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staff them (Ocala, Fla., Hospitals Tackle Nursing Shortage, 2002). The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizati...
in acute care is sensitive about the use of drugs in recovering patients. Exposure of abuses of past years has raised awareness o...
operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). This is broken down into three basic categories: 1) wholly compen...
percent); * Management by walking around (15 percent); * Coaching/empowerment (11 percent); * Team (7 percent); * Transformational...
has been with us for several years, and it is widely publicized. The result is that the nursing shortage not only affects the qua...
life needs to change in response to the patients health care needs, then the nurse needs to be sensitive to that factor as well. ...
activities" (Orems Self-Care Model Concepts) that patients need to undertake to meet their own health care needs on a routine basi...
classifies the stroke patients needs in four domains: 1) medical/surgical issues; 2) mental status/emotion/coping behaviors; 3) ph...
The act of faxing patient information to another care-providing organization or third-party payer comes under privacy regulations ...
nonverbal and behavioural signals and information relating to the clients support system. Objective data could include observation...
in decision making (Thomas Group, 2004). The leadership team appointed a steering committee to develop a plan for empowering nur...
McKenna (1997) points out that mid-range nursing theories tend to focus on concepts of interest to nurses. This can encompass pati...
moment to moment as the changing patterns of shifting perspectives weave the fabric of life through the human-universe interconnec...
They are: 1. "activity level 2. "diet 3. "discharge medications 4. "follow-up appointment 5. "weight monitoring 6. "what to do if ...
caring as the very definition of what constitutes personal values from a nursing perspective (2003). Koerner (1996), likewise, e...
Critically-Care nurses, 1989 in Nursing Management, 1999, p. 38). This abbreviated version of AACN nursing standards was located...
Although the nursing professions is just now beginning to become more aware of the need for this type of approach it was first int...
in order so that it can be determined if all of the childs educational needs are being met. Aiding disabled children in reaching t...
clinical nurse specialist and the advanced nurse practitioner is decidedly hazy. However, Wickham (2003) states that a nurse worki...
a partnership approach where the discipline work together can be increased cost effectiveness in the overall treatment of a patien...
legal errors (Fackelmann, 2002). Furthermore, the AMA study demonstrated that there is a direct statistical connection between th...
and patient. Orems theory is central to much of nursing philosophy and methodology. This theory is one of three theories...
parameters of his perspective and goals, and, specifically, refers to the unique orientation of nursing. "Nurses encounter patient...
particular certified nurse-midwives-- continues to increase, these impediments linger to a certain extent, and may continue to aff...
interactions with their patients and with each other have. Kurt Lewins change theory holds that change is incremental. It occurs...
In twelve pages this paper presents the argument that nursing should be regarded not as a science but as an art. Ten sources are ...
The funding agency chosen for this program is the Childrens Aid Society, a nonprofit organization that has been dedicated to impro...
who suffer from cancer, arthritis, AIDS, multiple sclerosis or acute back pain are known to frequently turn to alternative medicin...
point that relatively few paid attention to it at all. In many respects, the same has occurred in the discussion of anythin...
already has been diagnosed as having some form of heart disease. In that sense, primary prevention is not possible. The goals of...