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

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

improve it, then nursing can truly be an invaluable profession to choose. This leads us to the reality of helping people. Perha...

military personnel and other non-combatants. While McConnell was seeing her charges safely to Japan, General Douglas MacArthur was...

a little less than a third of them were under the age of 40 (Meadows, 2002, p. 46). This offered conclusive proof that number of ...

and statistics. This approach works well for in physics and math, but less well when applied to people. Moloney (2002) offers thre...

the elderly. The Nurse Practitioner announced in its July 2000 issue that reports of the AMAs petition had been received as...

caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...

experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...

objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and their wives,...

is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...

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

The act of faxing patient information to another care-providing organization or third-party payer comes under privacy regulations ...

activities" (Orems Self-Care Model Concepts) that patients need to undertake to meet their own health care needs on a routine basi...

includes strategies that are designed to make the individual feel better, such as "exercise, spirituality, support groups and humo...

many people have these factors in common within their personal value sets, but I believe that the nurse possesses them in specific...

A nurses dedication and selflessness recall a mothers sacrifice and care (Dworkin, 2002). Furthermore, Dworking (2002) points out ...

declined as "educators, employers and others recognize the need for educational changes in nursing" (Bednash, 2000, p. 2985). Asso...

nonverbal and behavioural signals and information relating to the clients support system. Objective data could include observation...

in decision making (Thomas Group, 2004). The leadership team appointed a steering committee to develop a plan for empowering nur...

McKenna (1997) points out that mid-range nursing theories tend to focus on concepts of interest to nurses. This can encompass pati...

Critically-Care nurses, 1989 in Nursing Management, 1999, p. 38). This abbreviated version of AACN nursing standards was located...

Although the nursing professions is just now beginning to become more aware of the need for this type of approach it was first int...

in order so that it can be determined if all of the childs educational needs are being met. Aiding disabled children in reaching t...

classifies the stroke patients needs in four domains: 1) medical/surgical issues; 2) mental status/emotion/coping behaviors; 3) ph...

moment to moment as the changing patterns of shifting perspectives weave the fabric of life through the human-universe interconnec...

They are: 1. "activity level 2. "diet 3. "discharge medications 4. "follow-up appointment 5. "weight monitoring 6. "what to do if ...

caring as the very definition of what constitutes personal values from a nursing perspective (2003). Koerner (1996), likewise, e...

deaths each year are related to medications" (Meadows, 2003). The actual number is estimated to be much higher because these kinds...

as business practices, documentation systems, process flows and lines of communication can differ (Blevins, 2001) Home health nur...