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Essays 1501 - 1530
to physicians. Increasingly, "evidence-based guidelines are becoming codes of medical practice" (Healy, 2005; p. 54). Superficia...
over their blood glucose levels; and (3) encouraging continuous improvement in nursing knowledge and patient education. The progr...
a nurses role as a change agent in data base management. Fonville, Killian, and Tranbarger (1998) note that successful nurses of ...
on an evidenced based evidence based practice and the development of increased individual accountability in the area of clinical g...
they visited, and some tended to visit fairly frequently (Demling et al, 2002). Patients in general were very positive about thei...
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,...
the basic paradigms of nursing professional theory are considered within a social context. For example, health is defined as a "dy...
considering this economic downturn, the numbers of undergraduates pursuing nursing careers began to also decline. In 1991, Canada ...
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 disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...
that the doctrine of informed consent is "hopelessly flawed--or at least misguided," as it is often not possible to truly inform ...
Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...
services. It was a clear presumption that womens contributions -- no matter how physically or mentally trying -- did not carry an...
process variation, foster awareness of the impact of different clinical decisions, and encourage reduction in undesirable practice...
decisions. It is through our status as health care professionals that such a role is not only valued but critical. Nursing...
nursing practice and nurses are formally authorized from the society to touch their clients in the course of nursing activities. ...
being the most complete. Education in triage generally has not been complete at all, however (Crafter, Little and Ritchie, 2000)....
does know is what is involved in the job, and many of the permutations that one simple standard can take. There is protocol, then...
several problems with recent immigrants, however. These include language barriers, not having completed a GED, limited healthcare...
a lingering distrust of the qualitative approach, one that often has not been done well and has resulted in works that cannot be c...
(Political Power, 2002). The profession of nursing is no different from any other in this regard (Political Power, 2002). Qualit...
was well educated (Le Vasseur, 1998), from a family of wealth and yet held an unusual compassion for those less fortunate. She wa...
that "People choose nursing for love, not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and...
for the infant for the first six months" (Moore et al., 1998; p. 36). Bearing this in mind we address those women who are perhaps ...
other people. Whereas simulation is rehearsed, however, role playing is not. It requests that the learners take on the character...
to the bill as did many nursing executives, arguing that there was sufficient legislation already on the books that dealt with sta...
is on a morphine drip to which there is attached only one instruction: decrease the drip when respirations reach four per minute....