Essays 1921 - 1950
as an RN giving me an understanding of seniors physical needs, and I also have experience with the administrative aspects of nursi...
placement of polyvinyl alcohol sponges into subcutaneous pockets" (p. 7). Each of the rats were "given a nutritional solution con...
was well educated (Le Vasseur, 1998), from a family of wealth and yet held an unusual compassion for those less fortunate. She wa...
importance in the immediate nature of the patients problems, however. In critical care, theory can wait. Nurses need to be focus...
Today, the theories of Orem, Roy, Neuman, Rogers, King, and others seem to be more popular than older theories such as those of Fl...
and arranging transportation; and ensuring that physician orders for residents are met and followed. Beyond these duties ar...
physical restraints. The authors own views combined with the findings of current literature reveal that the use of physical restr...
by any number of characteristics used for grouping individuals. These characteristics can include geography, relationships, cultu...
on education and prevention, and on how individual and social systems work together in the "society" of the health care industry. ...
and sustaining without yielding, they contend that bearing is a reaction which is more passive than coping but an activity which p...
of pregnancies, pending on the population and the definitions used (Walker, 2000). Hypertension in pregnancy is typically classi...
method in Assisted Suicide: Is There A Future? Ethical And Nursing Considerations employed the use of hypothetical euthanasia case...
to be exclusionary in terms of acceptable methods and resulted in what Taylor called "the great fault of modern psychology ... tha...
Emergency rooms are, at least in many cases, the primary health care provider to the underinsured and uninsured patient (Isenstein...
and empowerment must be mutually exclusive. Falk (1995) describes empowerment as a more contemporary concept than advocacy, and...
In nine pages this paper examines causes, symptoms, and results of patient stress in a nursing overview that includes the servant ...
governor should strive to at least make a dent in the problem in the next four years. It seems that the most pertinent problems ar...
"Many changes in health care yesterday, have major unforeseen consequences today. While it is easy to predict results with the be...
the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the economics of elder care. The stakeholders in this...
the abuse shed suffered - child molestation at the hands of a brutal stepfather, witnessing equally-brutal bestiality (they lived ...
can facilitate a different type of learning and examination, peer groups may allow an exploration with fewer confines groups with ...
to believe that his strategy for paying the hospitals bill for treatment to be a sound one. He had sued the local trolley line (a...
be on the alert for any changes in blood pressure, urinary tract, and body temperature (Jackson, 2000). Muscles must be exercised ...
still exists as to the necessity and long-term benefits of circumcision. Virtually all agree that if circumcision is to be done, ...
Acquiescing to the constraints imposed by organizational and professional structure does not mean that the nurse has no alternativ...
and environment integral relationships" (Carey, 2003). One way in which to determine the usefulness of the theory and how p...
to three days more than 20 years ago. We ruefully joke that some managed care plans only allow new mothers to be hospitalized on ...
of anxiety due to the diagnosis. She is single but hoped to one day get married and have children. The sudden onset of symptoms an...
more likely to give birth prematurely, have children with low-birthweights, and experience pregnancy problems like eclampsia. Fur...
until they become powerless in terms of their own personal care that nursing care should take over. There are essentially 3 typ...