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balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...

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 ...

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...

p. 1). Multi-infarct dementia (MID) is caused by a series of strokes, which are frequently small (MID, n.d.). Patients with MID ...

and three stores," which served as "stock rooms, milk stations, clinics," etc. (Lillian Wald). Roughly 3,000 people typically were...

(Cardozo, 2003, p. S35). Within a few hours of being admitted to the ICU, Jacks condition was evaluated using the Waterlow risk as...

Roughly 50 percent of the current working nursing population will retire within the next 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). Adding...

A 7 page client profile that discusses nursing care for an elderly client with degenerative brain disease and offers a research su...

have "little or no training in fundamental management skills" (Baer, 2006, p. 60). As well as absenteeism, problems with managemen...

a nurse to determine which elderly patients are being abused because a sense of shame or a desire to protect the family member who...

one else to do them and she saw a need (Krain, 2002). "She recruited another nurse and began working out of a fifth floor apartmen...

?19a-490, Connecticut Department of Public Health Code ?19-13-D105 and Residential care homes ?19-13-D-6 (National Academy for Sta...

announcing that shes "fine" and then another year or two will pass before the next outburst of psychosis. There is resignation an...

theorist Jean Watson, who developed her Theory of Human Caring in the late 1970s. As a result of Watsons efforts to bring greater...

by trying things out)...reflective learners (learn by thinking things through, working alone) 5. sequential learners (linear, orde...

in a laboratory situation (Licking, 1998; Brownlee and Schrof, 1998). Many of these cells, in fact, have the capability of develo...

inpatient facility (Entry-Level). There are advantages and disadvantages to having three entry levels into nursing. An advantage...

individual, the eight values of the CNA Code provide a framework for guidance regarding nursing behavior. The Code states that the...

left to deny anything connected with the loss, either before or after the fact. Those left behind also need to acknowledge the me...

feel lethargic, further disinclining the individual to exercise, which escalates the problem. In regards to population, all age gr...

In 2001, health care spending as a percentage of GDP was 14.1 percent, or $5,035 per capita (Levit, Smith, Cowan, Lazenby, Senseni...

also a former student of Vivians is now in the rather awkward position of also being one of her doctors, as he is an intern and re...

indicates, restraint places health practitioners between the proverbial rock and a hard place. However, there are practice standar...

this aspect. Before 1939, the Canadian military women would serve as nurses during the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 as well as in t...

the research, which includes finding a definitive measure for the health status of the homeless. This is a reasoned, extensive rev...

individual is walking, the thorax rotates in "clockwise and counter-clockwise directions," which are "opposite the pelvic rotation...

of the study by stating it explicitly: "The purpose of this study was to explore how undergraduate nursing students learn to care ...

be discussed relative to both previous research and the studies that have come after it. This research tends to substantiate the s...