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Essays 1951 - 1980
was perceived as merely the "handmaiden" of medicine, that is, a service that was there to facilitate the practice of the physicia...
balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...
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...
her, per se, but rather with her expectations of Madeline, which are not age appropriate. The scenario says that Madeline knows be...
the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...
(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 ...
process variation, foster awareness of the impact of different clinical decisions, and encourage reduction in undesirable practice...
services. It was a clear presumption that womens contributions -- no matter how physically or mentally trying -- did not carry an...
nurse (Cosgrove, 1996). Even at this level, however, the nursing field is one which demands a continued commitment to education. ...
of stem cell research far outweigh the negativities. Because of these benefits stem cell research can be ethically defended utili...
is on a morphine drip to which there is attached only one instruction: decrease the drip when respirations reach four per minute....
as the "Angel of Mercy" during the late 19th century; the "Gal Friday" during the 1920s and the "Heroine" during World War II (Bro...
a deleterious impact to patient welfare. With appropriate conflict resolution skills, however, most conflict can be either avoide...
out the parameters of the problem and review previous the results of research in this area. She discusses how patients older than ...
in education and work experience. 2. Boyfriends work sporadically. 3. Neither appears to consider the possibility of breaking the ...
(Hodges, Satkowski, and Ganchorre, 1998). Despite the hospital closings and the restructuring of our national health care system ...
blatant display of irreverence, with some of the worst infractions found within the health care industry. The cramped, dark and u...
had even been stalked by patients (Global Forum for Health Research, 2000). A major study in Australia found that there is a sign...
domestic violence is to, first of all, screen for domestic violence with all injured patients. When screening for abuse, Flitcraft...
view of medicine in order to better help the indigenous population on which she is called to serve. Before launching any p...
Rhoads essay on the life and experiences of a nurse in Vietnam gives a chilling clarity of the realities with which medical person...
surgery. Preventing such intense pain often requires less drug use than does alleviating the pain once it has begun (Siwek, 2001)...
Primary Care Act, a feature of both practices is that the patients have the option of seeing a GP or a NP as their first point of ...
their wishes for the patients care. Every nursing home resident has a right to such a plan by law (Stern), and it does not only p...
call for compliance with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to su...