Essays 241 - 270
since the survey was initiated in 1977, for example, between 1992 and 1996, the number of nurses grew by 14.2 percent (Mee, 2001)....
in the heart and nervous system, or in some cases, death (WHO, 1996). While health promotion relating to STDs may be a global mis...
also see that she considered the business of nursing to be about reform. In order to achieve the principles that she espoused fo...
report the trouble. Sometimes they have no family or nobody to report the abuse to. Many nursing homes have no background check ...
their mental capacity often fades due to dementia, or Alzheimers, or a host of other maladies that create this state where there i...
profession" and so individuals are susceptible, the current structure in medicine has exacerbated the stress. Cutbacks at hospital...
others, often in an intellectual focus. Cultural collaboration raises the value of this effort to that of individuals of one cult...
stronger. The authors make no comment on whether any of the individuals were concerned about becoming dependent on their pa...
paradigm but without the fantasy that acceptance is the ultimate outcome. In treating this patient, a student writing on the subje...
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...
become stressed and this lowers morale. A nurse manager writes that at her hospital, her job has become overwhelming, but when dis...
It also publishes the Journal of Nursing Scholarship, Reflections on Nursing Leadership and an online newsletter, Excellence. ...
roles of nursing is direct patient care, and one of the seven essential AACN values is that of human dignity. In years past, dire...
Peplau addressed the inherent relationship between nursing and counseling, contending that nurses uphold the important responsibil...
2002 and allowed for a National Nurse Service Corps program to provide funding for tuition, expenses and a stipend to those nursin...
ethics and value of this research. Ethically and scientifically responsible nurses must realize that from a deontologic perspecti...
gives the appearance of increased attention to theory and evidenced-based nursing in an atmosphere of caring for the individual. ...
over the age of 60 years in 1995, and that number will probably increase to about 1.2 billion (2002, p.1094) in 2025. Informatio...
or render physical care - she ministers to the whole person. The existence of suffering, whether physical, mental or spiritual is ...
therefore, not only an extensive history but it can be contended to be just as applicable in todays nursing practice as it was whe...
from pain that began after radiation therapy that caused nerve damage (Fischman, 2000). After receiving therapy at a pain clinic, ...
health of the individual and to their success in recuperation. The Association for Spirit at Work is comprised of medical profess...
that make use of color, but even these efforts have not typically met with good response by patients or hospital administrators (S...
and case management. Maras shares the leadership of the nursing department with another individual at the VP level, L. McChesney....
disappear and remain at bay for a long while. The symptoms that the patient exhibits as well as physical examination are consiste...
The result is that "Suddenly there is great interest in how men and women talk to each other" (Woodard and House, 1997; p. 39), no...
absolute separation of duties and artificial formality intended to preserve hierarchy in attitude as well as fact. Physicians pro...
Washington Medical Center, Seattle, and a clinical instructor, bio behavioral nursing and health systems, at the University of Was...