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• Nursing Essays: Wound Management - Tissue vialbility and wound management. According to NHS report, 1998, 'Wound care has, in the past, not been well managed because of the limited understanding of the healing process and the inadequate range of dressing materials available. Wound management has now come full circle, back to Hippocrates' principle and dressings are being developed to provide the ideal environment for nature to do its work'. Read more...
  
  

• Nursing Essays: Nursing Leadership - In order to understand the reasoning behind the personal development plan and reflective rationale in relation to leadership development in the Nursing field, one will have to define what these two terminologies are. According to the British Medical Association, the personal development plan (PDP), is a tool that can identify areas for further development and encourage life long learning. Read more...
  
  

• Nursing Essays: Supervisor of Midwives - A reflective appraisal of the Supervisor of midwives role in the current health care and political context. The practising midwife must adhere to the statutory code of Midwife's rules which were enacted in the 1902 Midwives Act together with its subsequent amendments. The Supervisor of Midwives is a post that was generated by that Act, and the Supervisor's role is a statutory one that guarantees a supervisory capability over all midwives. Read more...
  
  

• Nursing Essays: Health Promotion Strategies - The particular Health Promotion issue that we shall discuss in this essay will be the issue of cleanliness within the hospital, with specific reference to the current climate of MRSA control and the various initiatives that have been instituted with regard to hand washing, reduction in cross-patient contamination and general levels of cleanliness. We shall particularly consider the issues within the context of the critical care setting. Read more...
  
  

• Nursing Essays: Withholding Treatment - In this essay we examine the impact of withholding and withdrawal of treatment from a nursing perspective and examine the ethical issues involved. When a cure is absolutely impossible certain life sustaining medical treatments such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, ventilation, nutrition and hydration, dialysis, transfusions, and antibiotics may have to be withdrawn or withheld (Derse, 2005). Read more...
  
  

• Nursing Essays: Patient Confidentality - Nurses are subject to a plethora of ethical, legal and professional duties which are too numerous to discuss within this thesis. Therefore the main professional, ethical and legal duties will be discussed. These three main duties are generally considered to be to respect a patient's confidentiality and autonomy and to recognise the duty of care that is owed to all patients. Read more...
  
  

• Nursing Essays: Pre-operative Admission and Assessment - This account uses Gibbs Model as its basis for reflection about pre-operative admission and assessment. By working around the cycle, it is possible to gain insight and develop practice: A Student experience: This experience relates to a day surgery unit, where a gentleman is admitted for cataract surgery. Read more...
  
  

• Nursing Essays: Severe Depression - Is ECT an effective treatment compared with anti-depressents in cases of severe depression. Depression is one of the more common forms of mental illness. It has been estimated that approximately 9.5% of the population will suffer with depression at any one time (Robins and Regier 1990) and that 17% of people will suffer with depression at some point in their life (Blazer et al 1994). Read more...
  
  

• Nursing Essays: Quality Care Within NHS - Journal of nursing management and Quality in Health Care. Both of these papers are essentially about the issues of quality within the NHS. The Attree paper sums up the difficulties involved in the actual measurement of the indices of quality with the observation that there are many differing perceptions and models of quality. Read more...
  
  

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