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Essays 1951 - 1980
The metaparadigms of nursing represent common concepts that are accepted throughout the profession and across international bounda...
In five pages this research paper takes a nursing perspecitve regarding the elderly's physical changes and increased dependence th...
in African American communities in though it has level off and is falling in other US populations (Dyer, 2003). Adolescents are am...
learned long ago the value of yet another Deming (1986) exhortation, that of continuous improvement. By definition, the concept i...
reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...
The ANCI Competency Unit 4 demands that nurses accept accountability and responsibility for their actions in nursing. To do so we...
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 ...
I replied that I could develop a program with her supervision, that nurses were more interested in furthering their training than ...
suggestions for future action in regards to this problem. Section A: Problem identification The Problem and its importance The G...
make a real difference. In helping professions, such leadership is desirable. The health care industry today is fraught with probl...
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 ...
McKenna (1997) points out that mid-range nursing theories tend to focus on concepts of interest to nurses. This can encompass pati...
departments (Courson, 2004). It isnt that nurses have not been serving in these roles, they have but today, nurses receive speci...
the importance of taking assessment from a number of different, relevant perspectives. For example, mentors who are conscious that...
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...
transformative perspective because Newman argues that rather than being diametrically opposed, disease and health are merely facto...
balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...
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...
Yet both organizations also observe that, sometimes, it is necessary to use seclusion and restraint, as a last resort, in order to...
the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...
preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...
(1999), research shows that the level of education reached by an RN contributes to a sense of professional autonomy and those nurs...
her, per se, but rather with her expectations of Madeline, which are not age appropriate. The scenario says that Madeline knows be...
and safety" (ANA, 2005). After all, if a nurse does not take steps to preserve her or his own safety, the nurse cannot adequately ...
Partially as a result of improved heath care practices which result in longer life and partially as the result of the movement aw...