Nursing Care
Essays

For a number of years, the nursing profession suffered a drought in the pool of candidates. This situation has improved recently, but in many cases nurses have had to be trained more quickly than before.

The nursing profession is prone to occupational health and safety issues. From biological infections to harmful chemicals, physically straining patient care routines to experiencing emotionally draining events, nurses…

Hildegard Peplau is considered the Nightingale of Our Time. Her 50 rich years of service as a nurse is capped by her major contribution, The Theory of Interpersonal Relations. It involves an understanding of one's behavior in the cooperation or partnership between nurse and patient or client. The nurse plays 7 roles through 4 orderly phases of progression. She goes through the phases with the client towards a common goal of meeting his needs in the therapeutic partnership. The Theory and the nursing process fulfill and harmonize with the nursing meta-paradigm of client, nurse, environment and health.

¶ … Education is an important part in everyman's life and preparation. In most cases it offers a window of opportunity for the new road ahead and for the challenges facing us in life.

Elderly abuse in nursing homes is a serious concern both the rapidly growing population that would need nursing care at some point in their lives and their families who depend on nursing staff since they cannot provide…

Much of Western medicine is predicated on the idea that a cure that works for one person should work for everyone else. If penicillin or measles vaccinations work on one patient or one set of patients then they should…

An overview of nursing theory: how grand and mid-range theories differ, and a discussion of the appropriateness of mid-range theory to how nurses practice today; also, a discussion of what nursing theory means for entry-level nurses.

In today's world of evidence-based nursing and knowledge utilization, few question the centrality of theory to nursing knowledge development and the importance of that process to the ongoing evolution of the discipline.

A number of prominent nursing theorists have been an influential force in improving nursing practice over the years, with Sister Marie Simone Roach being among them. Sister Roach is best known for her so-called "six…

Alzheimer's disease is a fatal neurological condition that typically appears first in elderly individuals; it is a progressive disease with no cure that causes the gradual deterioration of cognitive functions,…