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efforts and prevention methods (Erickson, 1997). Ericksons (1997) study considered the impacts of psychology and specific attit...
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 ...
preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...
care model is highly useful with the elderly and those recovering from surgery or illness. Self care is not an issue that enters ...
doctoral degree in Psychology and Education in 1969" (Pender, n.d.a). She found psychological research to be rigorous and methodo...
(p. 1617). This suggests that the subject for this study is so under-researched that there are no previous studies to cite, which ...
of anxiety due to the diagnosis. She is single but hoped to one day get married and have children. The sudden onset of symptoms an...
There are many settings in which nursing can occur within this framework. The most obvious is...
She has promoted her theory of human caring throughout the world from various positions including lecturer at several universities...
exist for generations. Though Nightingale promoted a professional demeanor, nursing was not something that most well-bred women w...
course of action is often jumbled. Is the patient cognizant enough to make the correct choices? Many issues come into play when a...
of a holistic approach to team management, and the integration of efforts to improve the overall function of nursing teams to redu...
All of these studies reflect empirical studies of hospital populations in an effort to determine how changes in the healthcare env...
as sadness. My Dad quickly smiled and patted me on the back, but in my heart I knew that my decision would forever change the cou...
balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...
more likely to give birth prematurely, have children with low-birthweights, and experience pregnancy problems like eclampsia. Fur...
development of nurse-operated continence centers, which provide conservative management for UI (Bernier, 2002). Continence nurses...
until they become powerless in terms of their own personal care that nursing care should take over. There are essentially 3 typ...
and the patient are often unproductive (Roberson and Kelly, 1996; Hanna, 1997). Understanding the basis for this cultural percept...
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 ...
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 ...