Essays 1501 - 1530
an "integration of feelings with knowledge and experience" (Cumbie, 2001, p. 56). Nurses, as caregivers, have to reflect on their ...
critical matters, employee requests for information often go unanswered for too long. Results can and have been employee frustrat...
the beginning of her career in the 1950s, Peplau indicated that she believed that the significance between the nurse and the patie...
Developing Clinical Guidelines by Allen et al (1997) set out to determine the disparities that exist within the resolution process...
in which care is provided for aging and dying adults in general. In addition, the researchers recognize that preparation for dyin...
to reason, therefore, that if nurses are experiencing higher rates of stress, the inevitable consequences of such can only lead to...
however, Jones requested an ethics consult on the case due to the fact that Johns psychosocial evaluation had caused Jones to have...
authors state that research "and theory are key underpinnings that guide safe, effective, and comprehensive" (p. 35) practice. As...
preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...
have had ethical reservations about taking a patient off of life support, but she did not add to Lynns burden by interfering with ...
train sufficient numbers of new nurses. Turnover is high among those who remain in the profession, and those so dissatisfied - an...
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 ...
rather than requiring patient transfer to ICU. This plan is consistent with the principles of planned change in that it focuses o...
transformative perspective because Newman argues that rather than being diametrically opposed, disease and health are merely facto...
was perceived as merely the "handmaiden" of medicine, that is, a service that was there to facilitate the practice of the physicia...
the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...
over their blood glucose levels; and (3) encouraging continuous improvement in nursing knowledge and patient education. The progr...
a nurses role as a change agent in data base management. Fonville, Killian, and Tranbarger (1998) note that successful nurses of ...
(1999), research shows that the level of education reached by an RN contributes to a sense of professional autonomy and those nurs...
lethal drug is given with the intent to bring about death, thus ending suffering" (28). Of course, there is a difference between ...
also as a result of the environment in which they are cared for, where smoking is banned. Teaching patients may be seen as a funct...
in African American communities in though it has level off and is falling in other US populations (Dyer, 2003). Adolescents are am...
only one group, no control group. Group exposed to treatment and then measure (Creswell, 2003). Measured participants blood gluco...
evaluate nursing care and use research findings in clinical practice" (Barnsteiner, Wyatt and Richardson 165). This survey reveal...
departments (Courson, 2004). It isnt that nurses have not been serving in these roles, they have but today, nurses receive speci...
the importance of taking assessment from a number of different, relevant perspectives. For example, mentors who are conscious that...
includes strategies that are designed to make the individual feel better, such as "exercise, spirituality, support groups and humo...
many people have these factors in common within their personal value sets, but I believe that the nurse possesses them in specific...
An effective and valuable nurse is one who has sound technical knowledge and experience in applying it, but who also is a superlat...