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reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...
on an evidenced based evidence based practice and the development of increased individual accountability in the area of clinical g...
and safety" (ANA, 2005). After all, if a nurse does not take steps to preserve her or his own safety, the nurse cannot adequately ...
the basic paradigms of nursing professional theory are considered within a social context. For example, health is defined as a "dy...
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,...
preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...
transformative perspective because Newman argues that rather than being diametrically opposed, disease and health are merely facto...
balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...
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...
the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...
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...
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...
life needs to change in response to the patients health care needs, then the nurse needs to be sensitive to that factor as well. ...
clinical nurse specialist and the advanced nurse practitioner is decidedly hazy. However, Wickham (2003) states that a nurse worki...
accomplishing the task or objective rather than on people (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004). They make the policies and rules ...
deaths each year are related to medications" (Meadows, 2003). The actual number is estimated to be much higher because these kinds...
operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). This is broken down into three basic categories: 1) wholly compen...
percent); * Management by walking around (15 percent); * Coaching/empowerment (11 percent); * Team (7 percent); * Transformational...
has been with us for several years, and it is widely publicized. The result is that the nursing shortage not only affects the qua...
MEANING AND CONCEPTS Jones & Krysa (1998) describe the three essential comfort interventions as listening (to...
has focused on two corollary components: 1. the accuracy of body size estimations and 2. the attitudes and feelings individuals ...
the word alone that Watsons ideology is based not just upon clinical actions but upon the implementation of emotional availability...
money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely would no...