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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...
proposed method of resolution is to design, develop and evaluate a clinical, evidence-based "diabetic education program to increas...
declined as "educators, employers and others recognize the need for educational changes in nursing" (Bednash, 2000, p. 2985). Asso...
A nurses dedication and selflessness recall a mothers sacrifice and care (Dworkin, 2002). Furthermore, Dworking (2002) points out ...
activities" (Orems Self-Care Model Concepts) that patients need to undertake to meet their own health care needs on a routine basi...
in decision making (Thomas Group, 2004). The leadership team appointed a steering committee to develop a plan for empowering nur...
classifies the stroke patients needs in four domains: 1) medical/surgical issues; 2) mental status/emotion/coping behaviors; 3) ph...
The act of faxing patient information to another care-providing organization or third-party payer comes under privacy regulations ...
nonverbal and behavioural signals and information relating to the clients support system. Objective data could include observation...
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 ...
be immensely helpful in gaining insight into the specific issues involved and subsequent perspective on what course of action to t...
preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...
to a patient over the phone and trying to convey the urgency of that patient coming in for a consultation. The patient resists, so...
were contributing to the "toxic" work environment, which characterized this CSDU, as there was "evidence of a lack of meaningful c...
and one must wonder - Why? This article suggested the reasons have to do with physician fears of having a malpractice lawsuit file...
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...
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 ...
balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...
There are different studies that have made a partial examination of the developmental models of clinical mentorship and supervisio...
evaluate nursing care and use research findings in clinical practice" (Barnsteiner, Wyatt and Richardson 165). This survey reveal...
departments (Courson, 2004). It isnt that nurses have not been serving in these roles, they have but today, nurses receive speci...
the importance of taking assessment from a number of different, relevant perspectives. For example, mentors who are conscious that...
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...