should a family member be isolated from a patient simply based on blanket organizational policy. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Family Case Study
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This 10 page paper provides an overview of a family case study, complete with a group assessment, genogram and other details for a therapeutic response to their needs.
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Family Health Nursing
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A 5 page research paper/essay that discusses family health nursing, families and the role of the family health nurse (FHN). Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Family Health Nursing
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A 6 page research paper that discusses this area of nursing. The World Health Organization (WHO) in Europe introduced the concept of the Family Health Nurse (FHN) in 1998 as a possible means for promoting and strengthening health among families (Macduff and West, 2005). It was proposed that this new type of nurse would make a "key contribution within a multi-disciplinary team of health care professionals" (Macduff and West, 2005). This examination of family health nursing looks at its role in promoting family health, how it is defined and how it fits with the changing nature of the family in Western culture. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Family Health Nursing
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A 6 page research paper that addresses literature pertaining to family health nursing. Family health nursing provides the “conceptual underpinnings for the practice of family nursing across the life span” (Garwick, 2002, p. 284). The Family Health Nurse (FHN) concept was developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Europe in order to provide a means to strengthen “family and community-oriented health services” (West and Macduff, 2006). WHO identifies the FHN as providing a “key contribution within a multi-disciplinary team of health care professionals in the attainment of the 21 health targets” established by the WHO HEALTH 21 policy framework (West and Macduff, 2006). More aspect of FHN are discussed. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Family in Med/Surg Nursing
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A 4 page research paper that discusses the importance of the family in the health of society and examines the issues involved from the perspective of med/surg nursing. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Family in the ICU
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A 6 page research paper that examines the issue of whether or not relatives should be allowed in the ICU when loved ones are undergoing invasive procedures or CPR. The writer examines research and discusses the implications of this issue. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Family Nurse Practitioner
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An 8 page research paper that discusses the four metaparadigms of nursing in relation to the family nurse practitioner role. FNPs work with people of all age groups and their families, as they provide the necessary care and information for individuals to make informed decisions concerning their health and lifestyle choices. Across the country, nurse practitioners routinely work in coordination with family physicians, with skill sets that are complementary to each other (Flanagan, 1998). In exploring the role of the FNP, this examination addresses this topic from the standpoint of the four fundamental metaparadigms of nursing. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Family Nurse Practitioner
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A 9 page paper. Four specific areas relative to family nurse practitioners are discussed: conceptual framework; the scope of practice; the kinds of policies that impact family nurse practitioners; and tips on the socialization and role transition process. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Family Nursing - Teen Suicide
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This 4 page paper begins with the effects of the suicide of a teenager and statistical data regarding its incidence. Three of the objectives in Health People 2010 that relate to this issue are reported. Both Freire's learning theory and Mezirow's transformative learning theory are explained as possible approaches for the family nurse to use at this time. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Family Nursing: Cultural Assessment
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A 6 page paper discussing the case of an unmarried mother whose first baby has died of complications of birth defects. The mother is Caucasian, and the culture being assessed is that of poverty rather than of any specific ethnic group. The paper suggests that the family practice nurse encourage psychological counseling ostensibly for the purpose of working through the grief of her loss, allowing the counselor to broach other issues. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Family Practice Principles in the NICU
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A 10 page research paper that examines the concept of incorporating family-centered practice into the neonatal intensive care unit. The writer argues that a holistic approach to nursing chronically ill neonates demands that not only the physical condition of the babies should be considered, but also nurses should consider the impact on parents of having a sick infant. It is by considering the overall situation of the child that nursing truly considers the full effect of illness. Therefore, the needs of parents should be encompassed when addressing the overall needs of the child. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Family Presence at Resuscitation
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A 6 page research paper that addresses the issue of family presence during a CPR code. This examination of the literature on this topic addresses how this issue applies to nursing practice and interventions. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Family Systems Theory
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A 4 pages research paper that discusses Family Systems Theory (FST), which acknowledges that the reality that the lives of individual client/patients are combined with and affected by the social systems in which they interact. These systems encompass both the family and the communities in which families exist. FST is used primarily within the context of family counseling and therapy, it has also been successfully employed in order to comprehend problems with a variety of settings, such as those faced by students. A fundamental concept in FST is that the interconnected members of a family influence each other in “predictable and recurring ways,” and these can be understood by considering “communication and interaction patterns,” as well as issues of “separateness and connectedness, loyalty and independence, and adaptation to stress in the context” within the overall framework of “the whole as opposed to the individual in isolation” (Christian, 2006). Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Family Systems/The Postpartum Mother
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A 3 page research paper that discusses the topic of family systems and family-oriented care with the context of postpartum nursing. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Family Theory Applied to a Fictional Family Unit
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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 of the paper evaluates the family in terms of Friedemann’s Family Assessment (long form). The paper concludes that even though the family depicted (a middle-aged gay couple and a grown heterosexual son) carries a nontraditional appearance, it is nonetheless highly traditional in terms of values and commitment to other family members. Bibliography lists 14 sources.
