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of diabetes care, including blood/glucose monitoring, food intake monitoring, exercise monitoring, and insulin administration. Be...

there is no cure either for Alzheimers disease or the various forms of dementia on the horizon, healthcare practitioners should "i...

an obstruction of the airway and can involved any or all of the following factors: "smooth muscle bronchoconstriction, mucous secr...

care is to formulate a health care system and workforce that possesses the skill and understanding required to deliver quality hea...

to the passage of the California law (Tevington, 2011). Currently, Connecticut, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Texas an...

2001, p. 24). While the ancestors of many Americans of Czech extraction came to the US in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries...

evaluated stated that they are predominantly "hands-on learners." Eight of the 10 nurses evaluated stated they were hands-on lear...

derives from Greek mythology, as it was the character of Mentor in Homers great epic poem who served Odysseus as a faithful adviso...

Alcohol poses a direct risk as a result of the physical impact it has on the body. The use of alcohol is often seen as a social ...

rate at the hospital soon declined by two-thirds (Garofalo and Fee, 2010). This emphasis is immediately evident in Nightingales No...

in emergency nursing, as the my mentor expressed obtaining this certification would enhance my professional development. The Ped...

agent, such as an adult child or another proxy. In recent years, the DNR has been included in the Physicians Orders for Life Susta...

their infants, and this factor is associated with increased morbidity and mortality, as well as significant financial expenditures...

percent of that total population lose their ability to walk (Tonarelli, 2010). Hip injuries and falls of any kind can reduce the ...

and Kramer (2008) to describe the ability of nurses to be cognizant of and reflect upon the wide variety of cultural, social and p...

They are in the community and spreading bacterial infections to the general public. Appropriate health care could greatly improve ...

client who is the focus of this case study is an 86-year-old woman who has been living at home with her husband. Her medical histo...

a profession, nursing theory has responded to meet the needs of nurses. For example, from the mid-1970s through the 1980s, the foc...

discuss and name the various methods for preventing the transmissions of STIs; and also, they will demonstrate ability to resist p...

harms the healthcare systems of the home countries of these nurses, which ethically and morally limits its use. Another method t...

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

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...

safeguard and monitor the public health, which means that it formulates prevention initiatives, investigates health problems and a...

meals to all Orthodox Jewish patients should be investigated by hospital administrators if they are not already in place. Furtherm...

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

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...

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