Essays 121 - 150
This left Mee with little opportunity to connect with these patients as human beings and she started "to feel like a machine," whi...
for nurses who come into intimate contact with clients from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. Ott, Al-Khadhuri and Al-Junaibi...
are working, for example, in pediatrics(Sherman 2004). Therefore, she suggests, as many have, that the nursing professional learn ...
life needs to change in response to the patients health care needs, then the nurse needs to be sensitive to that factor as well. ...
theoretical framework for promoting professional development through the use of quality circles. This management theory involves a...
clinical nurse specialist and the advanced nurse practitioner is decidedly hazy. However, Wickham (2003) states that a nurse worki...
paradigms According to Parse (1987), the simultaneity paradigm of nursing offers a substantially different view worldview than th...
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...
staff them (Ocala, Fla., Hospitals Tackle Nursing Shortage, 2002). The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizati...
In the meantime, I plan to study teaching strategies and rationale, and also expand my personal travel experiences. Today as neve...
which both of those impacts are important. The question of what statistics should be collected in a medical facility, however, is...
adaptation has a process in which individuals respond positively to environmental changes and described three types of stimuli: fo...
the non-emergency sections of the hospital or when they are in the doctors office or the resident clinic! Heart attacks happen! ...
also point out that "developed countries may not be well served by international nurse recruitment if it prevents them from addres...
just need a positive touch from another human being. The student investigating the relationship of nursing contribution to patien...
within these models. Definition of nursing model Semantic confusion abounds in the relevant literature as to what--precisely--is...
part of their academic preparation knowledge that pertains to how "to initiate, plan and manage change" (Elser, McClanahan and Gre...
as a solution to the problem of developing reflective skills, Ferrario defines reflective thinking as: a) analyzing, synthesizing,...
many had very definite opinions on the matter as a whole, "none of the participants articulated what the process consisted of or h...
certification program (Policy statement, 1999). On the other hand, the additional education required to become a licensed NP may t...
a partnership approach where the discipline work together can be increased cost effectiveness in the overall treatment of a patien...
N F Resident Costs N N N - - C = Critical N = Needed (may or may not be necessary on its own) F = Facilitating information ?Includ...
ethics are a part of the concern. The hospital should not accept a patient load that it cannot handle. Another example of an issue...
moment to moment as the changing patterns of shifting perspectives weave the fabric of life through the human-universe interconnec...
caring as the very definition of what constitutes personal values from a nursing perspective (2003). Koerner (1996), likewise, e...
Critically-Care nurses, 1989 in Nursing Management, 1999, p. 38). This abbreviated version of AACN nursing standards was located...
(1999), research shows that the level of education reached by an RN contributes to a sense of professional autonomy and those nurs...
lethal drug is given with the intent to bring about death, thus ending suffering" (28). Of course, there is a difference between ...
a nurses role as a change agent in data base management. Fonville, Killian, and Tranbarger (1998) note that successful nurses of ...