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ensure that any data given is not capable of identifying any of the respondents, although this is unlikely, there is also the way ...
the American healthcare system, the debate concerning whether or not states should implement mandated nurse-to-patient ratios rema...
Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...
the disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...
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 ...
on an evidenced based evidence based practice and the development of increased individual accountability in the area of clinical g...
the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...
the basic paradigms of nursing professional theory are considered within a social context. For example, health is defined as a "dy...
The ANCI Competency Unit 4 demands that nurses accept accountability and responsibility for their actions in nursing. To do so we...
greater demand on health care services as more of them cross that line from employed to retired. Projections are just that,...
considering this economic downturn, the numbers of undergraduates pursuing nursing careers began to also decline. In 1991, Canada ...
(1999), research shows that the level of education reached by an RN contributes to a sense of professional autonomy and those nurs...
preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...
balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...
a nurses role as a change agent in data base management. Fonville, Killian, and Tranbarger (1998) note that successful nurses of ...
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...
lethal drug is given with the intent to bring about death, thus ending suffering" (28). Of course, there is a difference between ...
train sufficient numbers of new nurses. Turnover is high among those who remain in the profession, and those so dissatisfied - an...
only one group, no control group. Group exposed to treatment and then measure (Creswell, 2003). Measured participants blood gluco...
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...
transformative perspective because Newman argues that rather than being diametrically opposed, disease and health are merely facto...
practitioners that do not hold an MSN degree, and the resulting population would be too homogeneous to be of any real benefit. ...
to health care. Many of the same questions that can apply to assessing the validity of qualitative research can be used to ...
also as a result of the environment in which they are cared for, where smoking is banned. Teaching patients may be seen as a funct...
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...