SEARCH RESULTS

nurses facilitate the "recognition and communication" of these concepts, permitting "thoughts to be shared through language" (Davi...

actions. It has been over a decade since the passage of the American with Disabilities Act (ADA), which means that the 5 and 10 ye...

of abilities that serve to engage, relieve, understand and respect the patient. The extent to which reaching for their feelings i...

hospital stays (Cole and Soucy, 2003). While all ICU patients have serious and potentially life-threatening conditions, those ov...

"become a universal law" (Kant, 1993, p. 30). In other words, Kants main criteria for action is that the individual should conside...

stress, which causes fluctuating levels of neuro-endocrine responses (Taylor, Repetti and Seeman, 1997). To understand this concep...

care service has been the focus of greater scrutiny. Willging (2004) asks: "Just what is assisted living? There are still too ma...

(in English) between the years 1989 and 2004. The extent of the literature review appears to be sufficient to support the research...

how to achieve restorative health within an environment of compassion, benevolence and intuitiveness. Indeed, the fundamental bas...

not as drugs, which means that these remedies do not undergo the rigorous testing that is required for prescription medicines (He...

this development and left orders for both analgesia and sedation, which helped at first, but became less effective as the hours pa...

the environment" (Reynolds and Cormack, 1991, p. 1123). Within this main system are eight subsystems: the "ingestive, eliminative,...

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

relations. Nurses must assess person and environment in relation to their impact on health. Both person and environment can vary...

Social Services they have complained that that funding is insufficient to provide for even their most basic dietary needs. Part o...

avoidance, such as creating a buddy system, which pairs elderly neighbors with each other. Buddies check on one another and accomp...

On further examination, the cause of death is determined to be smallpox. As the World Health Organization (WHO) completely eradica...

Based on their results, the authors suggested nurse educators add more critical thinking exercises to their classroom curriculum. ...

indicate the patients readiness for growth and movement" (Marchese, 2006, p. 364). Phase 1, orientation, describes the patient and...

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

the listeners would occasional offer comments and observations, to which the rabbi would generally respond. Occasionally, this pro...

systems. The following examination of the problem of medication errors focuses on the context of mental health nursing within the ...

motor vehicle crashes, substance abuse, and illegal behavior" (Visser, Lesesne and Perou, 2007, S99). Symptoms include irritabili...

and Perou (2007) report that an estimated five to eighteen percent of youth in the US are diagnosed with ADHD and most receive so...

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...

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

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...