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avoidance, such as creating a buddy system, which pairs elderly neighbors with each other. Buddies check on one another and accomp...
In a paper of six pages, the author writes about research on the problem of workplace violence against nurses. The studies used i...
This 11 page paper provides an overview of the issues advance practice nurses face in expanding their practice. This paper demonst...
job experience, type A behavior patterns, and fear of negative evaluation, combined with frequency of stressful events" (Dugan et ...
great importance placed on issues such as maternity services, which are seen as lower priorities in most developing countries (WHO...
In eight pages this paper discusses Canada's nursing shortage problems as they pertain to the hospital environment. Eight sources...
has left the facility and has gone home to the comforts of home in order to spend the last days, weeks or months of their life in ...
divert status at least three times a week for the last year, with the exception of the only level one trauma center in Nevada, whi...
is not being replaced by individuals wishing to go into nursing or the health care environment. This has been shown by a slow decr...
Statistics expects that number to rise to more than one million in less than 20 years. The American Nurses Association and Monste...
provided. A nurse who has back pain will likely reduce the care he or she could otherwise administer. When people have back or m...
effectiveness has been studied extensively, and that studies consistently conclude that NP-based care is comparable to that origin...
and Robinson, 2003). Another element complicating the problem is the fact that in the early 1990s, many hospitals restructured a...
advocates, providing medical treatments prescribed by physicians, and keeping accurate records of changes in patient status (Nurse...
that have affected my choice of working as a nurse. Of course many people have these factors in common within their personal valu...
In two pages this paper discusses how nurses can deal with the stress of their jobs with a 'hardy' personality as described in thi...
In five pages this paper examines the images of nursing and nurses within the context of the Carative model with individualized, d...
that not only were nurses retained but that everyone on staff is motivated to be actively engaged and involved in the work environ...
planning evaluation to those patients, conducted or overseen by a registered nurse, social worker or other appropriately qualified...
some determining the study was inconclusive, others saying certain interventions should be made universal and still others stating...
results from alcohol or drug misuse and which interferes with professional judgment and the delivery of safe, high quality care" (...
it comes to orders, medications, tests, transfers and so on. Another problem for both physicians and nurses is identifying all p...
2005, p.165). In obese children, the number of fat cells present in the body can be as much as three times higher than in normal w...
to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...
proven to be the principal reason for nosocomial infections, that is, infections that are acquired after hospital admittance. Impo...
In twelve pages problems within the community nursing landscape are discussed such as parent alteration and social isolation and t...
patient was in a significant amount of pain, he made jokes throughout his entire stay, as family members remained at his bedside. ...
those under stress or who are unhappy with their lives. For this reason there has been a higher use in poorer social classes where...
What should a nurse do when she knows that a surgeon is incompetent and killing children on his operating table? Even today, there...
The organizational behavior problem selected for this analysis is nurse fatigue. Thousands of nurses arrive at work in a state of ...