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lethal drug is given with the intent to bring about death, thus ending suffering" (28). Of course, there is a difference between ...
preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...
train sufficient numbers of new nurses. Turnover is high among those who remain in the profession, and those so dissatisfied - an...
(1999), research shows that the level of education reached by an RN contributes to a sense of professional autonomy and those nurs...
her, per se, but rather with her expectations of Madeline, which are not age appropriate. The scenario says that Madeline knows be...
the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...
to physicians. Increasingly, "evidence-based guidelines are becoming codes of medical practice" (Healy, 2005; p. 54). Superficia...
a nurses role as a change agent in data base management. Fonville, Killian, and Tranbarger (1998) note that successful nurses of ...
learned long ago the value of yet another Deming (1986) exhortation, that of continuous improvement. By definition, the concept i...
Working for the well-staffed working environment in itself is no small task, given the fact of the ongoing nursing shortage. The ...
reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...
the basic paradigms of nursing professional theory are considered within a social context. For example, health is defined as a "dy...
The ANCI Competency Unit 4 demands that nurses accept accountability and responsibility for their actions in nursing. To do so we...
greater demand on health care services as more of them cross that line from employed to retired. Projections are just that,...
and safety" (ANA, 2005). After all, if a nurse does not take steps to preserve her or his own safety, the nurse cannot adequately ...
on an evidenced based evidence based practice and the development of increased individual accountability in the area of clinical g...
in 2000, allowing a long comment period before the final rule was issued in February 2003. Five rules were published in 199...
or chronic illness; however, nurse practitioners also have additional intensive education that involves risk reduction and prevent...
help each other by merely listening and offering words of encouragement. My psychologist friend firmly believed that lifestyle ch...
runs $127 on average (Cummings, 2002). The goal of the ALF is to help senior citizens maintain as much independence as possible wi...
for the precise coding of medication in order to avoid the errors listed above (Woods and Doan-Johnson, 2002). Cohen, Robinson and...
their own condition. Judkins and Ingram (2002) designed a self-paced learning module in order to determine whether knowledge relat...
"significant anxiety, particularly before they discover the most effective symptom management" (Moloney, et al, 2001, p. 19). In o...
and allows the receiver to observe non-verbal cues as to the messages meaning. Feedback "reports back to the sender that the recei...
is a very important consideration in nursing. Indeed, some four thousand of so documents were published annually about pain in th...
In three pages this research paper discusses how humor can be a modality that assists nurses in patient care as well as self care....
be more enlightening and convey a more precise meaning than an extended descriptive passage. At this point, the student researchin...
10 years ago, the Christian Science Monitor, in covering an article about child care workers and the poverty-level wages they rece...
the risk of medical errors, such as dispensing the wrong medication or the wrong dose (Nursing overtime, 2004). The study, which w...
if the individual discovers that he or she has thoughts and feelings that are "very basic and very strong" with regard to others o...