Essays 1891 - 1920
has been with us for several years, and it is widely publicized. The result is that the nursing shortage not only affects the qua...
charted component of my daily patient interaction. However, to remind myself of the other responsibilities during busy per...
has focused on two corollary components: 1. the accuracy of body size estimations and 2. the attitudes and feelings individuals ...
operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). This is broken down into three basic categories: 1) wholly compen...
accomplishing the task or objective rather than on people (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004). They make the policies and rules ...
MEANING AND CONCEPTS Jones & Krysa (1998) describe the three essential comfort interventions as listening (to...
a list of advantages for patients, which include: * Greater coordination of services leads to higher quality care for the patient ...
the word alone that Watsons ideology is based not just upon clinical actions but upon the implementation of emotional availability...
money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely would no...
patients life needs to change in response to the patients health care needs, then the nurse needs to be sensitive to that factor a...
"a heterogeneous disorder characterized by 2 pathogenic defects, impaired insulin secretion and insulin resistance. The resultant ...
the order be filled. They specified one minor change, however. That was that each of the condoms that were manufactured include ...
2003, p. 50). Comments went on to say that it is disheartening when they arent acknowledged in any way for the hard work they do (...
the most frequently reported intervention classifications for NPs were patient education, drug management, nutrition support, risk...
for nurses who come into intimate contact with clients from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. Ott, Al-Khadhuri and Al-Junaibi...
are working, for example, in pediatrics(Sherman 2004). Therefore, she suggests, as many have, that the nursing professional learn ...
for protocol and for adhering to standard practice. There are many aspects of the job for which the nurse is best suited to addre...
"Many changes in health care yesterday, have major unforeseen consequences today. While it is easy to predict results with the be...
Issues pertinent to these five elements include conceptual framework, scope of practice, policy implications and support of social...
a process that assumes that a persons own subjective construction of reality is more accessible than anything else. The process o...
on a global scale. Therefore, for nurses to succeed in the complex world of the twenty-first century, many authorities feel th...
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 ...
current literature, which includes existing nursing journals and the WEB sites conducted by the American Association of Nurses and...
In addition, among hospitalized patients over 65, CHF is the leading hospital admission diagnosis. In 1988 alone, it accounted fo...
In five pages a 2001 article by Sarah Jo Brown on the relationship between patient outcomes and nurse staffing according to a stud...
laboratory specialists to obtain the appropriate level of anticoagulation independent of related laboratory reagents. Because the...
insight regarding the details of their normal everyday life and health concerns. Boutain sets the stage by reporting that one in...
quality of a patients life, (4) implementing managed care policies that threaten quality of care, and (5) working with unethical/i...