SEARCH RESULTS

(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...

be immensely helpful in gaining insight into the specific issues involved and subsequent perspective on what course of action to t...

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

this condition. If the student does not have asthma, the student may feel motivated to help this population because of he/she rea...

caring; 2. every human culture has lay (generic, folk or indigenous) care knowledge and practices and usually some professional ca...

harms the healthcare systems of the home countries of these nurses, which ethically and morally limits its use. Another method 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...

were contributing to the "toxic" work environment, which characterized this CSDU, as there was "evidence of a lack of meaningful c...

meals to all Orthodox Jewish patients should be investigated by hospital administrators if they are not already in place. Furtherm...

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...

2004). As errors are inevitable, in order to significantly reduce the rate at which they occur, it is imperative that mistakes sho...

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

safeguard and monitor the public health, which means that it formulates prevention initiatives, investigates health problems and a...

potential for long term physiological complications as well as long-term emotional impacts. Not only does the type of care needed...

(2005), in which samples of patients or patients families were enrolled. In a study in which the sample participants had lost a lo...

"infertility, cardiovascular health, oncology, geriatrics, endocrinology, uro-gynecology, bone health and high-risk pregnancy" (Ke...

the study intervention. Also, as yet, Cook is not clear about the purposes, aims or goals of the study. Literature Review While ...

illustrates how she ignored the potential for causing harm when she increased the patients drugs; only after the medication had be...

assisting registered nurses (RNs) in order to meet legislated requirements (Schaefer 9). This means that while RNs have fewer pati...

Roughly 50 percent of the current working nursing population will retire within the next 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). Adding...

and three stores," which served as "stock rooms, milk stations, clinics," etc. (Lillian Wald). Roughly 3,000 people typically were...

a summation of how addiction occurs. They then address the scope of the problem, which relates the issue under investigation dir...

by the caring physical presence of this nurse in her last remaining hours. However, the way in which this case turned out saw the ...

achieved that the critical care nurse may address the bio-psycho-social implications of the event (Alfafara and Hedges, 1996). Fur...

At the heart of nursing is the nurse-patient relationship, which provides the foundation for nursing care (Patusky, 2003). This r...

is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...

The link between nurse caring and patient satisfaction has been reported numerous times. For instance, the AORN journal reported a...