Essays 1981 - 2010
in 1999 alone "returned almost $500 million to the federal government." (Butler, 2000, 1). The first question to consider...
face and chest that it causes, and it is characterized by chills, fever, headache, vomiting, rapid pulse, red rash and an inflame...
In fourteen pages this research paper considers how a nursing intervention can be designed to assist adults with PTSD resulting fr...
a patient to keep her own supply steady? Will she make a mistake and do something wrong as a result of substance abuse? So many th...
II. Population The target population for this inquiry are children of the world. However, the population needs to be narrowed as...
regards to lung function. If patients cannot breath on their own, RTs are trained on how to intubate patients and connect them to ...
but fully 60 percent of charts of reporting skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) make no mention of any behavioral interventions prio...
CP/M, which was shortly to be succeeded by MS/DOS (Alsop 188). The Macintosh operating system offered an icon-driven system that a...
make a real difference. In helping professions, such leadership is desirable. The health care industry today is fraught with probl...
which resulted in 47 practices taking part and two of these having two patients. The sample : 98 (75 male) consecutive patients w...
In five pages this research paper takes a nursing perspecitve regarding the elderly's physical changes and increased dependence th...
and allows the receiver to observe non-verbal cues as to the messages meaning. Feedback "reports back to the sender that the recei...
is a very important consideration in nursing. Indeed, some four thousand of so documents were published annually about pain in th...
In three pages this research paper discusses how humor can be a modality that assists nurses in patient care as well as self care....
runs $127 on average (Cummings, 2002). The goal of the ALF is to help senior citizens maintain as much independence as possible wi...
10 years ago, the Christian Science Monitor, in covering an article about child care workers and the poverty-level wages they rece...
if the individual discovers that he or she has thoughts and feelings that are "very basic and very strong" with regard to others o...
Developing New Nurse Leaders also considers the issue of shifts in leadership and governance, with a focus on the role of nurses a...
I - Demonstrating Integrity at all times D - Showing concern for the Dignity of others E - Displaying Excellence and Empathy in ...
infant mortality rate in the United States, which is one of the highest of the developed nations. Women who smoke at the...
after the exposure to the initiating traumatic event (Stein, 2002). If PTSD-like symptoms become evidence and are intense prior to...
deaths each year are related to medications" (Meadows, 2003). The actual number is estimated to be much higher because these kinds...
in acute care is sensitive about the use of drugs in recovering patients. Exposure of abuses of past years has raised awareness o...
with at least one individuals background in patient care in conjunction with the theorists higher awareness of the interaction of ...
* "HF-2 LVF assessment * "HF-3 ACEI for LVSD * "HF-4 Adult smoking cessation advice/counseling" (Overview, 2002). JCAHO e...
They are: 1. "activity level 2. "diet 3. "discharge medications 4. "follow-up appointment 5. "weight monitoring 6. "what to do if ...
in order so that it can be determined if all of the childs educational needs are being met. Aiding disabled children in reaching t...
classifies the stroke patients needs in four domains: 1) medical/surgical issues; 2) mental status/emotion/coping behaviors; 3) ph...
nonverbal and behavioural signals and information relating to the clients support system. Objective data could include observation...
McKenna (1997) points out that mid-range nursing theories tend to focus on concepts of interest to nurses. This can encompass pati...