YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Changing Image in the Nursing Profession
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Not only are the direct health impacts to the nurse deleterious, impaired nurses cannot meet their responsibility to provide top q...
who is the legal guardian, as this pertains to the legality of admitting a minor for psychiatric care. If the patient is accompani...
their profession to be their career and it definitely requires career-long continuous professional development. Why then, does a...
including critical attributes, communication processes, and the overall benefits of school-based support groups in addressing the ...
a video that presents the patients symptoms and are presented with the question "What is the most likely differential diagnosis ba...
and antibiotics" (Ersek, 2005, p. 48). Upon first glance, it would appear that euthanasia is an application that is in direct con...
degree (CBS News). Where 4.1 percent of new female nurses leave the profession after four years, 7.5 percent of new male nurses lo...
in 2000, allowing a long comment period before the final rule was issued in February 2003. Five rules were published in 199...
preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...
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...
and safety" (ANA, 2005). After all, if a nurse does not take steps to preserve her or his own safety, the nurse cannot adequately ...
change, understand the reasons for this change and hare a vision of the future" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). The catch is that these g...
the extent to which terminally ill individuals can be alleviated of languishing in such an inhumane state without involvement of l...
the risk of medical errors, such as dispensing the wrong medication or the wrong dose (Nursing overtime, 2004). The study, which w...
Leaders create the future rather than simply become its victims (Kerfoot, 1998). They are generally thinking several months ahead,...
19th and early 20th centuries. Hughes and Romeo (1999) question the usefulness of education that does not address the growing div...
the religious fervor generated by the teachings of "love and mercy" by Jesus Christ resulted in a dramatic increase in charitable ...
first started to administer to the injured and the sick, the notion that nurses should be women has prevailed (Odendaul, 2004). T...
act as integral members of healthcare teams, provide direct and indirect patient care, and address central issues for patients, in...
just need a positive touch from another human being. The student investigating the relationship of nursing contribution to patien...
for protocol and for adhering to standard practice. There are many aspects of the job for which the nurse is best suited to addre...
money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely would no...
not unusual given that there is a common perception that the higher a persons educational attainment the greater level of employme...
parameters of his perspective and goals, and, specifically, refers to the unique orientation of nursing. "Nurses encounter patient...
interactions with their patients and with each other have. Kurt Lewins change theory holds that change is incremental. It occurs...
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 (...
are often called upon to provide comfort where there seems to be none, patience in the face of adversity, and grace under fire. Th...
caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...
MEDMARX is thought to be the most comprehensive reporting of medication error information in the nation (Morantz & Torrey, 2003). ...