Nursing and Healthcare Essays

Jones (2010) Sexual Risk Taking of Teenagers: Critique
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Introduction: The United States continues to have among the highest teen pregnancy rates of the modern nations (Hamilton et al, 2009). Certain sexual risk-taking behaviours increase an adolescent’s chances o...

Risk Management and Patient Safety in a Hospital
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Introduction: This essay will present an interaction that took place in practice that captured the multi-disciplinary team discussing a service user. This interaction shows the concept of risk management, patient ...

Research Methods for Patient Research
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Introduction: Research Methods & Statistics TAQ .1 Research method Explanation When research method could be used (with example and reason for choice) Limitations of the research method (how and why...

High Turnover Rate in Long-Term Care in Nursing
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Introduction: Lisa Krier   Introduction There is a serious problem in this nation, and it is only getting worse. By the year 2030, the number of elderly in the United States, 85 years or older, is expected to r...

Management of ICU Delirium
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Introduction: 1. Introduction In the critical care setting, haemodynamic failure is recognised by monitoring the patient’s blood pressure and pulse and treatment may involve fluid resuscitation or the use of ino...

Caring for the Dementia Patient: Evidence Based Practice
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Introduction: Lisa Krier   The population of elderly people in society is continually increasing, which places demands on the health care system. Drugs are extensively used in the elderly, and when the patients...

Self Directed Learning in Nursing
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Introduction: Introduction Self-directed learning is important for the ongoing professional education for nurses. In its broadest meaning, “self-directed learning” (SDL) Explains a process by which individuals...

Post-insertion Catheter Care Audit
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Introduction: Portfolio Activity 1 Permissions and ethics considerations This audit is a part of quality assurance (QA) that aim is to assess the adequacy of existing practice about the post-insertion catheter car...

Nursing Shortage: Impacts and Strategies
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Introduction: The Nursing Shortage Steven Donahue   Introduction According to research conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in December of 2013, the United States is at the precipous of a substantial nursi...

Motion Sickness: Causes and Treatments
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Introduction: Motion Sickness Safa Al Khatib Contents Introduction – Main Content – Reasons that cause motion sickness – Motion Sickness Symptoms – Ways of avoiding motion sickness – Treatm...

Influence of Culture in Nursing Curriculum | Research
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Introduction: Amber Hussain Abstract: The aim of this study is to identify the influence of culture in nursing curriculum. 30 nursing instructors participated in the study. A questionnaire was distributed, which...

Tinnitus: Causes and Treatments
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Introduction: What is Tinnitus? Tinnitus is one of the most common conditions, 1 of every 5 persons suffers from it, but despite of popular belief it is not a disease. So, what is really tinnitus? Tinnitus is a co...

Muscle Stretching Exercise for Primary Dysmenorrhoea Pain
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Introduction: CHAPTER-V DISCUSSION, SUMMARY, CONCLUSION, IMPLICATIONS, LIMITATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS DISCUSSION “Dysmenorrhoea” is derived from a Greek word and the meaning of this Greek word is difficult me...

Performance of Equipment Maintenance Services in Healthcare
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Introduction: Performance Monitoring in Equipment Maintenance Services checklist Title Abstract Method: Introduction Choosing And Using Key Performance Indicators Benchmarking In Clinical Engineering Audit Summary...

Impact of “Healthy Lives, Healthy People” Policy
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Introduction: Impact of “Healthy Lives, Healthy People” Policy on Childhood Obesity The cliché ‘Health is wealth’ rings true for anyone and in any situation. As individuals address their own health concer...

Physical and Psychosocial needs of Palliative Clients
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Introduction: Addressing Physical and Psychosocial needs of Palliative Clients Jaweria Bano   Death and dying are certainly unescapable events in human’s life. Palliative is patient and family centered care t...

Family Support in Mental Illness
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Introduction: Family is an important and inevitable part of an individual and its uninterrupted presence gives us a psychological support and courage to courageously deal with any kind of trouble.It provides a str...

Physical and Psychosocial Problems of Radiation Therapy
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Introduction: Introduction and background: The word “cancer” itself is traumatic in nature. It effects a person not only physically but also psychologically, financially, culturally, socially, and spiritually ...

Leadership and Change in Nursing
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Introduction: Leadership and Change Kym Bell   I have chosen to use Jersey College in Trenton, New Jersey for my leadership change project. Jersey College is an educational nursing program that provides the com...

Can breastfeeding Prevent Childhood Obesity
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Introduction: Can breastfeeding in the first six months prevent childhood obesity? ‘Obesity’ is defined as a body mass index (BMI) of ≥25kg/m2 (World Health Organisation 2015). In the past decade, thr...

Factors Impacting On The Effectiveness Of Palliative Care
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Introduction: Palliative care can vary significantly in its effectiveness according to condition, location, and type of patient (WHO, 2011; Gomes et al., 2013). This has long been recognised as an issue: Higginson ...

Holistic care of a terminally-ill neonate in Australia
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Introduction: In the Australian tertiary health care system, ‘best practice’ in the care of a terminally-ill neonate and the neonate’s family centres on the provision of ‘holistic care’...

Admission And Appointments for Diabetic Patients
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Introduction: Identify a patient, stating the reason for admission/appointment. It must be on diabetes. Describe a specific problem that has been highlighted through the assessment process. Explore factors that may...

NHS Culture and the Quality of Patient Care
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Introduction: The National Health Service is the universal medical care provider for residents of the UK. The principles it was originally developed upon ensured the service was provided free to meet everyone’...

Provision of Nursing for Refugees in Australia
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Introduction: Australia has a large and expanding population of people from a refugee background – referred to as ‘refugees’. Refugees in general, and refugee women in particular, have distinctive and...