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have access to a range of drugs. Bennett (et al, 2000) argues that the overall rate of substance abuse in the nursing popualtion r...

2004). As errors are inevitable, in order to significantly reduce the rate at which they occur, it is imperative that mistakes sho...

system," since the institution of mandated nursing ratios, and also that data shows California hospitals have not only been able t...

cardiac monitor, a seizure, drug reaction or other sign of a critical condition...(They) are expected to fill out reports" that we...

events (Owen, 2007). This action includes "presentation of antigen by dendritic cells" as well as the "degranulation of mast cells...

Nursing (Webber, 2007). However, this is not a long-term solution. The long-term solution to achieving an adequate nursing force f...

and three stores," which served as "stock rooms, milk stations, clinics," etc. (Lillian Wald). Roughly 3,000 people typically were...

(Cardozo, 2003, p. S35). Within a few hours of being admitted to the ICU, Jacks condition was evaluated using the Waterlow risk as...

a nurse to determine which elderly patients are being abused because a sense of shame or a desire to protect the family member who...

Roughly 50 percent of the current working nursing population will retire within the next 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). Adding...

a summation of how addiction occurs. They then address the scope of the problem, which relates the issue under investigation dir...

completing the ranges of study required to attain the licensing level each holds. Aides are not licensed individuals and may or m...

(2005), in which samples of patients or patients families were enrolled. In a study in which the sample participants had lost a lo...

"infertility, cardiovascular health, oncology, geriatrics, endocrinology, uro-gynecology, bone health and high-risk pregnancy" (Ke...

(CNY, 2007). Talk to an informant; problems and strengths : Naturally this writer/tutor was not in a position to find an inform...

this condition. If the student does not have asthma, the student may feel motivated to help this population because of he/she rea...

be here to stay. It is something that is necessary in order to secure a job most of the time. And for every job, there are a numbe...

McAndrew, 2006). With communication skills there are includes skills of listening as well as tact as essential to facilitate effec...

be immensely helpful in gaining insight into the specific issues involved and subsequent perspective on what course of action to t...

to a patient over the phone and trying to convey the urgency of that patient coming in for a consultation. The patient resists, so...

were contributing to the "toxic" work environment, which characterized this CSDU, as there was "evidence of a lack of meaningful c...

Not only are the direct health impacts to the nurse deleterious, impaired nurses cannot meet their responsibility to provide top q...

assisting registered nurses (RNs) in order to meet legislated requirements (Schaefer 9). This means that while RNs have fewer pati...

(Webber). This does sound extremely similar to the way in which the AACN defines the CNL role. In some hospitals, nurse practiti...

"chronic, heavy drinking" (Enoch and Goldman, 2002, p. 192). According to government standards, a woman is at-risk for heavy drink...

discuss and name the various methods for preventing the transmissions of STIs; and also, they will demonstrate ability to resist p...

in a laboratory situation (Licking, 1998; Brownlee and Schrof, 1998). Many of these cells, in fact, have the capability of develo...

one else to do them and she saw a need (Krain, 2002). "She recruited another nurse and began working out of a fifth floor apartmen...

announcing that shes "fine" and then another year or two will pass before the next outburst of psychosis. There is resignation an...

theorist Jean Watson, who developed her Theory of Human Caring in the late 1970s. As a result of Watsons efforts to bring greater...