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percent of al cardiac surgery patients (Brantman and Howie, 2006). While this postoperative condition is typically well-tolerated ...
Aesthetic, the need for beauty, order and symmetry (Huitt, 2004). 7. Self-actualization is a plateau not all people reach. At this...
is a term that refers to "a formal way of thinking (i.e. conceptualizing) about a process/system under study" (Conceptual Framewor...
interests and values considered and respected in the decision-making process" (Fly and Johnstone, 2002). This rationale is undoubt...
verifies old knowledge (Wilkerson, 1998). As this suggests, the continuation of scholarly advances in the development of nursing t...
makes the point that EBP involves more than simply utilize research evidence; and Penz and Bassendowski emphasize this point by s...
include an understanding of how insulin functions to control glucose levels and the interaction between variables that can affect ...
background of hospital RNs is a significant factor in providing quality nursing care, as this study showed that the level of educa...
patient care (Hassmiller and Cozine, 2006). Some strategies proposed by RWJF for helping to decrease the tremendous workload on nu...
nurses are part of this generation and a large majority of nurses are retiring. It has been estimated that 50 percent of the count...
are possess "awareness and intention," and can construct a sense of self-identity and meaning," which includes the ability to choo...
Sometimes the ability to perform foot self-exams for follow-up education or acute illness (Nettles, 2005, p. 44). Additionally, ...
supply and the importance of fruit and vegetables in the patients diet. She authored over 200 books, reports and pamphlets on nurs...
task forces, committees, and organizational projects," while also serving as "resources to other nurses to facilitate advancing sk...
quality and safety for the care they can expect to receive from nurses and midwives and other health professionals are the same" (...
individual family member are considered within this context (Friedman, Bowden and Jones 37). In analyzing the various theories th...
expressing his or her misery. Such caregivers may have experienced patients who are as likely to cry out, thrash around, or simply...
or understanding when the staff or the doctors have to move on to the next client. Many patients complain that their healthcare pr...
the chaos," she said (Serafini 1490). This nurse further stated that sometimes ER nurses are called to the intensive care unit for...
Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that it is no longer only added stress and long hours for those...
techniques or theories as they pertain to the medical world, and it is as if the prison setting is the last place where these tech...
of the patients in a single unit will be assigned to one RN; the other half will be assigned to another. Another will be availabl...
in the U.S. stands at 8.5 percent to over 14 percent, depending on the specific area of specialty (Letvak and Buck, 2008), by 2020...
relationships between self-care agency and the self-care demand" (Kumar, 2007, p. 106). Within the context of Self-Care Deficit ...
did you wonder about your stepfather being alive or dead? What you write may resemble the following: I was considered too young to...
information about the shortage of nurses and the consequences. This was achieved as demonstrated in the following brief report of ...
factors that have been identified include "diabetes, alcoholism, malnutrition, history of antibiotic or corticosteroid use, decrea...
the stage of evaluation is being one mainly concerned with health-related assessment activities so that progress can be measured a...
provide effective communication, the Band Aid song "Do They Know Its Christmas" a song which led to Live Aid was effective; this w...
proven to be the principal reason for nosocomial infections, that is, infections that are acquired after hospital admittance. Impo...