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couldnt get along without nurses any more than they could get along without mothers" (Garey et al, 1988, p. PG). II. VIRGINIA HEN...

In eight pages this paper examines pediatric diabetes and considers the necessity for nursing specialists in this field in order t...

staff them (Ocala, Fla., Hospitals Tackle Nursing Shortage, 2002). The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizati...

in acute care is sensitive about the use of drugs in recovering patients. Exposure of abuses of past years has raised awareness o...

deaths each year are related to medications" (Meadows, 2003). The actual number is estimated to be much higher because these kinds...

as business practices, documentation systems, process flows and lines of communication can differ (Blevins, 2001) Home health nur...

today, but health care delivery appears to be more of a team project than the responsibility of one doctor. In earlier days, a nu...

has focused on two corollary components: 1. the accuracy of body size estimations and 2. the attitudes and feelings individuals ...

clinical nurse specialist and the advanced nurse practitioner is decidedly hazy. However, Wickham (2003) states that a nurse worki...

operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). This is broken down into three basic categories: 1) wholly compen...

percent); * Management by walking around (15 percent); * Coaching/empowerment (11 percent); * Team (7 percent); * Transformational...

has been with us for several years, and it is widely publicized. The result is that the nursing shortage not only affects the qua...

life needs to change in response to the patients health care needs, then the nurse needs to be sensitive to that factor as well. ...

with "depression, sleep disturbance, fatigue, and decreased overall physical and mental functioning" (Hearn, 2001). Problem Stat...

Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...

already has been diagnosed as having some form of heart disease. In that sense, primary prevention is not possible. The goals of...

undergoes surgery for a hip arthroplasty 24 hours after admission. Twenty-four hours after surgery the nurses note that Mrs. Gale...

risk factor, but is of less consequence among those diabetics who pay close attention to their blood sugar levels, test often and ...

the elderly. The Nurse Practitioner announced in its July 2000 issue that reports of the AMAs petition had been received as...

caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...

experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...

objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and their wives,...

is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...

MEDMARX is thought to be the most comprehensive reporting of medication error information in the nation (Morantz & Torrey, 2003). ...

achieved that the critical care nurse may address the bio-psycho-social implications of the event (Alfafara and Hedges, 1996). Fur...

reveal a steady growth in the number of nurses joining unions due to discontent" (Blankenheim 2001, p. 13). They are doing so to l...

At the heart of nursing is the nurse-patient relationship, which provides the foundation for nursing care (Patusky, 2003). This r...

(called IgE) (ONeill, 1990). This then sticks to other cells such as the mast cells or the basophils, this is a chain reaction as ...

the medical team with which these patients have surrounded themselves. It is the patients responsibility to cooperate and do ever...

completing the ranges of study required to attain the licensing level each holds. Aides are not licensed individuals and may or m...