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Emergency rooms are, at least in many cases, the primary health care provider to the underinsured and uninsured patient (Isenstein...

and empowerment must be mutually exclusive. Falk (1995) describes empowerment as a more contemporary concept than advocacy, and...

In nine pages this paper examines causes, symptoms, and results of patient stress in a nursing overview that includes the servant ...

In five pages a 2001 article by Sarah Jo Brown on the relationship between patient outcomes and nurse staffing according to a stud...

laboratory specialists to obtain the appropriate level of anticoagulation independent of related laboratory reagents. Because the...

quality of a patients life, (4) implementing managed care policies that threaten quality of care, and (5) working with unethical/i...

In a paper consisting of six pages the argument is presented that nurses should be paid not on their level of education but rather...

insight regarding the details of their normal everyday life and health concerns. Boutain sets the stage by reporting that one in...

the condition. More frequently it is the healthcare system which is both exposed to the condition and thus responsible for detect...

current literature, which includes existing nursing journals and the WEB sites conducted by the American Association of Nurses and...

on a global scale. Therefore, for nurses to succeed in the complex world of the twenty-first century, many authorities feel th...

"Many changes in health care yesterday, have major unforeseen consequences today. While it is easy to predict results with the be...

Issues pertinent to these five elements include conceptual framework, scope of practice, policy implications and support of social...

of happiness, contentment or relief, or something above ordinary existence. The patient should do more than subsist. 4. Care shoul...

who choose to use qualitative methods tend to seek a deeper reality, inasmuch as their aim is to "study things in their natural se...

That freedom and responsibility can improve the nursing home experience for all involved. Definition and Clarification...

the restrained person and others. This implies that the force used in restraining the person is less injurious to all concerned th...

and sustaining without yielding, they contend that bearing is a reaction which is more passive than coping but an activity which p...

effective leader was his ability to build bridges between communities, between upper and lower caste Hindus and among Hindus, Musl...

patient care" (p. 438). Prior to 1970, nursing training in the UK could be described as rigid and highly structured. After...

Primary Care Act, a feature of both practices is that the patients have the option of seeing a GP or a NP as their first point of ...

their wishes for the patients care. Every nursing home resident has a right to such a plan by law (Stern), and it does not only p...

call for compliance with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to su...

deal of pain likely will occur during the first 24 hours after surgery (Drakeford, Pettine, Brookshire and Ebert, 1991). Preventi...

In five pages this paper discusses these important theories of nursing in an examination of their basic principles. Eight sources...

In seven pages this paper discusses juvenile diabetes in a consideration of the role of nursing intervention in monitoring and tre...

In eight pages this research paper discusses the healing art from a nursing perspective. Eight sources are cited in the bibliogra...

In five pages the effects of various health care practices and trends upon the nursing field are examined. Five sources are cited...

nursing home chains. As a result, there have been a number of highly publicized defaults such as that of Integrated Health Service...

In eight pages this paper examines the skills that are necessary for nurse to exert effective leadership. Seven sources are cited...