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the plan may be objective where the actual healing can be measured or it may be subjective according to what the patient says (Dup...

quality of the provided care (ANA, 2008). Empirical research studies have confirmed that the risk for medical error increase subst...

precisely the same as for other patients. Legal responsibility for care decisions in cases where there is a living will: does the...

awareness of the self within the context of the environment grows in association with each other in a manner that allows the indiv...

the case study, is important for planning a safe and effective rehabilitation program (Craven and Hirnle, 2007). People who experi...

discourse that I find confusing. Philosophy has often struck me as an amorphous subject. Its slippery and refuses to be categoriz...

First seen as an occasional point of minor and temporary discomfort, there seemed to be other, more "important" issues to assess. ...

p. 29), as stated in its title. Mean age was 81; 218 participants completed the study. The researchers evaluated the differences...

nature have cropped up. Is a 60 year old woman too old to raise children? Is it ethical for a woman to carry her own grandchildren...

reasons given by nursing staff for not providing this care (Kalisch, 2006, p. 306). At the end of the study article, in the "Di...

also occupied a role or part in the setting, reflecting how participant observation is both extensive and intuitive by nature. In...

2005, p. 4). She incorporated the environment into the theory along with numerous other factors and variables, all of which would ...

(Bliss-Holtz, Winter and Scherer, 2004). In hospitals that have achieved magnet status, nurses routinely collect, analyze and us...

to others, at least not as frequently as would seem reasonable if they liked it as well as the general public does. The reason mo...

the insertion of a central line, threaded through a vein, and it was once believed that it would aid cancer patients, restoring ap...

paying salaries). Patients are going to generally go to hospitals where their doctors are - though when it comes to emergencies or...

wages and benefits to its nurses that are competitive for its market or that have been collectively bargained with a labor organiz...

such as "human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus" (Shelton and Rosenthal, 2004, p. 25). The gr...

(Tomey and Alligood, 2006, p. 645). Meaning There are two major assumptions upon which Reeds theoretical conclusions are based. ...

a "collaborative quality improvement project" that focuses on PUs in nursing homes as its primary focus (Lynn, et al, 2007). QIOs,...

researchers (JBI, 2008). This section of the site also addresses the topic of "Research Training" and the availability of scholars...

unitary human beings (Newman). This theory is appealing because it acknowledges how each person is unique and, therefore, must be ...

Furthermore they state that is a strategic approach which relates to all aspects of an organization within the context the culture...

significantly as ethnicity and can encompass many different forms of beliefs. Spirituality plays a major role in how individuals...

While only 6 percent of newborns require advanced life support in 1997, the rise in the number of neonates since that time weighin...

to reach the disease" (Colwell; 2). The author also examines aspects of surgical treatment, indicating that a particular type of s...

ratio, the mortality rates are 44 percent lower (Degree-level nurses, 2005). Substantiating this research, a Canadian study cond...

Johns Hopkins University and member of the IOM research team that authored the report, said that "fatigue was a major cause of mis...

of hospital environments is driving many nurses away from hospital nursing and some are leaving the profession entirely. In 2000, ...

and specific therapy" (Newswanger and Warren, 2004, p. 2405). As patients advance through the acute phase of the illness, supporti...