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who choose to use qualitative methods tend to seek a deeper reality, inasmuch as their aim is to "study things in their natural se...
and other health care workers cope with musculoskeletal problems even in the primary care setting. A Wausau Insurance Company rep...
the changes that have occurred since she founded modern nursing. "Florence Nightingale provided us with a framework, relevant tod...
in 2000, allowing a long comment period before the final rule was issued in February 2003. Five rules were published in 199...
A nurses dedication and selflessness recall a mothers sacrifice and care (Dworkin, 2002). Furthermore, Dworking (2002) points out ...
preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...
lethal drug is given with the intent to bring about death, thus ending suffering" (28). Of course, there is a difference between ...
to physicians. Increasingly, "evidence-based guidelines are becoming codes of medical practice" (Healy, 2005; p. 54). Superficia...
and safety" (ANA, 2005). After all, if a nurse does not take steps to preserve her or his own safety, the nurse cannot adequately ...
(2002). The purpose of this investigation is to provide an overview of the concept of immobility in medicine, with an emphasis on...
York University School of Nursing and became an advocate of the practice through her teaching of therapeutic touch techniques and ...
manual (Tullmann, 2002). The way ion which there was the absence of a common culture from which power bases were built (Tullmann, ...
"understanding the fit," Beyea and Nicoll (2000) point out that: "A clinical expert continually questions knowledge, constantly le...
level work. An example is that the nurse practitioner can have his or her own practice under a doctors supervision. Still, they ma...
(LPNs) and aides all worked together. The RNs traditionally were delegated to decide upon the division of labor between members of...
exist for generations. Though Nightingale promoted a professional demeanor, nursing was not something that most well-bred women w...
opportunity to do. The earliest nurses were to provide patient comfort and care for patients in the manner that physicians expect...
just need a positive touch from another human being. The student investigating the relationship of nursing contribution to patien...
the risk of medical errors, such as dispensing the wrong medication or the wrong dose (Nursing overtime, 2004). The study, which w...
Leaders create the future rather than simply become its victims (Kerfoot, 1998). They are generally thinking several months ahead,...
19th and early 20th centuries. Hughes and Romeo (1999) question the usefulness of education that does not address the growing div...
the religious fervor generated by the teachings of "love and mercy" by Jesus Christ resulted in a dramatic increase in charitable ...
first started to administer to the injured and the sick, the notion that nurses should be women has prevailed (Odendaul, 2004). T...
a video that presents the patients symptoms and are presented with the question "What is the most likely differential diagnosis ba...
and antibiotics" (Ersek, 2005, p. 48). Upon first glance, it would appear that euthanasia is an application that is in direct con...
degree (CBS News). Where 4.1 percent of new female nurses leave the profession after four years, 7.5 percent of new male nurses lo...
their profession to be their career and it definitely requires career-long continuous professional development. Why then, does a...
change, understand the reasons for this change and hare a vision of the future" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). The catch is that these g...
the extent to which terminally ill individuals can be alleviated of languishing in such an inhumane state without involvement of l...
including critical attributes, communication processes, and the overall benefits of school-based support groups in addressing the ...