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the medical team with which these patients have surrounded themselves. It is the patients responsibility to cooperate and do ever...
Bell (2000) reports that when an Australian hospital instituted shared governance, nurse managers responded "by developing a teamw...
cross to bear and they would be shamed to bring it to someone else. The healthcare worker must not attempt to alter the patients r...
Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...
already has been diagnosed as having some form of heart disease. In that sense, primary prevention is not possible. The goals of...
undergoes surgery for a hip arthroplasty 24 hours after admission. Twenty-four hours after surgery the nurses note that Mrs. Gale...
reveal a steady growth in the number of nurses joining unions due to discontent" (Blankenheim 2001, p. 13). They are doing so to l...
states, "The nurse promotes, advocates for, and strives to protect the health, safety and rights of the patient" (Code of Ethics f...
risk factor, but is of less consequence among those diabetics who pay close attention to their blood sugar levels, test often and ...
objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and their wives,...
is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...
MEDMARX is thought to be the most comprehensive reporting of medication error information in the nation (Morantz & Torrey, 2003). ...
At the heart of nursing is the nurse-patient relationship, which provides the foundation for nursing care (Patusky, 2003). This r...
achieved that the critical care nurse may address the bio-psycho-social implications of the event (Alfafara and Hedges, 1996). Fur...
on the following (Nursingworld.org, 2004). * Human dignity * Commitment to the patient * Protection of the patients privacy and co...
MEANING AND CONCEPTS Jones & Krysa (1998) describe the three essential comfort interventions as listening (to...
a list of advantages for patients, which include: * Greater coordination of services leads to higher quality care for the patient ...
the word alone that Watsons ideology is based not just upon clinical actions but upon the implementation of emotional availability...
money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely would no...
patients life needs to change in response to the patients health care needs, then the nurse needs to be sensitive to that factor a...
accomplishing the task or objective rather than on people (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004). They make the policies and rules ...
the most frequently reported intervention classifications for NPs were patient education, drug management, nutrition support, risk...
the order be filled. They specified one minor change, however. That was that each of the condoms that were manufactured include ...
a process that assumes that a persons own subjective construction of reality is more accessible than anything else. The process o...
charted component of my daily patient interaction. However, to remind myself of the other responsibilities during busy per...
2003, p. 50). Comments went on to say that it is disheartening when they arent acknowledged in any way for the hard work they do (...
in those nursing homes that maintained adequate staffing, but beyond that, the administrative climate of the nursing home facility...
and the effect on the occupational arena. Both articles, however, emphasize that asthma takes a tremendous economic toll in the U...
associated with a considerable change in the traditional locus-of-control can be safely confronted, and professional practice can ...
the term public health nurses" (JWA - Lillian Wald, n.d.). The public health nurses at the turn of the 20th century visited...