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Family Theory Questions
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A 3 page research paper that answers 5 specific questions, which include topics such as the Family Life Cycle Stages and Bowen Family Systems Theory. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Family Values/ICU Environment
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A 4 page research paper that discusses the significance of family in the ICU environment. While the activity in an intensive care unit (ICU) is, by definition, more intense than elsewhere in the hospital, "ICU care is still people care" and, as such, the patient's family is extremely important, both as a source of information concerning the patient and as a support, both psychologically and emotionally, for the patient (DeLisser, 2007, p. 1284). Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Farm Injuries / Outcome-Based Intervention : An outcome-based intervention program for a specific rural health care problem
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farm injuries. Paper is 10 pages in length ; bibliography listing 12 sources.
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Fearing and Dealing with Death
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A 3 page essay & article review discussing the Western view and fear of death. Comments are made about how we foolishly dress up the deceased and even make them up with cosmetics. The writer suggests that we are afraid of death but that those who can clearly define what it is they want out of life will not always be as fearful. To accept death is to live peacefully and to have goals achieved is to die peacefully. No bibliography.
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Feminism And Postmodernism/Postculturalism: What Do They Offer Nursing Scholars Interested In Industry Power Relations?
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4 pages in length. The extent to which feminism and postmodernism/postculturalism have an impact upon nursing scholars who are interested in industry power relations is both grand and far-reaching. That the entire nursing field has developed through the years into a critical component of overall health care speaks to the nature of strength, power, insight and tenacity inherent to the female spirit; in order for nursing scholars to combat the ever-present aspect of male-oriented power relations, it is important for the tenets of feminism and postmodernism/postculturalism to lead the way. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
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A 7 page research paper that, first of all, offers a proposal for a project (1 page), then a project progress report (1.5 pages) and then a summary report of the project (remaining pages). The project pertains to fetal alcohol syndrome and the paper discusses policy objectives, symptoms and pertinent literature. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Its "Life"
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This four-page-paper presents a discussion about Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and its causes and effects. Bibliography lists two sources.
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Literature Review
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A 10 page literature review that summarize and critiques 5 research studies that address fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). Topics explored include effect of FAS on delinquency, improved diagnostic techniques, the importance of early detection, etc. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Filipino Culture
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A 6 page paper which examines the culture of the Filipino people as it could relate to a nurse who must be knowledgeable about such things. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Film Review / "My Life"
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A 2 page reaction to the film "My Life" starring Michael Keaton -- in which a successful young man struggles with cancer and has to deal with the fact that he is inevitably going to die -- possibly before his soon-to-be-born child arrives. The writer examines the main character's emotional pain, sense of hope, etc; No Bibliography.
