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(Link and Tanner, 2001). Research has found that some clients may be suffering from myocardial infarction (MI) even when they have...

Understanding that there is a step by step progression, both physically and psychologically, can be part of the nurses role in thi...

establish policy guidelines. In the administration of medication, "processes have been virtually ignored in the search for EBP" (...

that MCOs develop their capacity to handle changes that are driven legislatively by congressional response to public reactions to ...

how change can be effectively managed and challenges in the transformation of nursing and health care delivery. Clearly, Roys mod...

and with others interacting with the patient. Mezirow (1991) promotes the use of critical reflection in building new knowle...

criminal and social repercussions, creating a punitive response to alcoholism that can impact the views of service providers. Cha...

Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...

and statistics. This approach works well for in physics and math, but less well when applied to people. Moloney (2002) offers thre...

already has been diagnosed as having some form of heart disease. In that sense, primary prevention is not possible. The goals of...

undergoes surgery for a hip arthroplasty 24 hours after admission. Twenty-four hours after surgery the nurses note that Mrs. Gale...

risk factor, but is of less consequence among those diabetics who pay close attention to their blood sugar levels, test often and ...

the elderly. The Nurse Practitioner announced in its July 2000 issue that reports of the AMAs petition had been received as...

caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...

experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...

objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and their wives,...

is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...

MEDMARX is thought to be the most comprehensive reporting of medication error information in the nation (Morantz & Torrey, 2003). ...

At the heart of nursing is the nurse-patient relationship, which provides the foundation for nursing care (Patusky, 2003). This r...

achieved that the critical care nurse may address the bio-psycho-social implications of the event (Alfafara and Hedges, 1996). Fur...

reveal a steady growth in the number of nurses joining unions due to discontent" (Blankenheim 2001, p. 13). They are doing so to l...

Bell (2000) reports that when an Australian hospital instituted shared governance, nurse managers responded "by developing a teamw...

cross to bear and they would be shamed to bring it to someone else. The healthcare worker must not attempt to alter the patients r...

(called IgE) (ONeill, 1990). This then sticks to other cells such as the mast cells or the basophils, this is a chain reaction as ...

the medical team with which these patients have surrounded themselves. It is the patients responsibility to cooperate and do ever...

completing the ranges of study required to attain the licensing level each holds. Aides are not licensed individuals and may or m...

significant changes to the existing system but have not yet covered too much ground where modifications are concerned. This is pa...

routine activities necessary to their own care. The purpose is that with a nurses direction, encouragement and initial supervisio...

within the academic curriculum (Thomson, 2003). Therefore, this one are of research demonstrates how nursing research impacts many...

the same sort of indirect methods that they have advocated will aid the economy. For example, the Republicans are pursuing putting...