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They are: 1. "activity level 2. "diet 3. "discharge medications 4. "follow-up appointment 5. "weight monitoring 6. "what to do if ...
Although the nursing professions is just now beginning to become more aware of the need for this type of approach it was first int...
a partnership approach where the discipline work together can be increased cost effectiveness in the overall treatment of a patien...
in decision making (Thomas Group, 2004). The leadership team appointed a steering committee to develop a plan for empowering nur...
nonverbal and behavioural signals and information relating to the clients support system. Objective data could include observation...
The act of faxing patient information to another care-providing organization or third-party payer comes under privacy regulations ...
MEDMARX is thought to be the most comprehensive reporting of medication error information in the nation (Morantz & Torrey, 2003). ...
objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and their wives,...
the elderly. The Nurse Practitioner announced in its July 2000 issue that reports of the AMAs petition had been received as...
states, "The nurse promotes, advocates for, and strives to protect the health, safety and rights of the patient" (Code of Ethics f...
improve it, then nursing can truly be an invaluable profession to choose. This leads us to the reality of helping people. Perha...
and statistics. This approach works well for in physics and math, but less well when applied to people. Moloney (2002) offers thre...
military personnel and other non-combatants. While McConnell was seeing her charges safely to Japan, General Douglas MacArthur was...
a little less than a third of them were under the age of 40 (Meadows, 2002, p. 46). This offered conclusive proof that number of ...
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...
reveal a steady growth in the number of nurses joining unions due to discontent" (Blankenheim 2001, p. 13). They are doing so to l...
At the heart of nursing is the nurse-patient relationship, which provides the foundation for nursing care (Patusky, 2003). This r...
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...
life needs to change in response to the patients health care needs, then the nurse needs to be sensitive to that factor as well. ...
clinical nurse specialist and the advanced nurse practitioner is decidedly hazy. However, Wickham (2003) states that a nurse worki...
and patient. Orems theory is central to much of nursing philosophy and methodology. This theory is one of three theories...
had to have gone through surgery (orthopedic, gynecological, urological, vascular) of at least twenty minutes in duration. They ha...
particular certified nurse-midwives-- continues to increase, these impediments linger to a certain extent, and may continue to aff...
only the teaching of adult learners, but also the teaching of those who will be teaching them. Learning Theory It has been ...
not unusual given that there is a common perception that the higher a persons educational attainment the greater level of employme...
and consumable supplies. Capital expense and information technology (IT) items are included, but the nurse manager has no direct ...
associated with a considerable change in the traditional locus-of-control can be safely confronted, and professional practice can ...
the term public health nurses" (JWA - Lillian Wald, n.d.). The public health nurses at the turn of the 20th century visited...