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be immensely helpful in gaining insight into the specific issues involved and subsequent perspective on what course of action to t...

to a patient over the phone and trying to convey the urgency of that patient coming in for a consultation. The patient resists, so...

caring; 2. every human culture has lay (generic, folk or indigenous) care knowledge and practices and usually some professional ca...

with sudden flashbacks intruding on thoughts (Fagan and Freme, 2004). Other symptoms include: an exaggerated startle reflex, sleep...

this condition. If the student does not have asthma, the student may feel motivated to help this population because of he/she rea...

(Webber). This does sound extremely similar to the way in which the AACN defines the CNL role. In some hospitals, nurse practiti...

"chronic, heavy drinking" (Enoch and Goldman, 2002, p. 192). According to government standards, a woman is at-risk for heavy drink...

change and its rationale (which was based on the results of empirical research), implemented the change and then "supported the c...

illustrates how she ignored the potential for causing harm when she increased the patients drugs; only after the medication had be...

assisting registered nurses (RNs) in order to meet legislated requirements (Schaefer 9). This means that while RNs have fewer pati...

the study intervention. Also, as yet, Cook is not clear about the purposes, aims or goals of the study. Literature Review While ...

There are numerous nursing scholars who utilizing ethnographic techniques in their research; university courses that address both ...

system," since the institution of mandated nursing ratios, and also that data shows California hospitals have not only been able t...

cardiac monitor, a seizure, drug reaction or other sign of a critical condition...(They) are expected to fill out reports" that we...

Aesthetic, the need for beauty, order and symmetry (Huitt, 2004). 7. Self-actualization is a plateau not all people reach. At this...

factors" (Hader and Guy, 2004, p. 21). The international Association for the Study of Pain and the American Pain Society define pa...

results are reliable and representative (Curwin and Slater, 1996). The first is the profiling of the samples to show that they are...

2004). As errors are inevitable, in order to significantly reduce the rate at which they occur, it is imperative that mistakes sho...

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

Nursing (Webber, 2007). However, this is not a long-term solution. The long-term solution to achieving an adequate nursing force f...

events (Owen, 2007). This action includes "presentation of antigen by dendritic cells" as well as the "degranulation of mast cells...

more on intuition and to "a hidden knowledge that is not so open to cognitive description" (Bradshaw, 1995, p. 83). In other words...

the effect of music on preoperative anxiety and postoperative pain with a participant group that listened to "peaceful pan flute m...

1999). Lee and his family owned a small business and had no health or medical insurance. The family was urged to begin the process...

Leaders create the future rather than simply become its victims (Kerfoot, 1998). They are generally thinking several months ahead,...

when he cannot feel a pulse. A new nurse, a first year graduate, Sally enters the room, sees Long and runs out. She encounters Nur...

is simply to require that their nursing staff make up for understaffing by working mandatory overtime on a more or less permanent ...

the risk of medical errors, such as dispensing the wrong medication or the wrong dose (Nursing overtime, 2004). The study, which w...

considered one of a number of high stress jobs, and stress is problematic, causing inefficiencies, high staffing turnover rates an...

advocates, providing medical treatments prescribed by physicians, and keeping accurate records of changes in patient status (Nurse...