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undergoes surgery for a hip arthroplasty 24 hours after admission. Twenty-four hours after surgery the nurses note that Mrs. Gale...

the same sort of indirect methods that they have advocated will aid the economy. For example, the Republicans are pursuing putting...

is in charge of all domestic affairs. Younger newly wed couples will often live with one set of parents, even if they are going to...

A 7 page client profile that discusses nursing care for an elderly client with degenerative brain disease and offers a research su...

by trying things out)...reflective learners (learn by thinking things through, working alone) 5. sequential learners (linear, orde...

on an evidenced based evidence based practice and the development of increased individual accountability in the area of clinical g...

over their blood glucose levels; and (3) encouraging continuous improvement in nursing knowledge and patient education. The progr...

the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

departments (Courson, 2004). It isnt that nurses have not been serving in these roles, they have but today, nurses receive speci...

only one group, no control group. Group exposed to treatment and then measure (Creswell, 2003). Measured participants blood gluco...

of the study by stating it explicitly: "The purpose of this study was to explore how undergraduate nursing students learn to care ...

balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...

learned long ago the value of yet another Deming (1986) exhortation, that of continuous improvement. By definition, the concept i...

grounds that it is not caring at all but rather reduces the patient to a process component that needs medical attention. While tr...

The non-technical interpretation of the results of a study is presented and assessed in the Discussion section. The Introduction ...

indwelling foley and compression boot. Her dressing is dry and intact. She was discharged with Percocet 5mg q6. Analysis and Out...

health of the individual and to their success in recuperation. The Association for Spirit at Work is comprised of medical profess...

that make use of color, but even these efforts have not typically met with good response by patients or hospital administrators (S...

right? Not as visible a cause as AIDS, nor as prevalent in the news as Cancer, Meningitis will be a difficult sell to this segmen...

and more nurses are standing at the front lines of managed care, acting somewhat as liaison between the patient and managed care o...

cosmic forces: they comprise the primal and universal psychic energy yet are overlooked * We have to treat our "self" with gentlen...

goes way beyond the paradigm of nursing as simply a "handmaiden" to physicians. The nursing professional is required to know virtu...

that caring is good. Some nurses might object to allowing themselves the luxury because it makes them vulnerable, but in some prof...

making a critical separation between their medical and social responsibilities within the short time allowed in an office visit. ...

Hendersons definition of the Orem model as being the "practice of activities that individuals initiate and perform on their own be...

How governments accomplish this purpose, of course, varies considerably. In Great Britain, the government via the National Health...

issues along a continuum of health and good health is defined as a "state of complete physical, mental and social well-being" (Ada...

the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...

This is significant to nursing because nurses have to learn to insert and remove the catheter from the patient which is sometimes ...

in the heart and nervous system, or in some cases, death (WHO, 1996). While health promotion relating to STDs may be a global mis...