Essays 481 - 510
have more opportunity to encounter difficulties involved in nursing the critically ill. "How frequently a given stressor occurs d...
is on a morphine drip to which there is attached only one instruction: decrease the drip when respirations reach four per minute....
as the "Angel of Mercy" during the late 19th century; the "Gal Friday" during the 1920s and the "Heroine" during World War II (Bro...
a deleterious impact to patient welfare. With appropriate conflict resolution skills, however, most conflict can be either avoide...
are getting calls from every part of the country every day. I am hearing from nurses that the working conditions are intolerable a...
out the parameters of the problem and review previous the results of research in this area. She discusses how patients older than ...
in education and work experience. 2. Boyfriends work sporadically. 3. Neither appears to consider the possibility of breaking the ...
nurse (Cosgrove, 1996). Even at this level, however, the nursing field is one which demands a continued commitment to education. ...
of stem cell research far outweigh the negativities. Because of these benefits stem cell research can be ethically defended utili...
services. It was a clear presumption that womens contributions -- no matter how physically or mentally trying -- did not carry an...
process variation, foster awareness of the impact of different clinical decisions, and encourage reduction in undesirable practice...
base on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, officially bringing the United States into World War II. At the time of the surprise attack, howev...
decisions. It is through our status as health care professionals that such a role is not only valued but critical. Nursing...
In ten pages this paper discusses patient stress in an application of the Orlando and Newman stress models and the development of ...
stress and exhaustion sets in (1992). Nurse managers are subject to continual stress as many of their tasks involve life an...
on a global scale. Therefore, for nurses to succeed in the complex world of the twenty-first century, many authorities feel th...
Issues pertinent to these five elements include conceptual framework, scope of practice, policy implications and support of social...
appropriate. Also, when changing bed linens it is imperative that the soiled bed linens get placed in a bag and not into the clea...
of happiness, contentment or relief, or something above ordinary existence. The patient should do more than subsist. 4. Care shoul...
who choose to use qualitative methods tend to seek a deeper reality, inasmuch as their aim is to "study things in their natural se...
Spence (1973) proposes that employers rationally offer higher compensation to those workers who have completed a higher level of e...
individuals personal integrity, which is defined as a "sense of worth which can be conserved through consideration of cultural, et...
what was said in the first sentence of this essay - nurse shortages results in nurses being given unrealistic workloads (DPE Resea...
showing that they graduated from a nursing education program approved by the Georgia Board of Nursing or from a nursing education ...
factors as culture and even spiritualism in patient care delivery. While at one time nursing was a discipline which concentrated ...
According to one research study, the top five reasons why nurses employ restraints are "disruption of therapies, confusion, fall p...
1999). Elderly patients who are alert, and not declared incompetent, have the right to refuse treatment, which includes turning or...
issue of regulatory interest when attached to direct patient care (Nursing, 2004). As few nurses with no patient responsibilities...
nurse, 2005). In addition to basic educational preparation at the RN level, oncology nursing practice also requires cancer-speci...
up billboards offering cash incentives, while nursing schools also originated creative means of recruiting more students (Wells). ...