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rely on "surrogate" decision-makers, family members capable of making treatment decisions on their behalf. As a result, this stud...

In Ten pages this paper discusses a child afflicted with ALL and a possible treatment plan that would provide successful patient a...

This research paper offers an overview of the role that institutional review board approval has in regards to ethics and nursing r...

the nursing homes as well as greater accountability. Accountability is achieved through the requirement for the nursing home to su...

therefore, not only an extensive history but it can be contended to be just as applicable in todays nursing practice as it was whe...

nursing shortage has meant for SNFs that they have fewer RNs available to them and that recruiting and retention has become more c...

care model is highly useful with the elderly and those recovering from surgery or illness. Self care is not an issue that enters ...

many people have these factors in common within their personal value sets, but I believe that the nurse possesses them in specific...

food, clean water and - most important for some people who did not survive - electricity to keep their life-sustaining equipment r...

ownership, because it once again acts as a preventive measure against accidents or injuries for the animals, damaged household ite...

that came from realizing that even though she had not spent time with elderly people since her own grandparents, she harbored grea...

"low-fidelity, moderate-fidelity, and high-fidelity" (Sportsman et al., 2009, p. 67). Low-fidelity are introductory, moderate-fide...

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

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

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...

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...

of the study by stating it explicitly: "The purpose of this study was to explore how undergraduate nursing students learn to care ...

the disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...

operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). This is broken down into three basic categories: 1) wholly compen...

a list of advantages for patients, which include: * Greater coordination of services leads to higher quality care for the patient ...

which both of those impacts are important. The question of what statistics should be collected in a medical facility, however, is...

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

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...

caring as the very definition of what constitutes personal values from a nursing perspective (2003). Koerner (1996), likewise, e...

moment to moment as the changing patterns of shifting perspectives weave the fabric of life through the human-universe interconnec...

is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...