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Reflective Thinking in Nursing
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A 6 page overview of the concept of reflective thinking. Highlights the contentions of Bert Teekman’s “Exploring Reflective Thinking in Nursing Practice”, published in a 2000 edition of the “Journal of Advanced Nursing”. Provides a brief literature review detailing the manner in which various authors emphasized the importance of reflective thinking. Emphasizes that rather than consisting of a series of uncontrolled ideas, such as those that occur in one part of the cognitive processes, reflective thinking is focused and controlled. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy: Chronic Pain And Depression
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A 6 page paper that incorporates and introduction, problem statement, purpose of study, literature review, independent and dependent variables, hypothesis and implications for nursing. The paper identifies the two types of RSD, describes and explains what reflex sympathetic dystrophy is, its incidence, some of the causes and the effects and the correlation between chronic pain and depression. Statistical data included. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Refusal of Palliative Care/Bioethics
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A 9 page research paper that offers a hypothetical example of a clinical bioethics case report, concerning Joyce, a 68-year-old woman suffering from metastasized liver cancer, who refuses pain medication. Joyce is in agony and her torturous existence, her moans and the fact that she writhes in pain, is affecting all those around her, her daughter, the healthcare professionals responsible for her care, and her fellow patients. Discussion and bioethical analysis is offered. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: khrefpan.rtf

Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act of 2009
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A 3 page summation and discussion of the Registered Nurse Safe Staffing (RNSS) Act, which would require that hospitals develop "valid, reliable unit-by-unit staffing plans," which would be developed in coordination with input from the registered nurses (RNs) based in each unit and, therefore, designed to accommodate each "unit's unique characteristics and needs" (ANA, 2009). The writer supports the bill and calls for other nurses to do so as well. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: khrnss.rtf

Regulatory Influences on Curriculum Presentation
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This 8 page paper consists of 12 power point slides and the speaker notes for those slides on the topic of what should be done in curriculum design to address the regulatory controls and influences from outside agencies. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: MHRegInfCurr.rtf

Rehab Nursing
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A 14 page research paper that offers a comprehensive literature review pertaining to nursing practices in rehabilitation. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
Filename: khrehnur.wps

Relationship between Immobility and the Increase in UTIs in Stroke Patients
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This 16 page paper provides an overview of a study of the relationship between immobility in patients who have suffered from a stroke and the development of urinary tract infections (UTIs). Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: MHUTIStr.rtf

Relevance Of Transcendence To Nursing
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A 15 page research paper. The concept of transcendence refers to the awareness of an individual that goes beyond normal physical boundaries. For more than a decade, the relationship between health, recovery, coping and spirituality have been a focus of the literature. This paper explores and investigates what transcendence means, how spirituality is defined and described and how these relate to both the person who is ill and the person who is aging. The writer then reports seven spirituality themes that are important to nurses. The writer also discusses how nurses can help patients enhance their spirituality. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
Filename: PGspnr.wps

Relieving the Shortage of Nurse Educators
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An 11 page paper discussing the shortage of nurse educators and offering alternatives for alleviating this shortage that exacerbates the larger nursing shortage. In a self-perpetuating cycle, the nursing shortage now has begun promoting itself by means of a shortage of nursing educators. Nearly 33,000 qualified applicants were turned away from four-year and graduate programs in 2004 because of the shortage of educators, almost 4,000 of those were applying to graduate school and could have become educators themselves. The paper suggests opening additional graduate school spaces; develop creative means of recruiting graduate students; improving the image of nursing and its working conditions; recruiting non-nurses to teach courses such as process flow and management; and enlisting the aid of private insurers that recognize the financial benefits of greater numbers of nurses. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
Filename: KSnursShortEdu.rtf

Reminiscence Therapy Intervention
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An 8 page paper discussing a method of reducing depression among older individuals through encouraging them to revisit the past and conduct a life review. The concept of reminiscence therapy seems rather simplistic, but its simplicity may be one factor that makes it so effective. Research and observation both conclude that reminiscing effects positive change in depressive status among seniors. Nurses choosing it as an intervention can benefit from it as well. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
Filename: KSnursRemini.rtf