Essays 1261 - 1290
Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that it is no longer only added stress and long hours for those...
(p. 835) among Medicaid residents of Massachusetts nursing homes between 1991 and 1994. This mixed method (i.e., quantitative as ...
One examination that does not qualify as a scientific study is an assessment by Macknick (1998) of how nursing homes market themse...
Statistics expects that number to rise to more than one million in less than 20 years. The American Nurses Association and Monste...
The ever-changing nature of Americas health care system has introduced a chaos in a population that for more than a century has be...
the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has had a definitive impact on the quality of care being provided within the country...
the issue of work stress, noting that it is often difficult to strike a balance between beneficial and detrimental stress. Writin...
exist for generations. Though Nightingale promoted a professional demeanor, nursing was not something that most well-bred women w...
It is the responsibility of the school nurse to make sure childrens bodies are healthy so that their minds can be properly nurture...
and every individual as the beneficial employee he or she truly is, is the most effective way for a change-agent project to achiev...
a lingering distrust of the qualitative approach, one that often has not been done well and has resulted in works that cannot be c...
different that needs attention, but many have been able to prepare for the changes that are happening to them. Geriatric patients...
does not receive (or seek) health care outside of prison. The literal captive audience allows health care professionals to offer ...
relationships, in terms of power dynamics and the initiation and resolution of conflicts. Communication theory is, therefore, impo...
p. 144). Each has value, but each exists with a paradox. The more abstract theories are more easily generalized, but more diffic...
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...