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McKenna (1997) points out that mid-range nursing theories tend to focus on concepts of interest to nurses. This can encompass pati...
nonverbal and behavioural signals and information relating to the clients support system. Objective data could include observation...
A nurses dedication and selflessness recall a mothers sacrifice and care (Dworkin, 2002). Furthermore, Dworking (2002) points out ...
activities" (Orems Self-Care Model Concepts) that patients need to undertake to meet their own health care needs on a routine basi...
many people have these factors in common within their personal value sets, but I believe that the nurse possesses them in specific...
includes strategies that are designed to make the individual feel better, such as "exercise, spirituality, support groups and humo...
declined as "educators, employers and others recognize the need for educational changes in nursing" (Bednash, 2000, p. 2985). Asso...
An effective and valuable nurse is one who has sound technical knowledge and experience in applying it, but who also is a superlat...
moment to moment as the changing patterns of shifting perspectives weave the fabric of life through the human-universe interconnec...
They are: 1. "activity level 2. "diet 3. "discharge medications 4. "follow-up appointment 5. "weight monitoring 6. "what to do if ...
caring as the very definition of what constitutes personal values from a nursing perspective (2003). Koerner (1996), likewise, e...
In the meantime, I plan to study teaching strategies and rationale, and also expand my personal travel experiences. Today as neve...
ethics are a part of the concern. The hospital should not accept a patient load that it cannot handle. Another example of an issue...
Critically-Care nurses, 1989 in Nursing Management, 1999, p. 38). This abbreviated version of AACN nursing standards was located...
in order so that it can be determined if all of the childs educational needs are being met. Aiding disabled children in reaching t...
classifies the stroke patients needs in four domains: 1) medical/surgical issues; 2) mental status/emotion/coping behaviors; 3) ph...
The act of faxing patient information to another care-providing organization or third-party payer comes under privacy regulations ...
the disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...
I replied that I could develop a program with her supervision, that nurses were more interested in furthering their training than ...
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 ...
considering this economic downturn, the numbers of undergraduates pursuing nursing careers began to also decline. In 1991, Canada ...
the basic paradigms of nursing professional theory are considered within a social context. For example, health is defined as a "dy...
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...
and safety" (ANA, 2005). After all, if a nurse does not take steps to preserve her or his own safety, the nurse cannot adequately ...
The ANCI Competency Unit 4 demands that nurses accept accountability and responsibility for their actions in nursing. To do so we...
In five pages a hospital environment is considered in a discussion of a family centered care approach with pediatric nursing being...
for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...
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