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Essays 1921 - 1950
the restrained person and others. This implies that the force used in restraining the person is less injurious to all concerned th...
effective leader was his ability to build bridges between communities, between upper and lower caste Hindus and among Hindus, Musl...
blatant display of irreverence, with some of the worst infractions found within the health care industry. The cramped, dark and u...
to health care. Many of the same questions that can apply to assessing the validity of qualitative research can be used to ...
had even been stalked by patients (Global Forum for Health Research, 2000). A major study in Australia found that there is a sign...
domestic violence is to, first of all, screen for domestic violence with all injured patients. When screening for abuse, Flitcraft...
view of medicine in order to better help the indigenous population on which she is called to serve. Before launching any p...
practitioners that do not hold an MSN degree, and the resulting population would be too homogeneous to be of any real benefit. ...
and other health care workers cope with musculoskeletal problems even in the primary care setting. A Wausau Insurance Company rep...
present-day nurse, he notes, this can be construed to mean a caring about the well-being of those the nurse serves which, in this ...
term. The rationale is that the experienced nurse will guide the new graduate into the active and applied portion of the pr...
incremental. It occurs in small steps, each of which are interspersed with a period of adjustment. This can be useful in staffin...
of pregnancies, pending on the population and the definitions used (Walker, 2000). Hypertension in pregnancy is typically classi...
general systems model serves as an example. Nursing research formerly was purely quantitative in design, and any qualitativ...
role has changed in nursing home facilities. Long gone are the days when a modern amount of nursing care and dietary supervision w...
as HMO, PPO, POS, EPO, PHO, IDS and AHP (IHA, 2002). This is creating a service that can be seen as dividing...
patient care" (p. 438). Prior to 1970, nursing training in the UK could be described as rigid and highly structured. After...
Primary Care Act, a feature of both practices is that the patients have the option of seeing a GP or a NP as their first point of ...
their wishes for the patients care. Every nursing home resident has a right to such a plan by law (Stern), and it does not only p...
call for compliance with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to su...
deal of pain likely will occur during the first 24 hours after surgery (Drakeford, Pettine, Brookshire and Ebert, 1991). Preventi...
be in agreement with a working definition of autonomy. Thus, the following attributes should be seen: self-determination, in...
that time. What might be needed, then, would be some plan of action that the staff could follow, or possibly some type of polite s...
of happiness, contentment or relief, or something above ordinary existence. The patient should do more than subsist. 4. Care shoul...
who choose to use qualitative methods tend to seek a deeper reality, inasmuch as their aim is to "study things in their natural se...
These theories emphasize the fact that the concept of holism is integrally linked with the goals and objectives of nursing. Holis...
and arranging transportation; and ensuring that physician orders for residents are met and followed. Beyond these duties ar...
Today, the theories of Orem, Roy, Neuman, Rogers, King, and others seem to be more popular than older theories such as those of Fl...
(Political Power, 2002). The profession of nursing is no different from any other in this regard (Political Power, 2002). Qualit...
was well educated (Le Vasseur, 1998), from a family of wealth and yet held an unusual compassion for those less fortunate. She wa...