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Restraint Use in Patients with Dementia
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A 7 page nursing research proposal to investigate the effects of reminiscence therapy on older patients with dementia. Maintenance of the use of reminiscence therapy can be but does not need to be as formal as the study establishing its value. Nurses and others with direct contact with patients can ask patients questions designed to elicit patients’ memories, and of course the plan can be extended to full therapy sessions. Use of the depression scale over time provides quantifiable changes in patients’ attitudes and outlooks. Bibliography lists 17 sources.
Filename: KSnursResResDem.rtf

Retention Of New Grads In An ICU
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This 5 page paper discusses the problem one hospital is having retaining new grads they hire for the ICU. The paper identifies the problem then discusses typical turnover rates in hospitals and the reasons for the turnover as shown by research. Recommendations are made to correct some of the problems. Lewin's force-field analysis illustrates the forces for and against change. The writer comments on resistance to change. 1 Table included. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: PGnricu.rtf

Retention/Recruitment & Canadian Nursing Shortage
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An 8 page research paper that discusses Canada’s nursing shortage. There is currently a severe nursing shortage in all of the industrialized countries of the Western world, including Canada. Experts predict that the nursing shortage in Canada will worse over the course of the next decade and this prediction appears to be accurate as the number of registered nurses (RNs) working the rural regions of Canada have already decreased from 65.2 per 10,000 in population in 1994 to 62.3 in 2000 (Belkus and MacLeod, 2004). This literature review focuses on strategies that are being implemented regarding the key issues of retention and recruitment of nurses, as these factors have a significant influence on how the nursing shortage impacts specific organizations. Bibliography lists 16 sources.
Filename: khrrcns.rtf

Returning to Work After Back Injury
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A 6 page paper discussing the process by which a Return to Work (RTW) Plan is developed for an injured worker in Australia. Comcare prescribes seven steps, ending with the recovered worker assuming full pre-injury duties. The paper places the process and the role of the care provider within the theoretical framework of Roy’s Adaptation Model. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: KSnursBkInjAu.rtf

Review of “Applying Airline Safety Practices to Medication Administration”
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An 8 page paper reviewing a quantitative nursing research article that won MedSurg Nursing’s writer’s award for its design and reporting. Published in 2003, the hypothesis of the study was that medication errors would be reduced if nurses followed the pre-flight checklist procedures required of airline flight crews. The results found indicate that it is directly applicable to being included in evidence-based practice as a goal to attain. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: KSnursResRevQuan.rtf

Review of “From ‘Death Sentence’ to ‘Good Cancer’: Couples’ Transformation of a Prostate Cancer”
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A 6 page paper assessing this qualitative study undertaken to assist in informing nursing practice. The focus of this study by Maliski, Heilemann & McCorkle (2002) was to gain insight on how couples coped with the diagnosis of prostate cancer and how they navigated through the decision-making process to prostatectomy and beyond. The investigation and design are sound, but the lack of previous research leaves the current researchers with little guidance in their own study. The paper concludes that the effort is a good one, but is not generalizable to the larger population in that its sample consisted only of a rather homogeneous group in terms of ethnic, socioeconomic and educational backgrounds. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: KSnursArtRevPros.rtf

Review of “Improved Rates of Compliance with Hand Antisepsis Guidelines: A Three-Phase Observational Study”
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A 6 page review and critique of an article published in the American Journal of Nursing in 2001. Researchers established baseline values regarding how often health care workers washed their hands in two ICUs in a single hospital; introduced a waterless alcohol-gel hand sanitizing agent; and recorded subsequent incidence of hand antisepsis following that introduction. They found that workers increased their hand antisepsis activities by a significant rate using a combination of soap-and-water washing and cleaning with the alcohol-gel agent. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: KSnursArtRevHand.rtf

Review of “Occupational Stress and Job Satisfaction in Mental Health Nursing: Focussed (sic) Interventions via Evidence-based Assessment”
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A 5 page paper reviewing the report of a qualitative study of stress among nurses in Britain’s National Health System. Cottrell (2000) provides a quite useful and highly relevant study directly applicable to the issue of stress among nurses. Though the author does not provide any research-supported follow-up on the intervention portion of the study, he provides alternatives that appear to be quite reasonable and naturally present the opportunity for further research in the future. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: KSnursArRevStres.rtf

Review of “Predicting Family Health in Families of Young Adults with Severe Mental Illness”
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A 6 page paper evaluating components of a nursing research article including the literature review, theoretical framework, methods, validity and ethics. The paper concludes that the article reports a study that is well designed and one in which the researcher jealously guarded against introducing bias. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: KSnursFamHlthRev.rtf

Review of "An Alternative Approach: The Unfolding Model of Voluntary Employee Turnover"
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A 6 page paper reviewing and discussing this study of why nurses chose to leave their jobs in the mid-1990s. The paper discusses the general focus of the study but concentrates on assessing the authors' use of statistical analyses for appropriate tests, reliability and validity. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: KSstatArtRevEmp.rtf