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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...

1999). Elderly patients who are alert, and not declared incompetent, have the right to refuse treatment, which includes turning or...

does not address the topic of specific competencies. In other words, the most recent literature that is even remotely related to t...

methods with measurable outcomes, creating a link between existing research and nursing process, define the role of nurse educator...

period of restructuring in many industries, including healthcare. Managed care organizations and changes in reimbursement rates f...

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

and how discharge instructions should cover these contingencies. "Health" has historically been used to describe the "absence of d...

and the spirit says, "Ahhh, everything feels much better now" (Wooten, 2005, p. 510). Another factor in her relationships with c...

increase; third-party payers strive to keep payments as low as possible; individuals seek to enhance performance or gain the great...

This PowerPoint presentation includes 9 slides plus a bibliography. The topic is the nursing shortage. Bibliography lists 1 sourc...

any incident that requires an increased level of response beyond the routine operating procedures" (NASN, 2006). Natural disasters...

to current medicines, or to increase their ability to be spread into the environment" (Miller-Boyle, 2006, p. 6). Miller-Boyle wri...

now regarded as a crucial and defining component of nursing, as caring defines "nursings unique area of practice and provides dire...

weaker, less developed than the other. This delayed his walking, and, even after he walked successfully at age 3, it took several ...

In eight pages this paper discusses schizophrenia in pregnant women from the perspective of mental health nursing. Eight sources ...

Furthermore they state that is a strategic approach which relates to all aspects of an organization within the context the culture...

significantly as ethnicity and can encompass many different forms of beliefs. Spirituality plays a major role in how individuals...

ratio, the mortality rates are 44 percent lower (Degree-level nurses, 2005). Substantiating this research, a Canadian study cond...

nursing supervision is to provide support for nurse practitioner in a range of issues, developing their own identity as well as sk...

While only 6 percent of newborns require advanced life support in 1997, the rise in the number of neonates since that time weighin...

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...

of hospital environments is driving many nurses away from hospital nursing and some are leaving the profession entirely. In 2000, ...

apply to the many diverse factors related to teen suicide attempts and completions. Three of these objectives are: 1. Reduce fire...

and specific therapy" (Newswanger and Warren, 2004, p. 2405). As patients advance through the acute phase of the illness, supporti...

the "inability to determine the meaning of illness-related events" (McCormick, 2002, p. 127). Furthermore, Chinn and Kramer (1999)...

of use) of sunscreen at the beach are important considerations. Other factors that should be assessed relative to subjective data...

of family such as the one cited above. In many instances hospitals adhere to the traditional definition, which means that the poli...