Nursing Workplace Settings and Responsibilities: Ethical, Cultural, and Physical Variables
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An 8 page outline of a number of different situations a nurse can encounter in the workplace. Relates examples of both ethical and cultural dilemmas which can have a direct impact on the nurse/patient relationship and consequently on the healing process. Emphasizes that professional ethics, knowledge, and a fluidity in approach are prerequisites of successful nursing. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: PPnrsSet.wps

Nursing's Contribution to Quality of Life
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A 7 page paper defining and discussing quality of life as a concept of nursing. The paper mentions those beyond the ability to care for themselves or be cognizant of the world around them but focuses on those facing change as having the greatest issues for the nurse. Quality of life likely always will depend more on individuals' perceptions of their own than on anyone else's definition of it for someone else. The nurse can assist an adjusting patient to find that place where s/he believes quality of life is fine, regardless of the physical circumstances with which they live. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: KSnursQualLif.rtf

Nursing’s Global Implications
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8 pages of slide contents and speaker notes for an 8-slide Power Point presentation on this topic, specifically as it is affected by the worldwide nursing shortage. The shortage of available nurses in developing countries puts even more pressure on accessibility of health care, and it encourages nursing education to be truncated so that students can fill vacancies more quickly. The situation likely is worst in Africa, particularly in those nations in which the AIDS epidemic is worst. The presentation uses Ethiopia to illustrate. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: KSnursGlobalPP.rtf

Nursing’s Role in Quality of Life Issues
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A 3 page paper discussing how nurses can positively affect patients’ quality of life. They can teach the diabetic that, although some things about his life have changed with diagnosis, s/he can live quite normally in most respects. Visiting nurses provide a bright spot in an at-home patient’s day. The pediatric nurse is a wealth of information for new and inexperienced mothers trying to cope with life. Orthopedic nurses can make suggestions for dealing with new limitations in mobility. Patients are grateful, and directly benefit from nurses’ efforts to improve their patients’ quality of life. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: KSnursQualLf.rtf

Nursing, Communication, and the Hospital Workplace
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This 7 page report discusses the importance of and the unique considerations involved with effective communication in the workplace when the workplace is a hospital and the communication issues are related to nurses. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Nursing/Academic Plan Assessment
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A 12 page research paper that examines the forces affecting nursing curriculum development, as well as the elements of effective nursing academic planning. This examination of nursing curriculum development examines what experts feel regarding effective nursing education. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: khnurcur.rtf

Nursing/Entry into Practice
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A 3 page research paper that discussing the controversy over educational entry levels into nursing practice. The writer defines and describes the three entry levels and then discusses the debate before offering an opinion. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Nursing/Health Policy Change for LA
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A 6 page research paper that, first of all, explores the increase in the incidence of asthma among children in the LA area (and the US in general)and then discusses policy changes to address this problem, including outlining a program, "Easy Breathing," which has already worked well in Connecticut. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: khbreath.rtf

Nursing/Medical Vocabulary
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A 3 page research paper that, first of all, defines numerous terms used in nursing and in hospital environments. Then the writer briefly discusses issues having to do with patient confidentiality and good handover of patient care. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Nursing/Personal Reflection Paper
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A 5 page personal reflection paper that relates a particular nursing student's biography to the nursing role of caregiver. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Nursing: Clinical Research Questions
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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.
Filename: KSnursClinRes.rtf

Nursing: Family Assessment
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A 5 page paper discussing the family as client and the increasing need for public health nursing to address families, rather than individuals. Families gain increasing attention in health care matters, though accessibility to health care still is grossly limited to many. Community- and advanced-practice nurses in many cases are filling the voids left by the path of evolution of health care in the US. We can expect this route to become only more common as former health care standards become increasingly elitist and out of the reach of the mainstream. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: KSnursFamAsses.rtf

Nursing: Registered Nurses (RNs) and Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN)
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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.
Filename: MHRNLPN.rtf

Nursing: Article Reviews
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This 10 page paper reviews three articles related to nursing and nurse leadership. The first article reviews an article about interventions to reduce problems for patients discharged from the hospital; the second article investigates the new quality assurance procedures in the United Kingdom; and the third article investigates why nurses become nurse leaders. The essay ends with the writer's reflections on the nurse leadership article. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Nursing: Case Management And Empowerment
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This 5 page paper discusses the concept of empowerment in nursing and describes and explains the practice of case management and how the two are linked. While there are a number of different case management models, they all have specific elements in common. Case management falls under the general umbrella of patient-focused care and has been shown to be effective in providing greater quality of care. To work, however, nurses need to be empowered. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Nursing: From Reflection to Theory
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A 20 page paper formulating a new nursing theory based on the reflections of a long-term nurse. The paper contains 4 appendices in 12 pages presenting cases and analyzing them, and evaluating other nursing theories for influence. The theory arrived at is that the nurse needs to address physical issues first, but to hold a view that emotional, environmental and psychological factors also may need to be addressed and that s/he may be required to educate the patient in their influence. Basing practice on this theoretical foundation can avoid instances of "treating symptoms" when causes or contributors to causes may lie elsewhere. It can provide a richness that all too often is lacking in observed results. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: KSnursRefTheo.rtf