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Five+ Types of Hepatitis / Implications for EMS
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A 4 page paper that considers the different types of hepatitis, their transmission process, signs and symptoms, and evaluates them in terms of medical EMT personnel. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Florence Nightingale's Environmental Theory Applied to Refugee Camps
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A 5 page paper discussing this theory in conjunction with conditions in modern refugee camps. Application of Nightingale's theory directly applies today to refugee camps around the world. As these camps exist in countries whose economies have been decimated by never-ending war, drought or cataclysmic natural disaster, it is common for them to lack the most basic of requirements for sustaining human life. We have known for a long time now that Nightingale was right, that healing and the avoidance of disease both are optimized in positive environments. Florence Nightingale came to the realization long before the rest of the medical profession. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Florida's Health Services for Kids
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A 10 page research paper that investigates and summarizes literature pertaining to the efforts of this state to protect the health of one of its most vulnerable populations, its low-income children. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Fluids & Congestive Heart Failure
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A 4 page research paper that addresses the problem of fluid overload among patients with congestive heart failure. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Focused Clinical Inquiry of Hip Replacement Patient
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A 10 page research paper that discusses Total hip replacement (THR), which has been identified in medical literature as one of the most "successful and cost-effective surgical interventions" (McMurray, et al, 2005). This discussion of THR relates literature on this topic to the requirements of a nursing student to formulate a focused clinical inquiry that pertain to a patient that the student car for a his/her practice clinical placement in an orthopedic ward. As the student did not provide details about this experience, the information is general, so that the student can adapt it when reporting in his/her own paper. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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Following Watson's Example/Personal Philosophy of Nursing
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A 10 page research paper/essay that offers a guide for contrasting and comparing a student nurse's personal nursing philosophy to that of nursing theorist Jean Watson. The writer argues that each individual nurse brings personal perception to the act of interpreting Watson's theory. This interpretation is necessarily influenced by that nurse's personal history, knowledge level, and understanding. The purpose of this discussion of Watson's theory is to compare and contrast it with the personal nursing philosophy of a particular nursing student. The paradigms of person, environment, health and nursing are addressed. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Foot Fatigue in Nurses: A Research Proposal
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This 12 page paper provides an overview of a research proposal on the topic of foot fatigue in nursing populations. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Foot Fatigue in Nurses: A Theoretical Framework for Change
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This 8 page paper provides an overview of a theoretical foundation for change in a nursing organization for foot fatigue. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Forensic Nursing
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This 3 page paper provides a definition of forensic nursing, its importance in the field, the roles a forensic nurse might assume and some of the many venues in which forensic nursing is practiced. Comments about training are included. The writer then comments on the compatibility of the Neuman Systems model and forensic nursing. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Forensic Nursing
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A 7 page paper discussing this discipline that is not yet a full decade old, but it is highly effective in determining the true causes or some of the most perplexing and troubling cases of physical abuse that enter into hospitals' emergency departments. Forensic nursing uses many of the same techniques and approaches that pathologists and medical examiners have used for years in connection with murder cases. Includes an abstract. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Forensic Nursing Development
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A 6 page paper defining forensic nursing, examining its origins and commenting on its likely future. Forensic nursing requires that nurses observe abnormalities and investigate their possible causes for the purpose of identifying either an abuse or an abuser. The paper mentions the theory of Nightingale and Betty Neuman in terms of comforting the patient while simultaneously viewing her as a part of a larger system. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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Forensic Psychiatric Nursing
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6 pages in length. Nursing in general encompasses many subsets of care, not the least of which includes focusing upon those who are mentally ill. In that vein, a forensic nurse tends to victims of trauma and catastrophe, those who commit crimes and enact violence, as well as address the issues that pertain to family members of each group. Psychiatric nursing, by comparison, cares for those no matter the age with varying stages of mental illness, not the least of which includes depression, psychosis, schizophrenia, dementia or bipolar disorder. Supplementary training is required for both of these specialties such as therapeutic alliance, pharmacology and diversity of psychological therapies. Combining the two areas of expertise creates forensic psychiatric nursing, a somewhat new subset that is currently charting its own course with mentally imbalanced offenders within the overall aspect of mental health care. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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