Essays 1921 - 1950
decisions. It is through our status as health care professionals that such a role is not only valued but critical. Nursing...
process variation, foster awareness of the impact of different clinical decisions, and encourage reduction in undesirable practice...
is on a morphine drip to which there is attached only one instruction: decrease the drip when respirations reach four per minute....
surgery. Preventing such intense pain often requires less drug use than does alleviating the pain once it has begun (Siwek, 2001)...
as the "Angel of Mercy" during the late 19th century; the "Gal Friday" during the 1920s and the "Heroine" during World War II (Bro...
a deleterious impact to patient welfare. With appropriate conflict resolution skills, however, most conflict can be either avoide...
Hunt (2001) goes on to clarify that the chain of accountability runs upwards (through the institutional hierarchy), downwards (to ...
In five pages this paper discusses the medication prescribing of practical nurses in Europe. Ten sources are cited in the bibliog...
In five pages this paper examines the professional and academic environment in a consideration of the nurse practitioner student a...
In seven pages this paper examines why individuals entered the professional nursing profession and their motivations for remaining...
even more bleak than the present because young people are not interested in a profession notorious for poor working conditions, hi...
deal of pain likely will occur during the first 24 hours after surgery (Drakeford, Pettine, Brookshire and Ebert, 1991). Preventi...
call for compliance with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to su...
patient care" (p. 438). Prior to 1970, nursing training in the UK could be described as rigid and highly structured. After...
Primary Care Act, a feature of both practices is that the patients have the option of seeing a GP or a NP as their first point of ...
their wishes for the patients care. Every nursing home resident has a right to such a plan by law (Stern), and it does not only p...
of happiness, contentment or relief, or something above ordinary existence. The patient should do more than subsist. 4. Care shoul...
who choose to use qualitative methods tend to seek a deeper reality, inasmuch as their aim is to "study things in their natural se...
In five pages this paper examines the nursing profession in a consideration of sexual harassment. Eight sources are cited in the ...
In thirteen pages this paper discusses prevention clinics led by nurses that focus upon myocardial infarction prevention. Twenty ...
In seven pages this paper discusses nursing roles, how they have changed, and the status of equality over the past century with pr...
In eight pages Peplau's interpersonal relations theory is examined in a background overview and discussion of its implications on ...
In five pages this illness is examined in terms of the role played by the public health nurse regarding issues of treatment and pr...
In seven pages this paper discusses Haiti's substandard health care and nursing. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....
In 5 pages this paper discusses how the nursing field is affected by cultural, political and ethical issues. Six sources are cite...
In five pages this paper examines the benefits of pet therapy in a nursing home setting in terms of memory stimulation and positiv...
In eight pages this paper assesses the benefits and detriments of nursing unionization from patient and employer perspectives. Sev...
In eight pages this paper discusses the reasons why there are fewer registered nurses everywhere. Nine sources are cited in the b...
is still those are very disturbing numbers when one considers that the problem may be eliminated to some degree by the simple task...
In five pages the case in which the Supreme Court ruled that a school provided nurse should attend to a student dependent upon a v...