Essays 271 - 300
Roughly 50 percent of the current working nursing population will retire within the next 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). Adding...
have "little or no training in fundamental management skills" (Baer, 2006, p. 60). As well as absenteeism, problems with managemen...
Not only are the direct health impacts to the nurse deleterious, impaired nurses cannot meet their responsibility to provide top q...
currently has 9 major nursing schools, which include the University of Pennsylvania (one of the most renowned facilities in the Un...
budget restraints. Nurses leave the profession because they are "distressed by being unable to provide quality nursing care, disgr...
support for the concept that effective leadership style is directly related to nursing job satisfaction (Kleinman, 2004a). These s...
dehydrated? Has literature simply made you aware of this potential problem? You might say something like: "Considering the dire co...
for the precise coding of medication and, thereby, helps nurses avoid the common errors listed above (Woods and Doan-Johnson, 2002...
have access to a range of drugs. Bennett (et al, 2000) argues that the overall rate of substance abuse in the nursing popualtion r...
since the survey was initiated in 1977, for example, between 1992 and 1996, the number of nurses grew by 14.2 percent (Mee, 2001)....
indwelling foley and compression boot. Her dressing is dry and intact. She was discharged with Percocet 5mg q6. Analysis and Out...
in those nursing homes that maintained adequate staffing, but beyond that, the administrative climate of the nursing home facility...
take to the streets rather than cope with abuse, violence or parental drug addiction. Also, as indicated above in regards to alcoh...
MEDMARX is thought to be the most comprehensive reporting of medication error information in the nation (Morantz & Torrey, 2003). ...
(Walsh, 2003; p. 22). The intended role is that of partner with an MD in providing direct patient care in terms of serving in rol...
legal errors (Fackelmann, 2002). Furthermore, the AMA study demonstrated that there is a direct statistical connection between th...
The same results were not seen for boys. Shaya and colleagues conducted a similar study in 2008. The results of the empirical re...
essential to being able to maintain the necessary nursing workforce and ensuring the delivery of care. These researchers maintain...
period of restructuring in many industries, including healthcare. Managed care organizations and changes in reimbursement rates f...
Social Services they have complained that that funding is insufficient to provide for even their most basic dietary needs. Part o...
accomplish beneficial behavioral change. As Kurt Lewins pioneering work with change theory points out, any change initiative ent...
to nursing practice in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), as the welfare of each high-needs baby is intrinsically tied to fami...
that they are often asked to take care of more patients with higher acuity levels than they have in the past (Hassmiller and Cozin...
This paper is basically about nurse leadership. A scenario was presented in which a nurse director needed to present a new annual ...
whoever the client might be, that is, an individual, family, group or community. The third provision indicates that nurses are als...
between those who supported mandatory staffing ratios, based on research such as the study conducted by Linda Aiken, and the stanc...
can develop serious complications including limb amputations, blindness, kidney failure, cardiac disease, cerebral hemorrhage, and...
to a significantly more positive approach to this modern form of family structure, inasmuch as the high rate of divorce continues ...
organization, impacting in the strategies that are adopted, determining goals and creating or influencing culture (Mintzberg et al...
the ability to benefit from economies of scale. In order to develop a strategy to deal with the HRM issues that have arisen it is ...