Breast Feeding: Why Some Women Stop Early and How Nurses Can Encourage Continuation
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A 5 page paper which examines why some women stop breast feeding earlier than others. The paper also examines how nurses can help women nurse longer. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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BREASTFEEDING VS. BOTTLE FEEDING: ATTITUDES AMONG WOMEN IN KUWAIT
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This 4-page paper presents a proposal to initiate a study about attitudes toward breastfeeding among women in Kuwait. Included in this paper are a proposed study mechanism and methodology as well as a literature review. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Budget Concerns and Nurse Managers
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A 5 page paper which discusses the effects of dealing with budget cuts and restructuring while still managing day to day operations as a nurse manager. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Building Competence Through Training, Experience and Reflection
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A 6 page paper discussing the need to link experience and reflection in achieving practical competence. Formal training provides the technical knowledge needed to provide competent care in the psychiatric setting, but formal training also can be seen as only the beginning point of building competence. Experience and reflection on that experience are critical factors. Training allows the new nurse to provide technically competent care, but full competence and greatest effectiveness emerges only when the nurse is able to combine experience and reflection on that experience with basic and ongoing training. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: KSnursMedMenHlth.rtf

Building Competence Through Training, Experience and Reflection: Administering Medication in the Hospital Setting
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A 7 page paper discussing the origins and prevention of medication error in the clinical setting. The paper concludes that experience and reflection can and do teach much, but experience’s accumulation of knowledge should not be at the expense of practice of “the basics.” The competent practitioner needs to ensure that s/he remains grounded in the basics while yet increasing and expanding on knowledge of new approaches and technologies. Bibliography lists 16 sources.
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Burnout
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A 6 page research paper that defines and summarize research pertaining to burnout in general and not just within the nursing field. The writer argues that examination of the research and theory pertaining to stress and burnout, leads to a more comprehensive understanding of this topic, and can aid in formulation of strategies that can help prevent burnout in nurses. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Burnout In Nursing
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This 5 page paper discusses what burnout is, the causes of burnout and some strategies for reducing one's vulnerability to burnout. Research studies are also reported. Burnout is a national epidemic and even more prevalent in helping professions such as nursing. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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CA Prison Health Care/Article Analysis
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A 5 page article critique that examines a research study performed by Murphy (2005), which examines the quality level of healthcare in 4 federal prisons. The researcher finds healthcare to be sorely lacking in this qualitative study. The writer critiques the study and compares the data to several outside sources. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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California Nurse-Patient Ratios
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A 5 page paper including a 2-page brochure, discussing the effects of California's nurse-patient ratio law that became fully effective in January 2008. Whatever hospitals eventually do to cope with the changes mandated by the nurse-patient ratio law likely will serve to slow rates of cost increases. In the meantime, the law enables nurses to be nurses, and promotes better patient outcomes. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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