Essays 1921 - 1950
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. ...
brief excursion into heterosexuality twenty years earlier, who Armand and Albert raised. Son Val (Dan Futterman) does not share A...
Rhoads essay on the life and experiences of a nurse in Vietnam gives a chilling clarity of the realities with which medical person...
surgery. Preventing such intense pain often requires less drug use than does alleviating the pain once it has begun (Siwek, 2001)...
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...
In five pages the effects of various health care practices and trends upon the nursing field are examined. Five sources are cited...
long been an integral component to the standard of care provided at hospitals, nursing homes, home care and other situations where...
In thirty pages this paper discusses elderly care in a discussion of nursing, holistic care, communications, and local policies, a...
insight regarding the details of their normal everyday life and health concerns. Boutain sets the stage by reporting that one in...
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...
In five pages an article is summarized and discussed in terms of knowledge contained within within the perspective of personal nur...
nurse-patient relationship, the nurse gives without the expectation of reciprocation (1991). Thus, a patient need not return the f...
In fifteen pages this research paper discusses how psychologists, clerics, physicians and nurses can counsel patients who are term...
In sixteen pages this paper discusses nursing theory in a consideration of how patients who have experienced miscarriages or are a...
perceives as her "rival." Rather they listen to the girl, and in the case of all good villains she switches the blame, "She is b...
to miscommunication. For example, in a busy hospital where there is a high degree of activity patients may be distracted and not e...
In six pages this paper examines community nursing intervention as a way of increasing the birth weights and to decrease the numbe...