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(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...
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...
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...
the basic paradigms of nursing professional theory are considered within a social context. For example, health is defined as a "dy...
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...
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...
the disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
many people have these factors in common within their personal value sets, but I believe that the nurse possesses them in specific...
moment to moment as the changing patterns of shifting perspectives weave the fabric of life through the human-universe interconnec...