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Essays 1951 - 1980
to reach the disease" (Colwell; 2). The author also examines aspects of surgical treatment, indicating that a particular type of s...
Johns Hopkins University and member of the IOM research team that authored the report, said that "fatigue was a major cause of mis...
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...
today, but health care delivery appears to be more of a team project than the responsibility of one doctor. In earlier days, a nu...
staff them (Ocala, Fla., Hospitals Tackle Nursing Shortage, 2002). The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizati...
in acute care is sensitive about the use of drugs in recovering patients. Exposure of abuses of past years has raised awareness o...
life needs to change in response to the patients health care needs, then the nurse needs to be sensitive to that factor as well. ...
has focused on two corollary components: 1. the accuracy of body size estimations and 2. the attitudes and feelings individuals ...
operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). This is broken down into three basic categories: 1) wholly compen...
percent); * Management by walking around (15 percent); * Coaching/empowerment (11 percent); * Team (7 percent); * Transformational...
has been with us for several years, and it is widely publicized. The result is that the nursing shortage not only affects the qua...
MEANING AND CONCEPTS Jones & Krysa (1998) describe the three essential comfort interventions as listening (to...
a list of advantages for patients, which include: * Greater coordination of services leads to higher quality care for the patient ...
the word alone that Watsons ideology is based not just upon clinical actions but upon the implementation of emotional availability...
money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely would no...
patients life needs to change in response to the patients health care needs, then the nurse needs to be sensitive to that factor a...
accomplishing the task or objective rather than on people (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004). They make the policies and rules ...
Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...
the most frequently reported intervention classifications for NPs were patient education, drug management, nutrition support, risk...
the order be filled. They specified one minor change, however. That was that each of the condoms that were manufactured include ...
a process that assumes that a persons own subjective construction of reality is more accessible than anything else. The process o...
led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...
carcinoma in situ (DCIS). This is also known as "intraductal carcinoma or non-invasive breast cancer" (Breast Cancer, 2004; p. PG...
"a heterogeneous disorder characterized by 2 pathogenic defects, impaired insulin secretion and insulin resistance. The resultant ...
for nurses who come into intimate contact with clients from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. Ott, Al-Khadhuri and Al-Junaibi...
are working, for example, in pediatrics(Sherman 2004). Therefore, she suggests, as many have, that the nursing professional learn ...
for protocol and for adhering to standard practice. There are many aspects of the job for which the nurse is best suited to addre...
charted component of my daily patient interaction. However, to remind myself of the other responsibilities during busy per...
2003, p. 50). Comments went on to say that it is disheartening when they arent acknowledged in any way for the hard work they do (...