Nursing and Healthcare Essays

Communication Skills required for Holistic Nursing Care Patients
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Introduction: Through personal experience, research and first hand communication with clients within the mental health settings I have been able to form my own opinions and realise the importance of verbal and non ...

Beauchamp And Childress Four Principles Framework
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Introduction: “The ability to show strength of character through compassion leads the list of employee responsibilities. It is health care workers that hold in their hands the gift to be instruments in the he...

Anxiety and Depression in Diabetes Sufferers
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Introduction: INTRODUCTION The activities involved in identifying and searching for information on a topic and developing a comprehensive picture of a state of knowledge and attitude on a topic is called review of ...

Culture and ethnicity: The delivery of health care
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Introduction: Maori people comprises a large proportion of users of health services and the health status of Maori is recognized as a health priority area (Nursing Council of New Zealand (NCNZ), 2009). To work effe...

The nursing of patient assessments
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Introduction: The following information will describe what the nursing process is and how a nurse assesses a patient by using effective communication skills and maintaining a safe environment for the patient in the...

Patient with Congestive Heart Failure
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Introduction: Patient S.V. is a 54 years old female. She is a postmenopausal housewife and her family history is not being recorded. She is a non-smoker and does not drink alcohol at all. She has no-known drug alle...

The chain of infection
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Introduction: Chain of infection The CDC estimates that around 1.1 million adults and adolescents are living with HIV in the USA, including those not yet diagnosed, and including those who have already progressed t...

Ethical dilemmas in nursing
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Introduction: An ethical dilemma arises when the clients and health care providers differ in their understanding of what is right or wrong (Narrigan, 2004). As nurses we often deal with ethical dilemmas in our ever...

Telling or not telling the truth to terminal cancer patients
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Introduction: Health care providers are subjected to a lot of ethical and professional matters which are too numerous and create a great number of unanswered questions. One of the areas under discussion that has br...

Global Nursing Shortage Causes Consequences And Solutions
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Introduction: Abstract Global nursing shortage has been identified as a huge problem in the nursing field. This problem has affected the profession and healthcare in general (Buchan & Aiken, 2008). A widesprea...

Study Into The Process Of Wound Healing
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Introduction: The scientific definition for a wound is any break in the epidermis, or outermost layer of the skin. As different as all wounds are, they are all placed into two classifications. These categories are ...

Legal, ethical and social aspects of child abuse
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Introduction: Nurses face many issues involving their client’s wellbeing. Confusion relating to the balance of a clients need for autonomy with family members responsibilities and clients wellbeing can make s...

Breast Cancer And Breast Self Examination
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Introduction: Breast cancer is a major killer disease of women both globally and regionally. It is the most common cancer among women, and the second cause of deaths among women worldwide (World Health Organization...

Maintaining And Breaching Of Patient Confidentiality
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Introduction: Introduction Confidentiality is a virtue which is more often than not, taken for granted, among the health care professionals. From their apprenticeship days as students, confidentiality was often tou...

What is team work?
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Introduction: Introductions What is a team work? Team work can be defined as when actions of individuals are brought together for the purpose of a common goal. Each person in a team puts his efforts to achieve the ...

Importance Of Hand Hygiene Policy
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Introduction: 1.1 This report outlines how the Stoke on Trent Community Health Service (PCT) developed the Hand Hygiene Policy (2008). In this report there will be an explanation of the history of the guideline, it...

Cultural Competency of Nurses
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Introduction: 1.1 Cultural competency The commitment to equality in health care provision is ingrained within the core values of the health care profession and nurses are expected to fulfill these requirements. The...

Management of Patients with Cerebrovascular Disorders  
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Introduction: Kaorou Kashin, a 74-year-old patient, is admitted to the telemetry unit with the diagnosis of acute ischemic stroke. The patient is experiencing paroxysmal atrial fibrillation with a controlled ventri...

Patient Safety In Surgery
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Introduction: The purpose of this assignment is to conduct a literature review on a chosen topic which is a healthcare/nursing intervention related to a chosen clinical setting. A rationale will be given on why the...

Working with Allied Health Professionals
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Introduction: This work is a reflective piece based on my experience of working within a multi-professional group setting. I will be using the model by Gibbs model (1988) to aid my reflection and present my account...

Analysis Of Cultural Competency
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Introduction: In this multicultural society, becoming a culturally competent health care professional is an essential and challenging prerequisite. The United States is quickly developing into a multicultural, plur...

How Pharmacists Can Improve Their Relationships With Doctors
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Introduction: The relationship between the pharmacist and doctor is a historically tenuous one. Typically, there is very little in the way of structured interaction resulting in both parties being regarded as compl...

Nursing Theories And Their Applications In The Profession
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Introduction: Nursing is flourishing the health facilities, promotion, and development of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, through diagnosis and treatment of a person’s psychological an...

Critique of Madeleine Leininger's Culture Care Theory
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Introduction: Introduction This paper is an analysis and critique of a published nursing philosophy and theory by the nurse theorist Madeleine Leininger, called Culture Care theory. The analysis is based on Leinin...

Registered Nurses in ambulatory care setting
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Introduction: The primary purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the role of Registered Nurses in ambulatory care and to describe newly implemented roles. In particular, discussion will focus on impleme...