Essays 181 - 210
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...
have access to a range of drugs. Bennett (et al, 2000) argues that the overall rate of substance abuse in the nursing popualtion r...
that came from realizing that even though she had not spent time with elderly people since her own grandparents, she harbored grea...
food, clean water and - most important for some people who did not survive - electricity to keep their life-sustaining equipment r...
to a hospital, where he was intubated so that he could receive nutrition. He was again returned to Eastbrooke3 on July 23, 1990, w...
rely on "surrogate" decision-makers, family members capable of making treatment decisions on their behalf. As a result, this stud...
for all persons in Medicaid certified facilities within the US. This instrument entails over 350 different data elements ranging f...
nursing shortage has meant for SNFs that they have fewer RNs available to them and that recruiting and retention has become more c...
This paper emphasizes the importance of home health care by outlining typical day in the life of a home health care provider. The...
only injuries in 53% of the falls recorded. It should be noted that for other types of injury there were some cross overs, for exa...
the nursing homes as well as greater accountability. Accountability is achieved through the requirement for the nursing home to su...
In fourteen pages this paper considers home hospice in an examination of palliative care issues. Seven sources are cited in the b...
Fifteen pages and 8 sources. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the information available about job opportunities fo...
an advanced practice nurse. The benefits that a nurse midwife can bring to a first-time mother include information that the mothe...
paternalistic approach that has been favored by physicians. Watsons theory stresses nurses should "honor anothers becoming, autono...
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...
reality of the profession. It needs a makeover much as it had in the 19th century in Brittan when nursing reformers struggled to h...
a decision of having to decide on the basis of what is best for all concerned rather than what the patients family might think tha...
recognized categories for APNs within this state (TBoN, 2006). The scope of practice for Tennessee APNs includes the legal abili...
homes. Rather, it is a high-quality facility dedicated to providing the best of care to its residents. Staff members are employe...
to are not likely to be illicit drugs but rather the same prescribed drugs with which they treat their patients (Texas Medical Ass...
practitioner surgeries are run by practice nurses, only making referrals to other members of the healthcare team when required, Th...
This essay includes three sections. The fist section reflects on tempered change strategies as described in a journal article. The...
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. ...
therapeutic manner (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). This relationship may refer to a single individual, or the "person" may be a sma...
implementing the treatment regimen. 5. collaborating with other health care providers in determining the appropriate health care f...
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...