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learned long ago the value of yet another Deming (1986) exhortation, that of continuous improvement. By definition, the concept i...

the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

her, per se, but rather with her expectations of Madeline, which are not age appropriate. The scenario says that Madeline knows be...

The ANCI Competency Unit 4 demands that nurses accept accountability and responsibility for their actions in nursing. To do so we...

greater demand on health care services as more of them cross that line from employed to retired. Projections are just that,...

have "little or no training in fundamental management skills" (Baer, 2006, p. 60). As well as absenteeism, problems with managemen...

(Cardozo, 2003, p. S35). Within a few hours of being admitted to the ICU, Jacks condition was evaluated using the Waterlow risk as...

a summation of how addiction occurs. They then address the scope of the problem, which relates the issue under investigation dir...

by the caring physical presence of this nurse in her last remaining hours. However, the way in which this case turned out saw the ...

announcing that shes "fine" and then another year or two will pass before the next outburst of psychosis. There is resignation an...

theorist Jean Watson, who developed her Theory of Human Caring in the late 1970s. As a result of Watsons efforts to bring greater...

?19a-490, Connecticut Department of Public Health Code ?19-13-D105 and Residential care homes ?19-13-D-6 (National Academy for Sta...

one else to do them and she saw a need (Krain, 2002). "She recruited another nurse and began working out of a fifth floor apartmen...

by trying things out)...reflective learners (learn by thinking things through, working alone) 5. sequential learners (linear, orde...

a nurse to determine which elderly patients are being abused because a sense of shame or a desire to protect the family member who...

Roughly 50 percent of the current working nursing population will retire within the next 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). Adding...

A 7 page client profile that discusses nursing care for an elderly client with degenerative brain disease and offers a research su...

in a laboratory situation (Licking, 1998; Brownlee and Schrof, 1998). Many of these cells, in fact, have the capability of develo...

inpatient facility (Entry-Level). There are advantages and disadvantages to having three entry levels into nursing. An advantage...

left to deny anything connected with the loss, either before or after the fact. Those left behind also need to acknowledge the me...

individual, the eight values of the CNA Code provide a framework for guidance regarding nursing behavior. The Code states that the...

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

individual is walking, the thorax rotates in "clockwise and counter-clockwise directions," which are "opposite the pelvic rotation...

the research, which includes finding a definitive measure for the health status of the homeless. This is a reasoned, extensive rev...

indicates, restraint places health practitioners between the proverbial rock and a hard place. However, there are practice standar...

In 2001, health care spending as a percentage of GDP was 14.1 percent, or $5,035 per capita (Levit, Smith, Cowan, Lazenby, Senseni...

also a former student of Vivians is now in the rather awkward position of also being one of her doctors, as he is an intern and re...

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

feel lethargic, further disinclining the individual to exercise, which escalates the problem. In regards to population, all age gr...

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