Nursing Care
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As the population demographics change, the need for culture sensitive care provision becomes more prominent. Culturally sensitive communication is the key to effective interaction with patients from different cultures…

This work addresses a holistic nursing care plan for the end-of-life terminally ill patient with cancer. The plan addresses the patient's physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health and states the elements included in the hospice care nursing plan. Included are strategies to assist the patient with self-care and end-of-life wishes for their care.

This paper briefly describes the background of Jean Watson's theory and provides a description of the concepts of Jean Watson's theory. It applies the theory to an actual nurse/patient interaction and analyzes major theory assumptions related to person, health, nursing, and environment in the context of the caring moment described.

Civil Complaint Process: Registered Nursing Professionals

Adverse patient incidents can assume a wide variety of events, including falls with injury, fires involving patients, and even patient abuse, but one of the most common and preventable incidents is medication errors.

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.

Whistleblowing in the Australian Nursing Profession: Practical Observations and Ethical Implications

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