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hold a great deal of authority when it comes to changing the attitudes and perspectives of young girls who may believe living off ...
This paper is made up of three sections, with each section pertaining to a significant hospital administration issue. These topics...
socially isolating, as outside opinion is discounted. The team adopts a "defensive posture," which is evidenced by "derogatory, de...
the question of what effect an aging nursing work force has on American healthcare in general. First and foremost, the aging of ...
and retention" (Andersen, 2002, p. 603). This then should be the first priority: to design a study that will accrue and retain ...
operating room to recovery, the tracking of patient information becomes an imperative part of this process (Beyea, Hicks and Becke...
30 months, as this is when between 13 and 28 percent of senior nurses are due to retire (Sibbald, 2003). Currently, close to a thi...
long after all signs of consciousness have ceased. Is this "good"? Is this beneficent? The news tells us of parents confronting me...
generations. Though Nightingale promoted a professional demeanor, nursing was not something that most well-bred women would even ...
quality and care" of health services that offered to rural areas throughout the US (Clinton, 2007). In addition to providing fun...
graduate nursing hires (Truman, 2004, p. 45). The novice nurses participate in six hours of classroom instruction, plus thirty hou...
imply, a standardized nursing language provides a "uniform nomenclature for the diagnosis, intervention, and evaluation components...
policies in regard to the PSDA. I have been fortunate in that I was chosen to be a member of that team. Consequently, I have at ...
best way to appease both the law and the public; its dynamic decision about whether to include doctor-assisted suicide and volunta...
It seems that within the context of the work, there is little compassion shown for the protagonist with the exception of one oncol...
providers and also provide a well-balanced outline about the issues involved in a patients "right to die" (Hendin, Foley and White...
expected only to continue for several years to come. Then, growth will begin to decline in response to fewer numbers of people re...
p. 144). Each has value, but each exists with a paradox. The more abstract theories are more easily generalized, but more diffic...
(Snyder and Lindquist, 2001). Under this philosophy the social factors and even the spiritual factors of an individuals existen...
that have affected my choice of working as a nurse. Of course many people have these factors in common within their personal valu...
during which time they reviewed data regarding the patient and made adjustments to the clinical care program. The advanced practic...
are getting calls from every part of the country every day. I am hearing from nurses that the working conditions are intolerable a...
use this possibility as an excuse to not provide other people, people who are obviously suffering tremendously and would inevitabl...
eventually revert to many of the methods formerly used in patient care. She makes clear distinction between research in nursing t...
to changes which in turn can result in higher costs and reduced perceived quality of care. Primary nursing is not a new con...
Statistics expects that number to rise to more than one million in less than 20 years. The American Nurses Association and Monste...
The ever-changing nature of Americas health care system has introduced a chaos in a population that for more than a century has be...
(p. 835) among Medicaid residents of Massachusetts nursing homes between 1991 and 1994. This mixed method (i.e., quantitative as ...
and Ingalls (2003) describe the four metaparadigms allegorically as the "roots" of a living tree, emphasizing that the metaparadig...
Under her wing, Nightingale took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to health. ...