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trying times of their lives. Nurses have the capacity to improve lives. Nothing could be more meaningful or provide a greater sens...

These authors conducted a large study of 3,830 individuals consisting of 17.8 percent nurses, 21.8 percent physicians, 29.6 percen...

Developing New Nurse Leaders also considers the issue of shifts in leadership and governance, with a focus on the role of nurses a...

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

activities" (Orems Self-Care Model Concepts) that patients need to undertake to meet their own health care needs on a routine basi...

declined as "educators, employers and others recognize the need for educational changes in nursing" (Bednash, 2000, p. 2985). Asso...

moment to moment as the changing patterns of shifting perspectives weave the fabric of life through the human-universe interconnec...

caring as the very definition of what constitutes personal values from a nursing perspective (2003). Koerner (1996), likewise, e...

Critically-Care nurses, 1989 in Nursing Management, 1999, p. 38). This abbreviated version of AACN nursing standards was located...

in order so that it can be determined if all of the childs educational needs are being met. Aiding disabled children in reaching t...

classifies the stroke patients needs in four domains: 1) medical/surgical issues; 2) mental status/emotion/coping behaviors; 3) ph...

operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). This is broken down into three basic categories: 1) wholly compen...

a list of advantages for patients, which include: * Greater coordination of services leads to higher quality care for the patient ...

which both of those impacts are important. The question of what statistics should be collected in a medical facility, however, is...

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...

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

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

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

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

carcinoma in situ (DCIS). This is also known as "intraductal carcinoma or non-invasive breast cancer" (Breast Cancer, 2004; p. PG...

the most frequently reported intervention classifications for NPs were patient education, drug management, nutrition support, risk...

charted component of my daily patient interaction. However, to remind myself of the other responsibilities during busy per...

or reject MEDITECHs suggestions as they see fit. Whether users accept or reject the suggestions made by MEDITECH, care prov...

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

completing the ranges of study required to attain the licensing level each holds. Aides are not licensed individuals and may or m...

caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...

experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...

is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...