Nursing Care
Essays

Nurse Practitioner Models of Care -- Dorothea Orem

¶ … age of Florence Nightingale, and even before that, the nursing profession has undergone significant transformation. Nurses today are, in their own right, important caregivers with respect to patient wellness -- not…

Health care professionals, particularly nurses, are guided by a Code, which obliges them to show compassion, respect for human dignity and the rights of their clients or patients, especially those at the end of life.

Organizational, Economic, Social and Demographic Factors in Nursing Settings

Nursing success depends on the ability to put the patient in a state of rest and comfort as much as it is about administering the prescriptions of the doctor. To secure the rest of the patient, nurses need to understand their needs and show respect to their beliefs and values. This requires courteous and open communication with the patient and adopting a patient-centric orientation. Along with other factors, the religious background of the patient makes a lot of difference to their values and expectations.

The nursing shortage in the United States is expected to get worse as baby boomers age and their health care needs grow. To make matters worse, nursing colleges and universities across the country are struggling to…

¶ … shift in research methodology preferences in nursing towards a more qualitative rather than a quantitative approach. While the professional nurse has always been involved in the application of quantitative research…

The nurse-patient relationship as caring, professional relationship

The modern practice of nursing is a profession that requires a great deal of academic and clinical training. In that sense, nursing has become a much more complex profession than it ever was before, especially prior to…

¶ … nurses on staff at any particular time has an impact on patients expected length of stay (LOS). The study was conducted to resolve the question of how much, if any, impact was affected by more or less number of…