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rely on "surrogate" decision-makers, family members capable of making treatment decisions on their behalf. As a result, this stud...
1999). Lee and his family owned a small business and had no health or medical insurance. The family was urged to begin the process...
the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...
her, per se, but rather with her expectations of Madeline, which are not age appropriate. The scenario says that Madeline knows be...
train sufficient numbers of new nurses. Turnover is high among those who remain in the profession, and those so dissatisfied - an...
(1999), research shows that the level of education reached by an RN contributes to a sense of professional autonomy and those nurs...
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...
and safety" (ANA, 2005). After all, if a nurse does not take steps to preserve her or his own safety, the nurse cannot adequately ...
on an evidenced based evidence based practice and the development of increased individual accountability in the area of clinical g...
they visited, and some tended to visit fairly frequently (Demling et al, 2002). Patients in general were very positive about thei...
The ANCI Competency Unit 4 demands that nurses accept accountability and responsibility for their actions in nursing. To do so we...
greater demand on health care services as more of them cross that line from employed to retired. Projections are just that,...
which resulted in 47 practices taking part and two of these having two patients. The sample : 98 (75 male) consecutive patients w...
that the doctrine of informed consent is "hopelessly flawed--or at least misguided," as it is often not possible to truly inform ...
Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...
define what other mechanisms are brought into the healing process. For example, Gordon et al (2002) argue that depending on the v...
on diabetes into categories and addresses these topics on separate web pages, as does the first site. The homepage explains that t...
suggestions for future action in regards to this problem. Section A: Problem identification The Problem and its importance The G...
make a real difference. In helping professions, such leadership is desirable. The health care industry today is fraught with probl...
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 ...
reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...
the disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...
individual, this woman does reflect on the past and has some regrets, but some optimistic comments are made as well. In evaluat...
after the exposure to the initiating traumatic event (Stein, 2002). If PTSD-like symptoms become evidence and are intense prior to...
19th and early 20th centuries. Hughes and Romeo (1999) question the usefulness of education that does not address the growing div...