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have had ethical reservations about taking a patient off of life support, but she did not add to Lynns burden by interfering with ...
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...
transformative perspective because Newman argues that rather than being diametrically opposed, disease and health are merely facto...
evaluate nursing care and use research findings in clinical practice" (Barnsteiner, Wyatt and Richardson 165). This survey reveal...
departments (Courson, 2004). It isnt that nurses have not been serving in these roles, they have but today, nurses receive speci...
the importance of taking assessment from a number of different, relevant perspectives. For example, mentors who are conscious that...
also as a result of the environment in which they are cared for, where smoking is banned. Teaching patients may be seen as a funct...
in African American communities in though it has level off and is falling in other US populations (Dyer, 2003). Adolescents are am...
only one group, no control group. Group exposed to treatment and then measure (Creswell, 2003). Measured participants blood gluco...
An effective and valuable nurse is one who has sound technical knowledge and experience in applying it, but who also is a superlat...
includes strategies that are designed to make the individual feel better, such as "exercise, spirituality, support groups and humo...
many people have these factors in common within their personal value sets, but I believe that the nurse possesses them in specific...
proposed method of resolution is to design, develop and evaluate a clinical, evidence-based "diabetic education program to increas...
A nurses dedication and selflessness recall a mothers sacrifice and care (Dworkin, 2002). Furthermore, Dworking (2002) points out ...
declined as "educators, employers and others recognize the need for educational changes in nursing" (Bednash, 2000, p. 2985). Asso...
to the bill as did many nursing executives, arguing that there was sufficient legislation already on the books that dealt with sta...
for the infant for the first six months" (Moore et al., 1998; p. 36). Bearing this in mind we address those women who are perhaps ...
other people. Whereas simulation is rehearsed, however, role playing is not. It requests that the learners take on the character...
several problems with recent immigrants, however. These include language barriers, not having completed a GED, limited healthcare...
a lingering distrust of the qualitative approach, one that often has not been done well and has resulted in works that cannot be c...
(Political Power, 2002). The profession of nursing is no different from any other in this regard (Political Power, 2002). Qualit...
was well educated (Le Vasseur, 1998), from a family of wealth and yet held an unusual compassion for those less fortunate. She wa...
that "People choose nursing for love, not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and...
does know is what is involved in the job, and many of the permutations that one simple standard can take. There is protocol, then...
and arranging transportation; and ensuring that physician orders for residents are met and followed. Beyond these duties ar...
These theories emphasize the fact that the concept of holism is integrally linked with the goals and objectives of nursing. Holis...