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Essays 1921 - 1950
An effective and valuable nurse is one who has sound technical knowledge and experience in applying it, but who also is a superlat...
includes strategies that are designed to make the individual feel better, such as "exercise, spirituality, support groups and humo...
many people have these factors in common within their personal value sets, but I believe that the nurse possesses them in specific...
activities" (Orems Self-Care Model Concepts) that patients need to undertake to meet their own health care needs on a routine basi...
McKenna (1997) points out that mid-range nursing theories tend to focus on concepts of interest to nurses. This can encompass pati...
preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...
care model is highly useful with the elderly and those recovering from surgery or illness. Self care is not an issue that enters ...
There are different studies that have made a partial examination of the developmental models of clinical mentorship and supervisio...
balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...
was perceived as merely the "handmaiden" of medicine, that is, a service that was there to facilitate the practice of the physicia...
rather than requiring patient transfer to ICU. This plan is consistent with the principles of planned change in that it focuses o...
have had ethical reservations about taking a patient off of life support, but she did not add to Lynns burden by interfering with ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
American Psychiatric Association. The authors indicate that postpartum depression has received a great deal of research att...
led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...
carcinoma in situ (DCIS). This is also known as "intraductal carcinoma or non-invasive breast cancer" (Breast Cancer, 2004; p. PG...
the most frequently reported intervention classifications for NPs were patient education, drug management, nutrition support, risk...
the order be filled. They specified one minor change, however. That was that each of the condoms that were manufactured include ...
a process that assumes that a persons own subjective construction of reality is more accessible than anything else. The process o...
(Link and Tanner, 2001). Research has found that some clients may be suffering from myocardial infarction (MI) even when they have...
Understanding that there is a step by step progression, both physically and psychologically, can be part of the nurses role in thi...
establish policy guidelines. In the administration of medication, "processes have been virtually ignored in the search for EBP" (...
that MCOs develop their capacity to handle changes that are driven legislatively by congressional response to public reactions to ...