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of the patient experience" (Engebretson 20). The background provided by a large, close-knit family means that, from childhood, I h...
in nursing educators aged 36 to 45 (Lewallen, et al, 2003). To complicate matters further, recent statistics show that nurses wh...
all aspects of nursing. While the prime relationship in nursing is the one between the nurse and patient, relationships between nu...
are necessary for patient survival" (Kelley, 2005, p. 2). When the blood volume in the body is too low, it activates "compensatory...
much broader in its application. It is this broadness that allows nurses to reach across religious lines and distinctions. In a su...
Smith, et al. (2002) explain that their purpose "was to investigate the effects of therapeutic massage on selected outcomes relate...
Additionally, the model also "incorporates a life span continuum, where the individual passes from fully dependent at birth, to fu...
secretary, should leave the ward when there were fewer than three children on the unit and work a second adult unit as well. He wa...
illustrates how she ignored the potential for causing harm when she increased the patients drugs; only after the medication had be...
the study intervention. Also, as yet, Cook is not clear about the purposes, aims or goals of the study. Literature Review While ...
potential for long term physiological complications as well as long-term emotional impacts. Not only does the type of care needed...
with their illness decreases and their partners ability to help them with the process is impeded as well. Decreased communication...
information. These guidelines are also based on this researchers finding that self-care promotes the pediatric patients spiritual ...
many of the findings of nursing research have little or no relevance to their daily practice. Im and Meleis (1999) cite several re...
York found that, in the past, ambulance diversions were a seasonal event. However, more recent research finds that diversional sta...
concepts dominated the field of stress research beginning in the 1950s; however, by the 1970s, there was opposition to Selyes stre...
ability to empower and grow people" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). Over the past decade, there have been numerous studies that have fou...
the chaos," she said (Serafini 1490). This nurse further stated that sometimes ER nurses are called to the intensive care unit for...
or other special attention to the wounds caused by burns. Each day s/he spends in the hospital is creating another reason for the...
techniques or theories as they pertain to the medical world, and it is as if the prison setting is the last place where these tech...
Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that it is no longer only added stress and long hours for those...
of the patients in a single unit will be assigned to one RN; the other half will be assigned to another. Another will be availabl...
or understanding when the staff or the doctors have to move on to the next client. Many patients complain that their healthcare pr...
expressing his or her misery. Such caregivers may have experienced patients who are as likely to cry out, thrash around, or simply...
gives the appearance of increased attention to theory and evidenced-based nursing in an atmosphere of caring for the individual. ...
the realization of the "dehumanizing" of patients that led to them being referred to as "Bed x," "Case x" or some other nameless, ...
several years. Psychologically, it has been found that individuals more actively involved with their own health care often fare m...
when Coco Chanel made the look desirable. Since that time, legions of youth and adults have sought to possess the "perfect" tan, ...
from pain that began after radiation therapy that caused nerve damage (Fischman, 2000). After receiving therapy at a pain clinic, ...
risk factors that can be altered, with special attention to lowering cholesterol and blood pressure. B. Treatment of ischemia usua...