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

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

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

and one must wonder - Why? This article suggested the reasons have to do with physician fears of having a malpractice lawsuit file...

the fever? Was it related to an infection in the surgical wound? Was the patient developing atelectasis and pneumonia? Or, was the...

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...

There are numerous nursing scholars who utilizing ethnographic techniques in their research; university courses that address both ...

As described by Araich (2001), four nursing strategies effectively summarize how a critical care nurse can use the RAM to aid a ca...

have access to a range of drugs. Bennett (et al, 2000) argues that the overall rate of substance abuse in the nursing popualtion r...

factors" (Hader and Guy, 2004, p. 21). The international Association for the Study of Pain and the American Pain Society define pa...

to the medications needed to ensure their health. Beginning in 2004, Medicare began to offer aid, $600 a year, for covering the co...

of this decision. Ecological theory is an attempt to bring in many different influences in order to understand how a society ...

that I wanted to make a difference in peoples lives as well. But while my people skills are excellent and I am sure that I can e...

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...

the prevalence of UI was high in this region of the country and particularly high among African Americans in two of the states, wh...

hospitals. Under her wings, she took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to hea...

many other disorders. Given the prevalence of both ADD/ADHD and Depression, this user linked to each of these disorders. The ADD/A...

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...

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

once again examines how nurses can be empowered, and learn those values in college. Finally, Ann Gallagher discusses dignity with ...

results are reliable and representative (Curwin and Slater, 1996). The first is the profiling of the samples to show that they are...

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

drivers" than do states that do not require test automatic testing (Murden and Unroe, 2005, p. 22). Most states do set standards f...

The following are research questions that could be asked of staff members regarding whether the program is needed: * Are there pat...

Integrity in this sense is about wholeness as opposed to how we often use the term (to mean honesty) (Johansson, 2002). It is abou...

economic positions (McGinn and Murr, 2006). All of this development in the past several years has led to a restatement of Shannon...