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her, per se, but rather with her expectations of Madeline, which are not age appropriate. The scenario says that Madeline knows be...
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 "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...
on an evidenced based evidence based practice and the development of increased individual accountability in the area of clinical g...
greater demand on health care services as more of them cross that line from employed to retired. Projections are just that,...
transformative perspective because Newman argues that rather than being diametrically opposed, disease and health are merely facto...
also as a result of the environment in which they are cared for, where smoking is banned. Teaching patients may be seen as a funct...
in African American communities in though it has level off and is falling in other US populations (Dyer, 2003). Adolescents are am...
only one group, no control group. Group exposed to treatment and then measure (Creswell, 2003). Measured participants blood gluco...
rather than requiring patient transfer to ICU. This plan is consistent with the principles of planned change in that it focuses o...
was perceived as merely the "handmaiden" of medicine, that is, a service that was there to facilitate the practice of the physicia...
preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...
train sufficient numbers of new nurses. Turnover is high among those who remain in the profession, and those so dissatisfied - an...
(1999), research shows that the level of education reached by an RN contributes to a sense of professional autonomy and those nurs...
There are different studies that have made a partial examination of the developmental models of clinical mentorship and supervisio...
balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...
a nurses role as a change agent in data base management. Fonville, Killian, and Tranbarger (1998) note that successful nurses of ...
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...
proposed method of resolution is to design, develop and evaluate a clinical, evidence-based "diabetic education program to increas...
draw on the fundamental concepts espoused by the metaparadigms. Nevertheless, each branch of nursing theory approaches the subjec...
evaluate nursing care and use research findings in clinical practice" (Barnsteiner, Wyatt and Richardson 165). This survey reveal...
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...
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...
An effective and valuable nurse is one who has sound technical knowledge and experience in applying it, but who also is a superlat...