YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Annotated Bibliography of Nurse Research
Essays 1981 - 2010
indicates, restraint places health practitioners between the proverbial rock and a hard place. However, there are practice standar...
nurse seeks to preserve any culture-specific aspect of the patients life everywhere possible. When some culturally-linked aspect ...
the disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...
Olsen, 2006). The authors recognized that within the scope of nursing theory, the paradigms can relate to either the practical nu...
the extent to which terminally ill individuals can be alleviated of languishing in such an inhumane state without involvement of l...
reporting and administrative reporting so that the owner can have confidence that HHH is providing superlative patient care and me...
degrees of restricted motion (Swank and Lehnert 631). Computer-assisted systems (CAS) have been developed to aid surgeons in obtai...
learned long ago the value of yet another Deming (1986) exhortation, that of continuous improvement. By definition, the concept i...
Working for the well-staffed working environment in itself is no small task, given the fact of the ongoing nursing shortage. The ...
make a real difference. In helping professions, such leadership is desirable. The health care industry today is fraught with probl...
which resulted in 47 practices taking part and two of these having two patients. The sample : 98 (75 male) consecutive patients w...
Developing Clinical Guidelines by Allen et al (1997) set out to determine the disparities that exist within the resolution process...
to reason, therefore, that if nurses are experiencing higher rates of stress, the inevitable consequences of such can only lead to...
the beginning of her career in the 1950s, Peplau indicated that she believed that the significance between the nurse and the patie...
currently has 9 major nursing schools, which include the University of Pennsylvania (one of the most renowned facilities in the Un...
that are often incurred as a natural part of the aging process (Wang and Wollin, 2004). These changes include "impaired vision and...
critical matters, employee requests for information often go unanswered for too long. Results can and have been employee frustrat...
shock, (b) a match with a rule or with previous decision situations, and (c) a script-driven decision" (Lee, et al., 1996; p. 5), ...
with the reconfiguration of practice settings, delivery sites and staff composition. Professional guidelines must be established ...
promote an analytical view of this issue and define the variables that will be assessed: 1. What is the magnitude of the effect o...
cancer being observed (Wynder, Goodman and Hoffman, 1985). They also suggest that schools should place "major emphasis" on program...
preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...
There are different studies that have made a partial examination of the developmental models of clinical mentorship and supervisio...
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...
a nurses role as a change agent in data base management. Fonville, Killian, and Tranbarger (1998) note that successful nurses of ...
the basic paradigms of nursing professional theory are considered within a social context. For example, health is defined as a "dy...
greater demand on health care services as more of them cross that line from employed to retired. Projections are just that,...
and safety" (ANA, 2005). After all, if a nurse does not take steps to preserve her or his own safety, the nurse cannot adequately ...