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potential need for treatment for impaired skin integrity due to immobility. Therefore, the nurse will begin precautions prior to a...

seek the same health goals for clients as in mainstream nursing, nurses in remote locations often cope with problems and obstacles...

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

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

harms the healthcare systems of the home countries of these nurses, which ethically and morally limits its use. Another method t...

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

Developing New Nurse Leaders also considers the issue of shifts in leadership and governance, with a focus on the role of nurses a...

quality of the provided care (ANA, 2008). Empirical research studies have confirmed that the risk for medical error increase subst...

that the legal struggle took on her family was immense. Her father never recovered emotionally and committed suicide (Colby, 2002)...

in resistant strains of bacteria (Plonczynski, 2005). This situation suggests that changes in antibiotic prophylactic procedures ...

is three times the average for all other age groups (AOA, 2010). Average doctor visits in a year were 6.5 for ages 65 to 74 and 7....

nurse to patient ratio in California. In 1992 and 1993 the California Nurses Association has sponsored the Democratic Senator Jack...

and fatigue, abdominal pain, vomiting, constipation and learning difficulties" ("Lead"). These physiological effects are caused by...

nurse practitioners how they could join the movement and help. The Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1989 included minimal reimbursem...

imply, a standardized nursing language provides a "uniform nomenclature for the diagnosis, intervention, and evaluation components...

endeavor. Nursing in any context requires a detailed knowledge of individual patients. Specifically, a forensic nurse will have a...

upholding the human dignity of the people involved, as well as their "unique biopsychosocial, cultural, (and) spiritual being" (LM...

graduate nursing hires (Truman, 2004, p. 45). The novice nurses participate in six hours of classroom instruction, plus thirty hou...

quality and care" of health services that offered to rural areas throughout the US (Clinton, 2007). In addition to providing fun...

generations. Though Nightingale promoted a professional demeanor, nursing was not something that most well-bred women would even ...

pilot study was performed first, in which the research tested the methodology. This also involved developing an interview schedule...

Statement, 2006). It is also a goal of HHC to "join with other health workers and with communities in a partnership" (Mission Sta...

records and kept him and his family informed about his progress to date and what he could expect along the path to recovery. Nurs...

study also examined the availability of information resources available to the RN respondents (both at work and at home). Their fi...

(Domrose, 2001). However, current trends have developed that have greatly expanded the scope of med-surg nursing, which includes a...

But, it also refers to the fact that nurses "shape and transform the environment" as well as offer care within the context of an e...

we had a helper who came in during the day and a nurse at night. Both of them were kind, experienced and very caring, and I could ...

Nightingale as power-crazed and iron-willed. Salvage (2001) tends to believe that these criticisms of Nightingale reflect lingerin...

situation. As a provider of care, it is the role of the community health nurse to address the needs of Centerville adolescents i...

Empirical research ahs consistently reported that when communication between the two professions is good, which includes doctors ...