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An effective and valuable nurse is one who has sound technical knowledge and experience in applying it, but who also is a superlat...
includes strategies that are designed to make the individual feel better, such as "exercise, spirituality, support groups and humo...
many people have these factors in common within their personal value sets, but I believe that the nurse possesses them in specific...
nonverbal and behavioural signals and information relating to the clients support system. Objective data could include observation...
in decision making (Thomas Group, 2004). The leadership team appointed a steering committee to develop a plan for empowering nur...
McKenna (1997) points out that mid-range nursing theories tend to focus on concepts of interest to nurses. This can encompass pati...
In four pages this research paper argues that nursing's image needs to be changed and focuses on accomplishing this through the in...
activities" (Orems Self-Care Model Concepts) that patients need to undertake to meet their own health care needs on a routine basi...
deaths each year are related to medications" (Meadows, 2003). The actual number is estimated to be much higher because these kinds...
as business practices, documentation systems, process flows and lines of communication can differ (Blevins, 2001) Home health nur...
today, but health care delivery appears to be more of a team project than the responsibility of one doctor. In earlier days, a nu...
staff them (Ocala, Fla., Hospitals Tackle Nursing Shortage, 2002). The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizati...
in acute care is sensitive about the use of drugs in recovering patients. Exposure of abuses of past years has raised awareness o...
preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...
train sufficient numbers of new nurses. Turnover is high among those who remain in the profession, and those so dissatisfied - an...
(1999), research shows that the level of education reached by an RN contributes to a sense of professional autonomy and those nurs...
lethal drug is given with the intent to bring about death, thus ending suffering" (28). Of course, there is a difference between ...
to physicians. Increasingly, "evidence-based guidelines are becoming codes of medical practice" (Healy, 2005; p. 54). Superficia...
over their blood glucose levels; and (3) encouraging continuous improvement in nursing knowledge and patient education. The progr...
a nurses role as a change agent in data base management. Fonville, Killian, and Tranbarger (1998) note that successful nurses of ...
was perceived as merely the "handmaiden" of medicine, that is, a service that was there to facilitate the practice of the physicia...
rather than requiring patient transfer to ICU. This plan is consistent with the principles of planned change in that it focuses o...
have had ethical reservations about taking a patient off of life support, but she did not add to Lynns burden by interfering with ...
also as a result of the environment in which they are cared for, where smoking is banned. Teaching patients may be seen as a funct...
in African American communities in though it has level off and is falling in other US populations (Dyer, 2003). Adolescents are am...
only one group, no control group. Group exposed to treatment and then measure (Creswell, 2003). Measured participants blood gluco...
transformative perspective because Newman argues that rather than being diametrically opposed, disease and health are merely facto...
legal errors (Fackelmann, 2002). Furthermore, the AMA study demonstrated that there is a direct statistical connection between th...
and patient. Orems theory is central to much of nursing philosophy and methodology. This theory is one of three theories...
parameters of his perspective and goals, and, specifically, refers to the unique orientation of nursing. "Nurses encounter patient...