Nursing: Imogene King & Freud
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A 5 page paper. Imogene King's Goal Attainment Theory is explained in relation to her basic concepts. Specific Freudian theories are then discusses, specifically his psychosexual stages and his theory of transference. There are then related to nursing. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Nursing: Professionalism and Values
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A 5 page paper discussing development, preservation and advancement of nursing as a profession. Much of the focus of development of nursing over the past century has been on professionalism that has been based on theory and practice, while education, licensing and standards of care have addressed technical expertise requirements. Though true for any profession, that of nursing is not for everyone. Nursing requires a particular type of commitment and level of caring, which the paper discusses. JCAHO is seen as contributing to the overall trend. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: KSnursProfVal.rtf

Nursing: The Value of Diversity in the ER
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An 8 page paper discussing the value and benefits of greater diversity sensitivity in the emergency room. Emergency room personnel must be able to communicate with each other and with patients, of course. Medical instructions and procedures must be well understood among staff members, and it is critical that staff be able to communicate effectively with patients if the patient is physically able. Further, mismanaged diversity issues can create conflict and lead to poor performance. Greater attention to cultural competence ultimately can lead to better patient outcomes. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: KSnursDiversER.rtf

Nursing: Unstable Angina
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A 9 page paper discussing unstable angina in Australia and relevant nursing actions for a specific patient. The paper discusses pathophysiology, prevention and consequences, as well as relevant educational requirements. Mrs. Brown may find herself with a wealth of medications to begin taking on a daily basis, but the preferred approach is that of managing conditions with diet and exercise first. Mrs. Brown’s nurse may be able to affect greater patient compliance by supplying pertinent information underlying health professionals’ recommendations. Bibliography lists 13sources.
Filename: KSnursAusAngina.rtf

Nursing: Years Ago & Today
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A 5 page research paper that contrasts and compares nursing in years gone by with the nursing profession of the present. This contrast addresses four major areas: appearance, education, technology and employment opportunities. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Nursing; Engaging, Development and Disengaging From a Therapeutic Relationship
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This 8 page paper uses Gibb’s model of reflective learning to examine the treatment of a mental health patient suffering from depression. The paper has a description of the events, looks at the feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion and action plan considering what would be done differently in the future. The bibliography cites 9 sources.
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Nutrition and HIV
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A 3 page research paper that discusses the relationship between nutrition and HIV. Extreme weight loss frequently occurs among HIV-positive patients. Known as HIV wasting, weight loss can occur for a variety of reasons, which include cognitive impairment and difficult in swallowing, but it can also occur due to altered “gonadal, adrenal and thyroid function” (Ungvarski, 1996, p. 26). Nurses play a crucial role in combating HIV wasting through educational interventions with HIV asymptomatic patients, as well as acting as a resource for information on successful interventions that can be employed when HIV wasting strikes (Ungvarski, 1996). Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Nutrition Therapy/Neurological Disorders
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A 4 page research paper that discusses nutrition and muscular degenerative disorders. The writer argues that the neurological disorders that the student is investigating, i.e., Guillian-Barre (GB), myasthenia gravis (MG), Parkinson's disease (PD), spinal cord injury (SCI) and multiple sclerosis (MS), have the common factor, from a nutritional point of view, of entailing the danger of developing myopathies. In each of these cases, and for a variety of physiological reasons, muscle protein depletion occurs at a faster pace and is far more extensive than would normally occur from inactivity (Burnham, Moss and Ziegler, 2005). Nutritional implications are discussed. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Nutrition’s Role in Wound Healing
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A 12 page paper discussing non-oral nutritional delivery in wound patients. One aspect of the relationship of wound healing and nutrition that has not been researched quite so well lies in the common belief that enteral (through the intestines) methods of delivering nutrition are superior to parenteral (bypassing the intestines) methods. Recent studies have concluded that enteral feeding does indeed produce better results. These findings raise managerial issues that the results of the research efforts can inform. The paper also discusses the issue from the perspective of management theory, organizational concerns and implication for nursing practice. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
Filename: KSnursNutWound.rtf

