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

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...

From this perspective, individuals can be viewed as open systems, in which energy is transformed within the body, gaining or losin...

the inclination is to treat the dying patient with as little emotion as possible, so as not to suffer emotionally as well, many nu...

respond to stress differently than do others. Current medical theory suggests that individuals who evidence a more exaggerated re...

it seems appropriate to suggest that a picture that appears less "faded" would be appropriate in conveying the message that the in...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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