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frequently use mental health nurses as a means for expanding services (Winefield and Chur-Hansen, 2004). The following examination...

nurses as they engage in diagnostic, prescriptive, and regulatory operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). ...

Developing Clinical Guidelines by Allen et al (1997) set out to determine the disparities that exist within the resolution process...

cancer being observed (Wynder, Goodman and Hoffman, 1985). They also suggest that schools should place "major emphasis" on program...

which initiates a series of events that will either successful contain the infection or prompt it progression toward active diseas...

that are often incurred as a natural part of the aging process (Wang and Wollin, 2004). These changes include "impaired vision and...

the situation, the charge nurse might take a number of different actions in response to this information. For example, the charge ...

from those of education- focused institutions, when the institution in question is a nursing school, there are similarities, as we...

as a central tenet to professional practice (Hanks, 2010). Both the American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics and the Code ...

the American healthcare system, the debate concerning whether or not states should implement mandated nurse-to-patient ratios rema...

paying salaries). Patients are going to generally go to hospitals where their doctors are - though when it comes to emergencies or...

support of a nurse that can keep these patients inspired to continue the positive health behaviors that ensure their continued goo...

primary symptoms of COPD are "wheezing, cough, dyspnea on exertion and increased phlegm production" (Touhy and Jett, 2012, p. 289)...

frequently the needs of terminal patients are not addressed properly and that multiple problems exist in this regard. Practitioner...

was a patient protection initiative which incorporated a requirement for there to be set nasty patient ratios in healthcare system...

nurse to patient ratio in California. In 1992 and 1993 the California Nurses Association has sponsored the Democratic Senator Jack...

data over more than a decade and across a number of different services there was a general approach adopted so that the results ma...

In a paper of six pages, the author writes about research on the problem of workplace violence against nurses. The studies used i...

of the hospital nursing staff could be nurses with a bachelors degree or higher and that this can have an impact on patient outcom...

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

more attention needs to be given to the diagnosis and treatment of this illness. Any wide-spread illness is expensive to the patie...

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

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

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

on family food purchases of "cereal, candy and fast food" has been estimated to account for $500 billion per year (Lopes). This fi...

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

an obstruction of the airway and can involved any or all of the following factors: "smooth muscle bronchoconstriction, mucous secr...

in resistant strains of bacteria (Plonczynski, 2005). This situation suggests that changes in antibiotic prophylactic procedures ...

particular condition because he at least is aware of his condition. About one-half of those with this disease are not as fortunat...

Johns Hopkins University and member of the IOM research team that authored the report, said that "fatigue was a major cause of mis...