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continues to battle against the ongoing nursing shortage. Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that ...

followers must abide by the same doctrines. Post-modernisms discursive system was a reaction to and critique of modernism, with p...

God" (Hippocratic Oath, 2001). It seems to me that the wording leads the young physician directly into the trap he hopes to avoid...

of standards with sets of criteria that must achieved. Standards related to information management span the operations of the orga...

which resulted in 47 practices taking part and two of these having two patients. The sample : 98 (75 male) consecutive patients w...

to nonadherence to medication in the mentally ill elderly is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connot...

Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...

and needs to be carefully monitored, and the water filled blankets may be effective if used above and below the patient by they ar...

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

Over twice as many people have been infected with HIV than was initially projected; over 42 million people have been infected sinc...

are licensed individuals who go through at least one year of formal education in addition to clinical instruction, and the focus o...

after which he began drinking again. After this, the patient demonstrated a desire to poison himself, and this resulted in his ow...

to identify and to relate in terms of actual patient care. Ida Jean Orlando created a conceptual view of the nursing process whic...

authors isolated the following recurring elements, in order of their statistical appearance in the definitions [1]: Violence, forc...

Mr. Schiavo finally was allowed the right to have his wifes feeding tube removed, the right to allow her to die of lack of nutrien...

what is tantamount to a death sentence, because of the "uncertain definition of suicide in the context of a terminal illness" (Mar...

Crystalloids and colloids are coming into use for trauma cases where fluids are being used for resuscitation. This paper gives a g...

of revenues, and it is likely lower. Allowing 35 percent food cost, however, the cost of operations including labor should not ex...

evaluating information (including assumptions and evidence) related to the issue, considering alternatives ... and drawing conclus...

Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...

2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...

desire to increase revenue to allow further development and facilitate increased benefits to the users. The errors may not be as s...

The link between nurse caring and patient satisfaction has been reported numerous times. For instance, the AORN journal reported a...

analysis. Making use of a sample of 100 patients, the test group is made up of 60 depressed patients with reflex sympathetic dystr...

the elderly. The Nurse Practitioner announced in its July 2000 issue that reports of the AMAs petition had been received as...

caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...

in groups created by the reciprocal model and attention is given to both ideas and feelings (1990). The needs of the group members...

how change can be effectively managed and challenges in the transformation of nursing and health care delivery. Clearly, Roys mod...

any love relationship can be hurtful enters the picture. With this rationale, one can see that to have an affair with an ex-patien...

and eventually all cognitive function for the person inflicted with the disease (Lemonick and Park-Mankato, 2001). While the spec...