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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...
(1999), research shows that the level of education reached by an RN contributes to a sense of professional autonomy and those nurs...
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 ...
preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...
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...
McKenna (1997) points out that mid-range nursing theories tend to focus on concepts of interest to nurses. This can encompass pati...
activities" (Orems Self-Care Model Concepts) that patients need to undertake to meet their own health care needs on a routine basi...
nonverbal and behavioural signals and information relating to the clients support system. Objective data could include observation...
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 ...
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...
includes strategies that are designed to make the individual feel better, such as "exercise, spirituality, support groups and humo...
An effective and valuable nurse is one who has sound technical knowledge and experience in applying it, but who also is a superlat...
A nurses dedication and selflessness recall a mothers sacrifice and care (Dworkin, 2002). Furthermore, Dworking (2002) points out ...
declined as "educators, employers and others recognize the need for educational changes in nursing" (Bednash, 2000, p. 2985). Asso...
evaluate nursing care and use research findings in clinical practice" (Barnsteiner, Wyatt and Richardson 165). This survey reveal...
ethics are a part of the concern. The hospital should not accept a patient load that it cannot handle. Another example of an issue...
draw on the fundamental concepts espoused by the metaparadigms. Nevertheless, each branch of nursing theory approaches the subjec...
many people have these factors in common within their personal value sets, but I believe that the nurse possesses them in specific...
life needs to change in response to the patients health care needs, then the nurse needs to be sensitive to that factor as well. ...
formulation with others, testing new behaviors, integrating this learning into "new, more satisfying behavior, and then using thes...
operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). This is broken down into three basic categories: 1) wholly compen...
percent); * Management by walking around (15 percent); * Coaching/empowerment (11 percent); * Team (7 percent); * Transformational...