Essays 331 - 360
nursing care over the past decade and how do they support the argument for a continuum of educational practices for nursing profes...
Rural Nurses, represented by registered nurse and practicing attorney Jacqulyn Hall, filed an amici curiae (friends of the court) ...
will--in all likelihood--result in a professional negligence suit, rather than criminal charges. Suits against nurses result from ...
NAON recognizes that learning and developing professional is a life-long processes and it helps orthopedic nurses achieve the goal...
Smith, et al. (2002) explain that their purpose "was to investigate the effects of therapeutic massage on selected outcomes relate...
legislation that authorizes a Nurse Licensure Compact (National Council of the State Boards of Nursing, Nurse Licensure Compact, 2...
Additionally, the model also "incorporates a life span continuum, where the individual passes from fully dependent at birth, to fu...
in death is a wise safeguard. In the early part of the twentieth century, rationalizations abounded in medical literature that def...
have more opportunity to encounter difficulties involved in nursing the critically ill. "How frequently a given stressor occurs d...
ability to empower and grow people" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). Over the past decade, there have been numerous studies that have fou...
many of the findings of nursing research have little or no relevance to their daily practice. Im and Meleis (1999) cite several re...
with their illness decreases and their partners ability to help them with the process is impeded as well. Decreased communication...
This involves intensive, one-on-one teaching, which enables autistic children to learn the intricacies of behaviors or skills via ...
information. These guidelines are also based on this researchers finding that self-care promotes the pediatric patients spiritual ...
secretary, should leave the ward when there were fewer than three children on the unit and work a second adult unit as well. He wa...
potential for long term physiological complications as well as long-term emotional impacts. Not only does the type of care needed...
to work efficiently and effectively across cultural boundaries. This concept also encompasses not only the assumption that nurses,...
illustrates how she ignored the potential for causing harm when she increased the patients drugs; only after the medication had be...
the study intervention. Also, as yet, Cook is not clear about the purposes, aims or goals of the study. Literature Review While ...
York found that, in the past, ambulance diversions were a seasonal event. However, more recent research finds that diversional sta...
concepts dominated the field of stress research beginning in the 1950s; however, by the 1970s, there was opposition to Selyes stre...
from pain that began after radiation therapy that caused nerve damage (Fischman, 2000). After receiving therapy at a pain clinic, ...
in the 19th and early 20th century, the fact is even more remarkable. "Well and Strong and Young" Updike writes that in 1854 Bar...
several years. Psychologically, it has been found that individuals more actively involved with their own health care often fare m...
the realization of the "dehumanizing" of patients that led to them being referred to as "Bed x," "Case x" or some other nameless, ...
2002 and allowed for a National Nurse Service Corps program to provide funding for tuition, expenses and a stipend to those nursin...
gives the appearance of increased attention to theory and evidenced-based nursing in an atmosphere of caring for the individual. ...
expressing his or her misery. Such caregivers may have experienced patients who are as likely to cry out, thrash around, or simply...
are licensed individuals who go through at least one year of formal education in addition to clinical instruction, and the focus o...
care. The team leader is responsible for overseeing and coordinating all of the elements of care and also delegates care of specif...