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and John noted a resistance to mechanical ventilation as a part of the treatment plan. John stated in one of his few lucid period...

and that maintaining the most stable possible environment has been found to help alleviate the impact of such behaviours: it might...

of anxiety due to the diagnosis. She is single but hoped to one day get married and have children. The sudden onset of symptoms an...

health information is pivotal to the efforts of practitioners in promoting health, changing behaviors and attitudes, and preventin...

and more nurses are standing at the front lines of managed care, acting somewhat as liaison between the patient and managed care o...

the inclination is to treat the dying patient with as little emotion as possible, so as not to suffer emotionally as well, many nu...

* Time over Money - Employees today seek more personal time versus financial compensation. * Professional versus Personal Role - ...

have different concerns and worries which will need to be addressed prior to the tackling of the practical issues. The plan will...

are certainly those patients who understand that they have a chronic disease which has the potential to be life-threatening and ar...

been the principal focus in current research (1997). Studies focusing on school children generally include a food preference compo...

that make use of color, but even these efforts have not typically met with good response by patients or hospital administrators (S...

for further self-harm to occur. Pembrooke and Smith recommend, for example, that triage staff assume that even minor injuries repr...

More than 25 percent of patients with heart failure are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge and half are readmi...

As we live longer, we are subject to acquiring one or more chronic illnesses, some of which come with advancing age. Older age ran...

the combined efforts of intense psychotherapy and standard bipolar medications. Achieving optimum health represents the primary g...

Culturally competent care appropriate for a psychiatric hospital is considered a basic and primary component of nursing given the ...

such as tragedies, deaths, serious injuries or threatening situations, require the human being to respond in a way that intensifie...

mineral supplement" every day (Ungvarski, 1996). Empirical evidence shows that there is a "synergistic and interactive relations...

HIV-positive nurses being a threat to patients and other health care workers. Research clearly supports the reality of the situat...

nurses should understand these patients thoroughly, "who they are, where they live and with whom, their current health status and ...

this development and left orders for both analgesia and sedation, which helped at first, but became less effective as the hours pa...

not as drugs, which means that these remedies do not undergo the rigorous testing that is required for prescription medicines (He...

background and knowledge to evaluate when there is a need to consult a transcultural nurse specialist, as these specially trained ...

intensive care unit (ICU) (Scholle and Mininni, 2006, p. 37). Bedside nurses are encouraged in many hospitals to make a MET call...

pay for treatment that is not covered by insurance and families without insurance are not required to pay (SJCRH, 2008). Furthermo...

& McCorkle (2002) did not explicitly state any research problem or research question, but they do identify two objectives for thei...

anxiety or address a family problem, they may prefer faith-based counseling simply because its in a language that fits them and th...

Budget cutbacks, burnout and lack of student enrollment have precluded sufficient staffing in many critical areas of healthcare. ...

leaders should facilitate their development of trans-cultural nursing skills such as being able to assess patterns that are eviden...

This study employed a prospective pre-test and a post-test randomized control trial design and a sample group of 53 senior adults ...