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homes. Rather, it is a high-quality facility dedicated to providing the best of care to its residents. Staff members are employe...

an advanced practice nurse. The benefits that a nurse midwife can bring to a first-time mother include information that the mothe...

of the site is that it connects to numerous opportunities for continuing education and there is a page dedicated to this purpose. ...

implementing the treatment regimen. 5. collaborating with other health care providers in determining the appropriate health care f...

results from alcohol or drug misuse and which interferes with professional judgment and the delivery of safe, high quality care" (...

have otherwise been a lingering existence in private homes or disreputable hospitals. Inasmuch as the nurse is "temporarily the c...

the same manner, however, this dressing is intended to stay moist until removal; however, this may become a wet-to-dry dressing in...

being more capable of acting proactively and preventively. The philosophy of nursing is something much grander and more complex t...

A pertinent issue to foreign nurse recruitment, as a method for alleviating the shortage of nurses in US hospitals, is the number ...

when nurses are needed the most, which is when we are ill (line 12). This is when "Nurses come through, with their care and goodwi...

practitioner surgeries are run by practice nurses, only making referrals to other members of the healthcare team when required, Th...

therapeutic manner (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). This relationship may refer to a single individual, or the "person" may be a sma...

Effective community nursing demands a familiarity with the culture, subculture, and/or socioeconomic group being attended....

recognized categories for APNs within this state (TBoN, 2006). The scope of practice for Tennessee APNs includes the legal abili...

care system. In 2004, Dr. David Brailer, pursuant to an presidential executive order, announced the Strategic Plan for Health Inf...

emotional (limbic) memories are affected, and the last group of memories to be affected as the "motor or more reptilian memories,"...

for my patients. Personal philosophy of nursing: Tourville and Ingalls (2003) offer a fascinating and very apt analogy to descri...

to individuals connected by a blood tie. However, to be a "family," members must "live in close contact, care for one another, an...

reality of the profession. It needs a makeover much as it had in the 19th century in Brittan when nursing reformers struggled to h...

This essay includes three sections. The fist section reflects on tempered change strategies as described in a journal article. The...

noted that cases of a rare lung infection, pneumocystis carinni pneumonia, had occurred in Los Angeles and also that three young m...

(Green, 2004a). A travel nurse, on the other hand, is typically contracted to work a 13-week period, and this usually includes an ...

agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...

in resistant strains of bacteria (Plonczynski, 2005). This situation suggests that changes in antibiotic prophylactic procedures ...

predicting mortality and morbidity. Authors provide a section to explain and explore the existence of natriuretic peptides. Anoth...

particular condition because he at least is aware of his condition. About one-half of those with this disease are not as fortunat...

there is no cure either for Alzheimers disease or the various forms of dementia on the horizon, healthcare practitioners should "i...

an obstruction of the airway and can involved any or all of the following factors: "smooth muscle bronchoconstriction, mucous secr...

when we were given a $60.00 increase. Such a small increase didnt make up for the increases in gas, light and water, all of which...

system," since the institution of mandated nursing ratios, and also that data shows California hospitals have not only been able t...