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and two other men beside her patient, she becomes drawn to the patient, though not in a romantic way. She devotes nearly her entir...

the patient prior to his death. The nurse clearly felt the need to encourage the family to stay and spend as much time as possibl...

that make use of color, but even these efforts have not typically met with good response by patients or hospital administrators (S...

and more nurses are standing at the front lines of managed care, acting somewhat as liaison between the patient and managed care o...

placement of polyvinyl alcohol sponges into subcutaneous pockets" (p. 7). Each of the rats were "given a nutritional solution con...

stronger. The authors make no comment on whether any of the individuals were concerned about becoming dependent on their pa...

authors have explored the importance of the holistic approach in positively impacting patient outcome. As early as the 1970s rese...

paradigm but without the fantasy that acceptance is the ultimate outcome. In treating this patient, a student writing on the subje...

indwelling foley and compression boot. Her dressing is dry and intact. She was discharged with Percocet 5mg q6. Analysis and Out...

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

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

routine activities necessary to their own care. The purpose is that with a nurses direction, encouragement and initial supervisio...

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

until they become powerless in terms of their own personal care that nursing care should take over. There are essentially 3 typ...

Acquiescing to the constraints imposed by organizational and professional structure does not mean that the nurse has no alternativ...

still exists as to the necessity and long-term benefits of circumcision. Virtually all agree that if circumcision is to be done, ...

* Time over Money - Employees today seek more personal time versus financial compensation. * Professional versus Personal Role - ...

of a holistic approach to team management, and the integration of efforts to improve the overall function of nursing teams to redu...

All of these studies reflect empirical studies of hospital populations in an effort to determine how changes in the healthcare env...

biochemistry. I recognized the wonder of chemistry, but what I failed to recognize at the time was the solid practice it gave me ...

there is very little information about predisposes people to these episodes (Swann, 2006). Therefore, for the most part, nursing a...

care home agencies also offer data on each service that is provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and acco...

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

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

paying salaries). Patients are going to generally go to hospitals where their doctors are - though when it comes to emergencies or...

and the spirit says, "Ahhh, everything feels much better now" (Wooten, 2005, p. 510). Another factor in her relationships with c...

explained the process further and made it clear that he would perform the catheterization, the man approved. As this indicates, fr...

and typically occurs by the time a person reaches their 70s. In the U.S., roughly 1.5 million fractures are caused by osteoporosis...

Johns Hopkins University and member of the IOM research team that authored the report, said that "fatigue was a major cause of mis...

the situation, the charge nurse might take a number of different actions in response to this information. For example, the charge ...