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surgery. Preventing such intense pain often requires less drug use than does alleviating the pain once it has begun (Siwek, 2001)...
Rhoads essay on the life and experiences of a nurse in Vietnam gives a chilling clarity of the realities with which medical person...
had even been stalked by patients (Global Forum for Health Research, 2000). A major study in Australia found that there is a sign...
domestic violence is to, first of all, screen for domestic violence with all injured patients. When screening for abuse, Flitcraft...
view of medicine in order to better help the indigenous population on which she is called to serve. Before launching any p...
a deleterious impact to patient welfare. With appropriate conflict resolution skills, however, most conflict can be either avoide...
is on a morphine drip to which there is attached only one instruction: decrease the drip when respirations reach four per minute....
as the "Angel of Mercy" during the late 19th century; the "Gal Friday" during the 1920s and the "Heroine" during World War II (Bro...
nursing practice and nurses are formally authorized from the society to touch their clients in the course of nursing activities. ...
being the most complete. Education in triage generally has not been complete at all, however (Crafter, Little and Ritchie, 2000)....
decisions. It is through our status as health care professionals that such a role is not only valued but critical. Nursing...
services. It was a clear presumption that womens contributions -- no matter how physically or mentally trying -- did not carry an...
process variation, foster awareness of the impact of different clinical decisions, and encourage reduction in undesirable practice...
in education and work experience. 2. Boyfriends work sporadically. 3. Neither appears to consider the possibility of breaking the ...
out the parameters of the problem and review previous the results of research in this area. She discusses how patients older than ...
nurse (Cosgrove, 1996). Even at this level, however, the nursing field is one which demands a continued commitment to education. ...
of stem cell research far outweigh the negativities. Because of these benefits stem cell research can be ethically defended utili...
ethics and value of this research. Ethically and scientifically responsible nurses must realize that from a deontologic perspecti...
Peplau addressed the inherent relationship between nursing and counseling, contending that nurses uphold the important responsibil...
over the age of 60 years in 1995, and that number will probably increase to about 1.2 billion (2002, p.1094) in 2025. Informatio...
become stressed and this lowers morale. A nurse manager writes that at her hospital, her job has become overwhelming, but when dis...
the patient prior to his death. The nurse clearly felt the need to encourage the family to stay and spend as much time as possibl...
roles of nursing is direct patient care, and one of the seven essential AACN values is that of human dignity. In years past, dire...
does know is what is involved in the job, and many of the permutations that one simple standard can take. There is protocol, then...
(Political Power, 2002). The profession of nursing is no different from any other in this regard (Political Power, 2002). Qualit...
was well educated (Le Vasseur, 1998), from a family of wealth and yet held an unusual compassion for those less fortunate. She wa...
that "People choose nursing for love, not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and...
for the infant for the first six months" (Moore et al., 1998; p. 36). Bearing this in mind we address those women who are perhaps ...
other people. Whereas simulation is rehearsed, however, role playing is not. It requests that the learners take on the character...
to the bill as did many nursing executives, arguing that there was sufficient legislation already on the books that dealt with sta...