Essays 2431 - 2460
was perceived as merely the "handmaiden" of medicine, that is, a service that was there to facilitate the practice of the physicia...
rather than requiring patient transfer to ICU. This plan is consistent with the principles of planned change in that it focuses o...
have had ethical reservations about taking a patient off of life support, but she did not add to Lynns burden by interfering with ...
There are different studies that have made a partial examination of the developmental models of clinical mentorship and supervisio...
balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...
and allows the receiver to observe non-verbal cues as to the messages meaning. Feedback "reports back to the sender that the recei...
be more enlightening and convey a more precise meaning than an extended descriptive passage. At this point, the student researchin...
"significant anxiety, particularly before they discover the most effective symptom management" (Moloney, et al, 2001, p. 19). In o...
on diabetes into categories and addresses these topics on separate web pages, as does the first site. The homepage explains that t...
define what other mechanisms are brought into the healing process. For example, Gordon et al (2002) argue that depending on the v...
The metaparadigms of nursing represent common concepts that are accepted throughout the profession and across international bounda...
In five pages this research paper takes a nursing perspecitve regarding the elderly's physical changes and increased dependence th...
considering this economic downturn, the numbers of undergraduates pursuing nursing careers began to also decline. In 1991, Canada ...
the basic paradigms of nursing professional theory are considered within a social context. For example, health is defined as a "dy...
The ANCI Competency Unit 4 demands that nurses accept accountability and responsibility for their actions in nursing. To do so we...
greater demand on health care services as more of them cross that line from employed to retired. Projections are just that,...
Working for the well-staffed working environment in itself is no small task, given the fact of the ongoing nursing shortage. The ...
reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...
learned long ago the value of yet another Deming (1986) exhortation, that of continuous improvement. By definition, the concept i...
suggestions for future action in regards to this problem. Section A: Problem identification The Problem and its importance The G...
which resulted in 47 practices taking part and two of these having two patients. The sample : 98 (75 male) consecutive patients w...
the disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...
that the doctrine of informed consent is "hopelessly flawed--or at least misguided," as it is often not possible to truly inform ...
Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...
clinical nurse specialist and the advanced nurse practitioner is decidedly hazy. However, Wickham (2003) states that a nurse worki...
deaths each year are related to medications" (Meadows, 2003). The actual number is estimated to be much higher because these kinds...
as business practices, documentation systems, process flows and lines of communication can differ (Blevins, 2001) Home health nur...
in acute care is sensitive about the use of drugs in recovering patients. Exposure of abuses of past years has raised awareness o...
which both of those impacts are important. The question of what statistics should be collected in a medical facility, however, is...
with at least one individuals background in patient care in conjunction with the theorists higher awareness of the interaction of ...