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Essays 121 - 150
established that nurses are often involved in the "timely identification of complications," which, if acted upon swiftly, prevent ...
noted that cases of a rare lung infection, pneumocystis carinni pneumonia, had occurred in Los Angeles and also that three young m...
A pertinent issue to foreign nurse recruitment, as a method for alleviating the shortage of nurses in US hospitals, is the number ...
have otherwise been a lingering existence in private homes or disreputable hospitals. Inasmuch as the nurse is "temporarily the c...
practitioner surgeries are run by practice nurses, only making referrals to other members of the healthcare team when required, Th...
all areas of professional nursing. Provisions 1 through 3 address the principal obligations of nursing, which are to the patient/c...
draw on the fundamental concepts espoused by the metaparadigms. Nevertheless, each branch of nursing theory approaches the subjec...
have had ethical reservations about taking a patient off of life support, but she did not add to Lynns burden by interfering with ...
who choose to use qualitative methods tend to seek a deeper reality, inasmuch as their aim is to "study things in their natural se...
This research paper offers an overview of the role that institutional review board approval has in regards to ethics and nursing r...
a decision of having to decide on the basis of what is best for all concerned rather than what the patients family might think tha...
those that do not receive another. Nurses, however, (and rightfully so) are expected to perform their duties irrespective of such...
states, "The nurse promotes, advocates for, and strives to protect the health, safety and rights of the patient" (Code of Ethics f...
In four pages this paper examines the ethics of withholding treatment in the form of hydration and nutrition from patients who are...
to focus more upon running smooth production rather than customer needs. By skewing the focus in this way, health care organizati...
who consistently place the needs of others above their own. The individuals who do this seemingly so naturally often can be diffi...
In nine pages executive nursing is examined in a discussion of their many concerns regarding the industry itself, patient care, an...
In five pages this paper discusses the ethics and expenses involved in nurses serving as medical missionaries. Seven sources are ...
In sixteen pages this paper discusses withdrawal of life support from a perspective of nursing ethics. Twelve sources are cited i...
the team to make a decision. The advantage of the casuistry approach to ethical decisions is that the team finds some sort of co...
It also is clear that readily accessible primary care services are essential to achieving effective health care reform. The World ...
This research paper is written as a journal account that records the response of the writer, who has been assigned to handle a hos...
Issues pertinent to these five elements include conceptual framework, scope of practice, policy implications and support of social...
quality of a patients life, (4) implementing managed care policies that threaten quality of care, and (5) working with unethical/i...
and one must wonder - Why? This article suggested the reasons have to do with physician fears of having a malpractice lawsuit file...
and how discharge instructions should cover these contingencies. "Health" has historically been used to describe the "absence of d...
owes the same duties of care to herself or himself as is owed to patients. A nurse cannot adequately attend to patients if that nu...
precisely the same as for other patients. Legal responsibility for care decisions in cases where there is a living will: does the...
military personnel and other non-combatants. While McConnell was seeing her charges safely to Japan, General Douglas MacArthur was...
to physicians. Increasingly, "evidence-based guidelines are becoming codes of medical practice" (Healy, 2005; p. 54). Superficia...