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McKenna (1997) points out that mid-range nursing theories tend to focus on concepts of interest to nurses. This can encompass pati...
in decision making (Thomas Group, 2004). The leadership team appointed a steering committee to develop a plan for empowering nur...
and case management. Maras shares the leadership of the nursing department with another individual at the VP level, L. McChesney....
disappear and remain at bay for a long while. The symptoms that the patient exhibits as well as physical examination are consiste...
health of the individual and to their success in recuperation. The Association for Spirit at Work is comprised of medical profess...
that make use of color, but even these efforts have not typically met with good response by patients or hospital administrators (S...
in higher costs and reduced perceived quality of care. Hypotheses The purpose of the proposed study is to determine the eff...
and was told not to consider having children for fear of passing on defective genes (Sheldon, 1997; p. 34). This occurred d...
chemistry and another in biochemistry. I recognized the wonder of chemistry, but what I failed to recognize at the time was the s...
rheumatoid arthritis with the need to fortify ones mental and emotional status in order to deal with the chronic systemic illness....
even through government agencies (Visiting Nurse Association-Omaha/Southeast Nebraska, 2002). Various programs and services are sp...
The result is that "Suddenly there is great interest in how men and women talk to each other" (Woodard and House, 1997; p. 39), no...
Washington Medical Center, Seattle, and a clinical instructor, bio behavioral nursing and health systems, at the University of Was...
a nurses role as a change agent in data base management. Fonville, Killian, and Tranbarger (1998) note that successful nurses of ...
to physicians. Increasingly, "evidence-based guidelines are becoming codes of medical practice" (Healy, 2005; p. 54). Superficia...
over their blood glucose levels; and (3) encouraging continuous improvement in nursing knowledge and patient education. The progr...
balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...
train sufficient numbers of new nurses. Turnover is high among those who remain in the profession, and those so dissatisfied - an...
preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...
also as a result of the environment in which they are cared for, where smoking is banned. Teaching patients may be seen as a funct...
was perceived as merely the "handmaiden" of medicine, that is, a service that was there to facilitate the practice of the physicia...
rather than requiring patient transfer to ICU. This plan is consistent with the principles of planned change in that it focuses o...
have had ethical reservations about taking a patient off of life support, but she did not add to Lynns burden by interfering with ...
departments (Courson, 2004). It isnt that nurses have not been serving in these roles, they have but today, nurses receive speci...
only one group, no control group. Group exposed to treatment and then measure (Creswell, 2003). Measured participants blood gluco...
transformative perspective because Newman argues that rather than being diametrically opposed, disease and health are merely facto...
the disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...
Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...
suggestions for future action in regards to this problem. Section A: Problem identification The Problem and its importance The G...
which resulted in 47 practices taking part and two of these having two patients. The sample : 98 (75 male) consecutive patients w...