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Essays 1411 - 1440
learned long ago the value of yet another Deming (1986) exhortation, that of continuous improvement. By definition, the concept i...
Working for the well-staffed working environment in itself is no small task, given the fact of the ongoing nursing shortage. The ...
reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...
the disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...
that the doctrine of informed consent is "hopelessly flawed--or at least misguided," as it is often not possible to truly inform ...
Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...
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...
(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 ...
was perceived as merely the "handmaiden" of medicine, that is, a service that was there to facilitate the practice of the physicia...
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 ...
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...
and safety" (ANA, 2005). After all, if a nurse does not take steps to preserve her or his own safety, the nurse cannot adequately ...
be more enlightening and convey a more precise meaning than an extended descriptive passage. At this point, the student researchin...
and allows the receiver to observe non-verbal cues as to the messages meaning. Feedback "reports back to the sender that the recei...
is a very important consideration in nursing. Indeed, some four thousand of so documents were published annually about pain in th...
In three pages this research paper discusses how humor can be a modality that assists nurses in patient care as well as self care....
the changes that have occurred since she founded modern nursing. "Florence Nightingale provided us with a framework, relevant tod...
in 2000, allowing a long comment period before the final rule was issued in February 2003. Five rules were published in 199...
or chronic illness; however, nurse practitioners also have additional intensive education that involves risk reduction and prevent...
help each other by merely listening and offering words of encouragement. My psychologist friend firmly believed that lifestyle ch...
runs $127 on average (Cummings, 2002). The goal of the ALF is to help senior citizens maintain as much independence as possible wi...
for the precise coding of medication in order to avoid the errors listed above (Woods and Doan-Johnson, 2002). Cohen, Robinson and...
thinks is, to a certain extent, a result of genetic influences; however, this capacity is also highly influenced by the process o...