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over their blood glucose levels; and (3) encouraging continuous improvement in nursing knowledge and patient education. The progr...
the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...
her, per se, but rather with her expectations of Madeline, which are not age appropriate. The scenario says that Madeline knows be...
and safety" (ANA, 2005). After all, if a nurse does not take steps to preserve her or his own safety, the nurse cannot adequately ...
the elderly. The Nurse Practitioner announced in its July 2000 issue that reports of the AMAs petition had been received as...
At the heart of nursing is the nurse-patient relationship, which provides the foundation for nursing care (Patusky, 2003). This r...
achieved that the critical care nurse may address the bio-psycho-social implications of the event (Alfafara and Hedges, 1996). Fur...
reveal a steady growth in the number of nurses joining unions due to discontent" (Blankenheim 2001, p. 13). They are doing so to l...
Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...
risk factor, but is of less consequence among those diabetics who pay close attention to their blood sugar levels, test often and ...
undergoes surgery for a hip arthroplasty 24 hours after admission. Twenty-four hours after surgery the nurses note that Mrs. Gale...
already has been diagnosed as having some form of heart disease. In that sense, primary prevention is not possible. The goals of...
caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...
experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...
objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and their wives,...
is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...
MEDMARX is thought to be the most comprehensive reporting of medication error information in the nation (Morantz & Torrey, 2003). ...
military personnel and other non-combatants. While McConnell was seeing her charges safely to Japan, General Douglas MacArthur was...
a little less than a third of them were under the age of 40 (Meadows, 2002, p. 46). This offered conclusive proof that number of ...
and statistics. This approach works well for in physics and math, but less well when applied to people. Moloney (2002) offers thre...
Bell (2000) reports that when an Australian hospital instituted shared governance, nurse managers responded "by developing a teamw...
cross to bear and they would be shamed to bring it to someone else. The healthcare worker must not attempt to alter the patients r...
(called IgE) (ONeill, 1990). This then sticks to other cells such as the mast cells or the basophils, this is a chain reaction as ...
the medical team with which these patients have surrounded themselves. It is the patients responsibility to cooperate and do ever...
completing the ranges of study required to attain the licensing level each holds. Aides are not licensed individuals and may or m...
significant changes to the existing system but have not yet covered too much ground where modifications are concerned. This is pa...
routine activities necessary to their own care. The purpose is that with a nurses direction, encouragement and initial supervisio...
The funding agency chosen for this program is the Childrens Aid Society, a nonprofit organization that has been dedicated to impro...
who suffer from cancer, arthritis, AIDS, multiple sclerosis or acute back pain are known to frequently turn to alternative medicin...
point that relatively few paid attention to it at all. In many respects, the same has occurred in the discussion of anythin...