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are able to make error reports without fear of reprisal. Nevertheless, the consequence of possible disciplinary action and repris...

for patient survival" (Kelley, 2005, p. 2). When the blood volume in the body is too low, it activates "compensatory mechanisms" t...

this aspect. Before 1939, the Canadian military women would serve as nurses during the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 as well as in t...

of the study by stating it explicitly: "The purpose of this study was to explore how undergraduate nursing students learn to care ...

be discussed relative to both previous research and the studies that have come after it. This research tends to substantiate the s...

critique of this study will both summarize and analyze the various sections of Coetzees article, which describes this research, a...

et al, 2005). However, smokers are not limited in their addition, those who are addicted to other substances, such as alcohol. For...

authors state that research "and theory are key underpinnings that guide safe, effective, and comprehensive" (p. 35) practice. As...

budget restraints. Nurses leave the profession because they are "distressed by being unable to provide quality nursing care, disgr...

notable historic key developments in nursing research are: 1859 Nightingales Notes on Nursing published 1900 American Nursing Jou...

among all team members (DC Area Health Education Center, 2005). Well-functioning effective teams do not happen by chance. It requ...

says that families have been sorely neglected as a great deal of nursing practice continues to focus on individuals (Denham, 2003)...

article, "Mother-Infant Skin-to-Skin Contact (Kangaroo Care)," kangaroo care offers the parents the only opportunity to engage in ...

a video that presents the patients symptoms and are presented with the question "What is the most likely differential diagnosis ba...

minority groups. They are frequently poor and have little education. Scrandis, Fauchald and Radsma describe a "Charlottes Web of C...

nurse seeks to preserve any culture-specific aspect of the patients life everywhere possible. When some culturally-linked aspect ...

dehydrated? Has literature simply made you aware of this potential problem? You might say something like: "Considering the dire co...

for the birth" (MacKinnon, McIntyre and Quance, 2005, p. 29). As this suggests, intrapartum nurses spend the most time with labor...

their profession to be their career and it definitely requires career-long continuous professional development. Why then, does a...

and antibiotics" (Ersek, 2005, p. 48). Upon first glance, it would appear that euthanasia is an application that is in direct con...

degree (CBS News). Where 4.1 percent of new female nurses leave the profession after four years, 7.5 percent of new male nurses lo...

of every single employee. If youre not thinking all the time about making every person more valuable, you dont have a chance. Wh...

In five pages this research paper discusses quality care standard maintenance and the role played by nurse managers in sustaining ...

for the precise coding of medication and, thereby, helps nurses avoid the common errors listed above (Woods and Doan-Johnson, 2002...

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

and how discharge instructions should cover these contingencies. "Health" has historically been used to describe the "absence of d...

This PowerPoint presentation includes 9 slides plus a bibliography. The topic is the nursing shortage. Bibliography lists 1 sourc...

period of restructuring in many industries, including healthcare. Managed care organizations and changes in reimbursement rates f...

of family such as the one cited above. In many instances hospitals adhere to the traditional definition, which means that the poli...

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