Essays 631 - 660
an advanced practice nurse. The benefits that a nurse midwife can bring to a first-time mother include information that the mothe...
These theories emphasize the fact that the concept of holism is integrally linked with the goals and objectives of nursing. Holis...
patients, cleaning patients up, changing the beds for patients, helping patients go to the bathroom, and many other simple, but ne...
are ideally suited to assist patient and their families in clarifying their needs and desires, enhancing patient autonomy (Breier-...
every 30 minutes for protection, safety and placement. This was a two-part citation in that there is no evidence that staff...
For different reasons, each profession believes that the morning routine of washing and dressing is essential. Both the nurse and...
help. Many of these people have the same basic preparatory training for their work, thus, there is a great deal of duplication, i....
the same holds true about the theories with which these people are treated. In the United Kingdom, nurses specializing in forensi...
many contemporary societies still reflect incredible amounts of poverty, disease and homelessness in spite of the fact that their ...
from an advanced practice nurse. Patients value the nurse practitioner (NP) as a trustworthy source of medical information that a...
both for nurses and their patients, meaning that nurses experience and deal with stress in a variety of directions and settings. ...
In six pages this paper examines nursing care from the perspectives of nurses and patients as reported by this Australian study. ...
new heart patient may need to learn to radically alter its diet, or the family of a new cancer patient may have to learn to cope w...
or state agencies may seek and implement studies. II. Nursing Home Care for the Elderly Whenever nursing home care is an...
so often work today. The first issue which will be discussed for the purposes of this paper is that of environment. This...
(Snyder and Lindquist, 2001). Under this philosophy the social factors and even the spiritual factors of an individuals existen...
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...
patient care" (p. 438). Prior to 1970, nursing training in the UK could be described as rigid and highly structured. After...