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regards to lung function. If patients cannot breath on their own, RTs are trained on how to intubate patients and connect them to ...
ability has improved considerably, inasmuch as the decisions I now make are more analytical and based upon a broader and more dive...
education for nurses in the US followed the model established by modern nursings founder Florence Nightingale (Fitzpatrick 63). Th...
all areas of professional nursing. Provisions 1 through 3 address the principal obligations of nursing, which are to the patient/c...
p. 1). Multi-infarct dementia (MID) is caused by a series of strokes, which are frequently small (MID, n.d.). Patients with MID ...
change, understand the reasons for this change and hare a vision of the future" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). The catch is that these g...
take to the streets rather than cope with abuse, violence or parental drug addiction. Also, as indicated above in regards to alcoh...
Kolatkar, 2005). For instance, a lack of exercise and obesity are believed to contribute to diabetes (American Diabetes Associatio...
ventilation. This included placing hip pads with egg crate foam under the patients iliac crest to prevent hyperextension of the lo...
much closer look at the unwise choice to allow HIV-positive nurses to continue their practice. Britain provides statistics that i...
which means that the homeless population in Vancouver encompasses roughly 1800 people (The Americas, 2004). They are virtually all...
characteristics of metal disorders may include abnormalities in cognition, mood or emotions; it may include abnormalities in integ...
the nGMS as an assessment instrument. This computer program provides a check list that the nurse can use to cover all pertinent in...
parents of children with cancer regarding the needs of siblings and on the support that was offered by hospital staff. The results...
often a factor in nurse/doctor communication. Nurses can bring power to nurse/doctor interchange by harnessing the power of lang...
and in 2001 unofficially took over daily operations of Johnson & Johnson as he was being trained to succeed Ralph Larsen upon his ...
The reason is that the hospital has been unsuccessful in recruiting an adequate number of qualified nurses. Ultimately, the blame...
Beginning in the early 1990s, managed care targeted nursing as an expenditure where hospitals could cut costs. Managed care consul...
absence of disease and infirmity" ("Definitions of Health and Fitness," 2006). Health promotion, on the other hand, " is the combi...
a strategic factor in a broader movement toward social transformation that stresses social equity (Downey 249). This transformatio...
that is, whether it will spread (metastasize) and what symptoms that it is likely to cause (Cancer diagnosis, 2005). The term "sec...
the needs of the dying and her work indicates that there are times when the most meaningful communication that a nurse can offer i...
of ear infection (Chronic otitis media, 2003). OM is a serious childhood illness because, if not properly treated, it can lead to ...
act as integral members of healthcare teams, provide direct and indirect patient care, and address central issues for patients, in...
in 1999 alone "returned almost $500 million to the federal government." (Butler, 2000, 1). The first question to consider...
face and chest that it causes, and it is characterized by chills, fever, headache, vomiting, rapid pulse, red rash and an inflame...
first started to administer to the injured and the sick, the notion that nurses should be women has prevailed (Odendaul, 2004). T...
issues pertaining to focus group interview with regard to access, ethical issues, power and relevance (Benner, 1991; Morse, 1994; ...
after the exposure to the initiating traumatic event (Stein, 2002). If PTSD-like symptoms become evidence and are intense prior to...
for registered nurses by 2010 (Feeg 8). While statistics such as these have received a great deal of press, what is less well kno...