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p. 1). Multi-infarct dementia (MID) is caused by a series of strokes, which are frequently small (MID, n.d.). Patients with MID ...

change, understand the reasons for this change and hare a vision of the future" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). The catch is that these g...

take to the streets rather than cope with abuse, violence or parental drug addiction. Also, as indicated above in regards to alcoh...

as business practices, documentation systems, process flows and lines of communication can differ (Blevins, 2001) Home health nur...

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...

balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...

drugs and to administer those drugs in a manner that is beneficial to our patients as well as being put into a positions where we ...

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

draw on the fundamental concepts espoused by the metaparadigms. Nevertheless, each branch of nursing theory approaches the subjec...

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

transformative perspective because Newman argues that rather than being diametrically opposed, disease and health are merely facto...

train sufficient numbers of new nurses. Turnover is high among those who remain in the profession, and those so dissatisfied - an...

considering this economic downturn, the numbers of undergraduates pursuing nursing careers began to also decline. In 1991, Canada ...

the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

her, per se, but rather with her expectations of Madeline, which are not age appropriate. The scenario says that Madeline knows be...

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...

I replied that I could develop a program with her supervision, that nurses were more interested in furthering their training than ...

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

the risk of medical errors, such as dispensing the wrong medication or the wrong dose (Nursing overtime, 2004). The study, which w...

is simply to require that their nursing staff make up for understaffing by working mandatory overtime on a more or less permanent ...

1999). Lee and his family owned a small business and had no health or medical insurance. The family was urged to begin the process...

Leaders create the future rather than simply become its victims (Kerfoot, 1998). They are generally thinking several months ahead,...

when he cannot feel a pulse. A new nurse, a first year graduate, Sally enters the room, sees Long and runs out. She encounters Nur...

runs $127 on average (Cummings, 2002). The goal of the ALF is to help senior citizens maintain as much independence as possible wi...

or chronic illness; however, nurse practitioners also have additional intensive education that involves risk reduction and prevent...

for the precise coding of medication in order to avoid the errors listed above (Woods and Doan-Johnson, 2002). Cohen, Robinson and...

in scientific reasoning that she changed the face of nursing. She made use of statistical analysis in order to demonstrate the way...

is a very important consideration in nursing. Indeed, some four thousand of so documents were published annually about pain in th...