Essays 571 - 600
the chaos," she said (Serafini 1490). This nurse further stated that sometimes ER nurses are called to the intensive care unit for...
and settings. Individuals reactions to the same stressors can be quite different, with one stressor creating significant stress r...
or other special attention to the wounds caused by burns. Each day s/he spends in the hospital is creating another reason for the...
techniques or theories as they pertain to the medical world, and it is as if the prison setting is the last place where these tech...
Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that it is no longer only added stress and long hours for those...
of the patients in a single unit will be assigned to one RN; the other half will be assigned to another. Another will be availabl...
or understanding when the staff or the doctors have to move on to the next client. Many patients complain that their healthcare pr...
expressing his or her misery. Such caregivers may have experienced patients who are as likely to cry out, thrash around, or simply...
supply and the importance of fruit and vegetables in the patients diet. She authored over 200 books, reports and pamphlets on nurs...
task forces, committees, and organizational projects," while also serving as "resources to other nurses to facilitate advancing sk...
quality and safety for the care they can expect to receive from nurses and midwives and other health professionals are the same" (...
individual family member are considered within this context (Friedman, Bowden and Jones 37). In analyzing the various theories th...
are possess "awareness and intention," and can construct a sense of self-identity and meaning," which includes the ability to choo...
background of hospital RNs is a significant factor in providing quality nursing care, as this study showed that the level of educa...
patient care (Hassmiller and Cozine, 2006). Some strategies proposed by RWJF for helping to decrease the tremendous workload on nu...
include an understanding of how insulin functions to control glucose levels and the interaction between variables that can affect ...
Sometimes the ability to perform foot self-exams for follow-up education or acute illness (Nettles, 2005, p. 44). Additionally, ...
of diabetes care, including blood/glucose monitoring, food intake monitoring, exercise monitoring, and insulin administration. Be...
in this case for a variety of reasons (Chaguturu and Vallabhaneni, 2005). First of all, despite any financial incentives, it has b...
is a term that refers to "a formal way of thinking (i.e. conceptualizing) about a process/system under study" (Conceptual Framewor...
interests and values considered and respected in the decision-making process" (Fly and Johnstone, 2002). This rationale is undoubt...
verifies old knowledge (Wilkerson, 1998). As this suggests, the continuation of scholarly advances in the development of nursing t...
makes the point that EBP involves more than simply utilize research evidence; and Penz and Bassendowski emphasize this point by s...
Aesthetic, the need for beauty, order and symmetry (Huitt, 2004). 7. Self-actualization is a plateau not all people reach. At this...
from pain that began after radiation therapy that caused nerve damage (Fischman, 2000). After receiving therapy at a pain clinic, ...
gives the appearance of increased attention to theory and evidenced-based nursing in an atmosphere of caring for the individual. ...
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...
percent of al cardiac surgery patients (Brantman and Howie, 2006). While this postoperative condition is typically well-tolerated ...
many of the findings of nursing research have little or no relevance to their daily practice. Im and Meleis (1999) cite several re...