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Nursing homes have changed for the better over the years, but they still carry a negative connotation and generally only those who...
undergoes surgery for a hip arthroplasty 24 hours after admission. Twenty-four hours after surgery the nurses note that Mrs. Gale...
Erie, Pennsylvania (Minnis, 2002). As is the case here, the aggregate for which this tool was developed is that of persons over t...
achieved that the critical care nurse may address the bio-psycho-social implications of the event (Alfafara and Hedges, 1996). Fur...
is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...
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...
activities" (Orems Self-Care Model Concepts) that patients need to undertake to meet their own health care needs on a routine basi...
approaches and invasive surgical procedures are more commonly used to treat scoliosis, chiropractic care has been proven to be an ...
send oil prices soaring to unprecedented levels" (Leeb and Strathy, 2006, p. 19). The end results may well be the end of civiliza...
testing instrument in the United States (Nurse and Sperry, 2004). First developed by Starke Hathaway and Charnley McKinley in 194...
anxiety or address a family problem, they may prefer faith-based counseling simply because its in a language that fits them and th...
be optimized: "The whole patient, should be assessed and physical, mental and social factors taken...
Unlike the nonprofit hospitals that are becoming increasingly rare, HMOs are not required to provide any service to anyone who is ...
simply because the company did not want to lose money by taking the crib off the market. The social costs theory goes a step furt...
or her field of duty is encompassed by the law of the Northern Territory of Australia, specifically the Personal Injuries (Liabili...
part of their academic preparation knowledge that pertains to how "to initiate, plan and manage change" (Elser, McClanahan and Gre...
caring as the very definition of what constitutes personal values from a nursing perspective (2003). Koerner (1996), likewise, e...
Critically-Care nurses, 1989 in Nursing Management, 1999, p. 38). This abbreviated version of AACN nursing standards was located...
business environment (Goett, 1999). His five forces model is designed to show how the external environment can affect the way a bu...
in order so that it can be determined if all of the childs educational needs are being met. Aiding disabled children in reaching t...
classifies the stroke patients needs in four domains: 1) medical/surgical issues; 2) mental status/emotion/coping behaviors; 3) ph...
are problems, the use of critical thinking models or other problem solving tool will help to find an effective resolution. The pro...
More importantly, the framework as it developed with cooperation between different authorities under way that services needed to b...
established that nurses are often involved in the "timely identification of complications," which, if acted upon swiftly, prevent ...
As described by Araich (2001), four nursing strategies effectively summarize how a critical care nurse can use the RAM to aid a ca...
this incident may have contributed to her divorce. It is also true that her mother has had a problem with alcoholism for over twen...
arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...
verifies old knowledge (Wilkerson, 1998). As this suggests, the continuation of scholarly advances in the development of nursing t...
within institutions where manual charting of ventilators settings is performed well, "automatic data collection can eliminate dela...