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and arranging transportation; and ensuring that physician orders for residents are met and followed. Beyond these duties ar...
physical restraints. The authors own views combined with the findings of current literature reveal that the use of physical restr...
every 30 minutes for protection, safety and placement. This was a two-part citation in that there is no evidence that staff...
field of nursing and in particular for nursing home facilities. Valid data could put pressure on nursing homes to hire an adequate...
critical matters, employee requests for information often go unanswered for too long. Results can and have been employee frustrat...
reporting and administrative reporting so that the owner can have confidence that HHH is providing superlative patient care and me...
as sadness. My Dad quickly smiled and patted me on the back, but in my heart I knew that my decision would forever change the cou...
Furthermore, if the ulcers end up in hospitalization, the nursing home is responsible for those costs as well. Even if the patient...
the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...
in order so that it can be determined if all of the childs educational needs are being met. Aiding disabled children in reaching t...
that time. What might be needed, then, would be some plan of action that the staff could follow, or possibly some type of polite s...
a nurse to determine which elderly patients are being abused because a sense of shame or a desire to protect the family member who...
Not only are the direct health impacts to the nurse deleterious, impaired nurses cannot meet their responsibility to provide top q...
"chronic, heavy drinking" (Enoch and Goldman, 2002, p. 192). According to government standards, a woman is at-risk for heavy drink...
This paper outlines a dilemma that arises when a patient requests secrecy upon revealing physical abuse to a student nurse. There...
have access to a range of drugs. Bennett (et al, 2000) argues that the overall rate of substance abuse in the nursing popualtion r...
the women who have traditionally filled nursing positions will undoubtedly continue to pursue other professional opportunities tha...
management, in recent years, has been quite extensive. This body of empirical evidence and commentary largely supports the concept...
(Cunningham, 2008). Observed Results Cortez (2008) states that in the past, patients had been known to call 911 from their ...
recognized categories for APNs within this state (TBoN, 2006). The scope of practice for Tennessee APNs includes the legal abili...
for my patients. Personal philosophy of nursing: Tourville and Ingalls (2003) offer a fascinating and very apt analogy to descri...
to individuals connected by a blood tie. However, to be a "family," members must "live in close contact, care for one another, an...
have otherwise been a lingering existence in private homes or disreputable hospitals. Inasmuch as the nurse is "temporarily the c...
of the site is that it connects to numerous opportunities for continuing education and there is a page dedicated to this purpose. ...
A pertinent issue to foreign nurse recruitment, as a method for alleviating the shortage of nurses in US hospitals, is the number ...
when nurses are needed the most, which is when we are ill (line 12). This is when "Nurses come through, with their care and goodwi...
established that nurses are often involved in the "timely identification of complications," which, if acted upon swiftly, prevent ...
(Green, 2004a). A travel nurse, on the other hand, is typically contracted to work a 13-week period, and this usually includes an ...
noted that cases of a rare lung infection, pneumocystis carinni pneumonia, had occurred in Los Angeles and also that three young m...
This essay includes three sections. The fist section reflects on tempered change strategies as described in a journal article. The...