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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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.
Filename: KSnursMedAdmRef.rtf

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.
Filename: Nursburn.wps

Cancer and Diet
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This 5 page paper provides an overview of the role of nutrition in the treatment of cancer. Both liver and colon cancer are the focus of this paper which provides information of recent studies on prevention as well. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Cancer Cachexia and the Nutritional needs of Acutely Ill Cancer Patients
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This 6 page report discusses a horrific condition with virtually no positive outcomes known as cachexia. Cachexia is characterized by a dramatic loss of triglycerides from adipose tissue and proteins from skeletal muscle. Although it superficially resembles starvation, it is virtually immune to nutritional intervention. It is a complex syndrome and accounts for nearly a third of cancer deaths. Cachexia is characterized by weight loss, anorexia, weakness, anemia, and asthenia. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Cancer Patients and Music Therapy
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A 12 page paper which presents a hypothetical study aimed at discovering the benefits or the effects of music therapy in relationship to cancer patients and pain. A literature review is also provided, illustrating the numerous benefits of music therapy. Bibliography lists 14 sources.
Filename: RAcncmsic.wps

Care for the Elderly / At Home vs. Nursing Home
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An 8 page overview of health care options for the elderly. Evaluates the need for long-term care and the factors which went into creating this need and identifies home health care as being advantageous in many respects over health care provided in residential nursing homes. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: Eldrcare.wps

Case Study in Nursing: The Terminally Ill Patient
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This 5 page paper examines a case study provided by a student of a terminally ill mother who is hospitalized for pneumonia. The paper recommends verbal and nonverbal communication that the nurse might engage in to help the patient and her family get through this illness. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: SA251ill.rtf

Case Study of Elderly Patient Presenting With Confusion
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This 12 page paper provides a case study of an elderly patient who arrives at an emergency room in a confused state. Techniques a nurse can use to help in diagnosis—which is likely concussion—and ways to make the patient feel comfortable, are examined. Degrees of concussion and symptoms are discussed. The paper provides a case study designed to assist a nurse in treating any confused patient. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: SA139con.rtf

Case Study on Death and Dying
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This 5 page paper relays a case study presented by a student regarding a patient and his family. The case is analyzed in light of several theories of death and dying. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's paradigm is critically evaluated. Sigmund Freud's attention to grief work is discussed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: SA120grf .doc