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in order so that it can be determined if all of the childs educational needs are being met. Aiding disabled children in reaching t...

classifies the stroke patients needs in four domains: 1) medical/surgical issues; 2) mental status/emotion/coping behaviors; 3) ph...

balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...

departments (Courson, 2004). It isnt that nurses have not been serving in these roles, they have but today, nurses receive speci...

activities" (Orems Self-Care Model Concepts) that patients need to undertake to meet their own health care needs on a routine basi...

trying times of their lives. Nurses have the capacity to improve lives. Nothing could be more meaningful or provide a greater sens...

These authors conducted a large study of 3,830 individuals consisting of 17.8 percent nurses, 21.8 percent physicians, 29.6 percen...

Developing New Nurse Leaders also considers the issue of shifts in leadership and governance, with a focus on the role of nurses a...

regards to lung function. If patients cannot breath on their own, RTs are trained on how to intubate patients and connect them to ...

runs $127 on average (Cummings, 2002). The goal of the ALF is to help senior citizens maintain as much independence as possible wi...

the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

on an evidenced based evidence based practice and the development of increased individual accountability in the area of clinical g...

learned long ago the value of yet another Deming (1986) exhortation, that of continuous improvement. By definition, the concept i...

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...

make a real difference. In helping professions, such leadership is desirable. The health care industry today is fraught with probl...

the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...

making a critical separation between their medical and social responsibilities within the short time allowed in an office visit. ...

cosmic forces: they comprise the primal and universal psychic energy yet are overlooked * We have to treat our "self" with gentlen...

goes way beyond the paradigm of nursing as simply a "handmaiden" to physicians. The nursing professional is required to know virtu...

that caring is good. Some nurses might object to allowing themselves the luxury because it makes them vulnerable, but in some prof...

in the heart and nervous system, or in some cases, death (WHO, 1996). While health promotion relating to STDs may be a global mis...

The non-technical interpretation of the results of a study is presented and assessed in the Discussion section. The Introduction ...

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...

This is significant to nursing because nurses have to learn to insert and remove the catheter from the patient which is sometimes ...

indwelling foley and compression boot. Her dressing is dry and intact. She was discharged with Percocet 5mg q6. Analysis and Out...

grounds that it is not caring at all but rather reduces the patient to a process component that needs medical attention. While tr...

and more nurses are standing at the front lines of managed care, acting somewhat as liaison between the patient and managed care o...

and two other men beside her patient, she becomes drawn to the patient, though not in a romantic way. She devotes nearly her entir...