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the context of severe nursing shortage, it is imperative that employment strategies are designed to persuade older nurses to remai...

and how this equipment should differ for this population: Bariatric patients are typically defined as those who are extremely obe...

48.2% would not feel confident having someone close to them receiving care in the facility where they work (ANA, 2009). Though n...

nurse and accepted a position working at Abbott Northwestern Hospital. After working in this field, Ive seen the educational adva...

can have a significant impact on patient quality of life and on the impacts of chronic illness. For John, ineffective pain manage...

order must be provided and understood in order to ensure that proper administration occurs. Nurses must be aware of the factors im...

importance of clinical or practice experts who can help to identify specific roles, expectations and the ways in which best-practi...

discourse that I find confusing. Philosophy has often struck me as an amorphous subject. Its slippery and refuses to be categoriz...

relations. Nurses must assess person and environment in relation to their impact on health. Both person and environment can vary...

Social Services they have complained that that funding is insufficient to provide for even their most basic dietary needs. Part o...

avoidance, such as creating a buddy system, which pairs elderly neighbors with each other. Buddies check on one another and accomp...

On further examination, the cause of death is determined to be smallpox. As the World Health Organization (WHO) completely eradica...

the environment" (Reynolds and Cormack, 1991, p. 1123). Within this main system are eight subsystems: the "ingestive, eliminative,...

This 3 page paper looks at the type of mental models which may be used by a chief finance officer in a healthcare organization whe...

as typical or traditional (first generation) and atypical (second generation) (Blake, 2006). Typical antipsychotic medications ar...

the others (Trofino, 2007). Those 14 Forces of Magnetism provide the conceptual foundation and basis for what became the Magnet a...

Based on their results, the authors suggested nurse educators add more critical thinking exercises to their classroom curriculum. ...

indicate the patients readiness for growth and movement" (Marchese, 2006, p. 364). Phase 1, orientation, describes the patient and...

that by instituting improved sanitation and nutrition, there was a corresponding decrease in morality (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003...

in pursuit of their advanced standing certification. Moreover, active RNs, LPNs and CNAs understand that these advanced practice ...

(Masters and Doctoral degree) (Career overview, 2009). Summary of Results of the Need Assessment For the purposes of the needs a...

various roles" (Meadows-Oliver, et al, 2007, p. 116). The stress involved in a teenage pregnancy and the associated pressure tha...

the factors that made up the CC situation. Analysis of the data identified 147 factors related to CC that could be classified into...

of course, it only takes one person in any organization to "make a difference" (Sanborn, 2004, p. 8). The second principle, Succe...

owes the same duties of care to herself or himself as is owed to patients. A nurse cannot adequately attend to patients if that nu...

of her theory is the "improvement of nurses relationships with patients," which is a goal that she proposed can be accomplished by...

there is very little information about predisposes people to these episodes (Swann, 2006). Therefore, for the most part, nursing a...

accomplish beneficial behavioral change. As Kurt Lewins pioneering work with change theory points out, any change initiative ent...

precisely the same as for other patients. Legal responsibility for care decisions in cases where there is a living will: does the...

awareness of the self within the context of the environment grows in association with each other in a manner that allows the indiv...