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Essays 211 - 240
The paper is a presentation designed to introduce and explain a new fall prevention policy for a home care nursing agency. The pr...
and how this equipment should differ for this population: Bariatric patients are typically defined as those who are extremely obe...
the prevalence of UI was high in this region of the country and particularly high among African Americans in two of the states, wh...
In 2001, health care spending as a percentage of GDP was 14.1 percent, or $5,035 per capita (Levit, Smith, Cowan, Lazenby, Senseni...
have "little or no training in fundamental management skills" (Baer, 2006, p. 60). As well as absenteeism, problems with managemen...
regards to lung function. If patients cannot breath on their own, RTs are trained on how to intubate patients and connect them to ...
critical matters, employee requests for information often go unanswered for too long. Results can and have been employee frustrat...
reporting and administrative reporting so that the owner can have confidence that HHH is providing superlative patient care and me...
a nurse to determine which elderly patients are being abused because a sense of shame or a desire to protect the family member who...
Not only are the direct health impacts to the nurse deleterious, impaired nurses cannot meet their responsibility to provide top q...
"chronic, heavy drinking" (Enoch and Goldman, 2002, p. 192). According to government standards, a woman is at-risk for heavy drink...
have access to a range of drugs. Bennett (et al, 2000) argues that the overall rate of substance abuse in the nursing popualtion r...
the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...
This paper outlines a dilemma that arises when a patient requests secrecy upon revealing physical abuse to a student nurse. There...
in order so that it can be determined if all of the childs educational needs are being met. Aiding disabled children in reaching t...
that time. What might be needed, then, would be some plan of action that the staff could follow, or possibly some type of polite s...
management, in recent years, has been quite extensive. This body of empirical evidence and commentary largely supports the concept...
the women who have traditionally filled nursing positions will undoubtedly continue to pursue other professional opportunities tha...
recognized categories for APNs within this state (TBoN, 2006). The scope of practice for Tennessee APNs includes the legal abili...
(Cunningham, 2008). Observed Results Cortez (2008) states that in the past, patients had been known to call 911 from their ...
paternalistic approach that has been favored by physicians. Watsons theory stresses nurses should "honor anothers becoming, autono...
for my patients. Personal philosophy of nursing: Tourville and Ingalls (2003) offer a fascinating and very apt analogy to descri...
to individuals connected by a blood tie. However, to be a "family," members must "live in close contact, care for one another, an...
of the site is that it connects to numerous opportunities for continuing education and there is a page dedicated to this purpose. ...
A pertinent issue to foreign nurse recruitment, as a method for alleviating the shortage of nurses in US hospitals, is the number ...
when nurses are needed the most, which is when we are ill (line 12). This is when "Nurses come through, with their care and goodwi...
have otherwise been a lingering existence in private homes or disreputable hospitals. Inasmuch as the nurse is "temporarily the c...
implementing the treatment regimen. 5. collaborating with other health care providers in determining the appropriate health care f...
therapeutic manner (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). This relationship may refer to a single individual, or the "person" may be a sma...
established that nurses are often involved in the "timely identification of complications," which, if acted upon swiftly, prevent ...