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was perceived as merely the "handmaiden" of medicine, that is, a service that was there to facilitate the practice of the physicia...

rather than requiring patient transfer to ICU. This plan is consistent with the principles of planned change in that it focuses o...

proposed method of resolution is to design, develop and evaluate a clinical, evidence-based "diabetic education program to increas...

evaluate nursing care and use research findings in clinical practice" (Barnsteiner, Wyatt and Richardson 165). This survey reveal...

departments (Courson, 2004). It isnt that nurses have not been serving in these roles, they have but today, nurses receive speci...

the importance of taking assessment from a number of different, relevant perspectives. For example, mentors who are conscious that...

also as a result of the environment in which they are cared for, where smoking is banned. Teaching patients may be seen as a funct...

in African American communities in though it has level off and is falling in other US populations (Dyer, 2003). Adolescents are am...

A nurses dedication and selflessness recall a mothers sacrifice and care (Dworkin, 2002). Furthermore, Dworking (2002) points out ...

declined as "educators, employers and others recognize the need for educational changes in nursing" (Bednash, 2000, p. 2985). Asso...

includes strategies that are designed to make the individual feel better, such as "exercise, spirituality, support groups and humo...

many people have these factors in common within their personal value sets, but I believe that the nurse possesses them in specific...

relationship or marriage (Darling, 2005). For example, a homosexual man suffering from HIV-related illness and receiving the inten...

in resistant strains of bacteria (Plonczynski, 2005). This situation suggests that changes in antibiotic prophylactic procedures ...

attitude for science and the availability of educational opportunities, and the need for nurses in the job market, a the heart of ...

caregiver can also ask if they belong to a spiritual, community or religious group (involvement); if the children attend religious...

The theory is "rooted in an agentic perspective," meaning that humans are the agents of change in their lives (Pajares, 2004). Peo...

predicting mortality and morbidity. Authors provide a section to explain and explore the existence of natriuretic peptides. Anoth...

are Patient Care Manage, Employee Manager and Facilities Operation Manager (DaVita Dialysis, 2007). Each these areas require speci...

already has been diagnosed as having some form of heart disease. In that sense, primary prevention is not possible. The goals of...

undergoes surgery for a hip arthroplasty 24 hours after admission. Twenty-four hours after surgery the nurses note that Mrs. Gale...

Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...

The funding agency chosen for this program is the Childrens Aid Society, a nonprofit organization that has been dedicated to impro...

who suffer from cancer, arthritis, AIDS, multiple sclerosis or acute back pain are known to frequently turn to alternative medicin...

Bell (2000) reports that when an Australian hospital instituted shared governance, nurse managers responded "by developing a teamw...

cross to bear and they would be shamed to bring it to someone else. The healthcare worker must not attempt to alter the patients r...

(called IgE) (ONeill, 1990). This then sticks to other cells such as the mast cells or the basophils, this is a chain reaction as ...

the medical team with which these patients have surrounded themselves. It is the patients responsibility to cooperate and do ever...

significant changes to the existing system but have not yet covered too much ground where modifications are concerned. This is pa...

routine activities necessary to their own care. The purpose is that with a nurses direction, encouragement and initial supervisio...