Essays 121 - 150
to changes which in turn can result in higher costs and reduced perceived quality of care. Primary nursing is not a new con...
The ever-changing nature of Americas health care system has introduced a chaos in a population that for more than a century has be...
(p. 835) among Medicaid residents of Massachusetts nursing homes between 1991 and 1994. This mixed method (i.e., quantitative as ...
well. This study also appears to be sound scientifically. Its primary means of data analysis is statistical; the methods b...
nurses which makes job searching easier. Registered nurses are in great demand and it is thought that there will be a significa...
to identify and to relate in terms of actual patient care. Ida Jean Orlando created a conceptual view of the nursing process whic...
in which nurses had to request perceptions for certain types of dressing was a waste of time and resources, which in turn impacted...
the politics found in hospitals and other environments (Reuters, 2008). Supply and demand is always a major driver of salaries in...
can only be expected to escalate in the near future. Therefore, issues of affordability, in relation to equitable healthcare servi...
developing countries, while it alleviating the nursing shortage in the industrialized countries to a certain degree, is creating a...
Domain concepts Health: The traditional understanding of "health" is that is the absence of illness and/or injury. However, for ...
records and kept him and his family informed about his progress to date and what he could expect along the path to recovery. Nurs...
Statement, 2006). It is also a goal of HHC to "join with other health workers and with communities in a partnership" (Mission Sta...
has always been about the development of autonomy, equality, social justice and democracy" (Mezirow, 1999). The transformative app...
(Snyder and Lindquist, 2001). Under this philosophy the social factors and even the spiritual factors of an individuals existen...
during which time they reviewed data regarding the patient and made adjustments to the clinical care program. The advanced practic...
p. 144). Each has value, but each exists with a paradox. The more abstract theories are more easily generalized, but more diffic...
expected only to continue for several years to come. Then, growth will begin to decline in response to fewer numbers of people re...
today will reach retirement age within 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). At the same time, fewer people are entering nursing, as ...
and long-term care facilities (CNRA). The CNRA also outlined the distinct functions of a nurse in the care of individuals, recog...
eventually revert to many of the methods formerly used in patient care. She makes clear distinction between research in nursing t...
are getting calls from every part of the country every day. I am hearing from nurses that the working conditions are intolerable a...
use this possibility as an excuse to not provide other people, people who are obviously suffering tremendously and would inevitabl...
images represent some aspect of nursing? Examination of this question shows that two of these images are particularly helpful in d...
frees him from this indignity and travesty of life by smothering him with a pillow and then escapes from the asylum (One Flew, 199...
which are factors that are likely to have a beneficial affect on the chronic nursing shortage that is currently affecting the heal...
indicated by Carter, census also frequently plays a vital role in this regard for nursing managers. Other factors that I considere...
all aspects of professional nursing and a nurses obligation to patients to provide ethical and professional quality care. The firs...
may leave and go to another area, therefore, wages also need to be set with other areas wages to be taken into consideration. In...
A 3 page essay in which the writer offers a guide to writing about how a nurse's philosophy pertaining to the nature of humanity i...