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reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...
a nurses role as a change agent in data base management. Fonville, Killian, and Tranbarger (1998) note that successful nurses of ...
on an evidenced based evidence based practice and the development of increased individual accountability in the area of clinical g...
The ANCI Competency Unit 4 demands that nurses accept accountability and responsibility for their actions in nursing. To do so we...
greater demand on health care services as more of them cross that line from employed to retired. Projections are just that,...
train sufficient numbers of new nurses. Turnover is high among those who remain in the profession, and those so dissatisfied - an...
(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 ...
to physicians. Increasingly, "evidence-based guidelines are becoming codes of medical practice" (Healy, 2005; p. 54). Superficia...
over their blood glucose levels; and (3) encouraging continuous improvement in nursing knowledge and patient education. The progr...
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 ...
was perceived as merely the "handmaiden" of medicine, that is, a service that was there to facilitate the practice of the physicia...
rather than requiring patient transfer to ICU. This plan is consistent with the principles of planned change in that it focuses o...
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...
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 ...
ability has improved considerably, inasmuch as the decisions I now make are more analytical and based upon a broader and more dive...
education for nurses in the US followed the model established by modern nursings founder Florence Nightingale (Fitzpatrick 63). Th...
but fully 60 percent of charts of reporting skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) make no mention of any behavioral interventions prio...
CP/M, which was shortly to be succeeded by MS/DOS (Alsop 188). The Macintosh operating system offered an icon-driven system that a...
expected to develop some form of cancer "or another rapidly debilitating condition and well be dead within a year of getting the d...
regards to lung function. If patients cannot breath on their own, RTs are trained on how to intubate patients and connect them to ...
of ear infection (Chronic otitis media, 2003). OM is a serious childhood illness because, if not properly treated, it can lead to ...
act as integral members of healthcare teams, provide direct and indirect patient care, and address central issues for patients, in...
a strategic factor in a broader movement toward social transformation that stresses social equity (Downey 249). This transformatio...
that is, whether it will spread (metastasize) and what symptoms that it is likely to cause (Cancer diagnosis, 2005). The term "sec...
the needs of the dying and her work indicates that there are times when the most meaningful communication that a nurse can offer i...
individuals personal integrity, which is defined as a "sense of worth which can be conserved through consideration of cultural, et...