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it is these issues of autonomy and personal rights that are concerned the sanctity of life is a secondary issue and cases such as ...
and patient. Orems theory is central to much of nursing philosophy and methodology. This theory is one of three theories...
issues of spirituality. In essence, the parish nurse has the ability to treat the whole patient, rather than only addressing symp...
to reduce pain remains controversial. A 2001 meta-analysis of 39 clinical studies found that marijuanas was no more effective in...
by practicing nurses in this area. Both of the authors also hold advanced degrees: one holds a Masters degree and teaches at a co...
The link between nurse caring and patient satisfaction has been reported numerous times. For instance, the AORN journal reported a...
analysis. Making use of a sample of 100 patients, the test group is made up of 60 depressed patients with reflex sympathetic dystr...
2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...
Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...
evaluating information (including assumptions and evidence) related to the issue, considering alternatives ... and drawing conclus...
much sugar remains in the blood and too little energy is transferred to other cells. The diabetic needs to take externally adminis...
provide the physician interface. Beyond these duties are the operational and administrative duties required in this type of facil...
there are those that are relevant to childrens protection as well, such as confidentiality. For example, during a recent visit tw...
"encouragement of facing probl4ems/fears, support of efforts to master problems/ears, affective experiencing/catharsis" (Coady 15)...
and Blood Institute, 2007). Zardi and colleagues (2008) referred to this procedure as the "gold standard" (p. 48) for assessing th...
patient, the attending nurse is seldom in the room at the same time. The attending physician may refer the patient to a cardiologi...
movement disorders, such as Parkinsons and dystonia. This procedure was initially developed in 1987 in France (Song, 2006). This a...
to base their arguments on more spiritual and ethereal ground, such as the idea that a persons life ends when God chooses to end i...
in place for some time, and none of the fears surrounding it have ever materialized (Seale, 2006). Research shows that 171 people ...
to take expensive prescription medications as prescribed. This acerbates medical conditions and results in increases in acuity lev...
paying salaries). Patients are going to generally go to hospitals where their doctors are - though when it comes to emergencies or...
motor vehicle crashes, substance abuse, and illegal behavior" (Visser, Lesesne and Perou, 2007, S99). Symptoms include irritabili...
classify medical errors (Pace et al., 2005). In fact, there are taxonomies to classify errors but they are not standardized (Pace ...
and Perou (2007) report that an estimated five to eighteen percent of youth in the US are diagnosed with ADHD and most receive so...
and theoretical Framework: The instrument designed for use in this study drew heavily upon the survey developed by Cole, et al, wh...
a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...
points out, medicalization is a process that defines a problem in terms of the practitioners perspective and cultural biases, rath...
the patient die (1975). Consider the case of a patient with terminal throat cancer, who is in terrible pain which cannot successfu...
there is very little information about predisposes people to these episodes (Swann, 2006). Therefore, for the most part, nursing a...
Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Tulsa. Linda W. Cardillo is a doctoral student in the School of Journali...