Cited: Davis‚ A. (2010). Ethical Dilemmas & Nursing Practice. USA: Julie Alexander Publishers.
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Nursing homes‚ however‚ are designed for persons in need of 24-hour nursing care (Allen‚ 2011) Even though they provide almost the same residential components of other long-term care options‚ which includes housing‚ personal care‚ protection‚ supervision‚ and sometimes therapy‚ the availability of on-site medical staff is the edge they have over the others. Nursing homes have custodial care‚ which a person with Alzheimer’s disease will need. The custodial care which includes assistance with all of
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This paper examines five historical events in the history of nursing development and nursing utilization. Such examples of this are: Florence Nightingale ’s contribution; development of the first Masters Degree Program; Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) established; Nursing Research published; and published clinical practice guidelines by the AHCPR (Burns & Grove‚ 2003‚ p. 10). Events in Nursing Development Florence Nightingale ’s contribution of researching the importance of providing
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To non-nursing individuals‚ specialty nursing and advanced practice nursing may be similar. However‚ for the nursing professionals there is a huge difference between the two practices. Advanced practice nursing is more than a specialty nursing practice because of the incorporation of the different competencies‚ such as higher education/knowledge‚ autonomy‚ and expertise (Hamric‚ Hanson‚ Tracy‚ and O’Grady‚ 2014). Beitz (2000) has stated that "specialty nursing practice is the application of a range
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EDERLY PARENTS SHOULD LIVE IN NURSING HOMES OR NOT? Vietnam’s population is older and older and it is important for young people‚ especially politicans‚ to seriously think about the issue of nursing homes. Should elderly parents live in nursing homes or not? Sending elderly parent into nursing homes is the best choice for them in the rest of their lives for three main reasons. First‚ elderly parents live in nursing homes will be good for their children. Nowadays‚ young people are too busy. They
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demand‚ e.g. if the need for a particular position is great‚ wages will rise in order to attract more workers to this field. Interestingly‚ for nurses this has not been the case. An analysis of this situation found in a report entitled "Solving the Nursing Shortage through Higher Wages" indicates: • Over the late 1990s and into 2000‚ nurses’ pay did not increase at all‚ although some hospitals had already begun worrying about a nurse shortage in 1997. • When wages finally began to rise‚ nurses responded
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Nursing Knowledge Through the Nursing Process Team C Holly Briner Lee Castro Stephanie Collins Brandon Hazlett Tammy Moore Jennifer Smith Assessment Nur/403 Ms. Van Baren 07/14/2014 Diagnosis Plan Implementati on Evaluation Nursing Process Assessment Assessment is the first step in the Nursing Process. This helps to determine the Nursing Diagnosis and Plan of care that nurses will need for their patient. All of the information collected in each step will help determine and design the plan of
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condition of a monitored system into a signal suitable for human perception. Generally light or sound signals are used‚ for example‚ the flashing of a lamp‚ the ringing of a bell‚ or the sounding of a siren. Use of alarms has made a significant impact on nursing as we know it‚ by alerting clinicians that something wrong with patients or alarming nurses that something is in need of our attention. Alarms are found on most medical devices used at the bedside. These alarms sound every hour of every day. An analysis
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GERIATRIC DEMENTIA Dementia has an originally meaning of madness “a serious loss of global cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person‚ beyond what might be expected from normal aging.” Although dementia has always been somewhat common‚ it has become even more common among the elderly in recent history. Dementia is one of the most serious disorders affecting the elderly. The prevalence of dementia increases rapidly with age. The prevalence of dementia has been difficult to determine
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Dorothy Orem Orem’s Contribution to Nursing Theory: Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory description of category of theory is a set of broad concepts‚ definitions‚ relationships developed and assumptions or propositions created from nursing models or from other disciplines and projects of purposes that are required for care of by individual patient‚ family and community (Current Nursing‚2013). Orem ’s approach to the nursing process provides a method to determine the self-care deficits and then
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