Nutritional & Nursing Aspects Of A Patient Experiencing Acute Renal Failure And Dialysis
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9 pages in length. Dealing with patients who are terminally ill with renal failure and receiving hemodialysis treatments means it is important to remember that physical pain is not the only kind of suffering they endure. Sometimes the emotional devastation is more to bear than the physical side; without the mind remaining strong for the body, it is very difficult to effect positive change even with the best of medical technology. As well, because animal proteins are much more difficult to process than vegetable and grain protein, dialysis patients are often recommended to adopt a vegetarian diet. It is a known fact that the one aspect of diabetes – a primary cause of renal failure – that cannot be overlooked is the ability to eat small amounts several times a day. The writer discusses nutritional and nursing aspects of someone experiencing acute renal failure and dialysis. Bibliography lists 14 sources.
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O’Nell/Disciplined Hearts
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A 4 page book review of T.D. O’Nell’s book Disciplined Hearts, which is an ethnographic study of “depressive experience and depressive disorder among the Flathead Indians of Montana” (O’Nell 3). Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: khonell.rtf

Obesity Community Health Intervention
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A 4 page research paper that examines childhood obesity, which is considered to be the “greatest challenge to child health in the 21at century” (Ponder and Anderson, 2007, p. 148). This discussion of literature focuses on this community health issue and the factors that literature indicates can be applied to an effective nursing intervention. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Obesity in Adults
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This 30 page paper looks at the problem, causes and treatment of obesity. The paper starts with an introduction, defines what is meant by obesity and discusses the influences on obesity, including genetic, environmental and behavioural influences. The paper discusses the conditions that result from, or that are aggravated by, obesity, including diabetes and coronary heart failure. The paper then goes on to look at the way obesity can be treated and the models of change which can help to frame treatment approaches, including the Tannahill Model as well as the approach of Prochaska and Diclemente. The discussion in the paper includes policies and approaches seen in the United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS) and UK obesity statistics .The bibliography cites 34 sources.
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Obesity in Children
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A 5 page research paper that outlines the problem of childhood and adolescent obesity, then examines current literature, before proposing an intervention strategy. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Obesity/Hispanic Women in Tillman County, OK
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A 10 page research paper that examines obesity and focuses on how this problem is affecting the Hispanic population of Oklahoma and specifically Hispanic women of Tillman County. Cultural and gender factors associated with obesity are explored and discussed in terms of this population, and as well as in regards to the State of Oklahoma and the US as a whole. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
Filename: khhistc.rtf

Observations on Metropolitan Hospital Center’s Organizational Structure
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A 7 page paper assessing ten points considering this New York hospital’s structure, function and preparedness for the future. Points addressed include quality issues and diversity matters. MHC appears to be poised better than many hospitals for the changes already underway in health care. Diversity and caring are key issues, and MHC appears to be well blessed with both qualities. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Observing a Religious Service
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A 5 page essay that describes a hypothetical observation by the author of a Jewish religious service that is then related to implications for nursing care. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: khobrel.rtf

Obstacles to Educating Hospitalized Patients in Smoking Cessation
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This 5 page paper provides an overview of the subject and relies on applicable literature. The paper focuses on the role of the nurse in educating patients. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Obstacles to Nursing Recruitment & Retention
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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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Occupational Outlook for Nursing
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This 5 page paper provides an overview of the nursing profession and opportunities with a focus on the state of New Jersey. While the career opportunities are addressed as a whole, the situation and salary ranges in New Jersey are highlighted. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: SA243nur.rtf

Occupational Rehabilitation For A Nurse; A Case Study
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This 14 page paper is based on a case study provided by the student. Following an attack by patient a nurse has been injured and is suffering both physical and psychological symptoms. The paper looks at the approach which can be taken to facilitate occupational rehabilitation for the benefit of the nurse and the hospital. The bibliography cites 20 sources.
Filename: TEOccHenurse.rtf

Ocology & OR Nursing Specialties
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A 3 page research paper that discusses advanced practice nursing today, which is characterized by various specialties, with each having its own particular focus and educational requirements. Two such specialties are oncology nursing and operating room (OR) nursing. The following research looks at the educational requirements for these advanced nursing roles and also at the topic of orientation for new RNs. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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On Controlling Death and Aging
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A 2 page paper discussing what measure of control we truly have. For now, "controlling" death and aging is limited to the genetic base of individuals plus the effects of long-term health-related choices and living styles, but our current limitations are not indicative of our future ones. As recently as the 1940s the human genome and structure of DNA were mysterious as well, but those have given up many of their secrets. Death and aging may give up theirs as well. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: KSaging.doc

Online Clinical Resources
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A 3 page research paper that offers a brief introduction to finding online scholarly sources useful to nurses on the Internet. Then, the writer offers an annotated bibliography that includes 7 sources.
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