Nursing and Healthcare Essays

Caring for Pressure Sores in Elderly People
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Introduction: 107582 Caring for Pressure Sores in Elderly People with Circulatory Problems from Long-Term Diabetes, in Nursing Homes Pressure sores are tears or ulcerations in the skin, that occur typically in th...

Development of Person Centred Nursing Care
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Introduction: The aim of this essay is to describe the history of person-centred care, explain why person-centred approach is important in healthcare environment and how it is achieved. This essay will also explai...

Advantages and Disadvantages of the Epidural
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Introduction: Is epidural the best of all words – no pain but full consciousness? (Yerby, 2000). Discuss During pregnancy many women give some thought on what they will do to cope with labour pain. Some women ai...

Developing Self-Assessment Skills in Nursing
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Introduction: Self-assessment is the way in which individuals reflect on past experiences and events in order to facilitate learning, and to develop and maintain skills and knowledge, in order to evaluate whether ...

Does Nursing Need Theory?
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Introduction: =Do nurses need theory? A question that can be considered on many different levels. If one considers the evolution of nursing over time, one can observe that the nurse of antiquity was arguably as de...

Demonstrating Achievement of Learning Outcomes in Nursing
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Introduction: Analytical summary of portfolio to demonstrate achievement of the learning outcomes This essay is primarily aimed at analytically reviewing the portfolio that I have assimilated in the recent past. I...

Nurse-led Respiratory Syncytial Virus Immunisation
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Introduction: Respiratory syncyital virus in pre-term babies. Setting up a nurse led clinic to give Synagis (immunisation) with implications for nursing practice. From the neonatal nurse’s view point.   Int...

Challenges for Patient Care in Acute Wards
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Introduction: “It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm” Nightingale F (1863) With this statement in mind, identify th...

Strengths and Weaknesses of Incident Reporting in Nursing
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Introduction: ‘Problem based learning. Using the nursing process as a model formulate an action plan by critically analysing the strengths and weaknesses of incident reporting in relation to nursing. Identif...

Management of Poor Nutrition in Child
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Introduction: In each phase of life, human beings have specific dietary needs. During the first six months of life an infant acquires all its dietary needs from either breast milk or formula milk (Department of He...

Active Vs Physiological Management of Third Stage of Labour
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Introduction: Active versus physiological management of the third stage of labour. Introduction This essay is primarily concerned with the arguments that are currently active in relation to the benefits and disadv...

Analysis of Nursing Ideologies: Leg Ulcers and COPD Case
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Introduction: Professional Studies Essay The aim of this essay is to address various professional nursing ideologies and how they can be applied to nursing practice. This will be undertaken in order to assess the ...

Management of Self-harm Patients in A&E
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Introduction: The acute incident was a case of ‘deliberate self-harm’ (DSH), admitted to an A & E unit. DSH incorporates deliberate non-habitual acts of self-harm that are not fatal, and may or may not in...

Importance of Research in Nursing Practice and Theories
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Introduction: Introduction This essay will consider the definition of nursing research, different types of research and design, and why research is important in nursing practice. It will also illustrate examples o...

A Concept Analysis of Advanced Nursing Practice
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Introduction: Introduction The idea of advanced practice in nursing presents a challenge to the general nurse in terms of exploring scope of practice and potential professional development (An Bord Altranais, 2000...

Skills Development for Child Nursing Course
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Introduction: Provide an in-depth reflective account that demonstrates how learning, during the three years of the child nursing course, has been achieved in relation to two areas of your practice which has inform...

Development of Competent Nursing Skills
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Introduction: Introduction This essay focuses on a reflection on the development from novice, to competent beginner, to skilled practitioner in the light of my own development in clinical nursing practice. It is b...

Clinical Supervision in Practice and District Nursing
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Introduction: CLINICAL SUPERVISION IN PRACTICE AND DISTRICT NURSING: A LITERATURE REVIEW The following research reports a systematic literature review of studies which have assessed the development, implementation...

Importance of Communication in Nursing
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Introduction: Communication is a huge topic and can be considered on many different levels from a professional viewpoint. We can consider issues such as the relevance of various forms of communication between the ...

The Effectiveness of Benson’s Relaxation Therapy
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Introduction: ABSTRACT A study to evaluate the effectiveness of Benson’s relaxation therapy on reduction of pain and stress among post caesarean mothers admitted in KMCH, Coimbatore Objectives of the study are, ...

Overview of Vagus Nerve Stimulation
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Introduction: The vagus nerve is one of 12 cranial nerves that pass information to and from the brain. The vagus nerve is the longest of the cranial nerves, with connections to the brain and many of the organs of ...

Watson’s Caring theory (2008) for Elderly Care
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Introduction: Aging is a natural part of human life. With modern technologies and medical innovations the society has been able to prolong life and thus increase the number of older adults in the society. Normal p...

Empowerment and Job Satisfaction in Nursing Educators
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Introduction: Research Design This research will use a descriptive correlational study design and involve the following variables: Structural Empowerment and Job Satisfaction in nursing educators. This is a non-ex...

Strategies to Prevent Child Injuries
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Introduction: Table of Contents CHILDHOOD INJURIES Introduction The significance of child injury Health education strategies Strategy 1: to Educate the general public regarding risks of injury and the effectiv...

Affordable Housing and Income Inequality
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Introduction: Liz White-MacDonald Abstract Nurses are faced with daily challenges to deal with an increased in acuity and complexities in regards to patient health outcomes. Nurses participate in advocacy and po...