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preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...
balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...
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...
train sufficient numbers of new nurses. Turnover is high among those who remain in the profession, and those so dissatisfied - an...
a nurses role as a change agent in data base management. Fonville, Killian, and Tranbarger (1998) note that successful nurses of ...
is a very important consideration in nursing. Indeed, some four thousand of so documents were published annually about pain in th...
and allows the receiver to observe non-verbal cues as to the messages meaning. Feedback "reports back to the sender that the recei...
be more enlightening and convey a more precise meaning than an extended descriptive passage. At this point, the student researchin...
their own condition. Judkins and Ingram (2002) designed a self-paced learning module in order to determine whether knowledge relat...
"significant anxiety, particularly before they discover the most effective symptom management" (Moloney, et al, 2001, p. 19). In o...
which resulted in 47 practices taking part and two of these having two patients. The sample : 98 (75 male) consecutive patients w...
In five pages this research paper takes a nursing perspecitve regarding the elderly's physical changes and increased dependence th...
The ANCI Competency Unit 4 demands that nurses accept accountability and responsibility for their actions in nursing. To do so we...
greater demand on health care services as more of them cross that line from employed to retired. Projections are just that,...
on an evidenced based evidence based practice and the development of increased individual accountability in the area of clinical g...
and safety" (ANA, 2005). After all, if a nurse does not take steps to preserve her or his own safety, the nurse cannot adequately ...
the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...
considering this economic downturn, the numbers of undergraduates pursuing nursing careers began to also decline. In 1991, Canada ...
learned long ago the value of yet another Deming (1986) exhortation, that of continuous improvement. By definition, the concept i...
Working for the well-staffed working environment in itself is no small task, given the fact of the ongoing nursing shortage. The ...
reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...
the basic paradigms of nursing professional theory are considered within a social context. For example, health is defined as a "dy...
the disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...
suggestions for future action in regards to this problem. Section A: Problem identification The Problem and its importance The G...
Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...
In ten pages this research paper discusses nursing educational intervention regarding information about secondhand smoke's dangers...
In five pages this paper discusses the holistic nursing model and the role played by Jean Watson in its development. Four sources...
In twelve pages this paper discusses how the nursing profession's health care workers can benefit from the educational theories of...
In three pages this paper discusses how the nursing profession was impacted by Virginia Henderson's many contributions. Four sour...