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Bell (2000) reports that when an Australian hospital instituted shared governance, nurse managers responded "by developing a teamw...

reveal a steady growth in the number of nurses joining unions due to discontent" (Blankenheim 2001, p. 13). They are doing so to l...

achieved that the critical care nurse may address the bio-psycho-social implications of the event (Alfafara and Hedges, 1996). Fur...

At the heart of nursing is the nurse-patient relationship, which provides the foundation for nursing care (Patusky, 2003). This r...

MEDMARX is thought to be the most comprehensive reporting of medication error information in the nation (Morantz & Torrey, 2003). ...

risk factor, but is of less consequence among those diabetics who pay close attention to their blood sugar levels, test often and ...

already has been diagnosed as having some form of heart disease. In that sense, primary prevention is not possible. The goals of...

undergoes surgery for a hip arthroplasty 24 hours after admission. Twenty-four hours after surgery the nurses note that Mrs. Gale...

the effect of music on preoperative anxiety and postoperative pain with a participant group that listened to "peaceful pan flute m...

more on intuition and to "a hidden knowledge that is not so open to cognitive description" (Bradshaw, 1995, p. 83). In other words...

many other disorders. Given the prevalence of both ADD/ADHD and Depression, this user linked to each of these disorders. The ADD/A...

meals to all Orthodox Jewish patients should be investigated by hospital administrators if they are not already in place. Furtherm...

diabetic education that uses the Neuman Systems Model, which supports and facilitates taking a "holistic view of people with diabe...

safeguard and monitor the public health, which means that it formulates prevention initiatives, investigates health problems and a...

the fever? Was it related to an infection in the surgical wound? Was the patient developing atelectasis and pneumonia? Or, was the...

once again examines how nurses can be empowered, and learn those values in college. Finally, Ann Gallagher discusses dignity with ...

results are reliable and representative (Curwin and Slater, 1996). The first is the profiling of the samples to show that they are...

were contributing to the "toxic" work environment, which characterized this CSDU, as there was "evidence of a lack of meaningful c...

to a patient over the phone and trying to convey the urgency of that patient coming in for a consultation. The patient resists, so...

and one must wonder - Why? This article suggested the reasons have to do with physician fears of having a malpractice lawsuit file...

be immensely helpful in gaining insight into the specific issues involved and subsequent perspective on what course of action to t...

harms the healthcare systems of the home countries of these nurses, which ethically and morally limits its use. Another method t...

Nursing (Webber, 2007). However, this is not a long-term solution. The long-term solution to achieving an adequate nursing force f...

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

2004). As errors are inevitable, in order to significantly reduce the rate at which they occur, it is imperative that mistakes sho...

events (Owen, 2007). This action includes "presentation of antigen by dendritic cells" as well as the "degranulation of mast cells...

system," since the institution of mandated nursing ratios, and also that data shows California hospitals have not only been able t...

the prevalence of UI was high in this region of the country and particularly high among African Americans in two of the states, wh...

cardiac monitor, a seizure, drug reaction or other sign of a critical condition...(They) are expected to fill out reports" that we...

of this decision. Ecological theory is an attempt to bring in many different influences in order to understand how a society ...