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balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...

drugs and to administer those drugs in a manner that is beneficial to our patients as well as being put into a positions where we ...

transformative perspective because Newman argues that rather than being diametrically opposed, disease and health are merely facto...

The concept of health also has undergone change over the years. It formerly referred to absence of disease, but now it generally ...

be immensely helpful in gaining insight into the specific issues involved and subsequent perspective on what course of action to t...

to a patient over the phone and trying to convey the urgency of that patient coming in for a consultation. The patient resists, so...

were contributing to the "toxic" work environment, which characterized this CSDU, as there was "evidence of a lack of meaningful c...

with sudden flashbacks intruding on thoughts (Fagan and Freme, 2004). Other symptoms include: an exaggerated startle reflex, sleep...

caring; 2. every human culture has lay (generic, folk or indigenous) care knowledge and practices and usually some professional ca...

this condition. If the student does not have asthma, the student may feel motivated to help this population because of he/she rea...

harms the healthcare systems of the home countries of these nurses, which ethically and morally limits its use. Another method t...

records how she inquired about one young man who was brought into the ward crying, "I cant die. I cant die" (Livermore 174). She w...

nursing care over the past decade and how do they support the argument for a continuum of educational practices for nursing profes...

illustrates how she ignored the potential for causing harm when she increased the patients drugs; only after the medication had be...

assisting registered nurses (RNs) in order to meet legislated requirements (Schaefer 9). This means that while RNs have fewer pati...

the study intervention. Also, as yet, Cook is not clear about the purposes, aims or goals of the study. Literature Review While ...

(Webber). This does sound extremely similar to the way in which the AACN defines the CNL role. In some hospitals, nurse practiti...

"chronic, heavy drinking" (Enoch and Goldman, 2002, p. 192). According to government standards, a woman is at-risk for heavy drink...

discuss and name the various methods for preventing the transmissions of STIs; and also, they will demonstrate ability to resist p...

meals to all Orthodox Jewish patients should be investigated by hospital administrators if they are not already in place. Furtherm...

diabetic education that uses the Neuman Systems Model, which supports and facilitates taking a "holistic view of people with diabe...

the effect of music on preoperative anxiety and postoperative pain with a participant group that listened to "peaceful pan flute m...

more on intuition and to "a hidden knowledge that is not so open to cognitive description" (Bradshaw, 1995, p. 83). In other words...

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

cardiac monitor, a seizure, drug reaction or other sign of a critical condition...(They) are expected to fill out reports" that we...

system," since the institution of mandated nursing ratios, and also that data shows California hospitals have not only been able t...

2004). As errors are inevitable, in order to significantly reduce the rate at which they occur, it is imperative that mistakes sho...

Aesthetic, the need for beauty, order and symmetry (Huitt, 2004). 7. Self-actualization is a plateau not all people reach. At this...

Nursing (Webber, 2007). However, this is not a long-term solution. The long-term solution to achieving an adequate nursing force f...

events (Owen, 2007). This action includes "presentation of antigen by dendritic cells" as well as the "degranulation of mast cells...